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Show SPORT SHORTS B John McGraw has refused to send Larry Doyle to the Phillies via the trade route. A deal was in the making whereby Doyle wa to join the Quakers in exchange for Lee Meadows and a TM youngster. J. Franklin Baker, former homo run kiug, recently declared he would again IB don a Yankee uniform this season. But, Baker has changed his mind be-cause be-cause he was disappointed in his plan of having a relative to look after his two little girls. Baker's wife died last H fall and he says he will never play baseball until he can be sure the little V tots are properly placed. The relative Em Who bad agreed to look after the pr youngsters was prevented from doing so by Illness. Bakers says his plans jj aro unsteeled now. IIS Joe Harris, member of the Cloveland H Indians, who has been a holdout since the training season began, will not JmM return to the club. He is now playing H with tho Franklin, Pa., team, where H he says he will remain. A representa- M tlve of the Speaker outfit tried to talk Joe Into signing a contract last week, mm but failed. MM New Orleans fight promoters will WW make a liberal offer to Johnny Wil- son, new middleweight champion, to tmm meet George Chip there In a 20-round mm bout in July. Chip is a great favorite in Ihe Crescent City, and promoters jM thero repeatedly tried to land Mike OM O'Dowd's contract to meet George. TH Jess Willard, it Is reported, will clean up about 50,000 on a potato 'MM deal this sumor. Willard has nearly 500 acres in spuds now, and the mar- M ket shows no inclination to drop. mW It is rumored that John K. Tener, VM formor president of the National MM League, will purchase tho controlling interest in tho Philadelphia National Loaguo club. Toner is now loqated Mi permanently in New York City, but ho MM is In Philadelphia much of his tlmo WMM and has considorablo interest there. V Tener always contended tho Phillies ; would be ono of tho most profitable Sfl clubs In the country if tho team was M nrl IrAitf nn in tho fine mnfv iH Arrangements aro being made for jH an international wrestling tournament jB to be hold in New York, possibly in December, to find a heavyweight grap- pier to meet Joo Steckler, the present m champion. Stanislaus Zbyszko re- contly announced bo was ready to tac- aM klo Steoher for tho big title. Jack ffifl Curloy will promote the tourney, if 91 one is held. Hugo Bozdek, former manager of tiMM the Pirates, now coaching at Penn jjMM Stato college, has inaugurated a sys- tern of class competition that will be M adopted by many of tho leading cast- JMM orn schools next fall. Several eastern wMM college representatives have been at vMM Penn Stato to study tho system. Bez- IH dek has been unusually succssful in H college work slnco leaving the Pirates. M |