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Racing at San Antonio, Texas, has be-
and the feature is n race at one mile,
fourth on the card.
The Australian tennis players won the
Dwight f. Davis international cup, final
ly defeating Messrs. Wright and Alex
ander, the American contestants.
Myron Curtis, who has coached the
Carleton football team for the past two
seasons, has resigned his position and
will return East and go into business.
Harry Slower, manager Of the track
at Butte, Mont, says he has advices to
the effect that there will be no legislation
against racing in that State this winter.
At Frankfort, KY, Justice Lassing, in
the Court of Appeals, rendered a decision
giving horsemen a sweeping victory, hold
ing that betting or wagering on a horse
strued as a felony.
Jem Driscoll, claiming to be feather
weight champion of England, knocked out
Charley Griffin, featherweight champion
of Australia, in the eleventh round of a
bout which proved the best boxing exhibi-
ton seen in Boston in many years.
No football game will be played be-
tween Iowa and Minnesota next fall and
negotiations have been practically ended,
as the Gophers insist that the game be
played at Minneapolis and Iowa insists
that it be played at Iowa City or not at
all.
Alfredo De Gro of Cuba is the three
cushion billiard champion of the world,
having won the third block of the match
with Thomas A. Hucston of st. Louis by
the score of so to So. The final score
for the three blocks game is, De Orc $50,
HUeston 1O1.
Now that Demarest and some of the
other stars are out of amateur billiards,
| owing to the showing up in Chicago, it
should be possible to arrange an unusu-
| ally interesting amateur tourney, for the
lesser players will have a chance now they
did not have before.
Negotiations are on to take the Cornell
Yale and Harvard rowing crews to Seat.
tie during the Observation-Disclosures e1
position next summer. 1t is planned tc
hold at least one regatta on Lake Wash.
ington each month during the exposition
which opens June 1 and closes Oct. 16.
The State board of control Of high
| school athletics will not decide on the
place for the annual meet of the lows
high schools. but the different institutions
will be given an opportunity to choose
the location of the big yearly event. De.
| Moincs expects to capture the meet.
A fine row has been stirred up in base
| ball circles by statements from Umpire.
| KLEIN and tombstone that an attemp
was made to bride them at the decidin.
game between New York and Chicago
at the New York Polo grounds. Ma
tional League officials are investigator.
and prosecutions may follow.
Harry Pulliam was unanimously. elect
ed president of the National Raseha!
League at the annual meeting of the as
ISOLATION. John Heidler was reelected
to the secretaryship.
Freeport wants to stay in the Wiscon
sin-Illinois League. A committee is nov
busy in the Illinois city raising the diff
ference between $500 already subscrib
cd and the total $500 deficit.
The crowds attending football game
are increasing every year. An %attendanc
of 10000 or more at big games is not un
common this year. The smaller colleg
ra mes are drawing prop%ortionately larg
. crowds.