The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-03-18
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ager Hughie Jennings of the Detroit
Americans will train at Macon, Ca,
this season.
The contingent will include ten
pitchers, four catchers, seven infeld-
ers and four outfielders. The battery
men, who reported at Macon yester-
day, are Pitchers Dauss, Killio,
Ehmke, Srickson, Boland, Cunning
ham, James, Love, Mitchell and
Ssmuelson; Catchers Sta1ge, Ain
smith, Yelle and Murphy.
The remainder of the contingent
will report March "a. These players
will make up the squad: Infelders,
Bush, Holman, Young, R. Jones, Eli
son, Dyer and Bush; outfiel6ers, Cobb,
veach,, Shorten and Elagstead.
Pitcher Samuelson and Catcher
Murphy will make their first appear
ance in a major league uniform
Samuels played mi-professional
baseball at East Orange, N. j., while
M
recommendation of Pitcher James,
who played with him while in the
army last summer.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 18.-Al-
though the major league season will
not get under way until April %, st.
&, oho1J Fo will oil
Of their favorites on April IL, the
date agreed upon for opening TIE an
nual spring series between the St.
Louis clubs of the American and Ma
tional leagues.
IOWA CITY, Ia, March 18.-Harold
Harmon, a member of the Iowa City
high school rife team, was the 1918
national champion in the preparatory
school class, with an average mark OF
1864, according to word just received
here. His team won the National Rifle
Association championship, as Well as
the Astor cup match.
JOLIET, ILL.,, March 1S.-Miss Glenn
White, one of the best feminine base
ball players in the country, will play
in the outfield for the Joliet Junior
Rivals, a semi professional organlza-
ton, this season.
Miss White is a southpaw and bats
right-handed. She holds the worlds
record baseball throw for women.
Her throw was 224 feet inches. She
is confident tfat she will better this.
mark the coming season.
Miss White is 10 years old, feet
inches tall and weighs ia pounds.
During the winter season SHE was as
sistant sporting editor of Joliet
newspaper.
LANSING, Mich, March ia bill
to legalize boxing in Michigan has
made it's appearance in the state legis-
lature. Representative John G. Dehn
of Bay City introduced the measure
which would permit 1O-round boxing
contests under supervision of a state
boxing commission to be appointed by
the governor. The terms of the bill
st.pulate that per cent of the reve-
nuc derived from contests shall go to
the state, and any surplus to me-
mortal fund for soldiers and sailors.
MARCH FIELD, Riverside, CAL,
March ia three-ring aerial circus
viii! be held here on April 8. Two
hundred planes, with more than
enough avictors to man them, are
available, and practically all of them
viii be utilized in the great show.
March Field, which is one of the
larger remaining schools for army
aviators in the country, has quietly
stood back and permitted tho officers
and cadets at Rockwell Field, near
San Diego, and at the Arcadia bal
loon school, near Los Angeles, to put
on their shows. Now, having seen all
March field contingent intends to
present all the features Of the preced-
ing programs, with some new and
startling additions.
Spirals, side slips, nose dives, para
chute jumps, mass formations. and
all the variations of fancy flying will
be demonstrated, while all available
types of airplanes, from the lumber
ing grasshopper used for instruction
to the graceful little scouts OF the
swiftest style, will be used.
AS an added feature, Lieutenant
Colonel William Thaw and Captain
Edward v, Rickenbacker will attend,
it is announced. Both will fly.
The Chicago Cubs, who will be West
in training, will also meet a toam or
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