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Show I10TE5 ISPOKTDOrt Charles B. Cockran sailed without Jack Dempsey's autograph. England boasts 4,000 professional association as-sociation football players. Stanford university wants the western west-ern Olympic games tryouts. Princeton will have 16 veterans of the football squad available in 1920. Philadelphia has 1,800 soccer players play-ers registered in open league maches. England's public schools and colleges col-leges promote boxing competition among pupils. University of Minnesota has decided decid-ed to build a new stadium to replace re-place Korthrup field. Miss Alexa Stirling and Walter Hagan are likely to compete in the British golf classics this year. England wants catch-as-catch-can wrestling added to the Olympic program. pro-gram. The Queen's university, Kingston, Ont., will spend $70,000 on a new stadium and hockey rink. It makes one's bead dizzy these days reading about the big amounts wanted by performers in various lines of sporting sport-ing activity. Several of the states are engaged in the gentle pastime of shooing the Dempsey-Carpentier fight away from their confines. Halifax is to hold an international exposition' in 1924 and wants the Olympic games as an added attraction for its success. Mile. Suzanne Lenglen and Andre Gobert, the leading French tennis players, . are expected to visit this country this summer and compete in tourneys. The University of Kansas at Lawrence, Law-rence, plans to model its new stadium after Princeton's athletic field. The new Kansas stadium is to cost $1,-000,000. |