Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1916 — INTERESTING SPOPT PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING SPOPT PARAGRAPHS

Jack Dillon has a way of turning pork into beef. - •?; • * * Harvard’s track squad numbers 72, a record turnout. *' * * • 1 — - , Pat Moran is hoping that his new Rhoades will lead to another chain* pionship. • * * Cincinnati amateur baseball players may wear numbers playing on public diamonds this summer. * * * - The expert who advises people to sleep sitting up must have got the hunch at a six-day bicycle race, • * * That yellow peril again—Clarence Griffin, coast tennis star, was beaten by a Jap in a tournament at Manila. * * * McGraw says he can use a few good outfielders. He’ll need more than a few if he doesn’t get some new pitch ers. * * * A Lots of people can understand Bot Hedges - selling” the Browns, but ca«’i - gather why Phil Ball wants to bus them. * * * Well, we’re no cinch bettor. We’ll wager that Charlie White can’t lick Freddie Welsh because he can’l catch him. * * * Baseball players do all sorts ol things in winter, but we learn for the first time that Mollwitz of the Jtedfi is a Silesian. * • * Cincinnati is to have a new speedway, but Pittsburgh has the fastest speedway in the league when Mamaux is pitching. ♦ * * Boston players will have to carry dictionaries with them if they are going to talk with Percy Haughton, new owner of the club. • • * The most valuable player the Browns get from the Federals is not a player, but a manager, the same being Fielder Jones. * * * Packey McFarland’s ideas of the legitimate cut between a boxer and a promoter seem to be that of the Armours and tlie pork. * • * Jimmy Callahan says he is willing to take Jimmy Archer from the Cubs. Also Cobb from the Tigers and Alexander from the Phils, eh, Jeems? * * * Rapacity and greed stalk in the land. It is said that Chess Champion Capablanca demanded the sum of sls to give an exhibition at a wealthy club. * * * Winter dopesters have awarded the National pennant to thg Cubs and the American flag to the St. Louis Browns, so let’s start the world series. —« — - Leach Cross would not agree to fight Charlie White for less than $2,500; but then we wouldn’t fight White for $2,500 unless our footwork had improved. * * fr - — Comiskey says that if St. Looey Were given a winner, it would be the best ball town in America. But what's the use of saying it—it neve? will be tested out. * * The next Vanderbilt cup race will be staged at the Sheepshead Bay track on May 13. Good time to take out accident policies on several wellknown drivers. * • • George Johnson, the Indian pitcher. Is Another one of those fortunate moundmen who ‘have everything.” Which, as Hugh Jennings once observed, an any pitcner n -:.i——- * * * It all depends nn the point of vfbw, governed largely by what you’re used to. The English think our billiard balls are absurdly large, and the Cubans think they are absurdly small. *