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Show Roy Clark, heavyweight boxer of Minneapolis, wears shoes size 15'4. A stadium Is to be constructed at Rologna, Italy, to seat 00,000 spectators. specta-tors. Bast season Ruth made only C triples against 47 home runs and 30 doubles. The game of billiards has more actual ac-tual participants than any other sport In the United States. The first golf balls were made of wood. Later leather balls stuffed with feathers were Introduced. Blind for 17 years, Ferd Fabler of Baltimore, Md., has become a better-than-average duckpin bowler. A new element has usserted Itself In baseball. The latest group of players play-ers Is being referred to as the Ananias club. Introduced in Germany In 1000 records rec-ords show that there are now 1,450,-572 1,450,-572 registered soccer players In the country. Bill Coles of Brnntrord, Ontario, Is the first foreigner to hold the amateur bicycle racing championship of the United States. A too sensitive nature Is said to be the reason why Manager John He-Grnw- of the Giants weakened on Frankie Friscli. Football, hockey and rifle shooting are the only sports which developed a profit for the Yale Atliletlc association associa-tion last season. The Intercollegiate Baseball league of Tokyo Is the largest of Its kind In Japan. As nainy as 35,000 faus are seen at a single gain!'. Sir Arthur Balfour is one of the few golfers known who can play a round of golf In less than his age. He often turns In a card under SO. For the first time In many years a perfect game was recently bowled In Seattle by Glenn Wllklns, who delivered de-livered 12 consecutive "strikes." The sport of curling Is popular In every part of Canada, and the city of Winnipeg is generally regarded as the world center in this winter sport. Otto Borcliert, president of the Milwaukee Mil-waukee club of the American association, associ-ation, sold peanuts In the grandstands when a boy. He later was assigned to caring for the bats. Cy Williams, hardhitting Philly fielder, who Is now thirty-eight years old, faces his sixteenth season in the big leagues without ever having been on a pennant-winning team. Cavalry ollicers of the French army captured '218 cups In various horse shows In Canada, Belgium, Fngland, Franco, Holland, Italy, Switzerland and the United States In l!V2(i. One hundred and seventy-six world champions lost tlielr crowns during the last year. Seventy-one titles were successfully defended In .'HI branches of amateur and nrnfosslonul sports Fred Bralnard, outfielder of the Dallas Steers In the Texas league, Is now a full-Hedged oil magnate, n .'100-harrel .'100-harrel gusher having been brought In on land owned by him. A mammoth ari'iia Is planned In Brooklyn, N. Y.. to cost between $5,-(MlO.OOO $5,-(MlO.OOO nnd $0,000,000, and will have a Healing capacity of between '2(1,000 and .'(0,000. The building will be dedicated dedi-cated to all sorts of sports. Lou Gehrig, teammate of Babe Ruth, was Bum's greatest rival for total bases In the American league. Ruth led will) HOTt. Including 47 home runs. 5 triples, IK) doubles anri 102 singles. Gehrig was second with u tolul base record of ItJ 1. |