Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-28
Sports SquibS

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Chicago COMMISSIONS Lands wa,
considering the elaborate report OF
gambling in baseball parks which the
American league gathered In two
years investigation with private de
tectives.
New YorR-The New York Yankees
did not 30 after Rube Benton. former
Giant pitcher who starred with st,
Paul last season. because Ban John,
son said he didn't want him In the
Ameican league and National lea.
que manager said h wouldn't do us
any good,' Col. T. L. Huston vice.
pesident of the Yanks, said.
New York-Vincent Aston, George
F. Baker. Marshall Field, John d.
Ryan, Harry Payne Whitney, ]. =.
Morgan and other leaders of the Nav
York financial set. have formed a syn.
dictate and will build million dollar
golf club near Locust Valley, l.. l..
None OF the members are expert golf.
ers and the course will be built for
their game, it was announced.
Cambridge, Mass. When George
Owen, Harvard football star, leaves
college next June he will have earned
more letters than any other Harvard
man in history He will have three
letters each ia hockey, football and
baseball.
Chicago-Jimmy Burke, coach of the
Boston Red Sox last year, will be
retained in the same capacity, Frank
Chance. new manager Of the club an.
nounced.
Boston - The Pittsburgh Hockey
club defeated the Victoria team here,
z to 2.
Philadelphia - John Heisman, who
has announced his retirement as head
football coach of Pennsylvania has
received an offer to take early
Greasy Neale's place at Washington
and Jefferson. Friends say he has
received nine other offers.
Unconstitutional he has been
forced to call off his scheduled bout
with Jimmy Delaney in Oklahoma City
Tor Jan 8. Harry Greb, light heavy.
weight champion denied that his eve
sight had been badly impaired In his
recent fight with Bob Roper.
ST. Paul-Tommy Gibbons, ST. Paul
heavyweight, has received an offer
from New York promoter to meet
Jack Dempsey. he announced. He will
accept any terms If the champion viii
sign, he said.
New York-Frank Frisch, Giant sec.
ond baseman, denied that he was seek.
ing the presidency of the new base.
ball players association but admitted
10 was a member and wanted to
string along with the boys
London II the killing OF whales
continues at the present rate they will
De exterminated before another de.
,ade, is the warning given by Sir
sidney F, Harmer, F. r. s., director of
he Natural History Department of the
British Museum. Recent investiga.
tons carried out In the whaling areas
mas revealed this condition, he says.
me whaling industry has survived
since the time of Alfred the Great,
despite the fact that there has never
'een year known when scores of
'oats did not leave the ports of Eng.
and, France, Spain and Scandinavia
o hunt the sea animals, Sir Sidney de-
dared in a recent address in which he
Urged legislation against further hunt.
ng of whales.
The Greenland variety of the whale
ilready is thought to be extinct. and
he hunting of the last few years has
been confined almost entirely to the
outhern seas.
Thats fine" said Bill Carrigan
vhen told that Frank Chance had
'igned to manage Carrigan's old club,
ne Red Sox. Carrigan expressed par
ocular interest in the announcement
nat Chances appointment would
mark the beginning of reconstruction
d the Reds. Carrigan, who has been
frequently mentioned as possibility |
o lead the Red Sox next season. said |
The appointment of Chance was no
to him.
81. Paul, Minn.-The state boxing |
commission will sponsor an amend. |
ment TO the state boxing law to make
hghts legal In all parts of Minnesota. |
lt the coming session of the legisla- !
lure, 1t was learned yesterday. Bouts |
now are permitted only in H;praarr |
lis, st. Paul and Duluth.
The st. Louis Browns, having de.
cided to return to Mobile to do their
spring training, the prospective Min.
afal Wells camp has been turned over
to the Tulsa club, and Manager Jack
Lellvelt will take his Oilers to the
Texas resort for their workouts late in
March. They will be returned to Tul.
sa early in April to play sexes of
exhibition games that will include
games with the Pirates, Cubs. yam.
KEGS and Dodgers.
IL was announced that Charley Mil.
Ter, former outfielder with the ST,
Louis Cardinals and tho Houston Bluffs
and who managed Corsioans last sea.
son, has been signed as manager of
the Decatur Three-I team to succeed
Dan OLary. The naming of Miller
leads to the supposition that Decatur
forms an alliance with the st. Louis
National League club since the Card
inals are in control of Houston. from
which Miller is obtained That I'm.
creases the list Of Cardinal farms to
hye-Syracuse, Houston, Decatur.