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Show IJporfingquibs Tex Rickard may establish big sport arena? in Boston and Chicago. Association football has developed into the most popular sport In Austria Aus-tria since the war. The Canadian intercollegiate basketball basket-ball season will open January 28 and continue to February 25. Bobby Veach, former Detroit star, can still hit 'em. He batted .303 in the American association this year. Vanderbilt was held to a tie score on two successive Saturdays this season sea-son by Georgia Tech and Tennessee. Every coach has his day of fervently wishing that those canvas dummies the man can't grab could play just once. The manager of Mike McTigue. knocked cold in a round, says he told his boy to do something sensational. He did. Biloxi, Miss., has been selected as the 192S training camp for the Toledo Mudhens, minor league champions of the world. . Welker Cochran, present 18.2 balk-line balk-line billiard champion, is giving con siderable time to the three-cushion style of play. Children of this day possess more intelligence than in previous days. One even asked whose turn it was to win a heavyweight wrestling match the other day. Irish Meus-el, former New York Giant outfielder who is now a free agent, is looking things over on the Pacific coast with his eyes trained for a next season berth. Eastern reports are circulating in which Glenn S. Warner is being mentioned men-tioned to coach West Virginia university. univer-sity. Warner Is coaching Stanford university at present. A new record for the American association as-sociation was set last season by Sammy Sam-my Bohne, Minneapolis third baseman, who played through 34 consecutive games without an error. Walter Hagen, professional golf champion, announced through his office that he had not received any offer to play a match in Florida this winter with Bobby Jones. The first football team to receive national recognition for the mythical "championship" was Georgia Tech's Golden Tornado, which swept ruthlessly ruthless-ly through all opposition in 1917. , Alexa Stirling, the present Mrs. Fraser, is a product of the schooling of Stewart Maiden, the Carnoustie Scot who Is considered responsible for the wizardry of Bobby Jones. Greyhound racing is to he introduced intro-duced in sporting circles in France, where events will take place In the biggest velodromes of Paris. Mechanical Mechani-cal hares will be used at the races. Steve Donoghue, noted British Jockey, lias accepted an invitation from the Argentine Jockey club to visit South America. He will spend about four months in the Argentine and will ride In at least one race. Selection of the Wilshire Country club as the fcene of the third annual I.os Angeles $10,000 open golf championship cham-pionship tournament, scheduled to he held over a three-day period. January Jan-uary G to 8, Is announced. Chick Shiver, star athlete at the University of Georgia, shuns the major ma-jor league spotlight. As an outfielder with the college team, he hit nearly .400 last season, but has turned down several offers from major league clubs. |