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Show TERSELY TOLD INTERESTING YARNS OF DIFFERENT SPORTS Cy LetzeJter, former Carnegie Tech star, probably will be one of the stars at West Point this season. Irving Jeffries, member of the White Sox infielding staff, was sent to the Toledo club of the American association. Benny Bengough is rated the Yankees' Yan-kees' best catcher but his arm is giving giv-ing out and he has trouble stopping steals. Dick O'Connell, Harvard football and track star, once ran the 220-yard low hurdles event one-tenth of a second sec-ond faster than the time made in the 220-yard dash in the same meet, which was between Exeter and the Springfield Spring-field college freshmen. The stars of the Evansville Three-I club are brothers, Gerald and Herbert Walker, hitting .3-10 and .3G0. Pitcher Red Roberts, late of the defunct Pittsfield club of the Kastern league, has been signed by the Fort Worth Cats. Ira Flagstead, reserve outfielder of the Pittsburgh Pirates, has been given his unconditional release. President Lowell of Harvard once held the Crimson record in tlie mile run, and his predecessor, President EJiot, rowed on the Harvard crew, back in 1S53. Richard Glendon, Sr., proposes running run-ning the Poughkeepsie regatta in heats next year to do away with overcrowding. over-crowding. His program would cover four days. Germany is now dotted with gymnasiums gym-nasiums and athletic fields, Berlin boasting one field of some eighty acres where athletes from all over the country coun-try receive expert training. George Simpson, star sprinter, has a nine-foot stride at full speed and Ills body leans forward at a sixty-degree angle when in motion. The football season in New York opens September 27, with Columbia, making its debut under Lou Little's coaching, against Middlebury. Pie Traynor of the E'irates has eye trouble and It is handicapping him both in baseball and in reading, for he is a student of the classics, his mates say. Ellis Taylor, brother of Zack, veteran vet-eran National league catcher, is a rookie with Greenville, S. C of the Sally league. Ellis is a backstop, too, but can play any position. |