Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1918 — INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

This is the busy season for that well-known old veteran, Charles Horse, * * * Allan Sothoron, Brown hurler, has been put in the deferred class by his draft board. • * « ’Tis rumored the Great Zlm wore out three pairs of running shoes at Hot Springs. • • * Twenty years ago an offer of $50,000 for a championship battle would have caused a panic. • • • While that New York draft board 1% examining Benny Kauff it might measure the. size of his bump of ego. * * * Lee Magee will find himself at home In Cincinnati, now that he has been traded to Matty by the Browns. * * * Marty McHale, former Yankee hurler, is now a first lieutenant in the Twenty-second engineers regiment. * * * Vic Saier has written the Pirates that he will be unable to play this, season as his injured ankle has not healed. * * * A White Sox rumor has it that Swede Risberg will be understudy to Chick Gandil this year as a first baseman. * * * The San Francisco club announces the signing of the veteran John Hummel, with the idea of using him in the outfield. * * * After an intermission of ten years, rugby football is to be played by Kansas City (Mo.) high school athletes next fall. • * * Nick Altrock, vaudeville artist of the diamond apd. coach for the Washington twirlers, will again be seen in his usual antics on the field. * * * Corporal Homer J. Wheaton, reported killed in action in France, was for six years sporting editor of the Worcester, Mass., Gazette.

* * * Both San Antonio and Fort Worth report the signing of Earl Bitting, a third baseman. One of the magnates must be standing on his foot. * Jimmy Archer, by returning to the Pirates, lands with the club with which he started his major league career. Jimmy joined Fred Clarke there in 1904. • * * Cornell baseball players will be required to furnish their own uniforms, equipment, etc. When the varsity nine is. chosen it will be outfitted by the Athletic association. * • * George Burns feels that the fates have been unkind to him. Shortly after, he received word that he was in class one In the draft, he was notified that he had been traded to the Athletics for Ping Bodie. ** * ' For the past two seasons Walter Johnson has led his league in strikeouts. He fanned 185 men last summer and 228 in 1910 for a total of 413. His best year was in 1910, when he turned back 313 would-be hitters. * * * When Babe Ruth’s days are ended as a major league pitcher he will be shunted into the outfield, instead of being sent to the minors. His hitting ability will keep him in the big show. Last year he hit .326, in 1916, .272, and in 1915, .315. •• • - Eppa Jeptha Rixey, the elongated Philiy hurler, is getting farther away from home every day. He la k lieutenant and has been transferred from Camp Bowie, Tex., to Camp Fremont, Cal. Eppa’s specialty is- making the cantonments sanitary. \