Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1914 — GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

Tony Caponi wants a chance to box George Chip. ------ » ■ Mike Mowrey has been signed by the Baltimore Federal league club. • • • Even Gunboat Smith is after the money and will hazard the stage to get it while the going is good. a a « George Chip defeated Gus Christie tn ten rounds at Milwaukee, -having the better of nearly every round. An English team of vegetarian and fruitarian athletes is to be sent to the Olympic games at Berlin in 1916. a a a Indianapolis, of the American association, has released Pitcher Bill Harrington to Binghamton of the New York State league. • a a The Boston Braves will be made up largely of youngsters next season. Of the 32 players on the club but one is over thirty years old. • a • Battling Levinsky, the gent with the Irish nomenclature, seems to be the most persistent of our best little heavies. ( He fights every three days. • a * The Thames Rowing Club of England promised to enter an eight-oared shell crew in the big Australian regatta at Henley-on-Yarra, Melbourne, next October. a a a The Navy eleven has set an odd precedent in electing Overreach as captain of the 1914 team. He has been a sub end all season under Gilchrist and Inghram, but is expected to make an excellent leader. • • • The first of the big sectional ten-pin tourneys, the middle west series at St. Louis, attracted entries that footed up 36,335. Of this amount 32,275 was from five-men teams; 31,818 in twomen teams, and 31,760 in singles. a a a The Cornell student publications are protesting strongly against the fact that but 16 varsity "Cs” were awarded this year, to the football team which defeated Penn, when even in 1911 and 191£ there were 19 given.