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Show p or t ing gombs Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion, is twenty-nine yeam old. Los Angeles girl athletes have taken up lacrosse. Wrestling on mules Is a popular and amusing sport of American soldiers sol-diers at Governors island, N. Y. Broadway Jones and Bagenbaggage, two of B. R. Bradley's Idle Hour farm racers, have been retired to the stud. Abe Mitchell, noted British golfer-and golfer-and member of the British Ryder cup team captured the London Dally Mail golf tournament for professionals with an aggregate of 294. Downfall of a Yale varsity eight for the first time In five years leaves the United States naval academy the only crew in the East that has not yet tasted defeat. Arthur Duffy of Georgetown university uni-versity was the first man to cover 100 yards in 9 3-5 seconds, a mark that only three others have been able to equal. Harvard and Army football teams will clash in the fall of 1928 for the first time in 18 years, it was announced an-nounced here recently. The game was set for October 20 at Cambridge. The starting tape at all race tracks of the Canadian Racing association will be raised to a height about level with the noses of the horses instead of at their feet. Last year's play-off in the metropolitan metro-politan open golf tournament between MacDonnld Smith and Gene Sarazen, which required 5-1 holes, was the long- est In golf history. j ... Nearly every member of the Cana- . dlan Lacrosse club team that won the junior championship In 1SS9, 1S0O and 1S91, was present at a recent reunlor in Toronto. |