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Show A player uses, on an average, six ponies in a polo game. Jack McAulifl'e is the only boxing champion to have retired undefeated. Purdue university has football equipment for 200 players this season. sea-son. On a golf course in Wales players use a periscope to locate a hidden green. President Calvin Coolidge is a member mem-ber of the Corinthian Yacht club of New England. Abner Doubleday Is credited with drawing up the first playing rules for baseball in 1S39. Tbaddeus Campbell, a semi-pro pitcher from New Madrid, Mo., has been signed by Milwaukee. Frank Toberski will represent a New York academy in this season's pocket billiard championship race. . Beals Becker, former outfielder for the Kansas City Blues has been signed by Manager Wade Killefer of the Seattle club. Peter Moeskops of Holland, bicycle champion of the world, is a real giant. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 224 pounds. The Newark Bears announce the unconditional release of Johnny Enz-mann, Enz-mann, of Brooklyn, a pitcher, who joined the Bears in July. The South African soccer team now touring England may return home by way of this country and play a series of games next year. ( William C. Greer, Jr., of Woodbury, N. J., lias been elected to succeed Jack Storer as Captain of the Lehigh university football team for the 1924 season. Approximately 585,000 persons In New York are now licensed to drive motor vehicles on the streets. This is an average of one out of 10 of the whole population. Tom Glass. Cambridge's crack moundsnian the past two seasons, has been sold to Connie Mack, of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, and will report to the A's training camp next spring. They are howling about Young Strib-ling Strib-ling and the possibility of this youth's fighting himself out at a tender age. He made $200,000 this year. One can take a lot of chances for ,$200,000. American league pitchers say that Eddie Collins of the White Sox is the hardest player in the league to strike out. Babe Ruth, despite his great slugging ability, is correspondingly easy. The U. S. tennis and polo teams, like the track and field, swimming and rowing squads, showed their mettle met-tle against foreign stars. The goll players also retained the Walker cup against England. E. F. F. Eagan, the U. S. Olympic boxer and Yale-Rhodes scholar, will captain the Oxford University (England) (Eng-land) Boxing club this season, lie will try to introduce an international collegiate tourney at Oxford next year. Four new coaches are making theh debut in Pacific coast collegiate football, foot-ball, namely, Warner at Stanford. Schissler at Oregon Aggies. Maddock at University of Oregon and Earl "Click" Clark at State University ol Montana. F. J. Lake, former National league star, has been secured as second team baseball coach at Harvard, succeeding succeed-ing W. J. Stewart. Coaches Claude Davidson of the freshmen and F. F. Mitchell of the varsity battery men are the only coaches re-engaged. Pitchers Martin Tetany, of tbe Kings-port Kings-port Appalachian league team, and Schillings, of the Shreveport Texas league club, and Shortstop Kownlskl, of the Lakeland Florida State league club, have been purchased Iby the New Orleans Southern association club. |