Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1914 — NOTES of SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES of SPORTDOM

Senator Burton talked eighteen hours and the umps won’t let Jawn Evers say ten words. * * « Clark Griffith blames cigarettes for the failure of his team to win the American league pennant. • * * Benny Kauff of the IndlanapolisFeds is not only a-great sticker but a fast man on the paths and in the field. • * * The Federal league Intends to fine players who kick instead of benching them. This is doubly cruel and unusual. .. .7.. * * * Talking of a triple alliance, here’s one that never loses—Connie Mack, Maurice McLoughlin and Willie Hoppe. • • • Harry Foley claims to have discovered a wonderful boxer in the person of Ralph Grunau, a lightweight of Portland, Ore. - •• • ’ Middleweights and lightweights have the call at the present time. The crop of heavyweights seems to )>e getting poorer every year. .* * V Pitcher Adams, former Indianapolis A. A. slab star, has been secured, by the Cubs in the draft and will be ready for use next season. - * * * Christiansen, the Danlsh-American Marathon champion, runs on a strictly vegetarian diet Probably parsnips, green apples and new lettuce. • * « Snowy Baker, the Australian promoter, has inaugurated a scheme for the training of Australian schoolboys in boxing and physical exercise. * * * Pitcher Rudolph’s father is an ardent baseball fan and can tell anyone who has the time to listen, just how many men Dick has fanned all season. *

v George Stallings is nervous during a ball game. His players give him more than half the bench to slide around on and then he often has to have more room. According to figures, the American league has a faster bunch of infielders than the National. More double plays and triple plays have been recorded by the American leaguers., • * • George Kircher of thq Atlanta Southern league team is planning to go into vaudeville. Kircher hah a reputation as a clown on the diamond, but he Is a valuable ball player as well. • • • i*' -" >■’ President Ebbeta of the Brooklyn Superbaa has signed a pitcher by the name of Goodbred. With Wheat and Goodbred in the Superbaa’ lineup and Ward’s "Tip Tops” also located in Brooklyn, all we can hand John MoGraw is "Yon need a biscuit.”