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Show Canada's tlrst professional baseball organization was ihe Ontario league, which pluyed Its Hist regular senmni In lSN.-i. Of the members of th Ilrltlsh royal family, the duke of York Is the best billiard player, although he Is left-handed. left-handed. Judging from th length of his mummy case old King Tut apparently would huve mude a (uod busketbull center. The New York Yunkees huve released re-leased Pitcher Klbert Johuson to the Des Moines club of the Western league. Th Cleveland club has transferred George Winn, southpaw pitcher formerly for-merly In the Southern leugue, to Milwaukee. Mil-waukee. The Oxford und Cambridge crews, of Kngland, will, It Is expected, develop de-velop an entry for the Olympic re-gutta re-gutta at Paris. e Al Orth, veterun pitcher and umpire, um-pire, has been enguged as coach of athletics for Virginia Military Institute Insti-tute at Lexington. The 1P1M championship tournament of the American Trapshootlng association associa-tion will mnrk the silver jubilee of thut organtrutlon Chief Albert Pender has taken hold of the baseball squad at the Annapolis Naval academy and expects to develop de-velop a winning team. An eastern professional football league Is contemplated. Including teams of Philadelphia and other points, notably Atlantic City. The Kansus City club offered the veteran outllelder, Heals Pecker, to several clubs In the Coast leugue In exchange for a second baseman. Among the leuders In Hie majors to win baseball pennants John Modraw won nine; Connie Mack, six; Frank Chance, four; Hiighle Jennings, three. Pet McCrue, football end and enjv-taln, enjv-taln, has been elected captain of the Syracuse basketball team, succeeding dipt. Fasce, who was declared Ineligible. In-eligible. In Max ltlshop, secured from Paltl- niore. Connie Mack adds another slugger slug-ger to the Athletics. Hlshop, with 1'2 home runs, tied Webb of HnfTalo for circuit swat honors. Among new collegians or near-col-leglans signed by the St. I.ouls Cardinals Car-dinals of late Is Donald Hurst, a player play-er who made a reputation as tlrst baseman with the Ohio Military Institute Insti-tute last season. |