Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1911 — Sporting Gossip [ARTICLE]

Sporting Gossip

Perhaps if there were more intrascholastic athletics it might help. Just the same, next year will find the Chicago fans as hopeful as ever. Swindell, the pitcher signed by the Naps, should be a good base stealer. Another rooter's pet notion of nothing to read about is an ante-season football game. Somehow or other Rye doesn’t seem a singularly appropriate name for a golf tournement The golden days of football are past Athletes are obliged to attend classes nowadays. Over in dear ole Lunnon they have a way of letting the opponents to boxing take it out in talk. It is understood some of the high schools have substituted marbles and top spinning for football. The 1911 Carlisle football squad includes the following': She Bear, Half Town, Ez Nez and Wounded Eye. The "old boys" who once played prep school football hate to admit it in these days of the board of control. Aviation has proved the only successful competitor to th,e diamond, game and that was a trifle expensive. One of the best things brought about by changes in the football rules is the interpretation of rules decided upon. One of the best things about automobile races is that no machine seems to be able to win two in succession. Parental objection seems to be as great a bugbear utader the present reformed football rules as under the old ones. ( Suing a ball club for damages after having been ejected on account of disorderly conduct seems the height of fourflushing. Ty Cobb is thinking of training this wir. r in a billiard room. He heard George Sutton made 500 points in four innings. The Yale football candidate who fell out of a Pullman coach and escaped uninjured should have attended Michigan prior to 1906. This year a football official Is considered part of the properties of the field. A ball striking an official is not dead, but continues in play. Bobbie Kerr, who won the 920-yard dash for G«-eat Britain in the last Olympic, got one poor third place in the Canadian championships. Some of the beet baseball recruits this year have come from Texas. The state is bearing out General Sherman's opinion that it is a hotbed. To the uninitiated it seems as if a course in football, track or basket ball ought to be just as much physical training as fancy dancing, even in the -credit' liaa k, ’ '* e