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Show FANNY OURM ! NOT TO APPEAR Refuses to Enter Swimming Contests Under an Amateur Registry SAN FRANCISCO, June 7. -Fanny Durack, the Australian swimmer and holder of several world's championship champion-ship records, will not appear in BChed-uled BChed-uled swimming events under the direction direc-tion of the Pacific Amateur Athletic, union, it was announced here tonight The registration board of the Pacific j association of the A. A. U. said Miss Durack would have to register with the board as an amateur, and this, members of the board said, she declined de-clined to do. Miss Durack accompanied by Miss Mina Wylie, another Australian swimmer, swim-mer, arrived hero a few days ago with j credentials issued by the Australian I Swimming union Her swimming tour I of the United States had previously been questioned by the New South Wales Ladies' Amateur Swimming association. as-sociation. Miss Durack told newspaper representatives repre-sentatives that she was undecided as to her future plans in this country, except ex-cept that she would take no part in the proposed meets that had been arranged ar-ranged for her under the direction of William Unmack of the city, member of the governing board of the Pacific Amateur Athletic union. ARCHER COMES BACK. PITTSBURG. June S Jimmy Archer, Ar-cher, once the National league's star catcher when the plaed with the Chicago Chi-cago Cubs, is doing a remarkable comeback stunt in Pittsburg. Archer was released by the Cubs last year be-Canae be-Canae a bunch of crippled finqers prevented pre-vented him from throxsine to bases with his former speed and accuracy. The veterans was passed up by the other National league clubs and retired. re-tired. Manager Bezdek of the Pirates, signed Archer to coach the pitchers this season. Archer soon proved that he could catch and throw as well as in former campaigns, with the result that Bezdek is playing him regularly, while the other Pirate catchers-Schmidt, catchers-Schmidt, Wagner and Fischer are sit-ting sit-ting on 'he bench. If Archer doesn't break down there isn't a doubt that he will help the Pittsburg pitchers and also will steady the w hole team. Bez- dek, from all accounts, seems to be a pretty wise manager NO BROKEN FINGERS. BROOKLYN. N. Y. June 8 Jake Daubert. the veteran first baseman of the Robins, in one respect is one of the luckiest ball players in the major leagues. Nearly every ball player at some time during his career has had one of his fingers broken and many of them have two and three crooked digits dig-its Daubert has been pla ing ball for eleven years and is now in his ninth year as a Robin, but he has never had one of his fingers broken. This is all the more remarkable when it is considered that during each game he has about ten chances. Figuring that he has averaged 125 games for the last twelve seasons and accepted about ten chances in each game, Jake's number of grounders and thrown balls he has handled without having one of his fingers broken totals about 14,000. GETTING GOOD CATCHERS. NEW YORK. June 8 The Chicago Cubs have been noted for years as a team that gets good catchers. For years Johnny Kling was the ranking backstop of the National league, and after he went back the Cubs had an other star in the person of Jimmy Archer. After Jimmy passed from ihe stage of greatness the same club got Bill Killiler The Yankees in recent years have been specializing the same way. The capture of Al Walters was a master stroke, as he is rated today as one of the best maskmen in the game. Now the Yanks come up with another star backstop, Harry Hannah. Meanwhile, Miller Huggins insists that Herold Ruel is one of the best young catchers he ever saw. Tom Clarke, a steady veteran, also is with the team. Huggins surely is well fixed in catching catch-ing talent. MATTER OF OPINION. NEW YORK, June 8. Jim Donaldson, Donald-son, who is at the Norwood Golf club for the 1918 sea-on. was talking to a friend while .-;oing down in an elevator ele-vator in au office building The pair were, of course, talking golf, and the friend Bald: "What is there in this left arm theory9" "Nothing at all." responded the pro "I beg jnur pardon, sir," said another anoth-er occupant of the car, an individual of above five feet high. "I think you are wrong. I have been playing the game two years and I think the left arm does most of the work There is no use arguing. I think you will find I am right." And with that the little man of two years' experience made his exit, not knowing that he had been talking with a man who had been playing the game for nearly thirty years. |