Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1912 — NOTES of SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES of SPORTDOM

Baseball is becoming so popular it has spread to tie penitentiaries. The pitcher’s box should be on the level, the same as the pitcher, some critics contend. Garry Herrmann has decided the new leagues will bum out faster by not fanning the flames. When the major leagues expand they will never permit a minor circuit to do their expansion for them. The expansion of the American association Is no new thing at all, for it has been talked by the magnates for at least two years. American association clubs were boosted to a high classification and now the major league bees are buzzing in their bonnets again. Tip O’Neil, president of the Western league, is thinking seriously of invadjtagi&iJeagOr but Is not certain Just whs® or where be win light "Wee Willie” Keeler of the old Orioles is still a prominent figure in baseball. He will coach for Brooklyn ibis season and chances are the So-

perbaa will know just what to do i! they are unable to win everything they would like. Gotch, the fans are told, turned Zbyszko down for a handicap match in New York. He also refused to meet Leo Pardello and the Mysterious Waffles. :■ , Billy Evans and Jack Sheridan are unanimous that honesty is the bulwark of baseball. Other umpires weren’t asked, but tt is thought there will be no objection to this stand. Connie Mack Is far from being a chronic kicker, but the great and only baseball sphinx set up an awful holler about the American League schedule, if he was reported correctly. Clark Griffith was praised in Washington for his trade of Gabby Street for Jack Knight, hut the Naps’ officials in Cleveland are being “panned” for trading Stovall for Lefty George. It the American association goes through with its propaganda for expansion, the Western league may block the move in a way with its proposed “counter contraction” scheme. Chicago paid more money, to visiting ball teams in the American league last summer than any other city in the league. Detroit comes next, and Detroit fans are up in arms against the assertion that Detroit is a poor ball town. ,