The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-06
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in purses during the last nine years. Ironwood, Mich, is after the 1921 National Ski associations tournament
 
 National league baseball hines used 17.676 baseballs during the 1919 sea son.
 George Sisler will outdo Cobb as hitter this year, according to St. Louis fans.
 Yale probably will accept an fnvi- tation to send a track team to Eng land.
 The Yankees it is said, have spent $250,O00 for players in the last few years.
 0. w. P. Reynolds has been re- engaged as football coach by Bucknell college.
 Three members of the Iowa football team have refused appointments to West Point.
 
 Harry Shriver, pitcher, has been turned back to Saginaw for another year by Providence.
 Jim Thorpe, great Indian star, de- clares he will play in the major leagues or nowhere.
 University of Wisconsin has offered University of Washington a date on Its 1920 football schedule.
 The Indians are favored. in the winter book to win the American league pennant this year.
 Memphis Country club has been awarded the western amateur golf championship tournament.
 George Traitor. center of the Notre Dame football team, has. been d1squali- fled for playing pro football. Miller Higgins will soon mike an- other effort to coax Frank Baker into playing baseball another year.
 
 New York A. c. athletes won IS national and 30 district Amateur Ath- letic union championships last year Harvard football players have elect. ed Arnold Horween of Chicago captain of the Crimson eleven for next year. The New York A. C. athletics won IS national and 30 district Amateur Athletic Union championships last year.
 The Harlem and. Heights Athletic league, of New York city, has set aside fund of $1,OOO for the promotion ot sports.
 Hamilton. Ont.. is to have modern stadium for athletics. The bylaw au. thorlzing the expenditure was passed at the recent election.
 A series of exhibition games has been arranged between the Washing ton American league and Indianapolis American Association clubs.
 
 Jack Price. a former winner of the Powderhall (Scotland) Marathon, has challenged Alfred Shrubb for a match at 15 miles. Shrubb is coaching the Oxford university cross-country team. Neither German nor Austrian ath- letes will be permitted to compete in the Olympic festival at Antwerp next year.
 The royal English Henley regatta will be rowed over the Thames mile and 55 yards course. June 30, July l. and 3.
 The National Collegiate A. A. in cludes 174 educational institutions, representing student body of more than 5OO.0O0 members.
 A. B. Craven. captain of last years University of California lawn tennis, team, has gone to England as Rhodes scholar at Oxford university.
 
 IL IS unQefSLOOQ LnaL CHpCdln CnTlS Christianson will be again sailing mas ter of the watch Resolute, when it Is placed in commission next spring.
 
 Miami Anglers club is constructing a clubhouse at Rimini, Bahama fs- lands, forty miles from Miami, which. when completed, will cost $1, ,000,0 900.
 
 Golf matches between Oxford and Cambridge are to be resumed in Eng land this year, the first match heinz fixed for March 30, on the Sunningdale links. Crescent Bicycle club, of Baltimore, plans an, active season and members will endeavor to gain places on the United States team to be sent to the Olympic games. According to the announcement made by the Belgians, the track and field sports feature of the Olympic festival, will take place at Antwerp, August 15 to g.
 Tom Cannon, a JOung catcher who has been making geod with independ ent teams around St. Louis, has been signed for trial with the Bloomington Three-I league club.