Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — NOTES of SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES of SPORTDOM

No matter who plays, in most of the football games the ticket scalpers are winners. • • • All of the clubs In the Western league are said to have made money this year, except seven. • * * According to latest the Dodgers haven’t cracked under the strain of having so much money. • * ■ Gloomy Gus says: The man who invented basketball was in all other respects a respectable and decent citizen. - ■ ♦ * * Minneapolis boxing promoter w»uld give bonuses to flght.ers scoring knockouts. He automatically bars Freddie Welsh. The McGraw who plays tackle for Princeton is not John of Giant fame. If he were he would be a great kicker. , - • * <- ' Miller Huggins has been given permission to trade any player on his team. He might be able to get a few broken bats In exchange. * .* • In the good old days of boxing a champion often, fought on a “winner take all” basis. Nowadays all a champion' wants.? whether he wins or loses. is everything. . • « • _ A futurity candidate recentlyplaced in Tommy Murphy’s stable at Poughkeepsie is a yearling Ally by Mainstreet, 2:05, out of Lady Jay, 2:13, by Jay McGregor, 2.07%. A revised version of the sale of the Red Sox shows the club went for .$750,000 Instead of $075,000. Yet Charley Ebbetts had nerve enough to ask a million anti a half for the Dodgers. • • • All of the big league parks how seep comparatively quipt and deserted and melancholy, except Shibe park, Philadelphia, where the attendance continues about—the same as it was in September. \ John L. Collyer la. coaching Cornell university oarsmen, assisted by former Coach Charles Courtney, In an | advisory capacity. The early workouts attracted 150 candidates for the varsi|ty and freshmen eights.