The Bolivar County Democrat., 1921-02-05
Sporting Squibs
of All Kinds

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of All Kinds
New York city high. school boys are
to be trained In shooting with the rifle.
Philadelphia and district soccer
council includes 1,2SO registered play
ers.
Since 1908 worlds series baseball
games resulted in 26 shutbuts in 1O1
contests.
Rutgers football squad are having
weekly practice sessions throughout
the winter.
Cornell has formed a winter club to
foster skating, curling hockey. tobog-
: gaming and shedding.
Miami university, Oxford, O., will
erect a stadium modelled after Univer-
sty of Cincinnati stadium.
The Yankees and Dodgers will play
a series of contests in the spring cn
their way north for the seasons open
ing.
Russell A. Seton of Manchester,
England, has been elected captain CT
Montclair IN. J.) academy swimming
team.
Canadian Amateur Ski association
has been incorporated to promote the
sport throughout the Dominion Of
Canada.
John Fitzpatrick. assistant rowing
coach at Princeton. will instruct LIN
coin Park 3. c. Of Chicago oarsmen
again this year.
The United States Naval Academy.
Annapolis. is having new swimming
pool constructed at an estimated cost
of over s15O,OOO.
Penn intercollegiate track and field
champions have 400 candidates trying
for the various specialties under di-
rection of Lawson Robertson.
Regardless of reports that Harry
Heilmann and Done Bush of the
Tigers would he sold or traded Ty
Cobb is planning on using them in
1921.
Hannes Kohlemainen winner Of the
Olympic Marathon, Is now in New
York. He expects to return to Fin
land next spring and take up farming.
The Olympic club of San Francisco
has under consideration the making
of a permanent fund for its athletes
going to national and worlds cham
pionship sports.
The Amateur Athletic union Is made
up Of 1S district associations. having
, jurisdiction over track and field
sports, boxing. wrestling. swimming,
gymnastics and basketball
It cost Harvard $10O.S26.29 to carry
} on major sports for the year previous
to last June. The receipts were S155.-
$3.50. Minor major sports cost $780,
751.99 during the same period.
F. Lothrop. freshman who rowet,
No. in last years Harvard varsity
eight-oared shell crew. which won
from Yale, is pulling an oar in the
Oxford "a" trial eight in England.
: Among 1921 college games which
) will be between intersectional elevens
, are: Harvard VS.. Illinois. Princeton
e VS.. Chicago. Yale VS.. Ohio State, Notre
t Dame VS.. Army, Yale VS.. Georgia
Tech.
University of Washington. Seattle
: wants to row dual races with Easf1ru
varsity crews next year.
Purdue university will not he
dropped from the Western conference
games having already been booked
for basketball and football.
Since 1874 Harvard university foot
!. ball teams played 394 games winning
'. 332. losing 81 and tying II. Since
1903 Harvard has been defeated but
nine times by teams other than Yale
and Princeton and tied under the same
conditions but five times.
The Omaha club Of the Western
league has closed deal with Spring
e field of the Western Association
s whereby Shortstop Glenn McNally
: and Pitcher Paul Jones Of the Spring
: field team will get trials with Omaha
next spring.
Michigan will have tough Job All
4 ing Carl Johnson's place when the
' track season opens. Coach Farrell Il
!. already scouting for material among
D last years freshman ranks to find ath
llpteS-qood Jumpers and spriDters