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Show IJporiiffcpibs The National Archery association is forty-five years old. . Toronto enjoys eight running-horse meetings each year. Newark (N. J.) public schools' athletic ath-letic stadium just dedicated seats 16,-000. 16,-000. University of Iowa has just added an lS-hole golf course for students' play. Like Maurice McLaughlin and Mary Browne, Vincent Richards has taken up golf. Sleeping sickness appears to have overtaken the professional mat game in the East. Larry Gardner will be back as manager man-ager of the Asheville team of the South Atlantic league next spring. Douglas Wyckoff, captain of Georgia Geor-gia Tech, is probably the outstanding candidate for mythical honors as fullback. full-back. Drury college, at Springfield, Mo., is one of the few schools in the country that has a football team with three brothers on the varsity squad. An amateur champion in certain lines of sports is said to be able to make the sport bring in from $10,000 to .$15,000 a year in strictly legal ways. Forty of the foremost girl swimmers in tlie world will meet in St. Augustine, Augus-tine, Fla.. next February, for the purlin pur-lin e of breaking the present world's swimming records. The Broadway arena in Brooklyn, seating 8.000 spectators at boxing shows, is next largest in New York to the new Madison Square garden, which it is now reported will seat 20,-000. 20,-000. Joe Forsliaw is president of the western division of the A. A. U. The vol- ran runner was a member of the United Slates Olympic team in 190S. and has always been active in St. Louis athletics. Joe McOinnity, famous "iron man" of th old New York Giants, who recently re-cently reilrcd from minor league baseball base-ball at the age of fifty-fnnr, may sign to roach the young pitching talent of the Brooklyn Robins. Manager Harris appears to have picked up a very promising recruit pitcher in Ballon from Chattanooga, lie gave indications in the very few chances lie had to perform in the world series that he will develop. Baltimore, seven times champion of the In; ernat ional league, rests on the highi'Sl pinnacle of minor leaguo biwe ball afler winning live of Ihe eight games played with Louisville. 1925 pennant winner in the American association. asso-ciation. A recent American league ynrcfi-football ynrcfi-football match between the champion Full River team and. New Britain, which the champions won 3 to 1, attracted at-tracted 11.1-11 spectators, a record for that city. It shows bow the 1-i '; ; n -- style of football Is gainlrg popularity In New England. |