Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — NOTES of SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES of SPORTDOM

Princeton University has added polo to its sports. England boasts 4,000 professional association football players. ♦ • • Frank Troeh won the interstate target challenge cup at Kansas City. * • * Worcester will again oppose Philadelphia for the national‘rowing championships. • • • The Denver Rocky Mountain Ski club has purchased a ten-acre site on a mountain side on which to build a slide. * • • Walter Cox, the Circuit pilot, has seventy-two horses in training at his new home, Laurel Hall, near Indianapolis. 7 • ♦ * Jack Kearns, manager of Dempsey, also is one of those Immaculately attired youngsters who did not get any army camp chuck. • • • The plea for $150,000 in subscriptions to send the Olympic teap to Antwerp indicates that the running game is not slowing up. New York city light harness enthusiasts want a half-mile track built in Van Cortlandt park, to replace the Harlem speedway now being used by autos. • • • Sixty eigbteen-hole golf courses will be constructed in the united States during 1920, according to Herbert W. Fowler, British architect It Is estimated these links will cost $9,000,000. • • • - While the talk of a return bout between Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard is not taken very seriously In boxing circles, still it would be following precedent If the pair did meet acrain * •• • , Former service men are to have, government rue nomeßiwa act Another advantage is that they won’t have Jack Dempsey tor * neighbor.