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Show f SPORT SHORTS v ' Waite Hoyt, high school boy, now pitching for the Boston Red Sox, is said to be giving Manager Barrow no small amount of trouble because ho prefers to do things to suit himself. He has shown himself to be one of the best hurlers In tho game this year. Jock Malone, St. Paul welter-weight, may have to cancel several bouts as result of having slightly injured his left arm in a recent battle with Jack Britton at Canton, Ohio. Malone sustained sus-tained a fracture of the left arm several sev-eral months ago and his bout with Britton was in the nature of a trial for tho injured member. Battling Nelson has severed all. connection con-nection with the boxing sport and will devote himself entirely to the real estate es-tate business. Nelson expects to locate lo-cate in Chicago and may specialize in homo building in some of Chicago's suburbs. He recently received an estate es-tate valued at $250,000 from his father, Heinle Groh, of tho Cincinnati Reds, 13 making use of evory opportunity to Hnnv fhn atnrv qftnt nnt frnm "Rprllnnds last winter that his wife would not permit him to sign a Cincinnati contract con-tract unless it called for a stipulated amount of pay. Groh says it was a shamo to draw his wlfo Into the matter mat-ter Avhen she had absolutely nothing to do with It. He explains that his wife was merely relating his attitude on the salary question to a friend one day, when the conversation was carried car-ried to a newspaper man who printed the yarn without investigation. Tho "old guard" in the boxing gamo in New York stato is raising a rumpus because Anthony Droxel Biddle is "butting in" on the sport there since the Walker bill was passed. Biddle has been dubbed "an outsider" although al-though ho was one of the promoters of the International Sporting club. The race meeting now in session at tho Pimlico track in Maryland has broken all records for disciplinary measures being meted out to keep the sport clonn. Several of the leading jockeys have been called to account for careless work and a couple of them suspended during the meeting It is hinted there may be some scandal de- velop in connection with some of the ilong shots. J Walter Johnson was "beaned" recently, re-cently, but it did not seem to injure him seriously despite the fact that he was unconscious for nearly a half hour. Maurice Shannon in attempting : to throw to first base hit Johnson, pho was In the pitcher's box, just behind be-hind the ear. Walter dropped as though he was shot. When he was revived re-vived he insisted upon finishing the game and he further proved that he was all right by fanning the next two men who faced him. Connie Mack, of the Athletics,' is said to have nearly SO youngsters working out at Shlbe park every morning morn-ing when the team Is at home. Connie is on the lot to direct the boys. Mack furnishes equipment for the youDg-sters youDg-sters who have none. |