Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1912 — GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

Ebbetts* new park site in Brooklyn is 500 by 600 feet Talking baseball in zero weather is not as foolish ks It sounds. Clark Griffith will block any moves of Detroit to send George Morlarlty to Providence. , Cy Young says Jimmy McAleer was the greatest fielder he ever saw. Yes, this Includes Ty Cobb. - Jimmy McAleer denies that he is trying to trade Tris Speaker to the White Sox for Harry Lord. “Two pitchers are enough," says John M. Ward. We, they might be if they were Walsh and Mathewson. Harry Truby wants a place as umpire in the American asoclation. The veteran worked in the Ohio state last year. Roy Corhan says he will “come back” strong after that beaning. Fred Clarke will take to the bench after a similar experience. Putting baseball under a civil serv* ice commission might be all right If. the commissioners would become disinterested in baseball. Besides' other difficulties Hank O’Day has a race problem on hand at Cincinnati next season. He must settle the Cuban question. Bill Burns, who at last has found a. resting place with the Minneapolis; Millers, the Mecca of major league, “has beens," can read to his heart’s content down in the rathskeller unless. Rube Waddell starts something.