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BASEBALL SPORTS OF ALL SORTS BOXING The High Spots in Various Lines of Sport From All Over Joe Azevedo and Red Watson, lighting like demons, battled through eleven rounds at 'Denver last nignt and then Azevedo landed a blow to the belt that floored Watson. 'Twas a stiff blow but too low and the fight was awarded to Watson oa a fuM, In the tenth round Azevedo landed a couple of blows that were very -questionable, but Watson refused to claim a foul, T; he referee did the de ciding, however, in the next round. Packey McFarland is coming back into the ring to fight the winner of the Clabby-Gibbons go. This infor mation comes from Emil Thiry, who has managed Packey through the pst years. Ciaoby ana uiDDons nave nmsnea training. All is well and both par ties and right and ready for the big mix-up Thursday night Leach Cross had a slight shade over Harry Pierce -of Brooklyn hi a ten-round go at New York last night. Marty Cross, Leach's brother, also won before the same club, outpoint ing Jeff Dorman in six rounds. The" latest report has it that Out fielder Leslie Mann of the Boston Braves has jumped to the Chicago Feds. As the dope runs, Mann signed a two-year contract with Joe Tinker, calling for a salary of $1,000 a month during the playing season and a cash banus of $2,000. A call was issued Tuesday for a meeting to be held in Rockford Jan. 2J5 to organize a new baseball league among towns in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. Representa tives were expected from Racine, Ke nosha, Madison and Beloit, Wis., and Freeport, Rockford, Aurora, Ottawa and Streator, HI. John Rush of Cleveland will be Princeton's head football coach next peason. - ' " The Big Baseball War Is On Before0 Federal Judge Landis n One United States court and some 50,000,000-ians all over the country' today heard the start of the answer? to that old question, "Is Organized-1 Baseball a Trust?" The life of the national game, as organized at present, was virtually at stake when the case of the Federal league against organized baseball, scheduled to start at 10 o'clock, was called before Federal Judge Kenesaw Landis. 5 Briefly summarized, the Feds have1 asked that the American and Nation al leagues, the national commission9 and the national agreement, under which these organizations operate,0 be dissolved as a conspiracy and a Urust in violation of Mr. Sherman's0 anti-trust law. 1 Because of the far-reaching effect' .any decision in the case will have, no one of the magnates gathered hereB today would venture a guess as to theq probable length of the hearing." Everybody expressed hope that it would be over within two weeks at the longest. Both Feds and organ ized baseball officials were united in a determination to have the case set tled in as near jig-time as' possible. ft Every one wants the case over with ' In ample time to start the yearly ball rolling with the ante-season training 7 stunts. The first move today was to be argument by Federal league lawyers for a preliminary injunction. Several n hours were expected to be consumed s in arguments by lawyers for both sides. It is entirely possible that," unless Judge Landis sets some spe cific time, arguments might run over until Thursday. ' 1 Keene Addington was expected to do the Blackstonian stickwork for the Federals. E, E. Gates will be on the end ofcthe-Ja-wyers' bench where 3 he. can be rushed to the place -as a mate. iA-