Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1916 — SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE]

SPORTING WORLD

The chief excuse for playing hockey seems to be to get a skate on. * * * Basketball is a great game. It gives a lot of youths an excuse for fighting. * * * “Benny” Kauff is managing a fighter. Letting someone else do the hitting for him. *- * * Zulu -Kid has sailed for England to meet Jimmy Wilde in London In December. * * * You never hear of a player being in contempt for putting up a racket in a tennis court. * * * Wild Bill Donovan seems bent on tightening his defense. See where be has signed up Buckles. *- * * Johnny Kilbane declares he can make 118 pounds and is ready to meet Kid Williams at this weight. * * * There isn’t anything In a name,, after all. For instance, there’s Heinie Groh. He’s been 5 feet 7 inches for six years. * * * If Champion Jess Willard decides to fight again this winter he will have to be hoisted into the ring with a derrick. * * * They are playing golf by moonlight in Philadelphia. As you no doubt have heard, everybody sleeps in the daytime. f* * k Just as a matter of curiosity, what would it profit a fellow to gain an amateur golf championship and lose his Job? % ** * » Jake Daubert, who has always j)een regarded as the best first baseman in the National league, looked poorly to the world’s series. • * * Fighters who would rather battle than eat %re commonplace these days, but you’ve got to admit some of themhave mighty healthy appetites. * * , * John McGraw showed excellent judgment in nursing Ferdle Schupp for two years. He had experience in tutoring Rube Marquard in the same way. , /* * * Clarence Brodie, the big guard of the 1915 University of Chicago eleven, has left that institution and entered the Sheffield school at Yale. He will be a valuable addition to Yale’s forces in another year. ‘