Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1914 — GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

Eastern college oarsmen are having fall workouts. Chief Albert Bender confesses to thirty-one years. > • • * Princeton university will construct a $25,000 track house. • • • Colin Bell, the Australian heavyweight, is -a sterling track athlete and also a fine bike rider. • * * Adrian Hogan, one of the best middleweights in France, was seriously wounded in the battle at Mons. ♦ • * Higginbotham, the old University of Texas end, is making a good showing at left end on the Yale varsity team. ■' • • • Coach Haughton- sprung a surprise at Cambridge when he shifted Ernie Soucy, the veteran varsity center, to right end. ♦ • « Sol Metzgar, Penn’s 1903 football captain, is coaching West Virginia university and not West Virginia Wesleyan as was reported. • * ♦ Battling Levinsky gave Jim Flynn an artistic trouncing in a ten-round bout that went the limit at the Broadway A. C. of Brooklyn. J - Truly war must be all that—the English soldiers play football for recreation between battles. Are there no Eichenlaubs in Germany? Every time one thinks of George Stallings coming back inte die American league as part owner tone has a vision of a fat man growing apoplectic.