Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

Cari Morris has come hack to earth knocking out some poor dub. Five years ago Jeff Tesreau was canned by the Ironton (Mo.) team. It is hoped that there will be no protest of any Wisconsin or Minnesota players this year. Football would be a -great little sport, all right, if one could avoid the arguments afterward. r ; Bat Nelson is to be given a test, says a report. The owner of Hegewisch has always'' been ready for that Aow billiards comes to the front with a wrangle. It was thought billiards came close to sportsmanship. Memphis has purchased Shortstop William Oriet of the champion Missoula team of the Union association. Chief Bender was a big hero in 1811; he ia mentioned for sale or trade in 1912. Fame is fleeting in baseball, too. \ The only thing one can tell by odds on football games is that usually one school has more money than the other. The worst of football ia the deadly “what might have been” conversations one is obliged to listen to the next day. In the talk of a possible sale of the Buffalo International league clnb, it is stated that the price put on the property was $75,000. It Is reported that the Montgomery club will not be in the Southern league next season. Little Rock will take Its place in the league. It is funny how teams and rooters are willing to take comparative scores to judge teams when that method never has picked a winner. In an effort to boom bis administration, friends of Miller Huggins are preparing a rough road for him by claiming the pennant for the Cardinals. —’ Evidently this visiting Japanese billiard player is as proficient in his profession as most of his countrymen, are in their particular lines of work. . >