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Show There are between 30 and 40 models mod-els of types of baseball bats. University of Chicago sells season tickets for six home football games for $14. Ty Cobb is -said to be the first man that ever ran a ball player's salary into $1, 000,00). University of Detroit broke into football back in 1890. This is the school's thirtieth season. One of the newest sporting novelties novel-ties in England is soccer on motorcycles motor-cycles played at the Crystal palace, London. - The name "tennis," as well as the game, came from France. Originally the word was "tenz," meaning take, or receive. Since he took charge of football at Notre Dame in 1917, Coach Itockne's teams have lost only six games out of eighty-five. John and Jess Rifle, brothers, both played with the University of Kentucky Ken-tucky baseball club and are now with the Pittsburgh Pirates.' Bowling and billiards are the only two of the popular pastimes In which the number of participants exceeds the number of spectators. I Bobby Vaughan, New York Yankee Inflelder half a generation ago. Is now one of the leading golfers of the Ta-coma Ta-coma Country and Golf club. Despite the fact that he Is only twenty-seven years old, George Uhle, "iron man" of the Cleveland Indians, has spent eight years in the major leagues. While practicaly al'. football coaches are former college players, there has heen no outstanding exponent of the gridiron play who was a star on the playing field. Considering the accuracy wi.th which an . American catcher could toss a bomb, it is just as well for the politicians that baseball never took hold abroad. Yale w in the first football championship cham-pionship of America in 1S7G. when the Bulldog defeated Harvard. Princeton nd Colur hia. Harvard won its first title In 1S00. Ex-Crown Prince WHhelm of Germany, Ger-many, now forty-four years old. Is still a frequent pb-yer on the tennis courts of the Hot Weiss club at Grune-wald, Grune-wald, Germany. In the ll::ht of modern boxln methods, there are some who hold that David was able to put over the winning punch while Goliath was counting the gate. Ad increasing Interest In golf Is being displayed In Italy. One course alone, the Stresa Golf club, high above Lake Mngg'orp. Is about to double its iwesent 3.000-yard course. Harry Layne, recently acquired by the St. I .-on Is Cardinals from Peoria In the Thrtp-I league. Is considered one of the fastest steppers in base ball, having lowered the record of Maurice Archdeacon in circling the bayes by one-fifth of a second. University of Michigan will use 1 erry (Vld for football for the "last i time this year. It is the oldest '.n I lie w."'irn conference. The Pig Ten . I instil ill ions will provide more than j -nK!.000 regular seats ;,nd lL"'."i'H tern I purary Mauds for mat -h- 0u fait. , |