Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1911 — GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

Football fatalities are fewer this season. Clarke Griffith is a, real comedian. He states without smiling: that Washington has a good team. Hans Wagner is a “slogger,” but it would be safe to meet him in the middle of the road on a dark night Harvard and Tale are already clamoring for revision of the football rules. Princeton seems to be satisfied. Baseball was played by the Hittites 4,000 years ago, and today Frank Baker best hittite in our midst. China may become a republic, but she can never become an American republic. Without a Honus Wagner or Ty Cobb. Football' netted Tale about 980,000 this year. We should like to know about how much it costq to run a football team. Every team in the National league, except St. Louis, has a man ahead of the first Cub player in the list of batting averages. > China has organized an eight club baseball league, but- it will be a long time before it. is able to get a major league franchise. ■*

“Women are subject to hysteria," says a Russian dootor. Evidently he has never seen a crowd of male beings at a football game. Since so many "appointed managers" of the Cincinnati club have proven “jokes,” when the real leader is chosen he may be overlooked. Frank Schulte won’t worry over the loss of a single home run. He could run it down in quick order with that smoke wagon if he wished to do so. Officials of the minor leagues have voted to reduce the salaries of baseball players. Is there no patriotism left In the officials of the minor leagues? ... , ; r v,* What, Indeed, is in a name? The dispatch to the sporting department states that “One Round” Hogan knocked out "Knockout” Brown in the seventh round! Picking all-star football teams is delectable pastimlng. but in the absence of a real gridiron battle'this is about the only thing left for the dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast. A New York paper has discovered that the game of baseball is 4,000 years old; “having descended from the Hittites to the Giants.” Correct There can be no doobt that "the Giants have descended dfrom the Hlttites.