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Show Jporffloies The record of weight lifting by man is 6,370 pounds. Wonder what would happen If the Finn took up swimming? In American athletic eircl It appears ap-pears that the Finns are In the swim. Cornell and University of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania rowing squads number 400 each. Elmer Smith, the new recruit or the Cincinnati Beds, looks like a great asset as-set to the team. One New York man says he spent $10,000 on hi son's college education and only got quarterback. Football In England Is first distinctly distinct-ly mentioned by William FItzstephen in his history of London, 1195. William Sweeney, semiprofesslonal. has signed -with Wichita of the Western West-ern league, to play first base. Joseph Dienhart of Lafayette, Ind., has been elected captain of the Notre Dame basket-ball squad for 1925-6. C. H. McConnell '27, star guard, has been elected captain of next year's varsity basket-ball team at University Universi-ty of Iowa. Harvard, Yale. Princeton, Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and the United States Naval academy have adopted spring training for their football teams. Although Leland Stanford university univer-sity was defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals, S to 0, the college players furnished some keen competition. The Indian athlete, John Levi, whom Ihe Yankees secured from Haskell college, col-lege, Is hitting the ball hard and Is one of the fastest men on the squad. At a meeting of the varsity letter men in basket ball for the season just closed, J. V. Kelly '20 was- elected captain cap-tain of the New York university basket-ball team for next year. Charles ("Whltey") Glazner, former pitcher of both the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia National league clubs, has Joined the Los Angeles club of the Pacific Coast Baseball league. Manager Kickey of the St. Louis Cardinals introduced a novelty against a local semiprofessional team at Stockton, Col., when he put the outfielders out-fielders in the infield and the Inlleld-ers Inlleld-ers in the outfield and won the game In this fashion, 11 to 3. Dr. Boles Albert Rosenthal, line coach of the University of California football team, wants the California Supreme court to have his name changed to Albert Boles. Doctor lin-senthal lin-senthal gives as bis reason that his name Is hard to remember, i |