Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1920 — GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

The Indiana University A. A. cleared $22,500 on football last season. Princeton University athletes will engage In seven indoor track meets. Princeton will have sixteen veterans of the football squad available in 1920. • • * Yale swimmers have reigned supreme in collegiate circles the last ten years. * * * Racing may be resumed in Canada next spring. Present plans include 84 racing days. I • * * New York university has dropped wrestling as an intercollegiate sport for the season. * • ♦ • ; —- Queen’s university, Kingston, Ont., will spend $70,000 on a new stadium and hockey rink. • * * New York State American Legion has applied for admission into the Amateur Athletic union.

, The decathlon and the 56-pound weight throw have been dropped from the Olympic games. * • • Amateur sports are booming in Sweden, while professional sports are given little encouragement. * * * Hegewisch, 111., is out. Battling Nelson is to leave the old town and mak.e his future home in California. * * * Jack Dempsey has been denied a hearing by the American Legion in connection with his exemption during the war. • * * Pal Moore is for a busy campaign and hopes to make $50,000 In the next few months by plying his trade in the ring. ♦ • ♦ The professional billiard championship of England will start April 5 in London. Melbourne Inman, holder of the title, will not compete. • * * The management of the University of California baseball team has accepted June 2 to 9 as dates for games with Harvard at Cambridge. Oxford and Cambridge may send representatives to the University of Pennsylvania relay carnival to take place at Franklin field, Philadelphia.