Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1916 — SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE]

SPORTING WORLD

Frank Ivanaly, the famous Boston middle-disttyice runner, has retired. Fielder Jones has hooked a pitcher named Trout, who is said to possess a fishball delivery. * * * Eight Harvard field goal kickers are being coached by Charles E. Brickley, the former Crimson star. Coach C. J. McCoy begins his third year as coach of the University of Florida eleven this season. * * * Charles Brickley, the famous Harvard football player, Is coaching Boston college gridiron aspirants. * * See where Mike Gibbons is thinking about battling Jack Dillon. One can’t be pinched for just thinking. * * * Reports have it that Dana B. Jenkins, the New Orleans sprinter, will enroll with the University of Maine. * * • The score of 99 has been an unusually important tally in trap shooting in the past and especially this year. * * “Tad” Jones, the new Yale head coach, has determined that his players shall rigidly observe training rules. * * * Hal Wright, captain of the Williams ’varsity football team, has been declared ineligible to play this season. * * * Jess Willard is a great disappointment as a champion pugilist. Apparently he has no desire to own a saloon. * * * University of California will have twin brothers, Harry and Warren Lamport of Los Angeles, on the athletic team. * * * “Hack” Spencer is the only catcher I in the big leagues who doesn’t wear i shin guards. No wonder he came back so fasti * * * Dispatches from Atlantic City indicate that Fred Plum is a demon trapshot. It’s been said that Plum is a Peach on the range. * * * Having the best pitchers, batters and fielders in the International league, it is said Buffalo couldn’t do otherwise than win the pennant. * * * Eddie Driggs, who has been elected to lead the Princeton baseball team next spring, has been welcomed into the Princeton football camp. * * * Shaw is a pitcher on the Washington team, but he isn’t the Shaw that wrote “Arms and the Man,” which is ! recommended to all big league twirlers. * * One of the latest women to become converted to trap shooting and become an ardent devotee is Mrs. A. L. Brown of Cleveland, 0., the wife of a former , Ohio state champion. * * * The Allegheny Sportsmen’s association has reintroduced elk into West Virginia. The organization owns a preserve of about 25,000 acres near Minnehaha Springs, W. Va. * * * James Thompson, the professional ’ jgolfer at the Philadelphia Country club, broke the course record, turning jin a card of 67 for the 18 holes. The previous record was 68. „ v-# * •* Detroit will soon boast a six-story structure devoted exclusively to bowling and billiards. It will contain 88 bowling alleys and 12 English, 39 pocket and 54 carom billiard tables. * * * . John N. Overton of Yale, the intercollegiate cross-cOuntry champion, was declared ineligible to represent the iNew York A. C. in open competition by the registration committee of the Metropolitan association,