Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — SPORTING GOSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPORTING GOSSIP

The crop of ball players from the minors Is getting so scarce each year that some new way has to be devised for getting recruits. Battling Nelson announces bo will “fight again within sixty days.” Why Bat Is going to keep the fans waiting so long Is a mystery. Digger Stanley is disappointed over his reception in America, he says. Considering his tyfo fights it was rather chilly, to say the least. Joe Cantilion has offered a wager that he will tame Rube Waddell. He ought to get big odds, as Rube has worked under many magnates. American bred dogs won over the foreign rivals at the- kennel exhibition in New York. This was a wonderful triumph that will be noticed —ip New York. Hofman’s holdout did not last as long as the ordinary player's. If he had started to hold out a little sooner he would have bad a lot more advertising. Wouldn’t It be in order to wait a bit before handing the new flag to the Athletics? There is a fresh season coming along and baseball dope often goes awry. Merchants of Jacksonville, Fla., say business there has been “utterly demoralized by the vampires of the turf who masquerade under the name of sport.” Addle Joes is a Swiss, Bender an Indian, Walter Johnson a Swede. Walsh an Irishman, Reulbach a German, Mat hew son a Scot and Coombs an American. Keep your old book of football rules and go on studying them until next fall. The code will be the same next season and a few months’ study may give you an inkling of what the game is like.

A 1 Kaufman knocked out Jim Flynn in nine rounds on- August 28, 1908. Here is a chance for Carl Morris to shine as a brighter "hope” than the man who sold himself for three years for $50,000. Mike Mitchell Is working out in Jacksonville, Fla,, Manager GrlflTth sent him a uniform. Mike is qnite successful "beating the races.” However he thinks he can make more money playing ball this summer. Southpaw Karger and Irving Young | were discarded by. National league { clubs and put In time in the minors be- : f° rG being given a chance to come i back and show as members of the Red Sox and White Sox that they possessed big league stuff. - ' * ' . >4