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Show JporfingSftUibs San Francisco possesses the only municipal tennis stadium in the country. coun-try. Jack Fournier, veteran first baseman of the Dodgers, has signed a two-year contract. Outfielder Bob Gillespie has been sold to Evansvllle of the Three-I league by Vernon. Dan Patch's pacing record for a mile Is' 1:55. Peter Manning's trotting record Is 1 :56. Elmer Duggan, a left-handed pitching pitch-ing star of the Brown university team, has signed a contract with the Yankees. Yan-kees. Clyde Milan, former outfielder for Washington, will manage Memphis in the Southern association again this season. An immense stadium and an automobile auto-mobile track, on which will be held international motor races, are to be built in Atlantic City, N. J. Once curling was essentially a man's game, hut now women's clubs are to be found In Scotland, In Canada, In Switzerland and elsewhere. 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. w m m At the annual meeting of the Baltimore Balti-more International baseball club all the officers were re-elected and a 10 per cent dividend declared on the capital capi-tal stock., The Phillies have signed two St. Louis semi-pro pitchers. They are Fred Roseberg, twenty-two years old, a right-hander, and Walter Wolf, twenty twen-ty years old, a lefty. Jack Blott, the former University of Michigan catcher who recently resigned re-signed from the Cincinnati Nationals to become a college coach, has been placed on the "voluntarily retired list." A report conies from New York that Outfielder Whltey Witt may be given a chance to fill Everett Scott's place at short should the veteran midfielder fall down under the load of age. Witt was a shortstop In his early days. Houston has signed Pitcher Edgar Hennig of the University of Illinois. His home Is in San Marcos. Texas. Joe Gore, an outfielder from Oklahoma, and Raymond Renge, a pitcher, are other college lads who will tryout with the Bluffs. Sparrow Robinson, Paris sports critic, who Is In New York, says he has been commissioned to present to John McGraw and Charley Comiskey and all players who made the European Euro-pean tour, medals from the French government. |