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Show Sporting Squibs of All Kinds University of Maryland will add lawn tennis to Its sports calendar. Mile, Suzanne Lenglen of France has held the world's tennis title five years. 'Tin going to forget I ever was a fighter." Jess Wlllard. That ought to bo easy. Battling Slkl's real name Is Louis Phal. He was born in Senegal, September Sep-tember 16, 1897. Boston Blue, in the year 1818, is generally gen-erally conceded to have been the first three-minute trotter. . . . Four-fifths of the athletic games played throughout the world had their origin in Great Britain. Buffalo may not be represented in the National three-cushion billiard league during the 1923-4 season. ' Duke Kahanamoku, the noted Hawaiian Ha-waiian swimmer, at the age of thirty-three thirty-three is displaying wonderful skill and is now wearing the colors of the Los Angeles A. C. Horseback swimming is the popular sport at the summer session at the University of Wisconsin. The only equipment necessary is a bathing suit, a horse and bridle. Charleston, S. C, Is credited with having been the first place where golf was played on the American continent. conti-nent. The game was regularly organ- lzeu m xie. Bernon S. Prentice recently won the tennlsh singles championship of the Seabright (N. J) Lawn Tennis and Cricket club for the fifteenth time John Kuck, eighteen years old, a Jtv nior in the high school at Wilson, Kan., who won the .highest individual points at the national interscholastlc track meat this summer at Chicago, Is a remarkable re-markable athlete. Kuck has never been coached. |