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Show ' 4- 1 1 RAPID FIRE CHATTER . . ' -f ! "llabbii' MaranvlHe. of the Bostbn Bravesi ja going to have a busy whi- ter, MaranvlHe has returned to his trade of tinsmith and In addition will coach three basketball teams lie la located In Springfield, Mass., where basketball is more populur than baseball. base-ball. Sjtaranvllle i a favorite with the basketball followers of Springfield: Hughey Jennings since signing lo assist as-sist John McOraw with th New York Jiaii', has announccl he never had 'any intention 01 coaching be Obrnell baaebali leam. Jennings made two .visits to Ithaca, bm they were for the purpose of conferring with college officials offi-cials regarding baseball matters Jcn-nlngs Jcn-nlngs admitted he would probably , sist Cornell ' In various ways- Mbrse racing In Cuba seems to be an entirely different proposition since Cubans have become stockholders In the proposition started by II. D, "Curly" Brown. I;ist spring 111 own disposed of his minority holdings 'o jLorenso Quesada, A c. Harrison Jr. J N. and -f V- Holler, native Cubans, 'and now they are working harder to add to the popularity of the game than any of the Americans worked before. I Tho new stockholdem are all wealth j men. and they are also prominent so-. I chilly, They have already launched j la program to have a certain day each! Week declared a holiday so that all per-; 80na In Havana mav attend the meeting. meet-ing. t The recent announcement that Ma- , Jor frank Kavanajjgh, football coach' .at Boston college, hfcl signed a five jyear contract with the Hub institution.! was a severe bieiw tb some of the col- h i;. is in the mlddlewest which were labqut to open negotiations with thci Boston man; ft Is rumored that Min uospta would bo interested in socur-iii.' socur-iii.' Kavanaugh'a services in the event Dr. Williams makes good hla threat 1 to quit coaching. Washington Unl-1 verslty in St. Louis, was also interested ' in the Boston man- , l.arrv Doyle, of the New York Glantsj will noi bupk th. snow for long this' winter. He has practically completed arrangements to spend the winter in Cuba. 1 Gen. Johp J. fersing Is taking an ac-! tfVe part in the 111.103 for the coming horse show in Madison Square Gar- din. ami win appear in competition on Jeff. 1 he handsome animal he rode' whip- at the fronl In France Persh-1 ing has always been an ardent horse fin and some of his suggestion to the, show committee involving the showing iot army mounts is certain to create! 1 w interest in the breeding of army hoi sci". Jose R. Capablanca, Cuban chess ex-j ,pert has finally made a partial prom - 1 j Iso to chess followers in New York ,City, to visit this country before his. .meeting With lr. Knianuei Laskc'r at ; Havana for the world'"' title Capaldan-Ctl Capaldan-Ctl has been playing several rounds of . hess each da" In preparation for the i big nat h In January The Manhattan jCheas club requested Capablanca fori .1 vlsji to assist in creating new inter-j Leal in the ame. I ; The director of Public Safety of j Philidelphia, who is in charge of the bi uig game in the Quaker city, will ask the New York State Boxing Com- mission to put the bars up against Pete I Herman, bantam champion, because' the tltlcholdei refused r meet Young I .vIcCup w hen the latter was one pound j over Welifht. Herman could have claimed McCue'a forfeit and he was of-I 'fcred an additional sum ov er his SI. 000 guarantee, but he walked out of the' club and disappointed a house full of; fyis Jockey Buddy Ensor recently be-1 com'- the proud father of an eight pound baby girl. Ensor Is .regarded as 1 the leading jockey of the American tuVf for 1920 and throughout the east: has been hailed as the second Tod 1 Sloan. EEnsor'a rise as a jockey Is one of the real romances of the American 1 turf Taken by Tom Shannon and. taught to ride, but later getting into! difficult that brought about disquali-i itlon, Tom llealy took tee lad when he hadn't a friend, had him reinstated and has kept him on the straight and narrow path. Ensor is regarded as. a wonderful judge of pace |