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Show Twelve years is said to cover the career of t lie average baseball player. The first baseball team to win a championship was the Xew Yorks, In 1 SOS. Hobby Jones, amateur golf champion, cham-pion, is the finest shot-maker in the game. The first shut-out game in the annals an-nals of baseball took place at Dexter park, Chicago, July 2:1, liTO. Wagner led the National league In hatt'ng for eight years. Cobb led the American league for twelve years. Prior to is.",s It was customary In basehall to have two umpires one choM-n by ea1 h club and a referee. Chicago Nationals have purchased Al Niehaus. first l.as.-ais-i. from Chattanooga Chat-tanooga of the S.er.he.n association. Seer-i' of the citl.-s In the Southern leigoe circuit pas-ed well beyond the gi'.i'" mark in nMomlgnce this year. Norman (Kid) Klberf.-ld has signed a contract to manage the Mobile, Southern association haschall team, for next year. Chhk Kvans has volunteered to teach the President how- to play. This seems like a political play to get sum J of Mr. I igvis' golf votes. Athletics in the Cnifed States hold of tl.iv '." world's records for track and field con's. C ent I'.rllain Is next with 'J.'i and 1 inland Is third with 1". In. the recent 'irand American trajv shooting tournament at I'aytnn. Ohio, a total of fo.r. I.", targets w ere used, a tv"-'ord number for the trapshooting cmssIc. l'.alfimore won Its sixth consecutive pennant in Ihe International league this season. No other cluh In the history his-tory of organized baseball has won six flags In a row. Ac.-orl'ng to Tom Cibbons. the American boxer, our Kuglish boxers a . t I; :M . n.mgli. The trouble Is that some American boxers stop them. London I'nuch. Jack Ocmpsoy is the Joint owner, wi'h Jack Kciuns. his manager, of two de luxe aparltnent hotels In Los Angeles. An-geles. The hotels are said to be worth over I 'Oli.OO'l Jack llenipsey wld defend his lllle of world's heavvw cighl champion In ifad son Square Cardan. New York city, this winter, and Tom Cibbons will most likely be Ids opponent. The only thing that everybody agrees upon In this laiseliall scandal Is (hat i'o'v Oolan wasn'l olTerlng his own S..IHI. One might as well expect a player piano to lay a dozen eggs. I. Yamada of Japan, a brother of K o.ll Yamada. former billiard champion cham-pion of Japan. Is In this country on a slt. lie says Loll nay participate in bath line chnnipiou-lilp matches next year. If. II. Moloirlty, Washington, civilian, civil-ian, eslabll hed a new world's record recently when he tan up a string of I'Jtl consecutive bull's even mi the 'JgO yard si 1 1:1 1 1 bore range with a .TJ caliber cali-ber rille al pr poslllon In a match at 'amp perry, I Hiio. Pay Vance sns he will never for-gel for-gel bin ib-real by Chicago, In which he allowed only four blls, hut three of Minn liappeiieil lo be home runs. There Is plenty of dynamite In Vance's fust ball when the batsiuan properly (Iihon It. |