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Show Athletic teams at Ohio State university univer-sity played before 2JM5.0O0 fans the past year. ... When told that Pyle and Grange had split, some heartless cynic merely asked what ... The Chinese, supposedly the world's greatest gamblers, are taking a whirl it greyhound racing. ... The motion picture rights for the United States at the Olympic games are placed at $t0,000. , ... According to pictures In the paper the last thing a boxer In training thinks of doing is to box. ... Billy Agee, winner of the Baltimore marathon. Is a product of the Baltimore Balti-more pavements, where he formerly sold newspapers. ... Although he lost seven crack mera bers of the 1SW7 eleven. Coach Tat I'uge at Indiana expects to have a strong football team this fall. . . Lou Masnola, New York boxlns ref eree, recently had the honor of officiating offi-ciating as third man In the ring a', three championship bouts In four day ... After engaging In several exhibit! n bouts. Kid Williams, former bantamweight bantam-weight champion, now thirty-five, has decided to take one more fling at the ring game. m m a Lloyd Halm, the twenty-year-old sprinter of Falls City. Neb., holds th record for the half-mile. His time is 1 min. 52 2-5 sec., the fastest ever recorded re-corded for the distance. ... MIps Beatrice Spears, sixteen year old champion swimmer. Is believed to be the youngest ssplrnnt to attempt the English channel swim. She Is ' now In training for the ordeal. ... George H. Tlpllng. Cleveland sports man. announced recently he had closed negotiations with W. II. Cane. Goshen, N. T., for the purchase of the trotter. Sam Williams. The reported purchase price was $25,000. ... Conch 'Top" Warner of Stanford university football team will no doubt be ready to give the West Point grid-men grid-men r real battle when they meet for the first rime tn New York city D cember 1. Warner says: "1 beMeve that I have more good matertnl on the .present squad than I have had In any squad In my thirty-three years of coaching. However. I have had squads which contained eleven be'ter players." |