Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1917 — SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE]

SPORTING WORLD

Harvard will play ten football games to 1917. * * * Nothing surprises us any more. Kid Broad is in the movies; , _ _ ■•- *- ♦ ♦ Count that day lost when the Cards and Pirates escape being sold. -.—-a * * * proselyting, whatever that means. * * * Our idea of nothing to read —A review <k-the-year’s wrestling bouts. Roddi McDonald is middeweight champion of Canada, proving nothing, j* • » Fred Mitchell used to be a pitcher on the Athletics, and also on the Phillies. -.* * * The wise boxer will hire a manager who can do the 100-yard dash in ten flat. * * * Some of the pugs would get more bouts if it were not for the railroad fares. * * * Jess Willard may go into the movies. He would make a big man in the movies. * * * Before baseball gloves were invented players fought under London prize ring rules. .. _ * * * Les Darcy is certainly a fine fellow. He promised George Chip he will knock him out again.' * * * Beef is going up, but magnates of the diamond say bone will be cheaper than ever next year. * * * Manager McGraw is still working to get Tillie Shafer to return to the game to play with the Giants. * * * Johnny Dundee, the clever New York lightweight boxer, earned $30,003 in 20 boxing contests during 1916. * * * Every winter the National league meets in order that it may go through * *. * ... Big league ball players have sad lives. After they wear out their usefulness they go into vaudeville.

Kitty Bransfield will become a National league umpire, showing that Kitty doesn’t care Where he works. * * * Except in weight, height and reach, Jess Willard doesn’t seem to be physically superior to any of his rivals. It seems as though they can’t keep Larry McLean out of such burgs as Cincinnati, Milwaukee and St. Louis. * * * We note that Chick Evans will teach the Cubs how to bat. We always wondered what a golf champion was good for. ♦ * * University of New Hampshire students are going to build their ■ own stadium, including bleachers, track and field. The San Francisco six-day bike race has been called off. Showing that San Francisco doesn’t fall for the squirrel stuff. ——— * * * It is easy enough to fill an emperor’s shoes, but Ty Cobb’s and Honus Wafc. ner’s footwear are something else again. * * * The magnates lose money every year —but you never hear of any of ’em riding the rods to the annual league meetings. —j —* * * One would think there was a little Indian blood in Ban Johnson when it comes to granting favors to minor leagues. ' • • . • » » » '; Australians are ready to pass Les Darcy the “rawsberry” if he ever goes back. Les may go back —but not to Australia. ■ ~ a. »* * * Art Fromrae, former New York and Cincinnati pitcher, was a star of the first water last year in the Pacific Coast leugue.

Many sporting celebrities have broken into the movies of late, but Jose Cnpahlanea, the chesswizard, hasbeen a movie artist for years. » *' The early baseball dope fforo tte' Northwest is that the Millers expect to have their uniforms laundered before the start of next season. —- '■ — ‘ * * * Some -of the players who were soaked by the national commission for barnstorming were not even accused of playing ball last summer. Football coaches should never cuss. They have no more right to cuss than a Greek professor, or a professor in Gfeek. But imagine a professor cussing in Greek. • * * * ... * A yarn from Pennsylvania tells of a man over eighty years old playing football. Probably this mun’s father played football .in Minneapolis a couple of years ago. .*■ * * The magnates of the National league have shown that they have some sentiment in their makeup after all. By pensioning John B. Day at the recent session they recognized real merit.