Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 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. L* , » The Denver Rocky Mountain Ski club has purchased a ten-acre site on a mountain side on which to build a slide. » » Waiter Cox, the Grand Circuit pilot, has seventy-two horses in training at his new home, Laurel Hall, near Indianapolis. • • * Jack Kearns, manager of Dempsey, also to 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 team 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 Cortiandt park, to replace the Harlem speedway now being used by autos. ' ; • 77 • ♦ • Sixty eighteen-hole golf courses will be constructed in the United States during 1920, according to Herbert W. Fowler, British architect. It is «ttmated these links will cost $9,000,000. * * • While the calk 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 • • • Former service men are to have prior rights tat * neighbor. •