Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1915 — LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPOPT [ARTICLE]

LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPOPT

Yale Bowl looks something like a battered tincup these black days. ♦ • * Alma Richards, the Olympic champion high Jumper, is back at Cornell. * * • > Basket ball players regret to find that the official basket is no larger this year. • • • Willard is a funny kind of a champion. He hasn’t had the title a year, and has signed for a fight. e • • By knocking out Art Pelkey, Fred Fulton won the heavyweight championship. of Oshkosh, Wls. As the compositor might have put it, "Johnny Dundee, the Italian, wiped up the ring with Joe Rivers.” ewe Jawn McGraw wants new timber. Too°mSCh timber, we think, sent the Giants to the bottom last season. Can you imagine it? Jess Willard says he has refused an offer of SSOO a week for 20 weeks in vaudeville: a a • Ted Lewis, the English battler, has been putting it over with regularity on some of the best mitt artists of America. a • • Rube Oldring of the Athletics has retired from baseball. Rube didn’t say how much he was holding out for. * * * Ted Lewis, the English battler, says he would rather fight here than in Europe. There are no gate receipts in Europe. a * •- Good thing Johnny Dundee, the “leap-frog” fighter, doesn’t play football That hurling rule would get him, quick. ** * . According to official advices, George Stallings can stroll along the street without moving picture men bothering him every block or two. ■a a e Bill Donovan has signed so many players for the next season that he may have to lease the state of Texas for training purposes.