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Show Experts say I'aavo Nurmi runs flat-footed. flat-footed. But not flat-headed. Kenny Leonard held the lightweight crown for nearly eight years. Ole Jansen, ski champion of Norway, Nor-way, holds thg world's record, with a jump of 208 feet. Until he has been married a while Dempsey won't know what it means to be handled with gloves. The next meeting of the International Internation-al soccer congress will be held In Prague on May 24 and 25. The New York Yankees have signed Elmer Duggan, sensational southpaw pitcher of Brown university. A French pugilist recently knocked his opponent speechless. Nothing like that ever happened to a manager. Glenn Myatt, catcher for the Cleveland Cleve-land American league club, has accepted accept-ed terms offered by the Indians for 1 this season. Tommy Gibbons, heavyweight title contender, has been in the ring pastime pas-time since 1913. He has yet to be knocked off his feet. Harold Wendler. halfback of the Ohio State football team for the last two seasons, did not re-enter school after the holidays. American league umpires have gone into training for the opening of the season, working as hard to condition themselves as the players. , Lucien Vines:, tlie new lightweight champion of Europe, is a painter by trade. Like Criqui, he is a product of Belleville, the slums of Paris. Joe Bush likely will be relegated to the outfield when his twirling days are over. The noted red-shirted hurler batted .339 in 1924 In 00 games. Eddie Martin, new bantamweight champion, is a crack baseball player. Martin as a kid aspired to be a big leaguer. He liked to play shortstop. The Hurlingham club has fixed June 20, 24 and 27 as the dates for the matches In London between the United States and British army polo teams. A "little world series," to be played between the American association and Pacific Coast league pennant winners, has been arranged for a five-year term. University of California cinder path has been changed to sandy clay, similar simi-lar to the one in Stanford stadium. It is expected to be faster than the old track. Herbert Bryan, enptnin of the Oglethorpe Ogle-thorpe university team last spring, has been signed by the Pirates for a trial. He is a catcher and did well in semi-pro semi-pro ball last summer. V McNeely, Washington, and Lamar, Athletics, two recruit outfielders last season, busted the old agate for the same average .330. McNeely was In 43 games and Lamar in 87. According to British sport writers' who attended the exhibition games between be-tween the Giants and White Sox In London, baseball has no chance of becoming be-coming a national sport In England. Osborne, of the Illinois Athletic club, smashed the world's Indoor record rec-ord for the high jump in the annual Kansas City Athletic indoor track meet by clearing tlie bar at 0 feet 6 Inches. Al Mamoux. Ihe pitcher recently sent to Minneapolis hy the Yankees, has notified Mike Kelly that he will retire from the game. He has asked the Minneapolis Min-neapolis boss to put his name on the voluntary retired list. Mamoux figures that he Is a ten-year man In the majors ma-jors and that may be the reason for his action. |