Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1910 — SPORTING GOSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPORTING GOSSIP

Many of the greatest baseball stars come from the farm, and it is not surprising that they go back after retiring from the game. Trees and herbaceous plants are to be planted around Comiskey's new baseball garden. It is the ambition of every prise fighter nowadays to grab a championship and get into vaudeville. Sam Langford, the knock-out pugilist, says he is tired of the stage. There is too much sham and not enough reality about such life to sat- ‘ isfy Sam’s aesthetic taste for the beautiful. A westerner is to be head of. the United States Golf association. Hackenschmidt’s declaration that he would meet Gotch, should the real world’s champion emerge from retirement, has stirred up the wrestling fans from Missouri. Hackenschmldt wants to fly in an airship. He is not afraid of flying falls. Fielder Jones, former manager of the White Sox, is reported as saying that he has no intention of returning to baseball at present and that he prefers to live on his fruit farm in Oregon. If they can hold cross-country runs in the city why not cross-city runs In the country? Capt. Pat Page’s Maroop baseball team has downed the Japanese in straight falls. The jin jltsu, however, was barred. European wrestlers, like Halley’s comet, always come back, but they come oftener. Suppose Wrestler Gotch should suddenly decide to emerge from retirement. Would Hackenschmldt call oft that American tour? ; - William Rourke, owner of the Omaha Western league baseball team, announced plans for a 130,000 ball park, to be built there this* year. The plans include a steel grand stand and Improved field.