Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1920 — SPORTING NOTES [ARTICLE]

SPORTING NOTES

Tommy Bums has opened a gymnasium in London. • • Things are pretty dull these days in pugilistic ranks. * • • Colgate university has added soccer and lacrosse to.lts sports program. •• • • Massachusetts Golf association has rated 6,459 players on its handicap list New York fairs and race meetings distributed $i;335,000 last year, which was $400,000 more than any previous year. • • • Victoria, B. Ck, wants ratepayers to sanction's municipal golf course by approving the issuing of bonds for $20,000. . • • • Mias Detroit V. is on Its way from AlgonaA to New York to be shipped to England for the Harmsworth trophy race. • • • Eleven pacers have records faster than tyo minutes for a mile, one of that 'number being a mare, two geldings and the others stallions. - • Hannes Kolehmainen may be a veteran at the running game, but he can stilb cover a whole lot of ground in faster time than the youngsters. The American Legion of Illinois has formed- a state commission to look after athletics, among the soldiers. Frank V. Flannery of Chicago heads the committee of ex-service men.