INDOOR BASKETBALL POPULAR
ATTENDANCE AT U.S.A SPORTS FIXTURES
Mere spectators attended indoor basketball games than any other sport in the United States last year, figures show that of a total of 318.750,000 paid admissions to the 1948 contests of ten popular sports in the United States, 33 per cent., or 105,000,000 were for basketball contests. Baseball games attracted the next largest number of spectators, with 70,000,000 paid admissions. Football tickets sold totalled 57,000,000; horse racing. 40,000,000; boxing, 30,000,000; ice hockev, 8,000,000,000; auto racing, 4 000,000; track and field meets, 3,000,000; golf, 900,000, and tennis, 850,000.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 15117, 28 October 1949, Page 5
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