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Show JporJjbe St. Louis Municipal Soccer league comprises 30 games. e e e Jean Duhuc, old baseball star, Is managing a hockey team at Providence. Provi-dence. e e e American trotting stallions and brood mares are being exported to ICu rope In large numbers. e e e It Is noted In the headline of nn es teemed eastern newspaper that a oas ket bull contest Is a hoop tilt e e e In 22 seasons of cross-country com petition In the Big Ten the University of Wisconsin runners eight times were first e e e Jimmy Braddock, the Jersey man fco whipped Tuffy Griffiths, resembles the well-known Jimmy Slattery, of Buffalo. e e e George Eamshaw walked 100 men und fanned 113 men while he was win ning seven and losing seven for the Athletics. e e e Eddie Rommell. star pitcher of the Athletics, Is one of the best duckpln bowlers In the country. He lives In Baltimore. e e e The sliding seat for rowing was In vented by J. C. Babcock, one of the founders of the New York Athletic club, about 1870. e e e Muny a man who has kept hlmselt Informed of all the player trades In baseball since the close of the season cannot name five of the country's new governors. e e e Wlnsti.n-Sulem, N. C, had a player named Rye In Its lineup during the last season and In severul games Bud Welser. a reserve, was sent In to plnch-hlt for him. e e There Is one good thing about the professional sport; no mntter how tough or blunt, he never hns hlmsell photographed with chin or brow resting rest-ing on his hand. e e The official paid attendance for the California-Georgia Tech game on New Year's day was 6(5.404. It was the largest crowd ever to witness a Tournament Tour-nament of Roses game. e e e Pitcher Elmer Tutwller, twenty-three-year-old recruit obtained by the Pittsburgh Pirates Inst August from Savannah of the Southeastern league. has been released outright to Omana of the Western league. e British lawn tennis prospects this year are bright The construction ot over 1.4IKI hard courts during the past year has been a development In the required direction fast and aggres sive play. e Among those who tried to get the football coaching Job at Texas A. and M. when Pana X. Bible resigned was Johnny .Muulhetsch. former Michigan star, and at present coach of the Okla homa Aggies. e e e I The Cubs apparently have cut the strings on Tommy Sewell, youngest of the Alabama baseball family. The Cub farm. Rending, sent Tommy to Springfield In a deal for John Wight, third baseman. e e e Ping Bodle, the Italian fence bustei of San Francisco flhd nationally known hnsehnll player, has given up the national pastime for good and ha opened a gasoline service station and coffee shop In Snn Francisco. Calif, e Chicago's worlds fair cenienniai celebration In W33 will Include con tests In every branch of sports, pro fesslonal as well as amateur. e e e Football Is rapidly supplanting bull fighting ns the national sport In Spain where there Is now considerable prop ggnndn against the brutal pastime, e e e Completion of arangements for a football coaches' school to be conduct ed at Pallas. August 10-31 Inclusive hy Knute Rockne of Notre Paine and Glenn Warner. Stanford, Is announced. |