Profits On Lames
i COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 26.—Ohio .State
I university made net profits of $174,250
I on its seven-game > football schedule
last year, according to figures an
nounced today.
Gross football receipts for 1923 were
$275,571, as compared with $310,984 for
the preceding season.
! Visiting teams last year took away
! $83,074 ki guarantees. Ohio State re
ceived $85,402 for its three games away
from home.
More Thoroughbreds
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.~Breeding of
thoroughbred horses is increasing, ac
cording to statistics compiled by the
Jockey club.
In 1923, 2,648 foals were registered, or
383 more than in 1922, and 908 more
than in 1913.
Natives of the South Sea islands place
n glass jar containing pieces of mate
rial. needles and thread at the graves
of the dead so that when the sleeper
can make his own clothes.
Lanier To Play
Simpson Hi
At B. A. C.
Wiser Quintet Returns
To City After Defeat
By Sidney Lanier
The Simpson Purple Tornado re
turned Saturday from its invasion of
south Alabama after having been tem
porarily reduced to a zephyr by the
Sidney Lanier Poets, but returning
wiser and better off for the trip.
The Tornado left the Magic City
with the idea that it was the superior
of any of the teams to be met, and
this idea was still further strength
ened after the game with Greenville,
the Techsters easily winning from the
team which had humbled the Poets by
doubling the score the week previous.
Th^ Tornado, look jug for an easy win
from Lanier, struck a wind-brake ami
was humbled.
