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Jim Flynn has been signed as an umpire in the Western League. Evidently Jim means to return to the ring. He is in training. Jess Willard has found the knuckle he busted on the map of Frank Bauer was not as seriously injured as at first believed. He will begin training for several bouts next week. Billy Walters of the naval training station and Tommy Sheehan of Chicago have signed to fight before the club offering the best terms. They will weigh 145 pounds the day of the match. Boxing in Milwaukee received a big boost from two different sources today, and the game is fairly safe" in the Wisconsin city. Gov. McGovern decided that the sheriff of Milwaukee should cen sor all fights, and the sheriff showed where he stood a few days ago when he refused to stop a fight on the demand of the dis trict attorney. The greatest sur prise was a resolution adopted by the ministerial association de claring that the Jack Redmond Pal Brown match, over which so much controversy arose, was not ' a violation of the law. The asso ciation also pledged itself to work for a law regulating the fight game. o o WE WILL ALL GET LOST No longer will the belated trav eler who has been riding most of the evening around oceans of booze in a sea-going hack be able to flop himself on a street car with the curt instructions to drop him off at 45th avenue, because if the sub-committee of our city council is right there will be no such place. Yesterday the sub-committee met and drewa list of 400 changes of street names which will be pre sented to the council for passage next Monday night. All diagonal streets will be known as roads. The exclusive residents of Clarendon avenue will be horror stricken when they learn that they live on North Halsted street. One thing to be thankful for: Tongue-twisting Goethe street will be changed to Bryson st. All the numbered avenues in Austin will be given names. o o WOMAN AS SEEN BY A BACHELOR StNG-LE Wjk RNrti qp.n t 1 !pXt'V-