Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1912 — Notes of Sportdom [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Notes of Sportdom

Do those who favor changing the baseball code want revision downward? Citizens of Georgia are beginning to realize the greatness of Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Waiter Camp wants four downs instead of three. Isn’t it hard enough “to stop them now?” Many football critics favor abolishing the forward pass. The hands are used too much anyway. Walter Camp -can't see a western man on his all-star selections. He failed to come west in 1911. Walter Camp says the new football rules which cut down the number of injuries in football have come to stay. Connie Mack* thinks he has discovered another pitching, wonder. Does he want to get a perpdtUayien on the bunting? /*- * Rudy .tJnholz, the Boer boxe?, threatens to “break in” once more. Bat Nelson, it seems, has a bad example.. When football is- perfected what will the experts do during the winter months in place of revising the rules? _ . " If Horace Fogel “butted in!’ as Chpxley Dooin says, who Is the real works behind the thrOne on the Phillies, anyway!* -» . Some people have the happy faculty of seeing “sport” in everything. It Isn’t a bad thing for the appetite or the conscience, either. Ad Wolgast has the largest doctor bill known to the profession for some time. It cost Ad more than $50,000 in lost purses to be cut up. “Raicevitch, the giant wrestler, is here to challenge ’the world,” says a report. The only thing against him is that he has been here before. Jimmy McAleer is to scout for the Boston Red Sox. Since. Jimmy has always been a “good old scout” he ought to shine in his dual capacity.