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Football and the Daily Dozen as healthbuilders must welcome another sport to their numbers. Doubleday Page and Co. announced the publication of A Pocket Bridge Book ($1.00) by Walter Camp, under whose outstretched arm the health of the nation is upbuilded. " You can't be a 'dub' if you read this book," guarantees the blurb. "Mr. Camp is an expert...
...physical training course for Freshmen will start on Thursday, when the initial meeting of Hygiene will be held at 1.05 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. The program of compulsory exercise will begin the following week with all the fall sports. Squash will not be considered a regular fall sport until after the tennis season, but Freshmen out for managership competitions will be allowed to play at the Linden Street courts from 12 to 1 o'clock, and they will be allowed to continue to play there throughout the season to save the time of walking to Soldiers Field...
Last week women athletes ran faster, leaped higher and broader than ever before in modern times. At the Oxo Sport Grounds, near London, were held the first English women's national track championships. Miss E. W. Edwards dashed 220 yards in 27 seconds, a world's record. Miss Mary Lines again stood out as Europe's, if not the world's, leading woman track star by winning her four events-100-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 120-yard hurdles, running broad jump. At Brussels she once before conquered four fields in one day and was dubbed...
There was such bickering over the financial arrangements that various Englishmen complained that Ben Irish, owner, was spelling sport with a dollar sign. They also averred that the race is a plan to deprive England of the breeding value of Papyrus by selling him across the ocean. Irish has already refused $200,000 for the horse...
...rounds to a decision. Tex Rickard is the promoter. Dempsey will enter $300,000 in his profit column when the fight is finished; Firpo will receive 12 1/2 % of the receipts with a guaranteed minimum of $100,000. The winner will hold the most valuable asset in professional sport ? the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Wrote Firpo in a New York newspaper : " I am not such a big fool that I do not have respect for the champion of the world. But then, too, I am not such a big fool that I do not know that...