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Show Evar Swanson, outfielder of the San Francisco Missions, has been sold to Cincinnati Reds. Detroit has sent Johnnie Neun first baseman, to the Toledo club of the American association. Battling Levinsky is up to his old tricks. Itecently he fought and won three fights in three nights. . John Reed Whyte of Princeton, IS. j., nas oeen elected to captain tne Princeton football team next season. The new armory-gymnasium at the University of Idaho cost $300,000 and was paid for by popular subscription. Jess Hawley, football coach at Dartmouth college, uses moving pictures pic-tures for demonstration in practice games. John Law, twenty-three, of Yon-kers, Yon-kers, N. Y., has been elected captain of the 1929 Notre Dame footbarl eleven. Ray Schalk, former manager of the White Sox and now a member of the Giants, owns a bowling academy in Chicago. Tom Connell, Detroit's outstanding back, went straight from football togs to basket ball togs when the grid season ended. The National league has a "professor "profes-sor of umpiring" in Bob Emslie. who teaches the young umpires to call 'em s they see 'em. Johnny Bachman, young golfer, set a course record of 67 at Greenboro, S. C. No professional or amateur has ever done better than 08 for the course. tsruce Caldwell, famous Yale halfback, half-back, has been given his uncondition al release by the New York Giants of the National Professional Football league. Albert Smoke, famous Indian distance dis-tance runner, who once competed on the Canadian Olympic team, has started a comeback by winning a three-mile race. Wallie Roettger, outfielder of the Cardinals, who broke a leg in a game against the Chicago Cubs on July 4, is coaching basket ball at Illinois Wesleynn university. Hack Wilson, the clouting outfielder outfield-er of the JV.V-.S. ww in C'l-sga the other day and mvldreu that the "Cubs would in the National league pennant next season." As manager of the Newark ball vi uu ins .-,peai;er win command the highest salary ever paid a managei outside of the major league a sum said to be $20.(K10 per season. A New York promoter proposes a conversational marathon In Madison Square Garden. If this kind of thing keeps up, the time will yet come when women will dominate sports. Dr. C. W. Spears, athletic director and fotobail coach of the University of Minnesota, will act as Instructor at a coaches' school to he held at Albion college during the summer of 1920. Football has at last b?come a 00(1.000 sport in at least one of the big universities of the United' Slates. In 1927 Yale received ,$1, ().'!., 21 MIS from its games and showed a ' pro'th for the year. Thirty-nine of the forty-five players play-ers on the Florida university football foot-ball squad voted football as their favorite sport. The six other votes were divided on basket ball, baseball and swimming. All reports to the contrary, It np pears virtually certain that " 'wi,e,-t Robinson, portly manager of tllfi Hrooklyn National league baseball club, will pilot the Rubins throu'-h the 1929 season. |