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Show Sport Hates Boxing has been adopted at the Tokyo To-kyo Imperial university in Japan. Pigeon shooting became a fashionable fashion-able sport in England about 1S56. About this time of year many a man decides that a golf club feels better in his hand than a rake. . With the organization of a new association, asso-ciation, golf has been made a major sport at Columbia college. M. L. Dake, a sophomore, has been elected captain of the Cornell university univer-sity basketball team for next season. History records that the first billiard table was set up in New York city in a house on Whitehall dock, in the year 1800. If college pacifists keep on with their propaganda they're likely to take all the fight out of the football teams. Twenty years ago collegiate football klckoffs were taken without tees, just as they ivill be next fall, under the new rule. Marvin A. Stevens of Osborne, Kan., won the Ledyard Mitchell cup awarded award-ed by the 1904 class of Tale for proficiency profi-ciency in punting. Miss Edith Cummlngs of Chicago, national woman's golf title holder, has abandoned plans to compete this year In the British woman's championship. League of Ohio Sportsmen embraces em-braces 134 organizations with an aggregate ag-gregate membership ot 100,000 men and women devotees ?.C outdoor sports. Bob Fitzsimmons' flrst appearance In the ring was at an amateur boxing tournament given by Jem Mace at Ti-maru, Ti-maru, New Zealand, In the early eighties. After what Dempsey did to Carpen-tler, Carpen-tler, the Frenchman had better take some swimming lessons before he signs a contract to fight anyone at Michigan City. Ted Sullivan plans to take baseball players of Harvard and William and Mary colleges, the first and second oldest institutions of learning in America, Amer-ica, on a tour of Europe this summer. Golf as an intercollegiate sport at the University of Minnesota will take rank with wrestling, gymnastics and hockey as a result of dual meet competition com-petition arranged for the Gopher team. |