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Show LITTLE Pl5 -orspourv Rube Benton, southpaw pitcher of the Giants, has been discharged from the army. Ping Bodie and Elmer Miller are scheduled to part company with Hug-gins, Hug-gins, according to report. Few joint tours of big league ball clubs are likely this spring if the season sea-son opens later than usual. A total of 2,200 boys participated in the recent track and field sports of the New York city public schools. The Metropolitan Driving club of Boston is the largest matinee light harness har-ness organization in the world. Jack Graney caught red-hot rivets in a tomato can while doing his bit in a Cleveland shipbuilding plant. The Boston club would like to get Catcher Steve O'Neill from the Indians. In-dians. He is one the Tribe won't let go. Sandlot baseball promises to play a big role the coining season. Some ambitious am-bitious league plans are in the making. mak-ing. The Southern association has adopted adopt-ed the novel plan of not having a player play-er stay with one club more than three years. ' Bills to legalize boxing may be Introduced In-troduced in the New York and Illinois legislatures at the next session of those bodies. E. W. Mahnn, the former Harvard varsity football and baseball star, is in France as a lieutenant in the United Unit-ed States marine corps. Ty Cobb is said to be anxious to play with the Yanks. Tyrus must have an idea the New Yorkers will be in the race next season. Dutch Leonard, the new Yankee southpaw, pitched the only hitless game in the majors last season. He turned the trick on the Tigers. Oswald Larson, a distance runner of the Logan Square A. C. of Chicago, has taken up his residence In New York city and joined the Morningside A. C. The final papers have been signed In the Yankee-Red Sox deal, and now all that remains is for the players involved in-volved to make terms with their new bosses. I ... Christy Mathewsnn has only recent- ly recovered from an attar-k of in- j fiuenza. according to Ty Cobb, who saw the Cincinnati manager in France- recently. ! The Yanks may go back to Macon ! for si. ring training after all. If the j reason opens May 1 Hoggins figures he doesn't have to take his men as far South v s Florida. The outlook for next season's light harness racing events Is very bright!. Many new and all the old owners and trainers tire getting anxious to hear about the early closing events. Between 250,000 and 300,000 boys of I the ages of sixteen, seventeen and : eighteen years are registered for mili- i tary training in New York state, as j required by the law recently passed i requiring schoolboys to register under the draft law. I |