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Show Sporting Squibs of All Kinds Wonder what an umpire does In winter? OHIe Klee Is being boomed at Ohio state as a second Chick Harley. There Is always room at the top, but only one baseball team Is ever able to find it One thing sure: Jack Dempsey can't tell Battling Sikl to "go and get a reputation." Paul Stewart of Chicago was elected elect-ed captain of the 1923 University of Illinois baseball team. Hub Perdue, as the Texas league season closed, let It be known that he la done with baseball. The pedestal on which the New York fans have placed Babe Rutb seems to be decidedly wobbly. A lot of games In the winter league may have to be called because the corner grocer will have no coaL William Taggert of Troy, N. Y., has been named coach of the Williams soccer soc-cer team for the coming season. The description of what happened to Georges Carpentler suggests that he is still champion of plaster of Paris. Everett Scott, durable shortstop of the Yankees, finished the 1922 season with 986 consecutive games played to his credit. Peter the Great, 2 :074, now twenty-seven twenty-seven years old, surprises visitors to the Laurel Hill farm by his fine appearance. ap-pearance. Any baseball coach can tell you that too many young men go to college without having learned the basic principles prin-ciples of lnfleldlng. It is said that SIkt, the Senegalese who licked Carpentler, trains on hard liquor. He isn't going to be European champion very long. a a Stairways will be eliminated In the University of Illinois stadium at Champaign Cham-paign It will seat 58,000 spectators and cost $1,500,000. Glenn Mvatt, sent to Milwaukee by Connie Mack In the Joe Hauser deal. ha3 proved a harder hitter in the Association As-sociation than Hauser was. Stairways will be eliminated in the University of Illinois stadium " will seat 53,000 spectators" spec-tators" an cost million and a half dollars. . . Mr. Kent, 2:00. w't'r Col fell In the first heat of his Hart-race Hart-race about fifty yards from the w.W went on and won the next two heats. . , , - L Kramer, world's greatest H.ler who retired recently, hasten tinted temporary chair uTthe' board of control of the National Cyciing association. VerIe sweiuer, star mile runner at n iwmtT of Minnesota for the f the proTesslonals in the role of lntry coach for the Gophers. hn McGraw and Charles Stone-, Stone-, ' who have made millions In vrl- TZ?1 are said to be In for more Th X.S through the development ,vLi 1 Texas. |