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Show ROGERS HORNSBY IS GREAT HITTER Alexander Gave Him First . Hit Out of Sympathy. Rogers nornsby Is a great hitter. He has been the Rajah of the National league for years and led that organization organiza-tion In batting often. let the first hit he ever got In the big show was given to him out of sheer sympathy. Alexander was the pitcher who handed that sympathetic sock to the Rajah. ' 'This kid broke In against us In St Louis," said the Nebraskan, "and I was pitching when he did. The first couple of times he didn't do anything. On hla third trip up I said to KUlefer: "'Here's a kid breaking in, let's band him one.' " " 'All right,' said Kll, 'go ahead.' So I stuck one straight over and he bit a double. He certainly gave me plenty of trouble after that But he wasn't my toughest No, sir, the toughest tough-est gent I ever faced wos Jimmy Archer, Arch-er, the old Cuba catcher. I waa his 'cousin' all right "He didn't hit more than about 240, but he could hit me. I pitched them high and low, In and out fast ball and curve, but he hit everything. Whenever When-ever he saw roe getting ready to pitch he used to kick bis heels In the air and laugh right In my face. "I finally said: Darned if I'm going to tire myself out trying to pitch to him.' 8o I Just stuck It over and took a chance." An Innovation has been Introduced by the Chicago (111.) publisher, John C. Baur, who sponsors the Review futurity, fu-turity, and the nominators to the 1930 colt futurity will assent to racing the event of 1933 nnder the handicap system. sys-tem. Heretofore It has happened that one or two colts have stood out over the other colts and have bad easy sailing sail-ing to trim their fields. It Is now proposed to handicap the youngsters that have an edge on the others In point of speed, and the top colts or the ones that have shown superiority will be compelled to take so many feet or yards handicap, while the others will start from the scratchf The system will be used extensively this season In classes arranged for the aged trotting horse division. Loyola university of Los Angeles has Just Insured Tom Lleb against death or accident for $30,000. Thia, with Lleb's three-year contract at a reported re-ported salary of $12,000 a year, shows how highly Loyola values the services of Its new football coach, who, less than a year ago, was drawing $5,600 as line coach at the University of Wisconsin. Wis-consin. A Chicago writer thinks tennis Is Billy because "a 200 pound six-footer runs around screaming Twenty love.' " And yet, If a fellow watches tennis long enough to know there Is no "Twenty love" In It, he often finds It attractive. Another sign of Impending, If not actual middle age, Is a growing disposition dis-position to postpone the baseball pennant pen-nant prophecy until August or thereafter. there-after. Tennis was evolved from a game Introduced In-troduced to sportsmen of Nahant Mass, in 1873, called sphlrlstike. which two young men had learned from a British officer who had adapted It from medieval French game. J. T. "Jimmy" Sheckard. famous member of the Chicago Cubs of another anoth-er decade, will pilot the Franklin and Marshall college nine through a strenuous stren-uous schedule this spring. Sheckard, regarded by many critics as the greatest left-flelder of all times, lost no time In calling his first practice. Barry Wood, Harvard's famous tennis ten-nis and football star, whose forward passing shook up Michigan quite a bit In the big game, which, however, the Wolverines won at Ann Arbor last fall, la out for the Harvard Infield. Lnst year be played short and hit over .400, but tills year be may play any one of the bases. Ben Ticknor, all-Amerlcan center and captain of the Crimson eleven for nsxt year, plays center field on the ball team, and Is a mighty hitter. Don Moe, University of Oregon golf captain, will enter all the major golf tournaments of the United States and England, after competing for the United Unit-ed States Walker cup team at the Royal St George's course In Sandwich, England, May 15 and 10. The Web-foot Web-foot captain, who holds the western amateur title, will withdraw from the Eugene college at the end of the winter win-ter term. He will spend a mouth In Portland, Ore., practicing. Out of a total roster of about 4,000 male students at the University of Washington, all but 230 are actively engaged In some form of Intercollegiate Intercol-legiate nr Intramural athletics. |