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Show Sporting Squibs of All Kinds France boasts 10,000 association football teams. The optimism of the baseball fan seldom hits less than .4S0. Tenn will endeavor to form an Intercollegiate In-tercollegiate baseball league for 1924. Fifteen per cent of the people play golf, says an expert. If you call it golf. Babe Ruth couldn't make harder work of his reduction schedule If it were a war debt. Percy Haughton has assumed charge of football at Columbia. They always come back for more. Pittsburgh university has purchased eight acres of ground toward providing provid-ing a stadium for sports. Home runs In the spring don't count, but they sound just as loud as those in the championship season. Sacramento is to have a first-class fighting arena, If plans being discussed dis-cussed by promoters are carried out. In the 45 years of its existence the Pastime Athletic club of New York has developed more than 50 champions. cham-pions. During the coming summer New York boxing fans will have an opportunity oppor-tunity to see virtually all the champions cham-pions in contests. Although Dave Shade received the decision over George Ward in Boston, Hub fans are not convinced that Shade is the better fighter. It Is hard to believe that a man named Luis Angel Flrpo can be a large, rough prize fighter, but that Is what the sporting pages say. "This Is going to be one smart ball club," says Mr. Cobb, meaning possibly pos-sibly that most of the Tygers' concrete this year has gone into the new stands. Vincent Richards, America's "boy wonder," and the third player on the United States tennis list, will compete com-pete In the British national championships champion-ships at Wimbledon thl summer. It Is reported that Columbia is to pay its football coach $15,000 a year, and, judged from past performance, It may require the services of a superman super-man to produce a winner at Columbia. Gllmore Doble, grid coach at Cornell Cor-nell university, has accepted an invitation invi-tation from Robert Zuppke, coach at University of Illinois, to share with him the teaching of football In the summer school for athletic coaches at Champaign, 111., June 18 to July 23. |