Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1912 — GOSSIP T AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP T AMONG SPORTS

Harry Howell will umpire in the Eastern league in 1912. New York State Baseball league has reduced the salary limit from $3,000 to >2,500. The Louisville club has sold Infielder Howard Baker to the Hartford (Conn.) League club. A Cuban baseball team whipped the New York Giants and, strange to say, nobody Vas spiked. Playing managers in the major leagues may soon be an extinct species of the “early days.” A Nashville writer says meeting Ty Cobb Is like drawing off a real tight shoe—it feels so comfortable. Ottawa, Ont., if admitted to the Canadian league, promises Sunday ball at a park across the river in Hull. Frank Owens, catcher for Minneapolis, was married recently to Miss Helen Winslow in Toronto, his home town. San Francisco does not think it will miss Tom Tennant on first base, since it has Jackson, the Texas recruit to fill hie shoes. •_— Summer baseball in north and winter baseball in the south is a platform that seems the. part of a winner for some. Fielder Jones has received his annual appointment—by western newspapers—as chief mogul 4 of the Northwestera league. "Walter Slagle, recently purchased by Los Angeles, has bought a farm near Glendale, Cal., and will make, his home on it. ' A London fight club has barred the kidney punch, but the Olympic club of New York got a scoop on that several days ago. Only nine football players are reported killed this year, thus demonstrating that football is not as great a game as deer hunting. < It is told in Minneapolis that the Cantillons have reasons to believe they can get Long Tom Hughes back from ■ Washington next year. All two fighters have to do nowadays Is to take different sides of the contlneht and fire broadsides at each other until the promoters take notice. James O’Brien, better known aS Skimmer O’Brien, who pitched for Lawrence a part of last season, has been signed to play with Worcester. If Walter Camp is prejudiced toward the east he didn’t let it enter his family.' Walter Camp, Jr., wasn’t induded among the all-star selections.