Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1920 — NOTES of SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES of SPORTDOM

Charles B. Cockran sailed without Jack Dempsey’s autograph. • • • England boasts 4,000 professional association football players. • • • Stanford university wants the western Olympic games tryouts. • • • Princeton will have 16 veterans of the football squad available in 1920. • • • Philadelphia has 1,800 soccer players registered in open league maches. • • • England’s public schools ‘and colleges promote boxing competition among pupils. • * * University of Minnesota has decided to build a new stadium to replace Northrup field. * • • Miss Alexa Stirling and Walter Hagan are likely to compete in the British golf classics this year.

England wants catch-as-catch-can wrestling added to the Olympic program. • * * The Queen’s university, Kingston, Ont., will spend $70,000 on a new stadium and hockey rink. • * * It makes one’s head dizzy these days reading about the big amounts wanted by performers in various lines of sporting activity. • • * Several of the states are engaged in the gentle pastime of shooing the Dempsey-Carpentier fight away from their confines. • • * Halifax is to hold an international exposition in 1924 and wants the Olympic games as an added attraction for its success. • • * Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen and Andre Gobert, the leading. French.tennis players, are expected to visit this country this summer and compete in tourneys. ~■* • ♦ • , The University of Kansas at Lawrence, plans to model its new stadium after Princeton’s athletic field. The new Kansas stadium is to cost sl,000,000.