Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1914 — Notes of Sportdom [ARTICLE]

Notes of Sportdom

Harry Payne Whitney won $93,000 on the turf. r —_ r: - —— ; • * • k . Ben Tincup, the Indian ball player, is not a dipper but u pitcher. * • • Frank Kramer, the cycling champion, has gone to Europe for a seriefe of matches. * • * Change the football rules, it is suggested. Better do it before the experts solve the present set * * • Roy K. Thomas resigned as coach of the Ohio Wesleyan rowing crew and will return to the University of Chicago. • • • It has been announced that Notre Dame will play Yale next fall on 0?t. 15. Dorals Eichenlaub Rockne Smith —God help the Blue. * * # Minnesota’s board of control has declined by a majority vote to meet Carlisle on the gridiron next year. The Indians asked for the date. • • * A. G. Ward, center on the 1912 Ohio State university eleven, has been appointed athletic coach at Christian Brothers’ college for the coming year. * * * Williams hap stuck persistently to its attitude. It has refused to meet Harvard in addition to Yale because the date supplied came too early In the season. • • # Manager Jennings announces that his Tigers will start training at Gulfport about February 5. Jim McGuire and Jimmy Burke will be in charge of the first squad. * * * George Estabrook, owner of Colorado E., has determined to race the holder of the world’s three-year-old trotting record over the Grand circuit next season. He had decided to sell the horse but his price was qevsr ■met —rs