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Show INTERESTING SPORT NOTES Johnny Dundee, champion featherweight feather-weight boxer of the world, received $12 for his first light. The record for the running broad jump Is feet 3 Indies. The original record was 17 feet 4 Inches Mildred Carl of New Haven, Conn., holds the women's world record for pole vaulting 7 feet '1 Inches. In Los Angeles, where 750,0XX) persons per-sons live, l(M),i;,SS played golf last yoar over tho city's municipal course. If charity boxing bouts continue, It will become necessary to print the pugilistic pu-gilistic news In the .society columns. There are elghly-llvo municipal golf courses throughout the United States. Another reason why so many logical coulenders for II uli t titles appear all at. once Is because (ho public Is biting well. Athletics at. Oxford university, England, Eng-land, aii' entirely In the hands of (lie uiiilei'ui'ailuales Thero are no paid coaches. The H'vlininiir: record for a mini, cdvitiii", 1 00 jai'ls is .'i.'l seconds; the lecoid for a woman, is 1 minute I) seconds. sec-onds. The world's pole vault n nl Is held by Charles I loft', a Norwegian alhlete. The murk Is l.'JI meters, or about lil feel ll:li Inches. .lohuslown. I'lii., proposes erecting a In i : ii i; iiicna to hold H.'i.iHiil, It ull go up al Ideal nili. a bathilii; heac and iiiimm'uii ni park Hire" nnle'i fn the city. |