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Show iiliiiili The American welterweight fighting limit is 1-15 pounds ; the British is 147. Jess Willard was the heaviest fighter fight-er who ever won the world championship. champion-ship. The American people spend no less than $5,000,000 annually for equipment in all sports. The American golf player uses an average of about 200 balls per season, or around 1,000,000,000 balls for all players. Boxing In the District of Columbia would be legalized under a hill introduced intro-duced by Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas. Henry R. Wood, '27, of New Bedford, Bed-ford, has been elected captain of the Harvard varsity wrestling team for next year. A total of $222,740.S6 was collected in New York state last year in taxes on boxing and wrestling shows and fees for licenses. The American Trotting association reports 1,400 race tracks in use in this country devoted to light harness horse racing and at only 50 speculation prevails. pre-vails. Gordpn Locke, all-American back at Iowa a few years ago, will succeed Fritz Holtkamp, an Ohio State alumnus, alum-nus, as coach of Western Reserve's football team this fall. Raymond C. Clark of Rochester, N. Y., acting captain of the Colgate university uni-versity basket ball team the past season, sea-son, was unanimously elected to the captaincy for next year. - . Kenneth C. Ballanfyne, '27, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was re-elected captain cap-tain of the Dartmouth swimming team at a meeting of the loiter men. Bal-lantyne Bal-lantyne swim's the dashes. . Maj. John L. Griflith, commissioner of athletics of the western conference, will give a two weeks' course in athletic ath-letic organization at the Oregon Aggies Ag-gies summer school beginning July G. For the first time in the history of the sport a motorcycle king will be crowned in America this year. The award will he made on a point basis as a result of an extensive revival of the sport this summer. |