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Show The wise ones of tbe fighting game are generally of the opinion that Al Reich, in going to Buenos Aires to meet Firpo, is traveling a long way to get a beating. The police have prohibited the holding hold-ing of boxing matches in Vienna. They allege that such contests cause a waste of money and keep young people away from work. Golf is now played in. all out-of-the wiy places. Joe Kirkwood taught the natives how tojilay in the Fiji islands. They picked the game up quickly because be-cause they were skilled in swinging clubs. With a score of 5C-3 out of 000, Serjeant Ser-jeant Thomas Girkout of Fort Davis, Canal Zone, lias been declared the national na-tional .22-caliber pistol champion of the United States by the National Rifle association. Golf enthusiasm surely approached the limit in the performance of the three caddies who walked from Toronto To-ronto to Montreal, a distance of more than 3(K) miles, to witness the Dominion Domin-ion open championship tournament. P.utl Taylor, midwestern bantamweight, bantam-weight, says Pancho Villa, flyweight champion, is the smartest boxer he ever faced. "Villa is always trying to outligure you and usually he does," says Taylor. The champion woman trapshooter of the Pacific Northwest is Mrs. Edward Ed-ward McGoldrick of Spokane, who has won the championship of her own state and also vanquished the women champions of Idaho and California. |