Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1914 — Gossip Among Sports [ARTICLE]

Gossip Among Sports

Hans Wagner will try to land a batting mark of .400 this year. * * • Farmer Burns has taken a keen interest in Hussane, the Bulgarian middleweight * • • “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, wUofortwo seasons has been with the Boston Nationals, has been dropped to Rochester. • ♦ • Duffy Lewis, left fielder of the exworld’s champion Boston American team, 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 “lets” and "service.” • « • 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 'championships of next season. Homewood 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 parimutuels are winning their way to the front ’