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Show IJpoHkggcitiibs Well, that old discussion is up again, whether amateur tennis is u sport or a racket. Tilden, the tennis star, has not had the success in mixing literature with athletics that Tunney has enjoyed There is no world series in cricket.' There isn't time for it. The opening game of the season might not be over before September. Golf, at last, has been officially recognized rec-ognized as an "athletic sport" in France. Hitherto it had been regarded regard-ed as "fine exercise for the nged and feeble." George Chaney, who retired from the ring after his 100th knockout, still does a little gymnasium work, but will never fight again. He is fairly well fixed. There may be a deep, hidden scientific scien-tific reason behind the international balloon races; but a race In which the winning bag lands in a mill pond seems an extremely casual sort of affair. Joe Davis, the new billiard champion cham-pion of England, achieved a long sought distinction when lie beat Tom Newman recently in London, Ifi.ouo to 1-1.S74, terminating the hitter's six-year six-year reign. |