Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1914 — Gossip Among Sports [ARTICLE]

Gossip Among Sports

Hans Wagner will try to land a batting mdrk of .400 this year. • * • Farmer Burns has taken a keen interest in Hussane, the Bulgarian middleweight. ■I.. • ♦ • “Keep off the umps” is to be the 1914 slogan of the Cleveland Naps under Joe Birmingham. • • The British amateur golf championship will be held on May 18 at Sandwich, the open at Prestwich on June 18. ' • • • Maryland Agricultural college is going to spend $105,000 for athletic equipment, most of it going into a gymnasium. * * * Bill Hollenbeck figures on developing Captaint-elect Tobin to fill Shorty Miller’s shoes at quarter for Penn State this year. The New York Yankees are to play the Phillies at Philadelphia, April 8 and 9, the first time these two clubs have ever clashed. >.* • « Walter R. Dickson, the Greenville, Tex., pitcher, who for two seasons has been with the Boston Nationals, has been dropped to Rochester. • • ♦' Duffy Lewis, left fielder of the exworld’s champion Boston American tpam, will take lessons from an athletic trainer in the art of sprinting. * * ♦ Reports from Syracuse credit Tom Keane with admissions that he had had letter from the “other side” relative to coaching British Olympic athletes. • • • The United States Lawn Tennis association is wrestling with two knotty problems of rules involving proposed changes in the code covering diets’’ and “service.” . e e e Syracuse university has re-engaged Frank O'Neill to coach its football team: O’Neill made Syracuse more of a fighting team than it had been for several years. Two western clubs hope to entertain the two big golfing champion-, ships -of next season. Home wood wants the amateur and Interzachen, Minneapolis the open. • « • Not only at the Maryland tracks but very nearly everywhere else, the reign of the bookmaker seems to be over. Slowly but surely the parimutiielisjewffifflni'thelr way to the front