Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1910 — SPORTING FACTS FANCIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPORTING FACTS FANCIES

The most vexing problem of the football teams playing for the championships was to determine the eligibility of the leading stars on opposing teams. No wrestler In the world aspiring to a title should overlook Chicago. There are more champions in that city to the square mile than anywhere else in the universe. When a man wins he is the “wise guy,” and the athlete who “laid down” is "the lobster.” When the loser turns state’s evidence, “the lobster” is the “wise guy.” The manager of Ilia Vincent, the Bast Indian wrestler, says he chased all over England trying to secure a match with Hackenschmidt. An aviatof should insure himself against danger by taking along a wrestler of the professional class in which flying falls are barred. Patsy Donovan, manager of the Boston Red Sox, has joined the benedict Glass: He recently married Miss Teresa Mahoney, a pretty music teacher of hiß home town at Lawrence, Mass. Football for the year has passed into the discards. Before you know It those baseball players will be hiking away to the spring training quarters. Two wrestlers were at It for nearly four hours the other night and one writer speaks of it as “intensely interesting.” Hard enough for some of the fans to watch a pair for more than 30 minutes around here without yelling for the hook. Hugh Jennings 1b popular with the fans in Cuba. He was offered transportation and other inducements to take the trip with the Tigers. It takes big inducements to offset the profits to be derived from the automdbile manufacturing, business, and Hughie declined the offer.