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Show The Amateur Boxing association of London controls more than 300 clubs. Jimmy Smith, ten-pin expert extraordinary, extraor-dinary, is arranging a country-wide tour. Canada has been asked to send four amateur boxers to Denmark Dext February. The major league record for total runs in one season is 157, made by Babe Ruth in 1921. There has been nothing In the papers about Tex Riekard's bank toll beirg a mere shell of its former self. The youngest player in the major leagues is Melviile OH, aged seventeen, seven-teen, of the New York (liauts. One advantage of hiring professional profession-al athletes instead of amateurs is that you can pay the pro off safely with a check. v - Willie Hoppe Is one of the busiest billiard players in the world, engaging in match play week after week without with-out a rest. All players' contracts for next year's Washington team will include a clause forbidding the playing of golf during the baseball season. Jem Mace, one of England's famous fighters, was bora a gypsy, but forsook for-sook the roving folk to enter the prize ring at the age of twenty-six. Detroit has purchased Pitcher Donald Hankins from the Newark club of the International league. Advices are that the Tigers went high for the heaver. Portland. Ore., and adjacent towns boast 14 golf courses. The latest will be located in the Peninsula district and will be laid out on 1-11 acres of ground. A cynic Is one who remarks thai when a foreign amateur wins an American championship it means more, on account of the difference In exchange. ex-change. Edouard Horemans. former IS. 2 balk-line balk-line billiard champion, will not compete com-pete in United States tournaments thi? season, having decided to remain in Belgium. Golf statisticians declare that more than 1,01X1.000 persons take up the game, each y ar and by 1!M0 this country must prepare to accommodate 15,000.000 players. The world series remains a strictly American institution. It affords a healthful relaxation in Hie midst of the most irksome cares. Europe would do well to got into the game. A golf course and polo field will bi added to the Lincoln Field nice track, Crete, 111., which boasts 700 acres ol land, the largest one-piece tract owned by any racing association !n the world The University of Honolulu foot-hall foot-hall eleven, undefeated for thref years, hopes to entertain the University Uni-versity of California gridmen in 1927 playing a series of post-season contests. con-tests. Norman E. Brookes, the famous teD nls exponent, is president of the Aus tralian Lawn Tennis association, and says the team from "down under" will particulate in '.he 1927 Davis cup play. Dr. Hanz Peltzer, the German runner run-ner who recently set a new world's record for the half-mile, is reported to be even more "fussy" in his training train-ing methods than Paavo Nurml, the flying Finn. |