Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1913 — NOTE'S of SPORIDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTE'S of SPORIDOM

Harry Smith has again signed to manage the Newark champions.

Charlie Carr has been mentioned of late as a possible head for the Federal league.

The Boston Nationals will report fqi spring practice at Macon, Ga., abQtr the.first of March. / • • •

The English polo team will practice three months in Spain before its next invasion of America for the international trophy. •• * •

The coast authorities have found it difficult indeed to get crack athletes for the all-star A. A. U. team to invade the Antipodes.

• Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Washington and Boston are being picked as serious contenders for the pennant for next season.

Charlie O’Leary, the veteran shortstop and member of the Cardinals, has been sold to the San Francisco team by Manager Miller Huggins.

Austria is about to follow Germany in -the employment of an American trainer for its Olympic athletes and has gotten into communication with Sullivan on the subject

Patrick Flynn of Ireland is a very clever distance runner. The slip of a lad from the “old country,” who made his American debut at Travers island recently, impressed the cinder path critics not a little.

Cornell university believes it has in Vere Wendnagle a worthy successor to John Paul Jones. He is a freshman. While In the preparatory school he ran a mile in four minutes and LWenty-two seconds.