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Show PITHY NOTES OF VARIOUS KINDS OF SPORTS Some women are born great while others marry former Notre Dame football foot-ball stars. What with outdoor billiards and Indoor In-door golf, It's hard to tell what the world's coming to. The new million dollar baseball park of the San Francisco Seals will be equippped with a light system for night games. Holcombe ' Ward of New York has been named to succeed Joseph E. Wear as chairman of the Davis cup v International play committee of the U. S. L. T. A. Lying flat on a board Is a cure for roundshoulderedness. says a physl-clan-autlior. It goes far to explain the soldierly bearing of so many British heavyweights. For tiie tropics, special golf balls are used to stand the heat. Even In this country we have seen a golfer fan his ball for a long time with his club before hitting it Has anyone to date invented a use for a long ping-pong paddle, besides punishing a midget? Ineligibility can do a basketball team more harm than all of the opponents op-ponents on the schedule. Eight of the Yankee pitchers total 20 Inches over the six-foot standard, averaging six feet two and a half inches. Len Harvey, English middleweight, comes from Cornwall, the home of Bob Fitzsimmons. He has 200 knockouts knock-outs In 300 engagements. Only one Important boxing contest arranged by the late Tex Rickard had to be postponed because of rain the Mandell-McLarnin lightweight championship cham-pionship bout In 192S. An eastern college Is going to find out whether a coach can produce a willing eleven on a professor's pay. Another economy suggestion, from the West, is to pay oft halfbacks on a yardage basis. Ohio State's eighth annual relay carnival will be held on May 1 and 2 at the Columbus stadium. The Hosel university baseball nine, present champions of Japan, will tour the United States starting in May. The coming rowing season will mark the twenty-fifth year Richard A. Glen-don Glen-don has coached the sport at the United Unit-ed States Naval academy. President John Heydler predicts an even bigger and better year fsr the National league clubs than last year when all attendance records were broken. Freddie Sington, Alabama tackle named as , All-Amerlcan, Is G feet 3 Inches tall, weighs 217 pounds, nnd will graduate at the age of twenty with a Phi Beta Kappa key. Harvard varsity oarsmen will face six of the eight eastern colleges In three preliminary dual races In 1931, leading up to the regatta with Yale at New London, June 19. 1931. |