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Show jJportinwiH The tenth Olympiad will be held in Los Angeles, Cal., in 1932. The seating capacity of Boyle's 30 acres boxing arena at Jersey City Is 91,130. Only golf is honest and if a fellow deceives concerning his score he lies only to himself. The United States has nearly 5,000 golf courses, with about 4,000,000 men, women and children playing the game. The University of Pennsylvania will have 30 tennis courts when those now being laid out are completed this fall. Jack Renault has sidestepped a fight with Tommy Gibbons, thereby demonstrating that he is a clever boxer. Clarence De Mar, age thirty-eight, of Melrose, Mass., marathon runner, has won more tla.n 200 road and cinder path races at distances of three to twenty miles. Tex Rickard and Jimmy Johnston, rival New York promoters, buried the hatchet and will bid for a Pancho Villa-lfrankie Genaro flyweight bout to be staged in one of the New York ball parks. Gene Tunney reminds one somewhat some-what of Jim Corbett, both having something of an air of reserve about them ; reserve, that is, against the straight out-and-out low-brow "killer" strain that makes the really great tighter. |