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Show Sport jjotes Paid college coaches are unknown- in ! England. The New York Americans will play 25 exhibition games this spring. Games similar to football were played hy the ancient Greeks and Uo-mans. Uo-mans. Why doesn't the World Peace movement move-ment take Mr. Dempsey for its example? ex-ample? After all, It is a question which is the more sedative pastime; chess or six-day bicycle racing. In some parts of the state of Washington Wash-ington football games are played on ground strewn with sawdust. M. A. Drew, '2G, has been elected captain of the cross-country team ut Iowa State college for next fall. Four cities, Chicago, New Orleans. Pasadena and San Francisco, are seeking seek-ing the 192,") A. A. U. athletic carnival. Few players in the majors use the head-first slide because of its great danger. Frisch of the Giants is an exception. ex-ception. Sybil Bauer of Chicago, famous back-stroke swimmer, set 21 new records rec-ords in competition during the year just ended. 9 Raymond "Rube" Bressler has signed a Cincinnati National contract, assuring assur-ing the Hods of a first baseman for the coming season. Manager Robinson of Brooklyn isn't quite satisfied with the work of Johnny John-ny Mitchell at short. He's looking for a harder hitter. Stanley Coveleskle, traded from the Cleveland club to Washington, won a sweepstake live-bird match at Locust Gap, Pa., by potting 22 out of 24 birds. John (Buddy) Ryan, manager of the Sacramento Pacific Coast league baseball club, suffered a fractured skull when his automobile turned over near Sacramento. About the only thing the mattei witli football is that too many people spend the winter attacking or defending defend-ing a game which seems to do web enough on its merits. Anot iier curious feature of our ath letic system is the manner in whict any good halfback .automatically becomes be-comes a former All-America man aboui five years after graduation. i |