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Show M SPORTING ITEMS. Rm Chicago April lti. Frederick W Hn Bittke, a fancy dn er of the Illinois I Athletic club. Was in a dangerous M; condition today, as a result of an in H jury suffered while competing in the m National A. A. U championships at m the Chicago Athletic association last H night. H Whilr attempting a "flying Dutcn- H man " Blttke's head struck the dlv- M nc board and he fell unconscious H fifteen feet into the pool Othr-.r H swimmers competing in the cham- H pionships rescued him and he was M taken to a hospital, where surgeons H declared an immediate operation was Br necessary to save bis life, fl Bittke suffered a severe fracture of H the temporal bone. Officials of the fl club asserted after the accident that H a rule would be proposed at the. n?x; H national meeting eliminating all H dangerous diving events from the H competition. H Cincinnati April 16. The Chicago H Nationals were today ordered by the I national baseball commission to pay j to Player K. M Hagoman $150. the j bonus called for in bis 1914 contract , and also to submit to the player n ! contract for 1915 containing the same bonus ciausc that was contained in i his 1914 contract. The Chicago club , contended that as Hageman had com to them after half the season was over thoy wore only indebted to him for half the bonus. Bloomington. Ind , April 14i. Mot tlon pictures of football games played j last season were the first course prescribed pre-scribed for candidates for the l!l.r I football eleven at Indiana university 1 when Coach C. C Childs began his spring training season here yesterday The men had the use of a local motion-picture theater and Coach Childs discussed the different methods of attack and defense as they were thrown upon the screen. He said h" J would continue this form of instruc-tion instruc-tion for ten days before taking the men out on the field Los Angeles. April 16. El Monte ', and Irwindale, suburban baseball nines, hegan hunting here today for somebody who would be umpire, but i found no candidates. After one umpire had been chased out of yesterday's game. John Hayes, a rancher, undertook the position, posi-tion, and upon announcing his first decision was shot twice in the breast by a spectator who had bet on Kl Monte. Hayes called time, rusbeu upon his assailant and took away th weapon, with which be droven tht man from the field. He then finished the game, but declined de-clined to officiate iu any more. He was not dangerously hurt. San Francisco. April 16. DrlscoU'fl brilliant but unsupported play today-was today-was unequal to the task of stemming the rushes of the Portland. Ore., polo team, the latter defeating the Burl-ingamc Burl-ingamc four on the exposition field, 7 1-2 goals to i 1-2. Of the five tallies tal-lies by his side Driscoll made four, but his teammates failed to play to lorni. The Portland four worked well together, to-gether, their teamwork being effective. effec-tive. The game was the finals for the Bnrlingame cups, the handsome trophies going to the northerners. |