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Show Polo players frequently pay as much as $10,000 for a pony. Washington (D. C.) municipal golf links are ready for play at 5 a. m. The average football player In England Eng-land participates In fifty or more contests con-tests each season. A league composed of sir teams has been formed In Sacramento, Calif., to play polo on roller skates. The Canada vs. Cuba Davis cup tennis ten-nis match will be played in Cuba late in. July or early In August next. A Philadelphia rowing organization, known as the Schuylkill Navy, has begun be-gun a campaign to boost the sport In the schools. Another matter that ought to be looked into before the year is much older is who is going to deliver Ice this summer in Wheaton, 111. The prince of Wales will open a new race track at Chepstow, England, In August, with classic races to be known as the Welsh derby, Oakes and St. Leger. ' The Oxford-Cambridge crew race is the oldest sporting event in which big colleges annually meet each other. They first met in 1829 at Henley, and since then there have been a series of 78 races: D. L. Meehan, who led Columbia university uni-versity to an intercollegiate basket-ball league title in his first year as head coach, and Paul Mooney, his assistant, will again coach the Lion five during the 1926 campaign. Roland R. MacKenzIe of Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, a member of the Walker cup team, Is nineteen years old. He is the youngest champion to have the honor of competing In the matches In Scotland this year. Charley Holt, premier Norwegian pole vaulter, boosted his world's Indoor In-door pole vault record to 13 feet 8 inches at the Washington university interscholastic Indoor track meet recently re-cently held in St. Louis, Mo. Many American women own and race thoroughbred horses, but Mrs. Herman B. Duryea, widow of the noted turfman of that name, confines herself to breeding at her stud farm in Normandy. |