U.S. SPORTS ATTENDANCE
More spectators attended basketball games than any other sport in the United States last year. Figures published by the magazine “This Week” shows that of a total 318,750000 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 totaled 57,000,000; horse racing, 40,000,000; boxing, 30,000,000; ice hockey, 8,000,000; auto racing, 4,000,000; track and field meets, 3,000,000; golf, 900,000, and tennis, 850,000.
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Grey River Argus, 5 October 1949, Page 6
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93U.S. SPORTS ATTENDANCE Grey River Argus, 5 October 1949, Page 6
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