Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

Tommy Carey outpointed Grover Hayes in six rounds at Philadelphia. * * * Wick Curry has been the busy boy among the yearlings, having driven 18 of them to standard records. ** • f Admiral Dewey, 2:04%, was the fastest trotter developed in 1906 and his ron, Lord Dewey, 2:03%, has the same honor for 1913. • • * Robinson, the new manager of the Brooklyn club, is trying to land Milton Stock, the young shortflelder of the Giants. •l .a. • Reports from Cuba are that Mendez, the wonderful Cuban, who is called the “Black Matty,” has regained the use of his arm./ * • • Ty Cobb probably fries more bonehead plays than any other fellow in baseball, but has the legs to get away with them. « ■„* * * Only three American league hurlers worked in over 300 innings each last season. They were Johnson, Russell and Scott • * * Christy Mathewson is just like wine, says a Cincinnati scribe. The wonderful pitcher of the Giants seems to become better as the years roll by. « • • “Wildcat" Ferns of Kansas City was practically knocked out by Mike Gibbons of St. Paul st New Orleans in the second round of what was to have been a ten-round bout • • • Übe new stadium es the college of the City of New York, ground foi which was recently broken, will have a cinder track, a mile straightaway, a gridiron and a diamond. It will be fin ished before the opening of the 1911 college year, and will cost $200,000.