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Show William T. Stobbs Is the new football foot-ball coach at Wittenberg college. Fidel LnBarba will Invade Europe as a featherweight, visiting London, Paris and Berlin. Chick Median's teams have won 29 games, lost 6 and tied 3 during bis coaching at New York university. Ilnl Janvrln, former star of the Boston Bos-ton Red Sox, Is still playing ball for Qulncy in the Boston Twilight league. The Detroit arena where Dundee and Fields met, Is square In design. Most arenas have been circular or with six or eight sides. Peter A. Rasmus, Ashtabula, three times champion of the Big Ten In the discus throw, has been elected honorary hon-orary captain of the 1930 Ohio State track team. a a Elon O. Hogsett, star hurler of the Montreal Royals, and one of the sensations sen-sations of the International Baseball league this season, has been sold to the Detroit Tigers. Widely-heralded "record" golf scores are really nothing of the sort. Officially, Offi-cially, a record score can only be mode In a medal-play competition, with the holes and tees in their proper medal position. ,fyortin$SQ.uib3 Boston contemplates spending $100,-000 $100,-000 on playgrounds. Americanism : Naming a 230-pound ball player "Babe." Calling a four-family four-family fiat a manor. Ollle Chill and H. E. Holmes signed nonreserve contracts In being taken on as International league umpires. Andy Rush, forty-three-year-old pitcher, pitch-er, with Bridgeport club. Is the leading lead-ing hurler In the Eastern league this season. Summy Byrd, Yankee reserve outfielder, out-fielder, bas broken 70 on his home golf course in Birmingham, Ala., and consistently plays over any links in the low 70's. H Crabtree and Goodbread, two of the big stars of the Florida university varsity var-sity football team, worked during the summer as life guards on the fashionable fashion-able beach at Bye, N. Y. .... Like Suzanne Lenglen, Betty Nut-hall, Nut-hall, the British tennis star, took np the game at the age of seven, being trained by her father; She won the girls' championship of England when she was thirteen. a a a Jack Smith, veteran outfleldv, played in the big leagues from 1916 to this Reason. He Is now a member of the Baltimore Orioles. . a The Coliseum, In which the 1932 Olympic games will be held at Los Angeles, Calif., will have a seating capacity ca-pacity for 110,000 spectators. Another of the trying Interludes in the growth of an American community is the one where the question arises whether it can support a league ball team. Miami's racing meet will start January Jan-uary IS and will run for 45 days. Harvey Hopson, Paris, Ark., shortstop, short-stop, has signed a St Louis Cardinal Cardi-nal contract Elmer Miller, utility outfielder and pitcher of the Phillies, has been unconditionally un-conditionally released. Mysterious Billy Smith, once a prominent welter, is now a 200-pound fight promoter In Portland, Ore. , , Manuel Qulntero, lightweight, comes from a Spanish family of Ybor City, Fia., a suburb of Tampa. He Is a dentist Santa Clara university will send Its football squad to Honolulu to play the University of Hawaii December 14. Hawaii originally was scheduled to play Utah that day. , Dr. John L. Lavan. former shortstop short-stop with the Browns, Cardinals and Washingtons, has been appointed assistant as-sistant flight surgeon for the Universal Aviation corporation. a a a I. E. Rodgers, hend coach of the West Virginia university football team, can pose as an authority on golf as well as football. He recently won the state amateur golf championship at White Sulphur, W. Va. a Billy Southworth Is signed to a 1030 contract as manager of the Rochester club. Billy was demoted from the Cards at no loss in salary. A Columbia Investigator says a man who could not yawn would smother. Only thus Is the baseball fan enabled to survive from August to AprU. A baseball team In an Eastern leagne reports losing $71,000 in the last fiscal year. Under the circumstances it seems silly to keep on calling it fiscal. The knuckle-ball helped Ed Rom-jmell Rom-jmell win his first seven games for the Athletics. Rommell has excellent eoutroL Of course llevlng is a first-rate name for a catcher, and stii: we think the aptest name In sports was that of old Dr. Roller, the wrestler. a Ko doubt the college boys give the gnme a certain tone, but we have always al-ways thought the bulk of the first-class first-class baseball Is played by gentlemen with nothing else on the mind. |