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Show Experts say Paavo Nurmi runs flat-footed. flat-footed. But not flat-headed. Benny Leonard held the lightweight j crown for nearly eight years. Ole Jansen, ski champion of Norway, Nor-way, holds the world's record, with a jump of 20S feet. Until he has been married a while Dempsey won't know what it means to be handled with gloves. The next meeting of the International Internation-al soccer congress will be held in Prague on May 24 and 25. The New York Yankees have signed Elmer Duggan. sensational southpaw pitcher of Brown university. A French pugilist recently knocked his opponent speechless. Nothing like that ever happened to a manager. Glenn Myatt. catcher for the Cleveland Cleve-land American league club, has accepted accept-ed terms offered by the Indians for this season. Tommy Gibbons, heavyweight title contender, lias been in the ring pastime pas-time since 1013. He has yet to be knocked off his feet. Harold Wendler, halfback of the Ohio State football team for the last two seasons, did not re-enter school after tlie holidays. American league umpires have gone into training for the opening of the season, working as hard to condition themselves as fhe players. Lucien VInez, the new lightweight champion of Europe, is a painter by trade. Like Criqui, he is a product of Belleville, tlie slums of Paris. Joe Bush likely will be relegated to the outfield when his twirling days are over. The noted red-shirted hurler batted .330 in 1924 In 00 games. Eddie Martin, new bantamweight champion, is a crack baseball player. Martin as a kid aspired lo be a big leaguer. He ! iked to' play shortstop. The llio'lingliain club has fixed .lmv '..'0. 24 nl 27 as the dales for the matches In Loudon between the United States and British army polo tennis. A "little world series." to he played between the American association and Pacific Coast league pennant winners, lias been arranged for a five-year term. University of California cinder path has been changed to sandy clay, similar simi-lar to the one in Stanford stadium. It is expected to be faster than the old track. Herbert Bryan, captain of the Oglethorpe Ogle-thorpe university team last spring, lias been signed by Hie Pirates for a tria'. He is a catcher and did well In semi-pro semi-pro ball last summer. McNcely. Washington, and Lamar, .Athletics, two recruit out fielders' last season, busted the old HL-ate for the same average ..".30. McNeely was in 43 games and Lamar in S7. According to British sport writers who attended the exhibition games between be-tween the Giants and White Sox In London, baseball has no chance of becoming be-coming a national spurt In England. Osborne, of the Illinois Athlcth-club, Athlcth-club, smashed the world's indoor r-"--ord for the high jump in the nnni:;i! Kansas City Athletic indoor track meet by clearing the bar at 6 feet Inches. Al Mauioux. the pitcher recently sent to Minneapolis by the Yankees, ha" notified Mike Kelly that he will retire from tlie game. He has asked the Mir, neapolis boss to put his name on tlie voluntary retired list. Maiuoux figures that he Is a ten-year man in the ma iors and that may be tLe reason fo. Ills action. |