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Show Providence college has added Ice hockey to its varsity sports program. Soccer football Is now played in every country in Europe and in South America. A new country club has opened near London that puts forty-five as the age limit on members. I. M. Shiver, University of Georgia end, was elected captain of the Bulldogs Bull-dogs for the 1927 season. William Dendinger of Coleridge, Neb., has been selected captain of Creighton university football team for 1927. The Army-Navy football game In Chicago surpassed all previous records for Hie sport. One hundred and six thousand persons paid $S40,000 to see the game. Little Hiram college scored but one touchdown all season. It was made against Otterbein. Not a game did Hiram win, although a couple were close battles. Acquisition of Clifford Knox, catcher, catch-er, from Wichita Falls, Texas, and release re-lease of Frank Herrera. utility infield-er, infield-er, to Mobile is announced by the Boston Red Sox. Failure of Sir Thomas Llpton to file his contemplated challenge has precluded pre-cluded possibility of an International race for the America's cup next summer, sum-mer, yachtsmen say. Football paid the University of Pennsylvania a profit of $?,! 4.f.")6. according ac-cording to a statement released by university authorities at the end of the current season. A perennial thrill in the sport world is the spectacle of a New Vork all-America all-America picker trying to decide between be-tween an Alabama halfback and one from Southern California. Edward J. Crofoot of Mason City. Iowa, for two years quarterback on the University of Wisconsin football team, was elected oaptnjn of the 1927 grid team at the annual grid banquet. If any proof is needed that the weather during the past summer was one of the worst in the hisiory of baseball, base-ball, it may be found in the fact that the Boston Nationals were compelled to postpone 24 games. ' "Umpires." say Bill Klein, veteran National league arbiter, "unlike hall players and men In other pursuits, get belter with age: It is a matter of experience." ex-perience." Klein has been In the major ma-jor leagues for 22 years. Among the many records that crashed in the past gridiron season was one that pleased every person in the vast crowds that stormed eastern stadia. Not a single major game was played in stormy wen! her. More than ."0 per cent of all women in universities in Germany participate regularly in one or more sports, the most popular lvlm: track and field events, gym won;, swimming and tennis. |