Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1917 — SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE]

SPORTING WORLD

Billy Miske Is an awful queer fighter. "He fights. t • • If ball players earn their money the rest of the working world is underpaid. * * * If the ball players go on strike it’s a cinch they will not demand an eighthour day. * * * The difference between an amateur aiid a professional is the professional admits it. * * * A commercial paper reports a shortage of ivory, without having heard of any ball players dying. ~ ' The reason so many young men aspire to be professional ball players may be attributed to a dislike for hard work. * * * “Benny” Leonard may be worth $50,000, ljut that does not hecessarily mean that he earned it. He’s a boxer you know. . *- * . * __ r , ...1--.:: It is not difficult to distinguish between an amateur and professional boxer. In fact, most of them are ameteurs. - - ■ , Attempting to learn to play baseball by the correspondence school method is about as nutritious as eating bouillon with a fork. * * * . -• # Sparrow Robertson, the noted starter and track builder, has been engaged to build a new quarter-mile track for the Bates college athletes. Captain Warner of Williams college has sent out a call to all swimming candidates and hopes to start practice for the divers and plungers immediately. * * * EddieMensor, formerly with Portland, later with Pittsburgh and last season with Spokane, has been signed to play with the Oakland club next year. • * * Such are the temptations to extravagance. in a" college community that many a football star leaves the temple of learning with no more coin than when he entered.- • * * . Guy Morton of the Cleveland is the leading strike-out pitcher of the major leagues for 1916, his feat in fanning 13 Mtrckmen on June 12 earning him the honors. r ' 'V : ** * V Judging from the forecasts of the scribes of various cities, the second divisions of all leagues will be vaeaa* next year, while the first divisions will have straphanging room only.