Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1916 — NOTES OF SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES OF SPORTDOM

“Home Run” Baker will receive $lO/ 000 a year. * * ♦ Spike Hennessey will open a base ball school in Salt Lake city. • • • The signing of Otto Merz gives Omaha six pitchers it believes it can de pend on. * * ♦ ■ , : The Denver club of the Western league has sold Pitcher Harry Gaskell to Sioux City. ♦ ♦ ♦ Beals Becker, the outfielder, is trying to land a job with the Los Angeles team of the Pacific Coast league. « • * The New Yorks have drawn freely Connie Mack for players Baker, Brown, Dailey, Walsh and Shawkey. • • * The Cincinnati Reds will play an exhibition game with the New York Americans, in some neutral city, on July 24. • * • With Meister and Meisner both on the South Bend Central league team, the scorers are in for a lot of trouble this season. * * * Manager Fohl of Cleveland declares that Fred Coumbe,' the young southpaw, is one of the few players who work too hard. i'♦ » * ; The” Binghamton (N. Y.) State league club announces the transfer of Outfielder Jack Blake to the Buffalo Internationals. • • • Pitcher Bert Larson, who was with St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City last year, has been secured from the latter club by Topeka. * * * Arthur Irwin, veteran scout and famous player, has been appointed business manager of the Toronto International league team. • • * Columbia university will build a $20,000 floating clubhouse for its rowing candidates on the Edgewater side of the Hudson river. • * • The transfer of Charley Moll to Win nipeg has given “Shorty” Brautigam a chance to manage the Superior team of the Northern league. • ♦ * The Cincinnati club has purchased from the Sinclair interests southpaw Heinie Schulz, who jumped from Frank Chance’s, 1914 New Yorks to the Buffeds. * « * Jim Thorpe, the famous Indian athlete, regarded as the best all-round athlete in the world, who is now a member of the New York National league club, has lately joined the ranks of the golfers. , ~ - ,-y ■ ' The loss of Heilman, Corhan and Schmidt will leave a great gap in the San Francisco machine, but Owner Berry Is optimistic and declares that the Seals will be even stronger than they were in 1015.