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Show Bobby Jones doesn't like this best bail business at all, if anybody wants to know. Edwin F. Hunt, a twenty-four-year-old from Nashville, Tenu., is the checker champion of the South. When Indiana plays Illinois this fail, it will be the first meeting of football teams of those two schools since 1914. Young Stribling of Georgia, at twen ty-four years of age, may make trou hie for various aspirants to Gene Tun ney's crown. . Helen Meany, champion diver. Is the oldest of a family of 11 children, all of whom are engaged in swimming competition. "Rosy" Ryan, former Giant pitcher, who was purchased recently by the Yankees, got his start in baseball at Holy Cross college. Turner Barber, veteran outfielder obtained by the Mobile team from the Birmingham club, has been given bis unconditional release. Billy Bayne, with Cleveland, is one of the hardest hitting pitchers in baseball. He has been around the .400 mark all season. The greatest distance a golf ball has ever been driven is 470 yards, made by Jimmy Gullane, Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1925. Clyde Barnhart, veteran outfielder of the Pittsburgh Pirates, has been released re-leased to the Indianapolis club of the American association. Edward Cuccinello, infielder of the Danville club of the Three-Eye league, has been purchased by the Columbus club of the American association. Bruno Szapes, the tall Magyar who was second in the Olympic javelin throw at Amsterdam. Holland, is also an artist, a ski-jumper, a dancer and a linguist. With only the great Morley Drury missiug, the University of Southern California football team is expected to be one of the best in the country this fall. When George Lott, third ranking tennis player, enters Brown next fall, it will he his third college. He previously pre-viously attended Chicago and Michigan Michi-gan State. The highest percentage ever made by a pennant-winning club. in the National Na-tional league was made by the Boston Bos-ton club in 1S02. They had an SiJO percentage. Because he couldn't stand the growl of the fans in his own home town, Shortstop Horace Kibble of the Fort Worth (Texas) -league team quit the club recently. British writers say that British golf is handicapped because all the young golfers who do something while In college are never heard of after they leave college. Athletes at Cornell university, according ac-cording to a study of the records of the class entering in 1021. maintained a higher standing as students than nnnathletes. Sixteen players on the roster of the Brooklyn club come under the head of "cast-offs," although some, no doubt, would be welcomed by the teams who let them go. More than 30 greyhound racing tracks have been licensed in England, and some attract crowds of 30,000 tu 50,000 nightly. London has eight tracks all running successfully. |