Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1914 — GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

Rochester will try to organize a professional basket-ball league. • * • Massachusetts and also Michigan agricultural colleges are to have new athletic fields. • • * Ed Cochems, once coach of the St Louis university, and later Barnes, may coach at Creighton next season. • * * In reply to a query, 123 out of 159 colleges replied that they required of freshmen physical exercise under proper instruction. * • • Tom White, a well-known Australian trainer of greyhounds, Is now in England with the team sent from Australia by Oscar Asche. • • • Jack Dillon made an impression on the miners of Butte, Mont:, by his great milling against Sailor Petroskey, a solid piece of fighting material. • • • The Notre Dame basket-ball schedule was given out the other day, and it includes one of the greatest eastern trips ever taken by a western college. • • • Jack Britton had a tough time with Mike Glover of Boston at New York. Glover, who is a clever fellow, got credit for a shade over Britton in several papers. ’ * < — Henry Laussat Geyelin was elected president of the Athletic association of the University of Pennsylvania for the twentieth successive year at a meeting of the board of directors. * * • Although Jake Daubert led the National league with the willow, he didn't pole out many extra base hits. Daubert smashed out but seventeen doubles, seven triples and two homers. ' • * * Norway Is to have a stadium at Foegner, Christiania, that will accommodate under cover. It is said, 200,000 people. There is to be a big athletic carnival on the new grounds nett May. - ■ * •jgw. »\» • Back in TSBZ or thereabouts, Moffatt of Princeton kicked a few field goals against Harvard, using both right and Igft sept. There Is some discussion now as to whether, if Brickley were a port pedaler. be would have beaten Yale 30 points instead of 1&