Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT

There will be no Michigan State baseball league next season. During his baseball career, Walter Brodie has not missed a game through sickress or disability. The ’varsity crew of Univergity of Pennsylvania begins training under Coach Ellis Ward about Jan. 1. “Tommy” Ryan has accepted an offer of $2,500 to fight George Green in San Francisco, before the Olympic Club. President Pat Powers, of the Eastern league, says that four of his clubs made between $5,000 and $15,000 last season. The Chicago ball club will-play Sunday games until the city of Chicago- or the State of Illinois decides such a practice illegal. The District Attorney of Kings County has decided that Corbett and Fitzsimmons will not be allowed to bring off a fight at Coney Island. Dr. W. S. McDowell, of Chicago, who has repeatedly competed for the Diamond Sculls at Henley, without success, states that he intends to try again next year. Mr. Lehmann, the crack English rower and trainer, is much encouraged over the work of the Yale crews, and thinks that the men have done some decidedly level rowing. The reported intention of bicycle manufacturers in this country to equip all of their ’97 wheels with brakes, unless otherwise requested by individual buyers, is very gratifying. Barry, the oarsman, signed articles in London, on Wednesday, for a match with “Jake” Gaudaur, for the sculling championship of the world and £250 a side, to take place on the Thames in Aprii next.