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Show Jportiri5b3 As a rule, nothing else is as amateur ama-teur as an amateur ski-jumper. Bleacher seals for Japan's "world series" baseball games cost but 12 cents. The Buffalo Bisons will return to the Palmetto (Fla.) training camp for the fifth time. Vic Aldridge while with the Cubs In 1024, threw three runners out at the plate in one inning. . Howard Crook is the billiard champion cham-pion of Baltimore and his brother, Clarence, is the challenger. The Old Roman, Charles Comiskey, predicts Art Shires, from Texas, is going go-ing to start atlirst base for the White Sox. During the season of 1802, the University Uni-versity of Illinois football team played six games away from home in eight days. Lou Mutzel, a sophomore at Buck-nell, Buck-nell, is coach of the boxing team and also a member of the team as a light heavyweight Otto Williams is back in the American Ameri-can association. The old second baseman base-man will he assistant manager at Kansas City. A. N. (Bo) McMillan anounces he will continue next year as head football foot-ball coach of the Kansas State Agricultural Agri-cultural college. For the first time in history the Iowa baseball team will make a journey jour-ney East this spring, going as far as Boston for games. Willie Hoppe, who won the 1S.1 balkline billiard title in 19110 at the age of eighteen, has not missed a major ma-jor tournament since. Contrary to general belief, the Marquis Mar-quis of Queensherry did not invent the prize-fighting rules. He merely loaned his name to a newspaper man who wrote them. The best pitcher In the International Internation-al association in 1!)28, according to earned runs allowed, was Maurice Bream of Jersey city, lie allowed '2.32 runs per game. A new marl; in golf purses will be set next winter when leading linksinen gather at Ag.iascalicntes. Mexico, the "Tin Juana" of golf, to compete for a total purse of $2.".C(iO. Dick I 'linn, manager of the Olym-pia Olym-pia sports arena at Detroit, was associated as-sociated with the late Tex Kickard in (lie uiaiiageiiH nt of Madison Square garden fur n number of years. The signing of Charles "Gabby" Street, former battery mate of Walter Johnson, and for ten years a big league catching star, as coach of the St. Louis Cardinals for 1S)2f). is announced. an-nounced. It was 2.T years ago January lo last that Willie Hoppe won his first great honor, the IS. world's title, hy defeating de-feating Maurice Vignaux of France at Paris, noil to 22. Hoppe still relaius this tiile. Freshman football players at the University of Minnesota sleep, play and study more than nonathletes, a survey shows. Rut how can one tell whether a freshman is sleeping or studying? Ty Colli), who retired last fa'i. says he will work out with a couple of teams this spring down South. In other words, he'll retire just as soon us somebody carves that twenty-four-year-old uniform off him. |