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Show An increasing interest in golf is being be-ing displayed in Italy. Word has been received here that Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner, would again be seen on American tracks this winter. ' Upward of 480,000 caddies are employed em-ployed on golf links in the United States. Ed Griffin, a right-handed pitcher of the Memphis cluh of the Southern association, as-sociation, has been purchased by Brooklyn. Lieut. Richard Cutts won the Pacific coast division honors of the Marine corps rirte matches with 770 out of a possible S00 shots. Kiki Cuyler, star outfielder of the Pirates, now owns some Pittsburgh real estate and plans to make his home In the Smoky oil v. ... Purchase of Pili ook and Fred Cook from the Saskatoon hockey club for $15.0110 Is announced by the Ottawa ! Hockey association. J Tlie mystery wonia i who failed to ' swim the channel remains a mystery, at any rate. Which also shows unil- luminating effect of failure. Orville Menard.' I went y-four-yenr-old shortstop of the championship Bay City club, has been sold to the Rochester Roches-ter club of the International league. . Freddie Hoffman, first-string catcher, and Pewee Wanninger. regular shortstop, short-stop, have been sold by the St. I'aul American association club to the Bos- Ion Americans. I I All baseball records were recently I broken when Frank "Red" Partain of : the Brownsville club in the Lower Rio Valley Baseball league of Texas, made five home runs in one game. Lee Fold is to be ousted as manager of Flu- Boston Red Sox and "Lefty" I.ieliebl. coach, put in Fold's position, according to reports current In bnse-ba'.l bnse-ba'.l circles. While t lie Chinese have fallen before be-fore the Invasion of western sports and have taken enthusiastically to baseball, tennis, soccer, running, cycling cy-cling nnd basket ball, the game of golf has no appeal to them. Fernandlna, Fla., boasts the only natural ocean-front golf course In America, the beautiful sand dunes forming fairways, bunkers and traps, the greens and grass having been planted on the government reservation reserva-tion Immediately adjacent. ... The first organized baseball league was formed back In 1871 nnd was known ns the Professional association, associa-tion, including teams of Philadelphia. Boston, Chicago. Cleveland, Ttockford. Troy, Fort Wayne, New York and Brooklyn, with the Athletics winning the pennant- |