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Show TERSELY TOLD SQUIBS OF VARIOUS KINDS OF SPORTS Miami (Fla.) university will play all of its home games at night. , Jack Johnson, one-time heavyweight boxing champion, was an auto racer on dirt track circuit for a time and boasts a victory over the famous Barney Oldfield. Wood, the young Pirate left-hander, won 21 of 24 games he pitched for Wichita. Jim Fitzsimmons, trainer of Gallant Fox, will not permit any horse of his to be weighed or measured. A lot of heavyweight pugilists are rolling in wealth today who, back in the old days, would have been rolling in resin. Bobby Jones had been competing in important golf tournaments for seven years before he won his first major championship. Women spectators at cricket matches In London have taken up knitting and from what we have heard of cricket, there must be moments dur ing the progress of a match when other oth-er spectators find the knitting highly exciting. A great advantage of miniature golf is that in case of losing the ball you can always pick up the course and shake it. Count Baillet Lateour, chairman of the Olympic Gaines committee, says 12 countries have made formal application appli-cation for the 1936 games. The victory of Jim Dandy In the Travers Stakes, Saratoga, at odds of 100 to 1, recalls the fact that his sire, Jim Gaffney, won the Hopeful Stakes at odds of 40 to 1. Bill McKechnie was let out as manager man-ager of the Cards because he lacked color, but the Braves this year are one of the most colorful teams in the league. |