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Show I jporfingfouibsl . The Yale-Princeton series was started In 1873. G5 years ago. Golf has been officially recognized as an "athletic sport" In France. . A London (Eng.) soccer club may visit Argentine next summer for a series of games. Al Lang will manage Hymle Miller, national amateur flyweight champion, In the professional ranks. More than 7,300 thoroughbreds were In training this year on tracks throughout the United States. Arllc Mucks, the old shot putter, Is now a football official. He stnnds 6 feet 6 Inches and weighs 200 pounds. e Johnny Ertle, who won the bantamweight ban-tamweight boxing champlonbhip when he weighed 113 pounds, now tips the beam at 160. The battery men of the Brooklyn Robins will report at Clearwater, Fla., Murch third, and the rest of the squad a week loter. e 'Tossing the caber" Is still one of the most thrilling events In sporting meets in Scotland. The ancient game le hplri nnniintlv. A new division of the A. A. U. would provide for championships In the East the Middle West, the West and the Far West. Turkey la preparing to go In vigorously vigor-ously for athletics, beginning with state-supervised gymnastic training, after the Swedish and German models With the retirement of Jack Hownrd and Johnny Callahan, veteran American Amer-ican Jockeys, Bill Kelsny. thirty-seven. Is the oldest pilot now riding. In point of service. The I'.mves got a butch of good nicknames, and well known ones, for use this yeur. Hnnkus-I'iinkiis Gowdy. ".lawn" Kvers the Ctab, und Itubblt Mnranv-Ille are back, " , Hosing Is flotirlslilug In Shnnglml.-which Shnnglml.-which Is one of the most cosmopolitan cities In the world. In a recent six-bout six-bout show, nine different nationalities were represeuied among the boxers. Since the Dixie slakes, a I'imllco racing feature, was revived In l!)24. the winners have been Chacolct Sarazen twice, and Mars. A greut nice is predicted pre-dicted for the opening day al Plmllco George Rothner, who held the lightweight light-weight wrestling championship of the world for 20 years, met all sizes of matnien np to nearly S00 pounds al though he never weighed mure than 135 pounds. Veteran professional golfers of New York are planning an organization In which those who have served si courses Id this country and abroad for j twenty years or more will bo eligible for membership. " The light harness racing champion of 11)28 Is the Cnnadlun-bred pacer Winnipeg, whose mile In 1 :57 over the Fort Miami course at Toledo stamped him as the greatest pacing gelding of all time. The SL Louis Curdlnnls announce the release on option of Heine Sand, veteran shortstop, to Rochester, N. Y- of the International leucue. The mother of Dr. J Colin Gregory, British tenuis player who came here for the national singles, was the first female tennis champion of Yorkshire. Rob Zuppke says girls will play football when they want to have broken noses, dislocated shoulders, and so forth. That might be s thought for the beauty parlors to promote. |