Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1917 — SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE]

SPORTING WORLD

Somebody is always taking the glee out of existence. All athletes are not real athletes. Some of them are just lucky. Fighters are the only ones who can pose as fighters without fighting. * * * F Mlfrhril Tg golng tO release about ten Cubs and get some players. Automobiling is supposed to be sport, mo tor car owner knows (life ferently. • • • The trouble with our amateur athletes seems to be that they are all professionals. * * ♦ There are 33 trapshooting organizations on the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad company. * • • Golf matches are usually played in _two rounds. But this doesn’t, apply to the nineteenth hole. The cross-country runners have nothing on some of our well-known long-distance talkers. —‘ Judging by the demands of most fighters, they cannot afford to fight because of the high cost of living. * « •- *“’T— Our best little woman golfers and tennis players have It on the men. They are always able to keep in shape. There will be five big league clubs in the National league race this year. And then there will be the Cards, Cubs and Reds. * • • Instead of wasting time talking alxmt a third major league, the Xational league ought to try to be a second one. * » ♦ Some boxers seemto he afraid of overworking if they fight once a year, and others consider a couple of days between fights aJong vacation. • * * An amateur is a man who doesn’t capitalize his profession, says a re,.ent definition. Any interpretation that will suit your ends is permissible. • * ♦ (’h r isty. Ma thewspn. maynot-bew i idly enthusiastic about Cincinnati ballplayers, but he says that Cincy could win a pennant every year in a checker league. * * • In New Orleans they, are hailing Pete Herman as the bantamweight champion. In St. Paul they have crowned Johnny Ertle. 3ther cities are yet to be heard from. * - In some colleges the husky studesall try to make fhd eleven, and in others, jhdging from results, the poor victims are sentenced for their sins to serve time on the football team. Oscar Vitt is going to have some trouble holding down his job as third baseman for the Tigers the coming year if "aTElhe - , a<s«ut RoyJones, the San Francisco wonder, is true. FE__.E» •