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 Contrary to general belief. "Bul- |t Joe" Bush. Yankee pitcher sent D st. Louis in the trade by which CIV York gets Urban shocker. was greater nemesis to the Browns than |hoeker was 10 the Hugmen. Rec- |rds reveal that Bush conquered he Browns in IT consecutive games |e pitched against them over 8 |eriod of three years He beat them even straight In 1922. six times in |g23 and four more in row last |sason before the Browns finally |roke the streak. shocker. on the |ther hand, lost his jinx hold on the |ankees last season, losing five ames to them while winning only |wo.
 | Dogs are faster than men but not speedy as racehorses The grey opnd Oh Boy set a worlds record tl3l 2-5 seconds for flve-sixteenths a mile at Miami, Fla. but the est American mark for the same istance. among running horses, Is i-5 seconds. made by Nash Cash 1912 at Charleston, 8. c. Mans est time Is 1 minute, seconds, 1ade by "Peerless Mel" Sheppard, ormer Olympic champion. In 1910. Al schacht, Washington coach and O. entertainer on the diamond with lick Altrock. recently was refused remission by the New York State .thletic commission to stage bur- asque boxing exhibitions in connec- lon with Madison Square Garden ,ugilistic cards. The commission uled there were enough clowns in he boxing game.
 Major league catchers will tell you hat no part of their work is more iifficult than the catching of twist ng foul flies.
 In this department of the game, Hank Severeid. veteran catcher of he St. Louis Browns, 1t without a peer.
 Tn the 10 years that severeid has ,een with the Browns, during which ime he has done most of the catch ng, only one fly ball has been drop ,ed by him.
 George Slsler's first experience as trader of ball players has made Jim very cautious in his attempts tc dispose Of Pitcher Shocker.
 Last season sisler gave four play ITS, Pitchers Root and Wright Catcher Billings and Outflelder Ours Los Angeles for the battery ot lyons and Rego.
 Pitcher Lyons failed to show bit eague form and Rego, while a goot .eceiver. cannot hit major league oltchtng.
 Root comes back to the Chicago Cubs at a fancy price. The deal wal flop from a St Louis standpoint.
 It has made Sisler more careful No more Santa Claus stuff for him
 Mir. T. Gibbons, heavyweight <nuckler, has thrown away hi wooden musket and bought a long .ange cannon.
 The St. Paul harp used to be mill 1t Sunday school punch, but iron 1ow on he threatens to be one par wild and three parts wilder.
 Gibbons let Carpenter stay 3 Michigan City when the Frenchma turned an ankle. It was a yer pretty gesture and It won him man friends, numbered among Thor were no promoters offering hir nore business.
 The next time let guy stay, zrowls the reborn battler, twill b after I have knocked him dowr I'll let him stay until his second irag him out"
 Gibbons has quit smiling and gon n for snarling on a serious scale Ii taking a corresponding course l Advanced Phases Of Brutanty' an ,esds such literature as The Fin Art of Manslaughter."
 The Minnesota Mick tried out h new groceries on Kid Norfolk Madison Square Garden recently an they went over bigger than purpl affective in an Avery Hopwood ec drama.
 The Kid took a left hook on th
 
 sideburns and curled up on the car ,as like a mildewed doughnut repose.
 Instead of breaking down and sol hing at the spectacle of a man distress, as he usually does, MT. Gibbons walked over to the rop' and asked the boys 10 please pas Jack Dempsey, and make it snapp
 Ringside vorshippers didn't kno whether Gibbons had taken an ove dose of horizontals or had just gol plain snappy. The spectacle WI rarer than a side show without shoulder shaker.
 All the Humping Turk has cN needed to be a headliner on the T Ear circuit was self-assertiveneS and now that he seems to have 1t .uu.yI'''S;;:' x sD.,-, D.,-..,,.