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Show Baseball Iowa's Best Dual Pastime for Several Years Baseball has been the University of Iowa's most successful sport so far as the record of dual intercollegiate contests con-tests won and lost during the last 42 years Is concerned. The diamond sport has credited Iowa with 200 victories and 147 defeats de-feats for a percentage of .CG3. Football Foot-ball ranks second among the 10 Intercollegiate In-tercollegiate sports, with a .615 percentage, per-centage, the result of 177 victories and 111 defeats. In third place In cross country, Hawkeye harriers hav- lng a .600 average for their dual meet competition. For all sports, the percentage ranking rank-ing of Hawkeye teams since intercollegiate inter-collegiate competition was begun in 1889 is .577. Least successful of the Iowa athletic endeavors has been golf, Hawkeye llnksmen having only a .321 average in dual meets since they began be-gan intercollegiate competition in 1924. |