Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — GOSSIP OF SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP OF SPORTDOM

Baseball critics already have begun to pick the winners for 1911. Gotch, Mahmout, Hackenachmidt and Zbyszko have gone to the mat in a deadlock. The Boston National league moguls met and decided to let Fred Tenney run the teaml Patsy Donovan, manager of the Boston Red Sox. says he wants to drill hia team for speed. The richest wrestlers in the world are said to be Gotch, Hackenschmldt, Roller andJZbysrko. Brooklyn fight fans are hilarious about Joe Coster, who, they think, had something on Abe Attel recently. “Gabby” Street in eight years has caught in 860 games—a record equaled by no other m&Jor league backstop. Freddie Welsh, the English lightweight png champion, says he would rather meet Packey McFarland for his next opponent. Eddie Hahn, who tppped the Chicago City league with a hatting average of .375 last year, batted only.. 181 for the White Sox in 1909.