Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1910 — SPORTING FACTS AND FANCIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPORTING FACTS AND FANCIES

London has two municipal golf courses; Brighton and Nottingham, one each; Edinburgh, ten, and Glasgow, three. If the University of Chicago baseball team opened the eyes of Japan fans what will Jimmy McAleer’s AllStar nine do in 1911? Major Delmar (1:69%) and George G. (2:05%) are board and needed exercises as errand horses at Ardmar farm, the home of Bingen Jockey Henry Horner, who rode 38 winners out of 54 mounts at St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, has returned to America. He will ride in the Czar’s domains next summer for a salary of $5,000. William Fife, the English yacht designer, has accepted a contract to build a racing schooner, capable of defeating the American-built -yawl Westward, which won at Kiel and Cowes. The prospective owner’s name would not be divulged by Fife. Pitcher Cole has been signed up for three years at an increased salary. The fact should Inspire the youth of the land to emulation. But while it is true that every American boy cannot become a great baseball pitcher some may fall just short of the mark and be presidents.—Chicago Daily News. —’’Doc" White’s baseball quartet of Sheckard, Hofman, Joss and himself will not be on the vaudeville stage this winter. Wives of the players thought they ought to hear their husbands singing around home part of the year and the argument won. White says Sheckard was too bashful, and gives that as the real reason.