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Show JportirfQuibl There Is more bawl in football than baseball. Commercializing sport doesn't pay. Suzanne fengleu has quit tennis for all time. The Itockwood Hall Country club of 1'arrytown, N. Y., is building a second 18-liole golf course. Jack Quinn, veteran with the Athletics, Ath-letics, pitched his first game in 1UU3. and he is still at it. . Harry Dillon, light heavyweight of Winnipeg, is said to resemble Jack Dillon, the giant killer. Harry Wolverton, former outfieldei witn the New York Yankees, is now selling automobiles in Los Angeles. ' Arlie Mucks, the old shot putter, is now a football official. He stands H feet 6 Inches and weighs 26G pounds. Jack Hendricks, for the last five years manager of the Cincinnati Heels, signed a contract to pilot the club in 11129. i George Knothe, shortslop for the Tulsa Oilers, started 7S double plays for his team and figured in 107 during the year. . John J. O'Brien, president of the new National Basket Ball league, for years has headed court leagues around New York. Hub Pruett of the Philadelphia Na tionals says he will not pitch in l!)2!i. He plans to spend all his time practicing practic-ing medicine Some one mentioned the Boxer up rising the other night and Dora thought that was when Tunney got mad at the photographers. Purchase of Milton Gordon, young third baseman from the Wilkes-Barre club of the New York Pennsylvania league, was announced. Joe Munson. Tulsa oui fielder who led the Western league in hilling nev er missed a single one of the 105 games played by his club. Joe Sewell, Cleveland shortstop, led tiie American league last season in striking out the least number of times. In 153 games Joe whiffed only seven times. Warren Brown, writes that Otto von Porat has that most precious of all qualifies in a heavyweight, "he gets up." Except possibly tile precious quality of staying up. Earl Averlilll. crack outfielder of the San Francisco Seals, has been sol (I to the Cleveland Americans for an uiiiiniiounceil price, but believed to . be around $."0.(HI0 and two players. Pel-Sung Tang, a John Hopkins stll dent, plays oulside righl for the Baltimore Bal-timore Soccer club. He was an all-China all-China selection in Ill'Jo and slurred for three years on Hie Tsing Hue col lege soccer leain. After one season ol experience with it. directors of Ihe I'acilic Coast Base hall league In annual session voled l abandon the split season and return to Hie old straight-through schedule of JS weeks of play. |