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Show Miami, Fla., has four polo fields. Paavo Nurml holds the world's record rec-ord for the five-mile run 24 :06. London has Glo grass courts and 110 hard courts for public tennis. Ksar, the famous French race horse, won $320,000 in stakes during his career. University of Washington will hold its relay track carnival May 2 at Seattle. Great Britain Is the leader In many activities in connection with horse breeding. Frank B. Kellogg, aged sixty-eight, the new secretary of state, Is an expert ex-pert golf player. , Bicycle racing is the national sport of Belgium, and 54 velodromes are holding weekly and bi-weekly meets. Archie E. Mathis of Bloomfield, III., has been elected captain of the University Uni-versity of Illinois mat. team for next year. , University of Pennsylvania plans to increase the seating capacity of Franklin field, its athletic stadium, to 100,000, or virtually double its present size. Jake Schaefer, world's 1S.2 balkiine billiard champion, will sail for France early in June to oppose Roger Conti, Parisian star,. In a contest for the French title. Because be wastes no time In pinning pin-ning his man after grappling with him, Wayne (Big) Munn is proving himself a decidedly popular world heavyweight wrestling champion. That the coach asserts the power of suggestion as a factor in athletic success suc-cess is not to be denied. It is assumed when Paavo Nurml was a lad his trainers kept saying to him, "Finnish first." Eddie Bench, of Galena, 111., was recently re-cently voted the most popular senior at Yale and the best athlete In the judgment of his classmates. Bench starred on the varsity football team last fall, playing a halfback, position. Young Stribling, the twenty-year-old Georgia schoolboy, has fought In all classes except the heavyweight. His weight is now 174 pounds and within two years he Is expected to challenge the heavyweight champion of th world |