Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1911 — Sporting Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Sporting Gossip.

Good day for football. Boston is still flirting with Jake Stahl. Post mortem baseball doesn’t spiral much to the fans. - The tall end of the season was more of a Joke this year than usual. Bat Nelson wants one more chance. They always want "one more." Now Governor Dtx is shouting for the repeal of the new boxing law. It Is now the season for a resumption of the winter baseball yarns. Kicking probably will be more effective in football than In baseball Reports from Michigan indicate that the team will be better than ever this year.'. Italy ought to hire Gotch to threaten the terrible ones with the toe hold. Apparently Tale is not going to rely upon one game for a reputation this season. Tale probably will remember how much her gorging last year amounted to, however. ' < BUI Bass of Richmond, Va.. and naturally one of the old families, has become a “hope.” In baseball as well as in everything else everything depend* upon whose ox is being gored. According to reports, Northwestern lacks ginger in its football, while the Maroons hare a Paine. Evidently Hughey Jennings is tired of managing a team composed principally of individual stars. After a prise fighter has gone by the thing to do is to learn how to lose gracefully and naturally. Kutlna. the flrstbaseman for the Browns, is a wrestling partner of Frank Gotch in the winter months. In Venesuela our national sport has taken firm root and the natives are playing It almost as well as we are. It’s almost as hard to understand the interpretations of the football rules as it is to understand the rules themselves.

Speaking of proselyting, what about this Tale professor walking off with Battling Nelson’s brother from Leland Stanford? Bob Dunbair. Boston’s sporting expert, says Martin Sheridan undoubtedly will make the Olympic team, but he will have to gd some to win any points. 1 Which brings out the question of when the baseball season closes. Does it close the minute the last out id made, or at midnight after the last game? President W. H. Taft showed that he was a real fan when he presided at a presentation of an automobile in Denver to Manager -Jack Hendricks, the leader of the victorious Grisslles. There Is a lot of kicking in New Tork about the managerial ability of Hal Chase. Some of knockers say that with a good leader the Highland era should have won the pennant this near.*,- ■* „ ' :*'•' ' •*•