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<p>Holes in a golf course must be 4.25 inches in diameter, and at least 4 inches deep and a standard golf course contains 18 holes between 100 and 600 yards length.</p>
<p>In tennis there are most numbers of officials compare to the number of players like in tennis tournaments there are 13 officials in regards of two players.</p>
<p>The spots on dice are called &#8220;pips. And the word &#8216;pip&#8217; commonly used for a &#8216;spot&#8217; or a &#8216;speck&#8217;.</p>
<p>Try to add all the numbers on a roulette wheel which is usually played in the casinoand cosidered as easiest casion game, that is 1through 36, you get &#8217;666&#8242;, the biblical number of fallen man.</p>
<p>The world&#8217;s highest cricket ground is in Chail (HP), India, which has highest altitude of 2250 Meter of above sea level.</p>
<p>Since 1896 from the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia are the pnly two nations whose athletes have taken parts in every Olympic Games.</p>
<p>In 1935, Jesse Owens broke 4 world records in 45 minutes</p>
<p>Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world.</p>
<p>Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.</p>
<p>Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.</p>
<p>More than 100 million people hold hunting licences.</p>
<p>The record for the most major league baseball career innings is held by Cy Young, with 7,356 innings.</p>
<p>The first instance of global electronic communications took place in 1871 when news of the Derby winner was telegraphed from London to Calcutta in under 5 minutes.</p>
<p>In 1898, one of the first programmes to be broadcasted on radio was a yacht race that took place in British waters.</p>
<p>Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.</p>
<p>Korfball is the only sport played with mixed teams, consisting of 4 men and 4 women.</p>
<p>The Major League Baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.</p>
<p>About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.</p>
<p>A baseball ball has exactly 108 stitches, a cricket ball has between 65 and 70 stiches.</p>
<p>A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 642 stitches.</p>
<p>The baseball home plate is 17 inches wide.</p>
<p>Basketball and rugby balls are made from synthetic material. Earlier, pigs&#8217; bladders were used as rugby balls.</p>
<p>Golf the only sport played on the moon &#8211; on 6 February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball.</p>
<p>Bill Klem served the most seasons as major league umpire &#8211; 37 years, starting in 1905. He also officated 18 World Series.</p>
<p>The oldest continuous trophy in sports is the America&#8217;s Cup. It started in 1851, with Americans winning for a straight 132 years until Australia took the Cup in 1983.</p>
<p>Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.</p>
<p>A badminton shuttle easily travels 180 km/h (112 mph).</p>
<p>Ferenc Szisz from Romania, driving a Renault, won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France in 1906.</p>
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