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Show Dwight E. Davis, the new secretary of war, was an international tennis champion in 18S9. Soccer is becoming the popular sport in Spain and, it is said, will eventually supersede bull fighting. F. P.. Foster, '20, of Montclair, N. J., has been elected captain of the Dartmouth Dart-mouth freshmen football eleven. An English couple who met on the golf course are to marry. There goes another beautiful golf friendship. Who recalls the occasional old-fashioned world series that could get itself it-self cleaned up and out of print in a week? Stanley Coveleskie and Fred Mar-berry, Mar-berry, Washington pitchers, each received re-ceived $1,000 bonus for their work during dur-ing the season. The impression prevails in Omaha that Art Griggs, manager of the team for the past two seasons, will not return re-turn next season. A London cricketer has been asked to stand for the British parliament. Do they have world series heroes in that game over there, too? Lives of halfbacks all remind us some of us might earn a place if we, too, could leave behind us footprints on the tackler's face. Sentiment may have kept Walter Johnson in that disastrous last game, but hanged if there was any sentiment about the Piratical wallop. There were two sure winners in the world's series, Barney Dreyfuss and Clark Griffith, whose bank-rolls were increased in a most pleasing manner. The dexterity of Jtr. Judge of the Washington team in crawling around on his stomach gives rise to an opinion opin-ion that off the baseball lot Mr. Judge is a pedestrian. We are constantly thinking up new names for old things. For example, what a king calls his bodyguard the halfback would describe as interference. interfer-ence. A New York dry goods store announces an-nounces that it has 20u college graduates gradu-ates on its pay roll, so football may mean something to education after all, with its yard lines. Walter French and Charlie Berry, members of lb Philadelphia Athletics have signed up with the Pottsville (Pa.) team, member of the National Professional Football league. Miss Glenna Collett of Providence. (I. I., has won the women's national golf championship twice, her first conquest con-quest of the title coining in 1922, when she was but nineteen years old. One of the colleges has Installed a course in cheer leading. Does this, we wonder, foreshadow the possibility that some day the student body will rise and give nine rahs for father? A Canadian hockey star having been offered $10.01)0 a year to play in New York, we are again reminded that sport would lie considerably more sporty in this country if it wore considerably con-siderably less on the market. The New York Giants of the National Na-tional Professional Football league, have three former All-Americans on the eleven. They are Joe Alexander, former Syracuse center; "Century" Milsted of Yale, and Lynn P.omar of Yandorbilt. " According to a recent decision of the Olympic technical congress, any atldete who knowingly Is, or has been, a professional in any sport cannot compete com-pete in the Olympic games. Athletes are excluded from the games who receive re-ceive money to-relmbur.se them for the los3 of wages or salaries. |