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Show A well-hit golf ball travels about 80 miles an hour. a There are several hundred ski clubs In the United States. a a Detroit Golf club recently completed a caddy clubhouse costing $35,000. a a a National horseshoe pitching championships cham-pionships are held each winter at St Petersburg, Fla. a There Is a difference between taking the gate and being given It as fight promoters know. a Maurice McCarthy, former Intercollegiate Intercol-legiate golf champion, also plays football foot-ball and baseball. a a a Massachusetts high schools recently ruled that athletes would be confined to four years of playing. a a a More than $30,000 will be spent preparing pre-paring Lake Placid for the Olympic games winter sport program. . a a a Eugene Huat, the knockout conqueror con-queror of Erolle Pladner, Jumped Into fighting from 4he bicycle racing game, a a a Hal Bebholz, Wisconsin fullback In 1028, Is preparing for the 1929 campaign cam-paign by serving as a motorcycle cop. a a Th Royal Bermuda Yacht club wllj soon celebrate Its eighty-fifth year of existence, having been organized In 1844. a a a Graduate managers of the ten schools of the Pacific Coast Conference Confer-ence are considering the appointment of a salaried commlslsoner to be In charge of all athletic problems in the P. O. C a a a Ernie Nevers, former Stanford fullback, full-back, and Howard Maple, quarterback quarter-back for the Oregon Aggies last year, have signed with the Chicago Cardinals, Cardi-nals, of the national professional football foot-ball league. a a a Coach Bob Zuppke will have about 20 lettermen to depend upon In trying for his third consecutive western conference con-ference football championship this fall. Preliminary practice will start September Sep-tember 15. a a a When Tex RIckard went to Toledo in 1919 to stage the Dempsey-WUIard fight he took as bis local aid Ad Thatcher. Just ten years later to the day the Toledo Boxing commission gave Ad the air for attempting to criticize Its conduct of the sport a a a Relgh Count great racer, owned by Mrs. John D. Herts, was purchased from the Willis Sharpe Kilmer stable for $13,500. a a a Harness racing under electric lights at night recently brought out by far the largest attendance in the history of the Toledo track. a a a According to King Alfonso of Spain, who recently attended his first dirt track motorcycle race In England, bullfighting bull-fighting Is tame In eomparlson to this thrilling sport |