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Show Sport jntes Earle Sande, America's noted jockey, won 22 stake races last year. John McGraw thinks he has a very promising newcomer in Frank O'Doul, from the Pacific Coast league. At intervals Bob Zuppke of Illinois is a painter of lands-capes. But for a few weeks every fall he smears 'em. There are 255 golf clubs in and around Glasgow Scotland. London has 250 club?. " Association football has developed into the most popular 'port in Austria since the World war. The National league has1 'a "professor "profes-sor of umpiring" in Bob Emslie, who teaches the young umpires to call 'em as they see 'em. William Denny of French Lick, Ind., who hunts rabbits with bow and arrow, ar-row, has a record of 17 bunnies to his credit. , A total of 51.99G balls, about 84 per game, were used in the National league during the last season. This exceeded by 200 dozen the amount used in 1920. Horseshoe pitching is a popular sport at Northwestern university, more than 250 students competing in the last tournament conducted by the intramural department. Jimmy Slattery, Buffalo youth recently re-cently beaten by Tommy Loughran for the light heavyweight championship, is said to he one of the greatest boxers box-ers in the game today. The ColTroth handicap at Tiajuana. Mex., has grown in value from $5,000 in 1016 to $100.000, ; the purse announced an-nounced for the next running of this event Illuminated tennis courts for night play are maintained by the recreation department of the city of Evansville, Ind. A base of Kentucky rock makes possible year-round play. Old-timers credit Frank Ives with having been the greatest all-around s-portsman this country ever produced. Ives held the championships in billiards, bil-liards, roller skating, bicycle riding and horsemanship. Jimmy Smith, who is generally acknowledged as the greatest bowler in history, is rolling the best game of his career at the age of forty-four, playing ten games a day without let up. The American Olympic committee will raise $400,000 to finance its ath letic invasion of Amsterdam. Holland, next summer. It is figured that it will co?t $1,200 each to handle the 300 or more performers. It has been suggested that Miller Muggins trade Ruth or Gehrig "for the good of l he game." thereby helping help-ing weakei teams. Might as well talk, of his trading Colonel Ruppert to the Cotton States league. Two street car conductors of Georgetown. George-town. Ky., bought a two-year-old trol-ter trol-ter in 1020 for a song. The horse. Victor Hale, has since won a number of valuable stakes and is worth ten times wlial his owners paid for him. The University of Michigan football foot-ball schedule for 192S has been completed com-pleted with six home games and two contests on the road constituting the program. The Wolverines will play Ohio State at Columbus and Navy at Baltimore in the only tilts on the road. |