Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1912 — Notes of Sportdom [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Notes of Sportdom

Running out of the ring seems to have become quite a fad among cer tain wrestlers Of the hefty weight division. * . '■ : ■ We are told that Virginia raised 12,000,000 bushels of peanutß last year. Another successful baseball season is predicted. If Hank O’Day makes good as a bench warmer at Cincinnati he will be set down as one of the seven wonder workers of the age. Percy L. Wendell—©£ Boston was elected captain of the Harvard football eleven for 1912. Wendell has played half-back for two years. _ Will John M. Ward, who always has been a friend of the man in the ranks, “see” the player’s side now that he has become a magnate? Most major league magnates are becoming converts 'to the advanced thought in agriculture—that is, scientific “farming” on a gigantic scale. “No more umpire baiting for me,” said Manager,. Bresnahan of the St. Louis Cardinals. He has learned he can get more in the end by turning the other cheek. Clark Griffith puts Charles Comiskey, owner of the White Sox, first among the greatest ball players of all time. Maybe Griff bad in mind the all around championship. Just for the purpose of keeping Interest in baseball from lagging the managers are beginning to talk about pending their teams away for spring practice. It is very exciting. There is one person who is not bothered by talk of a baseball war, and he is the player. He is sure of a position, anyway, and maybe a boost in salary if worse comes to worse. Bob Hedges of the St. Louis Browns' is not boasting of trailing the Athletics in 1912. Hedges is staying up nights figuring out schemes to emerge from the bottom of the heap. James Gaffney, prominent politician of New York, a brother-in-law of Charles P. Murphy, boss of Tammany hall, Is the new works behind the throne of the Boston National league club. “Kid” McCoy’s “sleep producing" blow does not seem to have left htan. He fought Harry Croxon, an English fighter In Paris, and sent hint, to the mat for the ten count in the third round.