Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — LITTLE PICK-UPS – OF SPORT [ARTICLE]

LITTLE PICK-UPS - OF SPORT

Stanley Yoakum was well calked in eastern bouts. * * • Baseball tickets will not be sold in the 5 and. 10-cent stores this year. * * * Pocket billiards title seems to change owners as often as Willie Hoppe’s title doesn’t. If “Gunboat” Smith expects to be champion of the world he must believe in reincarnation. ■ ■ - ♦—* * —- ——- If too much exercise is injurious some ball players ought to stay away from the dinner table. * » ♦ Columbia has got out a football schedule, but they did that last year without playing any football. ♦ • ♦ Boxing to aid the European sufferers is all right, but who’s going to aid the sufferers who see the fights? ♦ * ♦ All baseball managers should make expert lumber men, they have had so much experience dealing in wood. « « « A dumb man could get about as much satisfaction playing golf as a deaf man could get at a modern boxing bout. ♦ * ♦ Professional runners don’t seem to be as prevalent as they used to be, probably because they have taken up boxing. . “A golfer must be able to think,” we are informed by a golfing publication. Thomasrot. Don’t boxers and ballplayers golf ? * • • GrouchyGnssays:“Thereisone virtue in basketball—you don’t have to play it or see it if you are in your right mind. ~ .

One often hears of pugilists engaging in a fight to settle a grudge, but one notes that it is never a grudge against money. * ♦ ♦ Portland has three players who by all rights should be members of the Salt Lake Bees. They are Big-Bee, Hig-bee, and Be-bee. * « • Boxers are a lot more prevalent In winter than in summer because sleeping In the open is so darned uncomfortable In the gelid season. ♦ ♦ ♦ Spring training is necessary for ball players, because some of ’em scarcely touch a card all winter long, and get mighty rusty in their poker. II Going to be a lot of reforms in baseball this year, so why not pass a rule requiring umpires to address the customers in the English language? j ns t because Tex Riekard went to sea to get his fish is no reason for people to call Lek Darcy one of that breed of swimmers that are round and bony. • • • There is a possibility that Miss Fannie Durack and Miss Mina Wylie, the great women swimmers from Australia, may come to this country this summer. Near-champion pngs have no more right to demand what they do of promoters than a cigar store salesman has to sell cigars to a woman before Christmas. The Culver brothers, twins, who play on the Schoot high school of Toledo football team, are probable students at the University of Pennsylvania next fall. They play tackle positions. FoottwH-stGallaudet eollegerWashington, D, C., in 1917, will be under the guidance of twin brothers, Arthur Weryjer having elected.to the captaincy of the eleven, while Ray Wenger is to be manager.