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Show Babe Ruth Is reducing. Playing hearts at a nickel a heart bas that effect Some of the big league teams look stronger this year on paper but It Isn't that kind of a scrap. Baseball season must be approacn Ing. The sport paragraphers are dig glng up their dead grandmother jokes. Formal dedication of a new .f:i25.-000 .f:i25.-000 gymnasium at St. Xavier college In Cincinnati was made a few days ago. From a value of $4,000 when It was first run in 1917, the C'offroth hand! cap at Tia Juana lias growD to over $100,000. During the 102o season the gelding Crawford started In 10 races and won 10. a record in the light barney rac ing world. The San Fnmcisco Baseball club has announced the purchase of Hal lihyne, infielder, from the Pittsburgn Nationals. Sherwood Magee, new National league umpire, first broke into baseball base-ball as a player in 1003. He Is now forty-one years old. If the 3.000 who are expected to take part In the transcontinental foot fine have any trouble nt all It will be due to pure callousness. News Item says Babe Ruth weighs more today than he did last soring. That's probably due to the bank book In his Inside coat pocket. The last game that Notre Dame lost on Its home gridiron was In l!Vi.r. when Wabash scored a touchdown after the Irish had held on the six-Inch line five times. Lew Mayrs, Baltimore bantamweight who has retired from the ring at the age of twenty-one, after engaging In over a hundred bouts, never lost or won on a foul. Joe Wright. Sr.. famous oarsman and rowing coach, has been elected |