Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1912 — Gossip Among Sports [ARTICLE]

Gossip Among Sports

Ty Cobb is asserting already that the Tigers will wallop the Athletics in 1912. Old Bat Nelson is showing a spryness in his declining years that is refreshing. Packey McFarland admits his hand was not broken in his battle with Tommy Murphy. > Ffesident Comiskey of the White Sox wants Hal Chase, and who will arise to blame him? Billy Evans says umpires don’t relish roasts. Yes, and some don’t stand for them, either. —Keep college sport clean from the taint of money or give it up and dig roots exclusively, thinks Alonzo Stagg. Both Jennings and Wolgast are well ' enough to talk to the reporters, but more encouraging news than this is sought. The American A. C, of New York has forever barred the kidney punch. Bat Nelson didn’t care to fight there, anyway. Clark Griffith is clearing the deck for action when the real firing begins in the battle for the American league pennant Pitcher Burchell of Montreal has the backing of several capitalists and will make an effort to buy the Syracuse franchise. Wolgast has fought some popular battles in his life, but his winning bout with appendicitis is the stellar one of bis career. Walter Camp’s all-Americafi football selections answer in part the oft repeated query, “Why do western prep stars go east?” Appendicitis is the only boxer who has the proud distinction, if it wishes to call it that,- of putting Wolgast down for the count. One peculiar point about baseball is that Mathewson, the game’s greatest pitcher, has never received a single automobile from the fans. It was left for the chess experts to resume athletic relations between the universities of Michigan and Chicago. It is up to others to follow suit. Baseball fans in every part of the United States were shocked over the injury to Hugh Jennings, but imagine the feelings of the Detroit Tiger fans! Horse Trainer Lutz, who performed in a like capacity for Freddie Welsh; thinks the appendicitis has prolonged Wolgast’s rule as world’s champion. X ~ " X