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Show Late Sport News WASHINGTON. Feb 11 Federal Judge Landla of Chicago was within tho law when he accepted the office of supreme baseball arbitrator while still serving on tbe bench, Attorney General Palmer declared today ln a letter to Representative Welly. Demo-i Demo-i i. il, ol ' 'lilu, why had questioned the Judge's right to hold both positions. Mr Welly introduced today a bill making It unlawful for any judge to receive compensation for performing the duties of an arbitrator, commissioner commis-sioner or officer of any corporation. CLEVELAND, O, Feb. 1 1 When the annual spring meeting of the , American league opened here at noon today, representatives of the owners of the Boston and New York clubs, opponents op-ponents of President B B Johnson in many controversies, were not present. It was explained that they did not attend at-tend because of the routine character of the meeting. President Johnson said the meeting would take up the formality of adopting adopt-ing a schedule and that the new major league and major-minor rules ns suggested sug-gested by the baseball advisory council coun-cil would be the only matters discussed. I ST. EOUIS, Mo., Feb. 11. Dr. John Lavanj shortstop, has reconsidered his announced determination to quit baseball base-ball and signed 1921 contract with the 1st. Louis Nationals, it was announced: today. PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 10. The I Portland team of the Pacific Coast leugue will train at Santa Maria, Cal... ,W W. McCredle, president of the club, I (announced today. Members of the, team will leave here March 5 for the training quurters. ' MANILA, P. E. Feb. 10. Twenty-round Twenty-round prize fights are permitted under , a bill paised today in the closing hours) of tho Philippine legislature. Previous Previ-ous legislation limited rlze fights to! ten rounds. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Feb. 11. ! Howard GUI. a local rlghthanded pitcher, will be given a trial with the Minneapolis American association baseball club this spring, it was announced an-nounced here today. Last year Gill I pitched for the Milhank S. D., team1 land won 1 S games out of 24. |