Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1917 — INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

But all golfers are not fibbers. Some of them can't talk. ♦ ♦ ♦ Apparently being an amateur is a profitable profession. Boxers might show more speed if they wore spiked shoes. * ♦ • Boxers are good insurance risks. They never take any chances. • • • Johnny Evers’ cofffract with the Boston Nationals expires this year. • * • Man who insists boxing is a brutal sport evidently never saw a bout. * * * Almost any golfer could dig a_ trench If permitted to use a mashle. • * « Most walkers seem to realize that they ean make better time by running. Ball players do so much fighting in the winter they’re all tired out when summer comes. • * * “X hard-hitting fighter is always popular,” writes a critic. But not with other fighters.

* * *• If ball players were fighters they’d probably kick about the referee’s decisions just the same. ♦ •' • If the Poughkeepsie rowing race is shortened the last crew won’t be so far away at the finish. * • • When it comes to the salary checks the ball player has no scruples about being called a professional. $ • • There's no truth in the report that professional Ball players will support the daylight saving movement. * * • Calling one a cheese champion these days is an honor .when you consider the price of cheese at the grocery. ♦ * • The maximum length of a soccer field Is 130 ytn-ds, minimum 100 yards; maximum breadth 100 yards, minimum 50 yards. • • • Springfield, Mass;, may secure dual races between eastern college eightoared shell crews if plans now under consideration are successful/ Gilmore Doble, former football coach of the University of Washington eleven, Mas not lost a game in the'twelve years he has been developing teams. - *** * / ’xlt 18 estimated that approximately 6,000,000 tennis were used during 1916 in the various lawn tennis matches played throughout this country. “ Best way to distinguish between an amateur and professional in golf is to listen to ’em In their moments of excitement. An amateur may use the same words as a pro, but they lack the snap and finish which the professional gives ’em. '