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Show LITTLE PICKUP3 Of 5P0ST - Nebraska and Iowa may not meet on the gridiron next fall. Harvard athletic teams will resume southern trips next spring. Dartmouth has udded fencing to its officially recognized sports. Harvard has booked twenty-seven baseball games for next season. The Amateur Athletic union has 4SS clubs and 11,543 registered athletes. Indianapolis has sold Sam Crane, a brilliant young infielder, to Cincinnati. National league baseball nines used 17,076 baseballs during the 1919 season. sea-son. Princeton will have sixteen veterans of the football squad available for 1920. England wants catch-as-catch-can wrestling added to the Olympic program. pro-gram. At Cornell university more than 1,000 students turned out daily for sports. Harvard plays the first baseball game xVpril 10 with Bowdoiu at Cambridge. Cam-bridge. Ralph Greenleaf, the pocket billiard champion, was twenty years old November No-vember 3. Thomas Ince, moving picture promoter, pro-moter, may buy the Portland club of the Coast league. Bill Hinchman, Pirate outfielder, is wanted by the Columbus club of the American associa'ion. Atlanta will be the scene of the southern intercollegiate track and field sports, May 14 and 15. "Babe" Ruth hit for a total of 284 bases last season and was paid at the rate of $35.21 per base. The 1920 Yale-Harvard rowing classic will take place over the New London course June 25. Remember Mark Baldwin? Quite a pitcher in his time. Well, he is now a physician In Pittsburgh. Ewald O. ("Jumbo") Stiebm has signed 'a five-year contract as director of athletics at Indiana university. Neither German nor Austrian athletes ath-letes will be permitted to compete in the Olympic festival at Antwerp this year. Albany schoolboys are being enrolled en-rolled in the recently formed Adirondack Adiron-dack A. A. of the Amateur Athletic union. Bob Higgins, captain of this year's i'enn State football eleven, is the champion heavyweight boxer of the co liege. Northwestern University students will be instructed in wrestling, in-eluding in-eluding the Japanese and Swedisli methods. Ralph Perkins, one of the three leading catchers of the American league, has signed with the Athletics for 1920. A new French flyweight boxer named .Billiard is being groaned for a clash Willi Jimmy Wilde, the English champion. Karl Zamloeh, who at one time was a pitcher for I be White Sox, has turned magician and is touring Pacific coast towns. The Detroit club will take twenty-nine twenty-nine players south for spring training, Including ten recruits. Five of them are pitchers. It would not surprise followers of football to see "Tad" Jones assisting Dr. Sharpe in coaching the Y'ale football foot-ball team next fall. "Mule" Watson and Harry Pearce, Phillies' pitchers, are said to have quit organized baseball to join the Franklin, Frank-lin, Pa., Independent club. The Boston Athletic association wants its annual Marathon on Patriots' Patri-ots' day made the ollioiul trial for the American Olympic team. Pennsylvania has ten football games on her scbednle next fall, Including Ibe usual game with Cornell at Philadelphia Phila-delphia on Thanksgiving day. Camp Dix, Wrighlstown, N. J., will lay out a polo field Incidental to Introducing In-troducing the sport at the big cantonment. canton-ment. Equipment has been secured. Athletes from China, Japan, the Philippines and other far eastern countries ars expected to compote nt the sewijih modern Olympin at Antwerp. Ant-werp. Branch Rickey recently announced be had received an offer of S70.Oki f0r Roger llornsby. Now Roger declares be vains more money to play next season. |