Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1912 — NOTES of SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES of SPORTDOM

Owen i Moran is coming back and says he wants to fight Wolgast The idea that Wolgast should lose his title because he was operated for appendicitis is absurd. Lena Blackburne will have another chance to make good on that SII,OOO he cost President Comiskey. Golfers were 1? a bit blue when up bobbed the announcement of the annual “glugfest.” That ought to brighten things up a bit. Towns that composed the eastern end of the Ohio-Pennsylvania league talk of an organization that shall be known as the Iron and Oil league. That astrologist who predicted dire things for the Cubs in 1912 and the downfall of Tinker and Archer evldehtly doesn’t study baseball stars.. If a fellow should cry real fiard for ten or fifteen minutes he might think of something a “durn” sight more exciting than a three cushion billiard tournament. ■. Harry Stelnfeldt, free agent, has returned to Cincinnati, looking well after a sojourn on the Pacific coast and Is waiting for some sort of lightning to strike him. Though Norman Elberfeld has been sold to Chattanooga It Is said the deal is not to be closed until Elberfeld himself determines if his bad legs will permit him to play next season. Eddie Hallinan, a recruit of the St Louis Brownj, told the folks at home on the Pacific coast that Ty Cobb is the greatest baseball. player of all time. Eddie is learning his baseball primer fast Two young managers tn the Amerlean league whom Connie Mack will watch closely from his angle of the rathskeller in 1912 are Jimmy Callahan of the White Sox and Harry) Davis of the Cleveland Naps.