Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — Notes of Sportdom [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Notes of Sportdom

She Attell has taken a great lik* .ing to New York of late. The like of Baby Bliss in athletics may never be seen again. Redmond says Nelson is the liveliest corpse of a fighter he ever tackled. Cy Moreing, the Pacific coaßt hues caneer, is loading up his baseball cannon afresh. Work is to begin immediately on the new baseball cage for Yaleuniver. sity at New Haven. One by one the old timers drop out of sight, but Billy Sullivan is still drawing his pay check. A college athlete can work as a waiter and shine shoes for a living, but “nit” on laboring at baseball. Doc White says no one would dare pick the greatest twenty ball players and omit the name of Clark Griffith. Monte Cross is a good man to help pull the St Louis Browns out of the slough of despond, thinks Connie Mack. - If some aspiring recruit can Induce Blßy Sullivan to divulge the secret of perpetual youth he would be the backstopping “find” of the season. When Jimmy McAleer became president of the Boston Red Sox, John I. Taylor, bis predecessor, stepped down into the chair of vice-president The main question is “Does this eliminate John I. from the presp stand, where he formerly did ail his rooting r »