Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1917 — LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPORT [ARTICLE]

LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPORT

Joe Tinker’s transfer to Columbus ought to help the Cubs. Some of the athletic dubs that get into the si>otllght are transparent. • « » Darcy is not an undertaker, but dozens of people are dying to meet him, • • • Young Zulu Kid is probably convinced that Jimmie Wilde is wild enough. ♦ ♦ • __ Jess Willard denies that he had to exhibit in the elephant tent while on the road last summer. • « • The average pitcher has no more use for a bat than a bricklayer has for a band leader’s baton. • • * Merlon cricket club, Haverford, within a few miles of Philadelphia, has 40 grass tennis courts. • • • The Giants are going in for violet uniforms again next /ear, with sweater Jackets of royal purple. * « • Suggestion —Why not time boxers in their race around a ring and give a prize to the best sprinter? L—i Lt aL. The Cubs will be in the race next season. It takes eight teams to fill out the schedule arrangement.

♦ ♦ ♦ Joe Tinker says luck counts In playis lucky If he doesn’t get killed. i • » * The Big Nine western conference track and field meet Is to be held at Chicago on Stagg field June 2 next. The United States Football association, the governing body of the soccer game, has 5,000 players enrolled on teams. Did you ever notice the similarity between submarines and some players? They take a dive at the slightest provocation. Cincinnati and Milwaukee didn’t do very well In baseball last year, but they are there with the bells on In the Skat league. » • * • The baseball scout, each year goes our, to see what he can see. He picks up hicks, from out the sticks, the fields of ivory.

Bob Fol well wants Pennsylvania to play the "all-American” football team. Well, Bill Clymer challenged the Bed Sox for Louisville. • • • The Cubs changed from Tampa to Pasadena for training grounds, but Tampa must Se*given credit for standing a lot of punishment. • ' e * The Springfield (Mass.) Y. M. C. A. gymnastic squad will take port, la meets, the largest schedule ever mapped out for a squad of that college. • • • ' Pitcher Jean Dubuc of the Detroit Tigers is trying to buy a minor league franchise with the expectation of becoming a regular gaseball magnate. » . Oregon Aggies may take up English style Rugby football and play Intramural games, as well as a contest with Stanford next fjj|l, in San Francisco. .