Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1917 — LITTLE PIC-UPS OF SPORT [ARTICLE]

LITTLE PIC-UPS OF SPORT

Joie Ray is a great runner, but he has nothing on Fred Welsh. - _• * * The University of Syracuse baseball nine will play 29 games this year. •* • ■ Doesn’t look as if Connie MaclTwould develop many players good enough to sell this year. ♦ * • Pugilists are the only fellows who get good money for striking, and then half the time they don’t. * ■ Croquet originated in France, but you’d never suspect it the way them Frenchmen are fighting. • « • There are about a dozen pro-ball clubs in New York state, and yet they talk of abolishing fighting. • • * __ Mai Eason has been released as a National league empire, but Stallings and Johnny Evers are still left. • * * The Cincinnati Reds always have a great ball club except in April, May, June, July. August and September. Don’t get your Johnsons of the Athletic team, mixed. Jing and Ellis are pitchers and Bill is an‘outfielder bold. .• * * Manager Lee Fohl of Cleveland says the four teams that will be in the race this year are Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and Boston. •» * • There is a scarcity of material for making billiard balls. No wonder; they have been making heads for ball players out of it. Jimmie Smith, a shortstop on the Pittsburgh • National league team, has been sent to the Toronto club of the International league. • • • Big league managers who have been engrossed all winter winning pennants are fully occupied now with one hard proposition after another. .* • * Lajoie day will be celebrated in Toronto next season whsn one of the American league teams plays an exhibition game with Toronto. • • • The failure to secure permission to play Sunday .ball in Little Rock means the dating of the Little Rock team for many Sunday games in Memphis again. • a. • John McGraw evidently has picked up another Charley Faust in Bin Baars, who is being used as a coacher. Baars, has a fog horn voice that is a thing of beauty in its way. _