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Show Ito.v Clurk, heavyweight boxer of Minneapolis, wears shoes size 15V4. A stadium is to be constructed at Bologna, Italy, to seat 50,000 spectators. specta-tors. Last season Rath made only 5 triples against 47 home runs and 30 doubles. The game of billiards has more actual ac-tual participants than any other sport in the United States. The first golf balls were niade of wood. Later leather halls stuffed with feathers were introduced. Blind for 17 years, Ferd Fabler of Baltimore, Md., has become a better-than-average duckpin bowler. A new element has asserted Itself in baseball. The latest group of players play-ers is being referred to as the Ananias club.' Introduced In Germany In 1900 records rec-ords show that there are now 1,450,-572 1,450,-572 registered soccer players In the couiury. t BUI Coles of Erantford, Ontario, Is the first foreigner. to hold the amateur bicycle racing championship of the United States. A too sensitive nature is said to be the reason why Manager John Mc-Graw Mc-Graw of the Giants weakened on Frankie Frisch. Football, hockey and rifle shooting are the only sports which developed a profit for the Yale Athletic association associa-tion last season. The Intercollegiate Baseball league of Tokyo is the largest of its kind in Japan. As many as 35,000 fans are seen at a' single game. Sir Arthur Balfour is one of the few golfers-known who can play a round of golf iu less than his age. He often turns in a card under SO. . For the first time In many years a perfect game was recently bowled in Seattle by Glenn Wilkins. who de livered 12 consecutive "strikes." The sport of curling is popular in every part of Canada, and the city of Winnipeg is generally regarded as the world center in this winter sport. Otto Borehort, president of the Milwaukee Mil-waukee club of ihe American association, associ-ation, sold peanuts in the grandstands when a boy. He biter was assigned to caring for the bats. Cy Williams, hardhitting Philly fielder, who is now thirty-eight years old, faces his sixteenth season in the hig leagues without" ever having been on n pennant-winning team. Cavalry officers of Ihe French army captured 2-18 cups in various horse shows in Canada. Belgium, England. France, Holland. Italy, Switzerland' and the United Slates In 192G. One hundred and seventy-six world champions lost their crowns during the last year. Seventy-one tides were successfully defended in 30 branches of amateur and nn.foFsionul sports Fred Brainard, outfielder of the Dallas Steers in the Texas league. Is now n full-Hedged oil magnnte, a 300-barrel 300-barrel gusher having been brought 'in on land owned by him. A mammoth arena Is planned in Brooklyn, N. Y., to cost hetween $5,-000,000 $5,-000,000 and $0,000,000, and will have a seating capacity of between 20,000 and "0.000. The building will he dedicated dedi-cated lo all orra of sports. Lou Gehrig, teammate of Babe Ruth, was Barn's greatest rival for total buses In the American league. Ruth led witli ,'!T, including 47 home runs, 5 triples, oO doubles and 102 singles. Gehrig was second with a total base record of $14. |