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Show Jpopffie$ University of Pennsylvania varsity eight-oared shell crew last won at Poughkeepsie in 1899. Richard H. Freyberg, Goshen, Ind., was named 1926 captain of the University Uni-versity of Michigan track team. Raymond G. Haas, former intercollegiate intercol-legiate low hurdles champion, was elected captain of Georgetown university's uni-versity's 1926 track team. When Yale made its first touchdown in the Harvard game of 1923, it marked the first the Blue had scored on the Crimson since 1916. Managers of the Pacific Coast conference con-ference will have charge of the arrangements ar-rangements for the annual football game at Pasadena, January 1, 1926. The British government benefits to the extent of $100,000 a week from the taxes paid on games during the football season. Miss Cecil Leitch of Great Britain Is the only woman golfer to win the British, French and Canadian championships. cham-pionships. Tunhey says he will knock out Jack Dempsey if he ever gets him In the ring. Now that starts a lot more talk, and the newspapers will have to carry It, we suppose. Crown Prince Olav, who, In the natural nat-ural course of events will some day become king of Norway, is a leader in athletic sports at Oxford university, England. "Long Jim" Barnes, who won the British open golf championship, Is under contract to a Tampa club for three months' service as professional, beginning January 1, 1926. Drake university has agreed to release re-lease K. L. (Pug) Wilson from his contract as athletic director in order that he may accept a similar position at Northwestern university. The ball used In polo Is of light willow wil-low wood and weighs not more than five and a half ounces. The mallets are made with wooden heads and taxn-boo taxn-boo handles. |