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Show Canada's first professional baseball organization was the Ontario league, which played Its first regular season In 1885. Of the members of the British royal family, the duke of York Is the best billiard player, although he Is left-handed. left-handed. Judging from the length of his mummy case old King Tut apparently would have made a good basketball center. The New York Yankees have released re-leased Pitcher Elbert Johnson to the Des Moines club of the Western league. The Cleveland club has transferred George Winn, southpaw pitcher formerly for-merly In the Southern league, to Milwaukee. Mil-waukee. The Oxford and Cambridge crews of England, will, It Is expected, develop de-velop an entry for the Olympic regatta re-gatta at Paris. Al Orth, veteran pitcher and umpire, um-pire, has been engaged as coach of athletics for Virginia Military Insti-tute Insti-tute at Lexington. The 1924 championship tournament of the American Trapshootlng association associa-tion will mark the silver Jubilee of that organization Chief Albert Bender has taken hold of the baseball squad at the Annapolis Naval academy and expects to develop de-velop a winning team. An eastern professions! football league Is contemplated, Including teams of Philadelphia and other points, notably Atlantic City. The Kansas City club offered the veteran outfielder, Beals Becker, to several clubs In the Coast league in exchange for a second baseman. Among the leaders In rbe majors to win baseball pennants John McGraw won nine; Connie Mack, six; Frank Chnnce, four; Hughle Jennings, three. Tete McCrse, football end and captain, cap-tain, has been elected captain of the Syracuse busketball team, succeeding Capt. Fnsce, who was declared Ineligible. In-eligible. In Max Bishop, secured from Baltimore, Balti-more, Connie Muck adds another slugger slug-ger to the Athletics. Bishop, with 22 home runs, tied Webb of Buffalo for circuit swat honors. Among new collegians or near-eol-leglans signed by the St. Louis Cardinals Car-dinals of lute Is Donald Hurst, a player play-er who nisde a reputation as first baseman with the Ohio Military institute insti-tute last season. |
