Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1913 — NOTES of SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES of SPORTDOM

' Judson Girl trotted 85 heats thlp and won $17,960, which is something remarkable for a 4-year-old. * • * Spike Kelly thinks there is no money in fighting except in opposing champions and Packey McFarland. * ° * Capt. R. G. Ritson, who led the English polo team which failed to lift the polo cup in the Meadowbrook matches, is ill in India. * • • Boxing promoters say there is no money in promoting fights, but few pre, known to quit the business which is their privilege. « • * Yale university’s new bowl-shaped stadium will include a 220-yard straightaway. The players will start out of a chute. ' • • • Jimmy Duffy, the Lockport, N. Y., fighter, scored a knockout in the sixth round over Frank Carroll of‘Toronto at Hamilton, Ont • « • Walter Maranville and Tommy Griffith of the Braves have gone on the stage for the winter. They will sing songs written by Griffith. George Castle picked up a mighty good horse in Tommy Finch, 2:091-4. This stallion won three firsts and a second during the two weeks at Dallas. n. • • • The Athletics have a great baseball team, says Walter Johnson. “And,” he adds, “they have an Abe Lincoln on the bench watching every move they make.” • • v

Mind* of Penn is rated as one of tie best forward passers football has ever developed, and few colleges, by the way, have turned out more good men in that respect than Penn. • • • Princeton numbered its player* in the game with Harvard and lost. This whs no argument against the system, as Brlckley wasn’t looking at those number & when he booted the oval through the posts. • • ’• The newest sensation in the athletic line is D. F. O’Hanlon, the Irish broad Jumper, who has come to this country to reside. Although scarcely out of his teens, he 1* capable of covering 24 -feet, and be has ambition* to own the world's record ere he is 25.