Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1916 — LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPORT [ARTICLE]

LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPORT

Buck Herzog will have seven different nationalities on his ball team for next year. Ames college has taken up wrestling. It was put down nearly everywhere else. • • • The chances are that Branch Rickey will be retained as a scout for the Browns next year. Indoor football has its advantages over the outdoor game. You don’t get cold feet while rooting. ♦ • * The Pittsburgh club has made a contract with Los Angeles to send three players there for next season. « ♦ • ” Pat Moran says he does not want to get back any of the players that jumped from the Phillies to the Feds. • • • Greater New York may enjoy Sunday baseball. It is planned to play Sunday games at the Newark park. • • * Warning to golf champions—McLoughlin, the California tennis comet, has taken up the game. • • * The Cincinnati club Is after Nick Cullop, the Kansas City Fed pitcher, but the price may be prohibitive. • n • Some Fed owners left with ballplayers on their hands are willing to give trading stamps with every purchase. • * • “Chief” Meyers says “Now the ball players will begin to pay the freight.” Somebody been telling the “Chief” inside secrets? « * • Dave Altizer and Otis Clymer, former big-leaguers, and recently with the Minneapolis Millers, have Quit the game. • • • Federal league "umpires will. have to hustle for themselves if they want jobs for next year, according -to announcement. Lots of people can Understand Bog Hedges selling the Browns, but can’t gather Phil Ball wants to buy them. • • • Owen V. Van Camp, sprinter and jumper, was unanimously elected captain of the Illinois Athletic club track team for 1916 at the annual dinner and election. Frank Arellanes, former Red Sox hurler, has been signed to pitch for the Vernon Pacific Coast teaxh for next year. • • • Kaji Yamada says that he spoiled his stroke by trying to imitate Hoppe. A good many have done it by trying to beat Hoppe. • • • St. Louis will have only two ball teams next season, which means the grandstand managers will have one less team to manage. The players the Phillies sent tcMhe Portland club last year did not make good and now Moran’s team is looked upon as a hoodoo on the western coast.