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Show TERSE AND TIMELY SQUIBS OF SPORTING EVENTS Water basketball was played at the University of Florida this year. - ' The University of Illinois Is to build a $300,000 ice skating rink and a $10,-000 $10,-000 golf course. A hick town is a place where the choice of a pitcher for the next game depends on the collection. In young Mr. Owen the Tigers seem at last to have found n shortstop who makes his errors at not unhelpful times. ' John Gruber Is In his thirty-eighth yenr as official scorer in Forbes field, the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitcher to deliver the splt-ball splt-ball was Bobby Mathews, who played for the Boston Nationals Inthe early eighties. Southern league baseball writers have picked Atlanta to win the pennant, pen-nant, Memphis to finish second and New Orleans third. Stuffy Mclnnis played 152 games at first base In 1921. missing but one chance out of the 1.052 that came his way, but Chub Collins, a first baseman of the previous century, played an entire season without making an error. The Ontario (Can.) Baseball Amateur Ama-teur association has decided that the playing of Sunday baseball by teams or players under its jurisdiction must cease. Popularity of baseball among Missouri Mis-souri colleges is on the wane, a recent re-cent survey disclosed. Bad weather and conflicts with track are given as causes. Jack Johnson, 220. pound tackle who plays for Utah, is a rodeo bulldogging champion. In seven years of high school, freshman and varsity competition, competi-tion, he has never played on a losing team. Asking an injunction against the misuse of his name. Babe Ruth says it was "printed in blatant vulgar type, repugnant to good taste and apt to bring the name into disrepute." Babe's ghost knows some 50-cent words. Dave MacMillan, Minnesota's basketball bas-ketball coach, instructed the Idaho five that won the raclfie coast championship. cham-pionship. in 1923. The Brooklyn club may do all of its training in Havana next spring, scheduling sched-uling games there with big league teams training In Florida. |
