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Show Jess Willard was the biggest heavyweight heavy-weight who ever held the title. Tommy Gibbons is said to be the best tighter-golfer in the country. Cyril Tolley, the former British amateur ama-teur golf champion, is planning to take up architecture as a profession. The Olympia Fields Country club, near Chicago, is the largest golf club in the world, with four 18-hole courses. Frank Carpenter's place in history is secure. . . . He will be known as the one man Mike McTigue was able to knock out. George"B. King of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been elected captain of the YVes-leyan YVes-leyan varsity soccer team for next year. King is a sopho-Mn-e. Chef Chadbourue, Vernon outfielder, who has been with the club since 1917. has been given his unconditional release re-lease by Owner Maier. Ben Egan, catcher with Baltimore and l he Philadelphia Athletics many years ago, has been signed as coach by the Brooklyn Dodgers. It is said that Mr. "Red" Grange's father was a lumber jack. . . . Experts Ex-perts agree, however, there Is nothing lumbering about the young man. , Cy Barger, veteran major league pitcher, has made application for the managership of the Springfield Western West-ern association team for the 1925 season. sea-son. Umpire Cy Kigler says he regards "Pep Young of the Giants as the most' valuable outfielder in the National league. He disappointed in the world series. The American rifle team won in the Pan-American team match and the Argentine Ar-gentine cup witli a lead of 74 points over Cuba. Argentina stands third and Peru fourth. A three weeks' running horse race meeting will lie held from August 1 to August 22 on Cleveland's newest running run-ning track, to he operated by the Thistledown This-tledown Jockey club. A bond issue of $2,100,000 to build a huge football stadium at the University Univer-sity of Pittsburgh, at Pittsburgh. Pa., was heavily 'oversubscribed in a brief drive. The stadium will seat 70,000. Percy Wendell, who has successfully success-fully coached Williams college football teams for four years, will succeed .Tames E. Baldwin as football coach at Lehigh. Wendell is a former Harvard star. Albin Stenroos, forty-year-old Finnish Fin-nish victor in rhe Olympics last July at Paris, was decisively beaten recently re-cently in a modifivd marathon on the streets of Uelsingfors, capital of Finland. Fin-land. Athletics are booming in France. Scholastic, collegiate and military events are listed for next year and in addition international games will be engaged in with Belgium, England and other countries. Sam Breadon, president of the Cardinals, Car-dinals, says he has made two resolutions resolu-tions for the coming year: "I will not trade llornshy, and I will play better bet-ter golf." The first will be harder to keep than the second. President Turner and Manager Lewis of the Portland dull are busy as two bees lining up their teams for next year. They expect to make n deal for Outfielder Paul Strand of Toledo, To-ledo, In the near future. |