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Show Bobby Jones stiil remains above par with the golfing world. A decathlon is any combination of ten athletic events.. Such as putting up a screen door. Members of the New York homing commission have to attend every fight That isn't a Job it's a punis! 'enL Mr. Heeney did not win the fight, but he certainly came as near to earning earn-ing his money as any one could come and live. A Philadelphia boxer has taken the name of i'irpo. He is Joe (Kid) Firpo a junior lightweight who has been quite a sensation. "Fifteen minutes after pulling on a pair of your socks." wrote the sarcastic sarcas-tic golfer to the prominent knittinp concern, "I made my first hole In one." Our ancestors were a queer lot. paying sometimes as much as eight dollars to hear Jenny Und sing. Instead In-stead of forty to watch heavyweights waltz. To Clarence De. Mar, marathoner, goes tiie honor of being t fie veteran of America's 1028 Olympic team. He Is the only survivor of the 1012 brigade. brig-ade. Due to the excitement of making a hole-in-one on the itolf course at Klge-inont, Klge-inont, N. J., Paul T. Bloodsworth, aged t wen t.v -eight, of Hornell, N. Y., fell over dead. William C. Vogt. expert angler and champion easier, can snap a pipe from the mouth of a person fifty feet away with a has.-fly attached to a fly line and rod. (Ih ! Fast Is Fast and West Is West and It Is nuled In Helen Wills' new book that the word "nut." ns applied to a tenuis player In Fngland, means she Is good at It. Members of the Indianapolis Cun club have an unwritten tradition that a contest of pome kind be held every Saturday at the traps, regardless of weal her conditions. ftetlred four years ago. the thoroughbred thor-oughbred half roller Doctor Kelly, said to be twenty eight years old. Is still demonstrating Father Time has not r ihbed him of all of his speed. Jack Caywood. heavyweight boxer of Fort Crook, Noli., claims th,i bait cut reach of any fighter In his class Ills rear1). s y Inch's, pint an lrn-1 Khorl of Ii.i.' of Hie former heavy .weight cha tnpion. .Jos". Wlllanl. |