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Show There are now S79 public swimming pools throughout the United States. The cost of laying out golf links in the United States varies from $50 to $120,000. Bill Johnston has been ranked among the ten leading American tennis ten-nis players since 1913. Starting with only 12 clubs in 1SS0, the Amateur Boxing association of England now controls 300. Skilled toreadors are becoming scarce in Spain, where the bullfight is beginning to lose its popularity. ' The Toronto Cricket club is the oldest old-est club of its kind in Canada, having played a match with the Upper Canada Can-ada college 90 years ago. Americans will participate in the French motor boat show in Paris, October Oc-tober 7 to 17. It will be the initial show of the kind in France. Experts declare that a team match between the ten best professional golfers golf-ers and the ten best amateurs would undoubtedly be won by the latter. H. L. Collins, captain of the Australian Aus-tralian cricket team now competing 1 in England, is popularly known in his home land as "Horseshoe Luck." ' Mile. Curabet is the first woman in France to referee a rugby football foot-ball match. Thousands of fans saw this novel sight during a recent game in Paris. University of Oregon at Eugene has nine hand-ball courts. They are used by the faculty and students during the day and business men of the city can occupy them in the evenings. A mile race between Paavo Nurml and R. A. Rose of New Zealand may be a feature of the English Amateur association track and field meet in Stamford Bridge, London, in July. Approval of Walter C. Hagen as captain cap-tain of an American team of professional profes-sional golfers which will invade Great Britain this year was announced by the Professional Golfers' association. A girl at the University of California Cali-fornia put the eight-pound shot 38 feet 5 inches, thereby winning the women's championship, and causing sober reflection, no doubt, among the ranks of her suitors. |