Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1918 — INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

Yale university crewmen practice three days a week. • • • Delaware college will cut out the Thanksgiving day football games. * • • Why is it that when somebody mentions Eddie Collins you think of Heinie Zim? * • • Freddy Parent, former star infielder of the Chicago White SOx, wants to come back. * * • No freak deliveries of any sort will be permitted in the Western league this season. • • • The Braves are bringing back Mickey Doolan. N. L. umpires won’t have such a soft time,-after all. * * * Musser, the new pitcher of the Chicago White Sox, was a strike-out specialist in the minor leagues. » ♦ ♦ On account of war conditions the famous patriots' day marathon race will not be-held in Boston this year. _♦ * * The American Amateur Trapshooters’ association has a membership of 1,500 clubs made up of 100,000 members. ’ Jack Eller, the former champion hurdler, is now doing duty as athletic director somewhere behind the lines tn France. * ♦ ♦ Jimmy Smith, substitute infielder ol the N6w York plants, has been sent to Boston to complete the recent HerzogDoyle deal. • * •. There is a likelihood of a league ol gun clubs being formed among the golf and country clubs of New England this spring.' Dartmouth .college will add wall scaling, obstacle races and tugs-of-war and other military features to novice race meets this year. k,.. * • • • An 18-hole golf course at Atlantic City, open to the public, is one of the possibilities for the near future at the soyth Jersey resort. • • • Benny Leonard is one fighter who does not draw the color line. But then Benny never lets any prejudice interfere with his business. ♦ ♦ ♦ Yale will have Penn varsity and freshmen eight-oared shell crews as rivals in the opening races over the Housatonic river course, Derby, Conn. • * • •- Toledo bowlers already are laying plans for the 1919 tournament of the American Bowling congress, since their city was picked for the next tournament. • * • The Harvard Athletic council has' approved of the plans for a three-cor-nered track meet between Harvard, Yale and Princeton at the Harvard stadium. • * • Al Baird, the Giant youngster who enlisted In the naval reserve force, has organized a ball team at the base In Louisiana at which he Is stationed and has written to the New York club for his bats. •• • - Miss Mary K, Browne, woman’s national tennis champion In 1912, 1913 and 1914. who recently retired. Is one of the few women who ever defeated Miss Molla BjnrstedL Miss Browne now is teller ot a Los Angeles bank.