Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1917 — LITRE PICK-UPS – OF SPORT [ARTICLE]

LITRE PICK-UPS - OF SPORT

Tennis courts made of rubber are the latest invention. * * * At Yale fall sports were participated in by 2,250 students. '* * * The most vicious things about some fighters are their faces, * * * Forty-one figures make up the international ice skating code. * * * Cleveland will form a city lawn tennis association early in 1917. * * * Some golfers can get more distance in a putt than they can in a drive. * * * ? Most wrestlers must like to preserve their bouts, so they have been framed. * * . * Wanted —Someone to manufacture a scales large enough to weigh Jess Willard. ■\ * * * Most boxers ought to make good with a Circus? they are accustomed to ring work. , _ * * * ' Footwork is the chief feature in la savate. It is also the chief feature in boxing. * * • A bicycle rider is the only one who can ride for six days without getting anywhere. « * * We can’t help thinking that it must be nice to be big and peaceful like Jess Willard. * * * % Jose R. Capablanca *has gone to his home in Havana, where he will remain for several months. == 7 = * * * If most boxers ran into a fight as quickly as they run away from it there’d be action a-plenty. • * * * Charley Ebbets still believes that baseball is in its infancy In spite of the size of Wilbert Robinson. * * * ""•Would you call boxing a business or ai sport?” queries “A Reader.” In most instances it is a crime. * * * Cleveland and Buffalo yacht clubs wHI go in for sinall beat racing inlm terlake competition next summer. ** * ; The average ball player,doesn’t care any more about, his average, than a hard-boiled egg does about a nickel. * * * All sporting promoters are advocates of the catch-as-catch-can style of wrestling. They use the grip on the public. * * ♦ If Charley Ebbets could ring in Wilbert Robinson ■as one man, he would be putting over a little something on his rivals. ' * * * There’s nothing like being a fight manager. The other fellow does all the fighting and his manager gets all the dough. * * * Now that John McGraw has won the 1917 pennant in the National league, the other managers have nothing to worry about,- * • Havana wants the Olympic games, but if she can’t get ’em she’ll be satisfied with the skating and ski-jumping, championships.

Cross-country running, like rowing, is one of the branches of sport in which the Cornell university athletes are hard to defeat, «* * * Shermah was right about war, but why did he stop there? So is matrimony, football, umpires, twins and a lot of 6fher things. », ■-* —♦ * ' . —7"- — Barney Dreyfuss, the Pirates’ boss, wants a national commission composed of members who have no connection with baseball. » » 77 Manager Mitchell of the Gubs says he fears Alexander more than any National league pitcher. He has nothing on about 200 batters in the National league. * * * Baseball players are to be forbidden by their bosses from “writing” stories for newspapers on the world's series games. This will be a decided gain for * * * Western and Pac«c coast colleges will likely be given representation on the intercollegiate football rules committee at the next meeting of the organization. * « . • Al Mamaux lost ten pounds in vaudeville and had to guit to get in shape for his pitching job. Mamaux is said to have one of the best right-banded voices in baseball. " * * * According to *he papers, a manager of a college baseball nine has been deprived of Ids amateur standing because he worked in a jewelry stor» on Saturdays and sold ivory. * * * The most surprising development of the Winter league season is Mathewson’s continued popularity in Cincinnati. He is so popular that some of the fans call him Von Mathewson. * • * Harry Fra zee, the new head of the Red Sox. started life in much the same manner as Joe Lannin, late owner of the champions. Frazee was a bellhop in a Peoria hotel for several seasons.