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Show I Jporiiiiff Squibs) Cricket is the national game in England. Eng-land. Football cnlls wide attention to the advantages of education. Wilbert Robinson, manager for Brooklyn, receives $17,000 a year. Saying it with flowers would never make enough noise to suit the yell leader. For the manufacture of baseball bats, a wood new to the industry is being Imported from Cuba. Eddie Rousch has demanded a new three-year contract, thereby officially I opening the hot-stove league. Where did the idea come from that a race horse had to lie imported to this country to help break the bettors'.' Greece will not take part in the 1024 j Olympic program as it has hardly got j its breath from running away from j the Turks. ... America is triumphant in racing and in yachting. Having excelled on j land and sua, an air competition is , now awaited. . Many Eastern boxers of prominence are being lured to California by tiie opening of many new boxing clubs in the coast cities. France and Belgium will play soccer soc-cer football at the Buffalo stadium In the immediate vicinity of Paris on January 13, 1024. ... W. C. Caldwenn of St. Louis is credited with having made the longest long-est golf drive on record. It covered a distance of 489 yards. ... King George of England Is greatly interested in horse racing, hut never wagers. His stables won purses aggregating ag-gregating more than $50,000 this year. ... Billy Gleason, second baseman, who suffered a broken leg during the past season while playing with Memphis, expects to be as good as ever next year. ... Ty Cobb says he expects to make a real battle for the pennant next year. Whenever Cobb Is about In a baseball melee there is always a battle. Cobb Is not. a diamond pacifist. ... The actual battling in the Dempsey-Flrpo Dempsey-Flrpo fight lasted three minutes and forty-seven seconds. Dempsey received $408,750 for his share of the receipts, an average of $1,977.85 per second. |