Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1917 — INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

wniteyHoppenallows the other fellow to do the boasting. *• * * * • Tlie fan Is the only athlete who doesn’t know when he’s had enough. —4» Anyone can fight, but it takes a ehampion to know when and whom to fight. « * if Kid McCoy has been divorced again, this making the eighth time. That bird always was lucky. r ** * ' Jack Dillon has opened a case in Indianapolis. Jack’s sunny disposition should drag a lot of trade. * * * The New York public schools indoor atbLetic championships recently decided included 1,327 youngsters. - . - * Jt. , iil As a baseball president Harry Frazee is one of the best little theatrical promoters in the business. - . *, * » Minneapolisboasts the first complete indoor golf course ever built, which is located in a big office building Ihere. * * * “Man wants but little here below,” sang the poet, but It is a safe bet that he had never heard of Jess Willard. * * * This has been a dull winter for the paragraphers. They haven’t had much cause to knock the St. Louis Browns. * * * ' The South is resigned to its fate. Having entertained baseball players before, it knows just what is coming. * * * Oh, well, what if steel golf clubs do cost more than woodien ones? What does a real golfer care about expense? * * * A dumb man could get about as much satisfaction playing golf as a deaf man could get at a modern boxing bout. • * * As one wit has aptly remarked: “When the lion and the lamb in baseball lie down together the lamb will be infside." • * >* Fred Fulton says he intends to force Jess Willard into a fight. After they get Into the fight Jess will probably have to do the forcing. • * * Clarence Walker is to have A rival. Clarence Rowland is said to have signed an outfielder who, when he Was a pitcher, was the wildest heaver in captivity. ■ - AAA ; The Chicago Nationals announce the release of Pitcher George Zabel to the Los Angeles Coast League club. He was with Lob Angeles last year, but Chicago had recalled him. *■’ * * * Phil Lewis; with the Kansas City team last jejar, is reported to have fallen heir to an Income of SIO,OOO a year trirough the death of his parents and he is not expected to play baU this year. t ;