Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1916 — INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

Baseball peace finds the Baltimore Terrapins in the soup. .• • ♦ Navy is willing to suffer all the consequences of having a white Oliphant on its hands. * » * If a college athlete as much as stretches a muscle in summer time that makes him a professional. r • ♦ Del Howard is being urged for a place as manager of one of the Pacific Coast league tennis teams. • * • Having settled the baseball war, Barney Dreyfuss’ next move will be to look into the European muss. Canadian racetracks this year will probably have to pay a government tax of 20 per cent on gross receipts. ♦ • • This is a money-mad nation ail right. Wall street wallows in it and Packy McFarland wants $15,000 to box Ted Lewis?— " , 7• • • Critics ave*. that California will not excel at tenni« next year. Must have heard McLaughlin, Johnston, Griffin, et al, intend retiring. * * « Johnnie Ertl e seems to be another of those boys the real champion stride. He ha^ a only been picking easy marks on his jaunt East. .x-J • • • • President of the Boston Red Sox, World’s champions,, announces Bill Carrigan will be a bench manager of his team in 1916. In Atlanta t Luis Vasquez, Spanish billiard expe'rt, exhibited, and the description say“his mass shots had the crowd gaspinTv/' He must have used a choke bore \ C pe. Marty McHa> ie, once with the Red Sox, but last f season with the New Yorke, is on th ie road a* a single entertainer, his Specialty consisting of monologue and" ginging.