Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1911 — IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS

Wrestlers from cities other than Chicago are ambitions to wrestle Gotch and Mahmout—they are after car fare. Clark Griffith refuses to discuss the report he Is about to become a millionaire. > This ought to be investigated by the national commission. Barney Dreyfuss of tile Pittsburg team is said to be the originator of the blank contract idea In major league baseball made famous by President Murphy of the Cubs. Once again “Jiggs” Donohue reiterates he is coming back. The more he convinces himself he is coming, the easier it will be for the eager fans to begin to believe it, too. Abe Attell is thanking his stars it was Goodman and not the feather weight champion whom Packey McFarland met. Packey’s making 133% pounds with so little effort is one of the big surprises of the year in pug circles. Bobby Wallace, new manager of the St. Louis Browns, expects “Red” Nelson to enter the Walsh-Johnson-

Coombs class without extending himself. That invading Japanese team might make a big hit in America if it could play major league baseball. Gotch wants 'to retain his title, hat he doesn’t want those foreigners to tote too much American kale back; with them as a result of his doing IL Pacific coast promoters' are trying to lure Cart Morris from his stronghold at Sapulpa in order to match him with Lester, Tommy Bums’ “hope.” f Sbme eastern critics claim that Packey McFarland has lost his snap and vigbr. His knockout of Jack Goodman in five rounds goes a long way toward prqving it, of course. Frank “Piano Mover” Smith, formerly of the Chicago White Sox, has been offered a "bonus” by President John I. Taylor of the Boston Red Sox for winning a certain number of games. This means that Frank will hang around Bill Carrigan a whole lot and stay up nights thinking out signals.