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Show JportingSftttibs This is curling weather. When it rains, that's anti-curling weather. Now that Jack Britton has come back to the ring, there is talk of paging Jem Mace. Outstanding football players are few, says Knute Rockne, and that's probably why they are. - Clarence Keefer, who will captain West Virginia's 1928 grid team, is married and has one son. Albany of the Eastern League, has sold Pitcher Lefty Hinkle to San Antonio An-tonio of the Texas league. s William Adler, of New York city, has been elected captain of the Co lumbia football team for 1928. Paavo Nurmi, famous Finnish distance dis-tance runner, is said to be on his way to America to make bis home here. Ken Williams, heavy-hitting outfielder out-fielder of the St. Louis Browns, was sold outright to the Boston Red Sox Willie Smith,' British fighter, received re-ceived a beating in his first fight In the United States in Cleveland recently. re-cently. Howard Jones says Morley Drury. Southern California star this year, is the most valuable back he has ever coached. Joseph Sorocliinsky, Hazleton, Pa . has been elected captain of the Franklin Frank-lin and Marshall football team for next year. The eleventh annual three-day Pas dog race of 40 miles a day will be held March 13, 14 and 13, on the Sas katchewan river. Jack Onslow, coach of the Wash ingtons, of the American league last year, has been released by the man agement of the club. Ten of the eighteen players that reported for the varsity football squad at Ohio State university were from Columbus high schools. Louis Jipp. shortstop of the Blaii (Neb.) team of the Elkhorn Valle.i circuit, a seniipro organization, has been signed by the St. Louis Cardi uals. New Cleveland owners favor the playing of Johnny Hodapp. a young ster who has played a few games :n the last two years, at third base next season. Pitchers Al Bauer and Big Boy Bean, and Outfielder George Johnson have been purchased by Augusta of the Sally league, from the Kansas City Blues. Preston Gray, who piloted the Rock Island team of the Mississippi Valley league, for three years, has been named manager of Otttiniwa of the same circuit. Hugh Duffy, one of professional baseball's best known figui-es as player, play-er, manager, coach and scout, has been signed as coach at Boston college col-lege for I92S. In picking a football schedule for 1I2S. the Army did not seek soft spots. On the schedule arranged for the cadets are Southern Methodist, Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame and the Navy. Joe Wright, Sr., coach of the Argo naut Rowing club and former mentor of the University of Pennsylvania crew, lias yielded to the requests oi his friends and will be a candidate for alderman in his home town, To ronto |