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Show Sporting Squibs of All Kinds Tale claims the best truck team It has had In years. This long-distance endurance thing Is old stuff with the chess bug. Philadelphia, It Is estimated, has 8,000 private dwellings with billiard tables. Mrs. Caleb Fox, one of the leading American golf players, Is sixty-three years of age. Tom Klrby, of Boston, Mass., Is the amateur heavyweight champion of the United States. It costs $45,000 to lay out an 18-hole golf course, to say nothing of the loss In potatoes. The velocity of a golf ball as it leaves the driver of a gwd player Is 135 miles an hour. Bill Lerned, ex-tennls champion, has patented a circular shaped racquet It Insures even tension on all strings. An early football forecast shows that Notre liame will play West Point in New York city October 13 nnd Prlnc-ton, Prlnc-ton, October 20 next. Charles Brooklns, of Iowa university, univer-sity, recently eMlaUUlied a new world's 21'0-ynrd low hurdle record, running It in 'Si 4 10 seconds. Georges Carpentler's bout with Bat-tUnc Bat-tUnc Sikl on September 1(1 next will be his last, according to L'Auto. "Win or lose, I leave the ring for good and nil," I'arpentler Is uolttd a inyluj |