Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1911 — Sporting Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Sporting Gossip.

Baseball , partisans already have begun to make claims about 1911. New York writers are hailing Joe Coster, the Brooklyn featherweight, as the next champion. In Plank, Russell and Krause Connie Mack has three crack southpaws in line for next season. Wagner declines to play with any club but Pittsburg. He also balks st signing an anti-booze contract. Battling Nelson Is talking fight in New York, they say. Was Bat ever seen when he wasn’t talking fight? “Digger” Stanley, English bantam weight champion, has arrived in New York and admits he is hunting a world’s title. Garry Herrmann wants the pitcher’s box to be on the level. Well, if eight players are on the level, wbj can't tbe pitcher be? Eddie Tiemeyer, the Cincinnati tosser. will play with the Trenton TriState league next season. Syracuse has sold him to the Skeeters. The Phillies are expected to rank high aB a base stealing combination next season. Lobert and Paskert are large acquisitions to that department of the game. The Plttsburgs have 16 new ball players for next seasou. Eight of these are pitchers, and Fred Clark thinks he will get two stars at least out of his youngsters. Following the English campaign against the kidney punoh, tke Armory club of Boston announces that In fixture it will bar the blow In bouts dpr Its auspices. A nice ruling, but Just how tbe club will proceed to many out its ban is a mystwy.