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Show Calcutta, India, has had a golf club since 1829. The United States has held the Davis cup since 1920. Charles W. Burns of San Francisco was elected captain of the Wesleyan soccer team. Steve Terkes has resigned as manager man-ager of Harrisburg, New York and Pennsylvania league. Mike Gibbons has turned author and is writing the history of his ring career for a magazine. . The Thompson brothers of Canada, Frank W. J., Nicol, Stanley and Matt, are all golf champions. Football stars are numbered, but members of the faculty are still allowed al-lowed to go about incog. The rule limiting 11 men of a team on the field should bar "Red" Grange, for he is equal to about 7. John Lavan has been signed to manage man-age the Kansas City American association asso-ciation club again next year. The first western intercollegiate baseball championship was won by the University of Michigan in 1SS2. Fred Lake, former manager of the Boston Nationals, has been named assistant as-sistant baseball coach at Harvard. Hector MacDonald, Orange, N. J., has been elected captain of the University Uni-versity of Pennsylvania rowing squad. Helen Wills, national and Olympic tennis champion, was nineteen years of age on October 6. She is a student stu-dent at University of California. A bowling match between Johnny Voorhees of Brooklyn and Jimmy Smith of Milwaukee is a treat in store 1(,r NVw York fans in the near future. I Batters with fat averages do not alwavs shine in the world series. Stan-lev Stan-lev iVirris for instance, not a great hitter, won three games through his 1 batting efforts. Baseball fans as well as politicians are now agreed that, whatever differences dif-ferences of opinion may arise in matters mat-ters of policy, there Is no questioning the fact that Calvin Coolidge Is a wonderful mascot. |