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Show : . ' SPORT SHORTS j psr ; : . $700,000 IN STAKES, i LOUISVILLE Approximately $700,- f 000 will be distributed among horse- ftbA men in the CO-day Kentucky race 'if, meets which open at Lexington the W. iast week in April. The Kentucky JyJ Jockey club controls the Louisville W and Latonia tracks, also. . 'l MAROON TO PURPLE. " .COLUMBUS Eddie Casey will don the purple colors and forsake the ma- , J rbon halo that rests on his shoulders . i as the Harvard hero. He will roport ' on SepL 10 to coach the Mount Union i football team this fall. Casey will coach football only. i MASCOT TO STAGE. NEW YORK Back in the old days T-.J when Slarke Griffith was manager of ;J $ the Yankees, Billy Newson grabbed s the bludgeons and racked them up. I From 1903" to 1908, Billy was the otrt- V t cial mascot. Nov he is one of the ''- leading dancers with tho Follies. J; PLANS GO AHEAD. ? N7W YOEK Even If N6w York's 'it uoxlng law gets the go-by the Interna-tional Interna-tional Sporting club plans to have pox-WM pox-WM ' " ing bouts just the same. Adam Em- fjfl pic, secretary of the club, states that lctB the authorities permit bouts Jn bona CHm fide clubs. . PICKS SCHOOL BOYS . MOLINE Tho Plow Boys will have a pair of school boys on the roster this year. Manager Earl Mack has notified a lad by the name of Allen to report as soon as he puts away hla books. McKnew, a college graduate, from tho coast, will fill an ou field furrow. WOULD GO AGAIN. OMAHA Out at Camp Dodge, 25. soldiers are training hard with the ob- ject In view of making tho Olympic team which will go to Antwerp. They all eager for a return engagement in Belgium. They are all track men. ' GOLDEN GATE STAR. SAN FRANCISCO Pacific Coast tennis experts believe that Miss Helen Eaker's ability as a possible champ have been hidden. She lias hold the title In the west Tor several years. She will compete in .the easL for natitonal signles title. KI'CK IN STUDIES. COLUMBUS Columbia University, tho second largo Bchool to include a course of "Coaching of Football," in Its curriculum of studies, has engaged D. J. W. Wilce of Ohio State Unllveiv sity, to teach the "kick" game In the summer school. . |