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Show Nearly 6,000,000 people play tennis in Great Britain. Victoria, B. C, has just used for the first time a $300,000 swimming pool. Night golf by electric illumination has been tried successfully In Bermuda. The first rowing regatta on the Hudson Hud-son river course at Poughkeepsle was In 1837. The first department of the dub golfer's game to become noticeably strong is the conversation. Canton, Ohio, will be represented in professional .football this fall, after a year's absence from the gridiron arena. First prize for the 3,600-mile yacht race from San Francisco to Tahiti is a trophy costing $5,000, presented by Sir Thomas Lipton. Roger Conti Is the most remarkable bllliardist extant. He began playing at the age of seven and never was called "The Boy Wonder." Stakes and purses amounting to $5,000,000 will be available to light harness' drivers on circuit and fair tracks in the United States this season. sea-son. For two years In succession the University Uni-versity of Texas has won the Southwest South-west conference championships in the major spring sports, baseball, track and tennis. A group of golf enthusiasts limited to 80 will leave New York city December Decem-ber 3 for a 30,000-mile tour in which they have a chance to play their fa-rorlte fa-rorlte sport in every country on the globe. Golf is believed to have been Invented Invent-ed by a thrifty Scotch farmer who conceived con-ceived the idea by teaching boys how-to how-to swing a scythe close to the ground so as to save all the straw and not dull the blade by digging divots. Jim Rice, former Columbia and Pennsylvania crew coach, originated the expression "strong back and weak mind." It was the veteran conch's I way of describing good athletes who I could not pass their academic work. |
