Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1915 — SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE]

SPORTING WORLD

i BASEBALL While picking managers tor the .Tanks why not Ping Bodie? • • * V ;.. Among others who favor a bigger world's series are the scalpers. • • • Some baseball players are learning to play golf and others are getting appendicitis—more signs of prosperity. • * * Bobby Wallace’s average for 20 years is .282. Last year was his poorest at .211. * * * This is the season of the year when major league ball club magnates sit back and talk about spring training trips. * • * It is whispered in the Northwest that the Northern league club owners would like to affiliate themselves with the Federal league. ■* • * Manager McGraw must expect to win the National league pennant next season, for he is already on the job, working day and night. * * • Perhaps Walter Johnson thought It all over and decided be didn’t want to pitch any more duels with Rankin Johnson, so joined the same club. • * • Dick Kauffman of the Elmira club is the star sticker of the N®w York Stat% league for last year with .329. St. Louis Browns have drafted him. * • * The Cardinals are going to train at Hot Wells, Tex., next spring. The popularity of the Lone Star state as a training ground Is increasing each year. * * • George Wiltse is being touted for a managerial job with a possible new International league team In Syracuse, which will replace Jersey City unless Ebbetts transfers the franchise to Brooklyn. * * * Both New York and_Cincinnati are angling for the services of Charlie Dooin. Should the Joints grab the former Phil leader, Dooin the Bed will have to reconcile himself to real, honest work.