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Show plw;r''i'4l."-S, piaiill Boston obtained Inlielder Kerr from Detroit last season. University of Virginia will add fencing and swimming to ' its sport calendar. Close to 1,000 tons of steel Is required re-quired each year for the manufacture of golf clubs. Ted Smith has signed to manage the Cambridge team of the Eastern Shore league. Notre Dame and Minnesota have signed a three-year contract to meet on the gridiron. The Cincinnati Nationals purchased Mike Collins, a pitcher from San Antonio An-tonio of the Texas league. t In some parts of the state of Washington Wash-ington football games are played on ground strewn with sawdust. Reading of the International league has chosen Leesburg, Fla., as the site for spring training activities. Owen Carroll of Holy Cross, who joins the Detroit Tigers this spring, Is said to be a talented college twirl er. President Tom HIckey of the American Amer-ican association, has signed Ted Mc-Grew Mc-Grew for his umpiring staff next season. sea-son. John Wisner, right-handed pitcher, has been purchased by the Giants from Rochester, of the International league. Washington university of St. Louis offers $10,000 a year for a coach who can can develop a winning football team in 1925. Vander Bobeus of Lewistown, Mont., was elected captain of the Montana State college football eleven for 1925. He plays guard. Johnny Jones, Infielder, has been released re-leased on option by the Brooklyn Robins Rob-ins to the Portland club of the Pacific Pa-cific Const league. The Irish race is distinguished as a leader In developing 30 boxing champions. cham-pions. The German has developed 9 and the negro race 5 champions. James J. Jeffries will return to the ring as a referee when the new state boxing law, permitting ten and twelve-round twelve-round bouts, becomes effective. Nothing developed during the past season to alter the standing of Dexter and Edith Ctimmings as the best brother and sister golf team in this country. Bucky Harris, manager of the world's champion Washington Senators, Sena-tors, was recently presented the famous fa-mous prize-winning Irish wolfhound "Billy Shamrock." Bob Mautz. star end on the University Uni-versity of Oregon football team this year, a veteran of two years' grid seasons, was elected captain of the 1925 Oregon eleven. A prehistoric baseball field has been discovered in Yucatan. It thus becomes be-comes clear that the revolutionary tendencies displayed In that region dafe hack to the early practice of mobbing the umpire. ' Walter Cox is training two Guy Axworthy Ax-worthy yearlings for Bob Moreland. the saddle horse king, which look to have the makings of future greats, one is out of the dam of Bogalusa, 2 :04 1-4, and the other out of Holly-rood Holly-rood Naomi, 2:07. |