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Show The first boxing tournament of gloved contestants was held In England Eng-land in 1872. Jim Thorpe, famous Indian athlete, is said to be muscle bound at the age of forty-four. Georgelown university students, 75 per cent of them, find golf the game which gives them the greatest thrill. A total of $1,300,000 was risked on the eleven entries in the recent Pim-lico Pim-lico Preakness. It was a new mark in money bet. Francis Ouimet, leading amateur golfer around Boston, won't be active in gulf meets for a number of weeks because of a recent operation. Luis Firpo, Argentine heavyweight,' has resumed training again and an-peuiieeil an-peuiieeil that lie expects to go to New York before the end of the year to return to the ring. |