Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1917 — LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPOPT [ARTICLE]

LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPOPT

The hardest thing about basketball Is the other fellow’s elbows. * * * When a bicycle rider gejs a puncture could you say he was tired out? *. * * Umpire Joe O’Brien will not be In the American association this season. ♦ * * The difference between a fighter and a butcher isThe way they make weight. ♦ * * ’Twill be a cold day when we consent to watch a bunch of dog teams race. - _ Outfielder Al Sheer will change uniforms. The Toledo club sold him to the St. Paul club. ♦ ♦ . ♦ A professional amateur runner runs with his head. And he don’t wear spikcs~6n his ears. ' ' . ♦ ♦ ♦ What has become of the old-fash-ioned fight promoter who used to stage championship bouts? * ♦ ♦ Nothing wrong with the New York Boxing — commission— nothing but charges Of extortion, bribery, etc. ♦ ♦ ♦ Percy Haughton wants to reduce the size of the home plate, and It’s already so small that the umpires can’t see it. President Weeghman of the Cubs, had a salary roll of $145,000 last year. This season he will not go above the SBO,OOO mark. * * * Suggest th a t those baseball recruit s who look good, but need further seasoning should he sent, to the Mexican state of -Tabasco —— * ♦ ♦ Baseball “experts” figure that Ty Cobb is losing his, batting prowess, bup what difference does it make so long as the pitchers don’t know it? If the various' sports continue to adopt different definitions of an amateur there soon will be as many kinds of amateurs as there are sports. * * * A year ago Benny KaUff was talking over .400, but in the subsequent season he batted only .275. This winter he has been talking less than .275. • * * Philadelphia Grand circuit horse races will be decided over the Belmont at Narberth a few miles outside of the Quaker city. * ♦ * , Ten of Manager Connie Mack’s Athletic club pitchers are players who never wore the ex-champions uniforms before the present training trip. * • ♦ Lot of players got fined last November for playing baseball, but it is a safe bet that some of ’em won’t be charged with that crime next July. • * ♦ Kitty Bransfield, the new National league, ump, played first base for the dozen years ago, and Barney Dreyfus is still hunting for a successor to him. - * ♦ ♦ —, The annual Army vs. Navy football game will again be played at the Polo grounds, New York, Saturday, November 24, the Saturday before Thanksgiving day.

If all the fans organized a union and agreed to stay away from the games it would be mighty tough on some club owners, but Connie Mack wouldn’t notlce much difference. Georges Carpentier, the French champion heavyweight pugilist, and Bombardier Wells, the English fighter, are to box in Paris and the proceeds will go to the Red Cross fund. San Francisco Pacific Coast team’s new baseball park? Includes a grandstand with a seating capacity of 5,700, with additional bleachers, which wi* bring the seating capacity to 14,000.