Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1917 — GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

Joe Wood got the smoke back in his arm sitting in New York fight clubs. * * ♦ Our idea of nothing to worry about is which team will finish next to the Giants. —— • * • Alexander, the Phillies’ great pitcher, celebrated his thirtieth birthday a few days ago. * * • Impossible things to do —Get in front of Benny Kauff when the movie man shows up. Harry Niles, former Saint, who is on the reserve list of the Kansas City club, may retire from organized baseball. • * ♦ Manager Connie Mack of the exchampion Athletics of the American league, sayS he is through selling ball. players. • * • A writer says the public soon tires of seeing baseball players on the stage. The public is certainly not to blame for that. * * * According to President Dave Fultz’s .annual report the baseball players fraternity Included 1.215 players in its membership. * • • James Hagey, a recruit pitcher who was tried out by Cleveland last fall, has been sent to Sioux City of the Western league. ♦ • * _ From all accounts the Yankees ha ve picked up a splendid catcher in Julian Olsen, who played semi-pro ball in Florida last year. • * * The Eastern league announces that it has paid off the claims assessed against it when the Eastern Association was absorbed. •- • « In a six-day bicycle race the endurance medal should go to the spectator who watches the riders the greatest number of hours • * • When umpires, boxers and southpaw pitchers can get married, there is no excuse for any man remaining single except good judgment. * * * With ball players taking military training, the life of the umpires is going to be filled to overflowing with joy and roses—and torpedoes. ♦ • « Fred Jacklitsch, the veteran catcher of the Philadelphia and Brooklyn teams, Is an applicant for the position of coach with the Cincinnati Beds. •♦• - - • If the Reds fail to make good this year, Christy Mathewson will have to give orders through a megaphone to be heard above the anvil chorus. • * * Catcher Pius Schwert, formerly a member of the Yankees and still held ~ by the club, has sent' word that he has retired* permanently from baseball. * * • The ball player will have to pay advanced prices for his shoes and gloves this year. The increase on baseball shoes is about 20 per c* nt, while that of gloves is even higher. • * • A baseball game between the Notre Dame university nine and * the University of Michigan will be a feature of the diamond jubilee exercises of the Catholic institution June 8. • • • - Fielder Jones was unable to. get 'Fritz Maisel, of the Yan*-s, ad Jimmy,, Austin, the monologist, will address himself to third base problems on the Browns’ inner cordon for another season. ■ , 7