Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1914 — NOTES of SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES of SPORTDOM

Georgetown university is reported to contemplate the construction of a stadium. • • • America will be represented by A soccer football eleven at the 1916 Olympic games at Berlin. • • • Mel Sheppard, one of the greatest half-mile runners the world ever knew, has been on the track for 13 years. • • • Stanley Yoakum was given the decision over Leo Kelly of St. Louis after fifteen rounds of rough-and-tumble fighting at Denver. • • • Dad Moulton, for 21 years athletic trainer at Stanford university, has announced that he has quit His contract expires in May. S'** Fred Falkenberg, Nap heaver, is making a great showing in Cleveland bowling circles. He is smashing the pins, at a consistent pace. * • • A report is current in lowa athletic circles that Coach Jesse B. Hawley has resigned at lowa university to devote his entire attention to his bonding business in Chfghgo. • • * It is probable the world’s champion■hip polo matches which will be a part of the Panama-Pacific celebration at San Francisco in 1916, will be played from March 15 to April 17. • * * . • ~ The Boston Braves used the greatest number of players during the 1913 campaign. Stallings tried out thirteen pitchers, six catchers, thirteen infielders, twelve outfielders and two subs. • • • Digger Stanley, who lost the Eng’ Uah bantam title to BlHy Benyon who substituted for Eddie Morgan last June, regained his honors recently by whipping Benyon decisively in 20 rounds. Jess Willard, Kansas cow puncher boxer, whipped Carl Morris of Oklahoma in Madison Square garden in a ten-round glove battle that made the ;rowd groan in anguish. It was a buresque from a boxing point of view add neither showed any of the fine points of the ring game.