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Show Curl Mays is one of the bust hitting pitchers In the majors. Jess Bumes, former Natlotinl league star, has been signed by Toledo. Ty Cobb"s legs may be slowing up, hut his tongue functions as nimbly as ever. . Greal Brltuln now has over T.000 professional footballers, and 750,000 amateur players. Tom Edwards, football star at Michigan, Is also a member of the Detroit police department Harry Hellmnnn of the Detroit Tigers won the American league batting bat-ting championship In 1921, "23 and "25. V A golf course recently constructed near Mountain Iron, Minn., baa been named the Mid-iron public golf links. Ed Brandt, pitcher of the Seattle club of llufl'udlle Coast league, has been purchased by the Boston Braves for $20,000. The Kansas City Blues of the American Amer-ican association will "more than probably" prob-ably" return to Lake Charles for the 1028 spring training season, Midnight basebttll is enjoyed by soldiers sol-diers In Alaska, where night Is duy unuei tl.e Arctic clrr.e. Pat Malone, Minneapolis pitcher, has twice equaled the Amerlcun association as-sociation record for consecutive strikeouts this season by fanning six butters in a row. Pitchers "Cliud" Klmsey and Morris Mor-ris Young and Cutcher Joe Mays of the Muskogee (Okla.) Western association asso-ciation club, have been sold to Tulsa, champions of the Western league. Football earnings nre expected to puy the cost of University of Michigan's Michi-gan's new stadium, as well as the KiOO.OOO Intramural siiorts building and the $100,000 women's fleldhouse . Alfred Slirubb, England's great rut ner and college couch, recently retired. He trained Oxford Inst season and previous to that was In charge of Harvard's squad. Ills career covered 30 years. , Joe Marty, the pitcher sold to the New York Yankees by the Lincoln club of the Wes.ern league, pluys under un-der an assumed name. His real name Is Joseph Martlcornea. and he Is of Italian extraction. Lieut Cot. Edward D. Miller, who served for many years with the Brit ish urmy In India. Is known us "The Father of I'olo." Since leaving the urmy he has devoted his lime to the training of polo ponies. One of the old truck m::rls that has dellcd the efforts of modern runners is Maxey l.ong'r 47 seconds ll.a for tlie Ktrulghtaway qjnrle. niilj dash, made on tim old racetrack at (Jutten i.ii-B. N J.. 7 years ago. "Tiger" Flowers and his manager. Walk Miller, estimate that they h..ve traveled over 200,000 miles through out tlie United Stales. Mexico. Culm ai;d Canada In ordei tc appear In bouts arranged for the former. . ' Gretclien Allen, a seventeen-yenr-oid swimming star of Florida, has 52 medals and '.2 ribbons for finishing first place In various water competitions. compe-titions. Numerous second and third-prize third-prize trophies grace her collection. |