Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1917 — UTILE PICK-UPS -OF SPOOT [ARTICLE]

UTILE PICK-UPS -OF SPOOT

Speaking of the Athletics, why should anyone? * • • General Watts, 2:06%, has had seven new 2:10 trotters this *•• - ■ ■ Joe Borrell and Jack Blackburn fought a sensational six-round draw at Philadelphia. Some umpires are now enjoying * period of peace and quiet, and soma are married. Mixing politics and fcyrtball is th® latest, but why break up a nice, gentle game like football? Frank Chance made good In the Pacific Coast league the first year h® took part in the race. _ • * • . , < "■ _ ' . ,y. , . y A good deal of the baseball reform talk is like political and other reform talk: It stops at the talk stage. • * • A popular English billiard competition is the Crystalate cup series which attracted 4,582 contestants this year. * * * —Havana bugs art? looking forward to a highly exciting baseball season. Havana dubs don’t have to go South to train. Owner Britton of the Cardinals has joined the ranks of the National leaguers who are opposed to the player limit. '• * . Frank C. Bancroft, the business manager of the Cincinnati Beds, is th® Grand Old. Man of baseball at present He I* Past seventy. • • • The Auckland (New Zealand) BaeIng club’s report for the year ending June 30 shows that stakes valued at ¥212,750 were distributed. * * * They say golf isn’t an old man’s game, but ten Philadelphia sexagenarians have challenged any other V sixty-year-olds to a match. The United States mint has brok< a record by stamping 45,231,413 coin, this year, ofwhich number Freddie Welsh has collected quite ajeg. Ty Cobb, the superman, is looking forward to a highly successful season as a nimrod. It is said that he shoots; game with bullets made of nuxated lead. • • • Cleveland people get a lot of enjoyment out of boasting abont being the “Sixth city” in population, but the fans are not so jubilant about that rank In baseball. •** • , Bowing Is one of the most pop sports at the United States academy, two varsity, a frdr five mixed class eights '' the \■ Coach Bob Fo 1 is quoted as r coach of,/" football ! ' coach ... . . - *