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Show There are about ten women polo teams in northwestern Canada. Jimmy Foxx has played outfield, first, third and caught and pitched. Howard college will play Havana in Havana December 1. Last year How ard won 2U to 6. The Mid-West Football league Is represented by more than fifty teams In the United States. The University of Idaho football team will cover (5,000 miles In four games away this season. Cleveland Bowling association lias l,2i'..'i regular teams and 10S booster teams eulisted In lis folds. Jack Cameron, young Canadian golfer, is the first amateur ever to win Ihe open chnmplonsliipif Quebec. The first announcement of I'y Cobb's retirement from baseball was primed In a New York newspaper In Julv un s. After playing golf for 17 years, Wilbur Wil-bur Loos, professional, made Ills first liole-lu one recently at Blowing Rock, in North Carolina. The Pirates have landed another collegian In Ralph Krickson, southpaw pitcher, who first attracted notice at Ihe University of Idaho. Frank Shields of New York. Junior national singles tennis champion Is now at Roxhury school, Cheshlrt. Conn., preparing to gain admission to Yale. "Smoky Joe" Williams, fifty-two year-old pitcher of the Baltimore Black Sox, recently hurled a no-hlt mv run game in Akron, Ohio, facing only 211 halters. The Brooklyn Cricket club, champion cham-pion of Metropolitan and the New York and New Jersey leagues, ended Its 11)28 season with 12 wins, one draw and one loss. lloneyboy Flnlgan, Boston light weight, has been beaten sly times dur Ing his ring career and each time he has evened the score by gelling Ihe victor Into another bout. Two runs totaling 20H yards was the outstanding feature of Gil Welch's work at Pittsburgh last year He ran a West Virginia klckolT hick for lnfi yards and a Nebraska kick off for U8 yards. |