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giate sports event ever held in the
United States?
When was ice hockey first played
In the United States? What town
produced the first amateur team?
What great prizefghter, fearing
that he would be poisoned, cooked
his own food for four days before
battling for a championship?
When were women first permitted
to compete in Olympic track and
field events?
Who were the members of the
first United States Davis cup team,
where, and when were the first
matches played?
What prize fight weight class has
had its limits stretched widest and
changed most often in this country?
What, probably, was the highest
box Office price ever charged for a
wrestling match?
How big and how old was Bobby
Jones when he competed in his first
National Golf championship? When?
Where?
Who was the first American to
win a modern Olympic champion
ship?
What was the "turtleback" play
in football, and when was it first
used?
Oh yes, of course, the answers:
The Yale-Harvard boat race at
Lake Winnipesaukee, N. H., on
August %, 1852. The superintendent
of the Boston, Concord and Mon
treal railroad suggested the race
and paid all expenses for the crews.
He was the prophet of the vast mod
ern tribe of gO-getters, who COM
bine business and sport to the we'll
publicized profit of all concerned,
and his aim was to acquaint the
world with the beauties of the White
Mountain region. The build-up was
successful. A large crowd was pres
emit and Franklin Pierce, candidate
for the presidency of these United
States, made swell speech.
Two Canadian professional teams
moter to introduce ice hockey into
this country during the winter of
1898. There was so little ice
and interest that the thing was
flop. During the next winter Boston
organized an amateur team which,
fer the same reasons, Jared as sadly
as did the pros.
While training in New Orleans for
his fight with Paddy Ryan in Feb
ruary, 1882, John l.. Sullivan be-
came sOrely suspicious both of his
opponent and of his best friends.
So he became his own chef and the
best evidence that his cooking did
him no harm is contained i'm the
fact that he kay0ed Ryan in the
ninth round, thus becoming heavy
weight champion Of America.
During the games at Amsterdam
in 1928. Previous to that, though,
they had competed in such other
sports as tennis, figure skating,
swimming and gymnastics.
Dwight F. Davis, Holcombe
Ward, Malcolm D. Whitman. Long
wood Cricket Club Massachusetts,.
August z, 1900.
Bantamweight. It started at los
pounds, was raised to liz and then
to 116 before reaching its present
limit of 118.
The first Hackenschmidt-G Otch
bout, held in Chicago in 1908, SO in
trigued the financial leaders that
they cOughed up $40 q copy for the
best ringSide seats.
Fourteen years and six months
old. Five feet four inches tall.
Weight 165 pounds. Merton Cricket
Club, Philadelphia, 1916.
The first event to be completed
at Athens in 1896 was the hop, step
and jump Preferred to in newspa-
pers of the day as the triple
junp'O. 1t was won by James B.
Connolly of South Boston, who re-
signed from Harvard to compete in
the event and who later became
distinguished writer of sea tales.
A mass play in which the eleven
men Of the attacking team formed
a solid oval, usually directly oppo-
site a defending tackle. When the
ball was snapped into the interior
of the oval the mass rolled out
around the end, thus unwinding the
runner into a clear field. 1t was first
used in the Harvard-Yale contest of
1893.
Richard Tam, Stanford's varsity
second baseman, is the first jap
anese in the schools history to play
on a major sports team. Clark
Griffith is a stickler for fiat foot
pitching. He believes it is more
conducive to control than taking the
pitching stride on the toe. Walter
Vance, member of Northwestern's
freshman basketball team this sea-
son, is brother of Norm Vance,
who has just wound up three years
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