Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1918 — LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPORT [ARTICLE]

LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPORT

The Central league will operate as a six-club circuit. *. * t Cornell university has five crews at work, directed by Coach Courtney. Biggest howl over the baseball war tax will come from the guy with a pass. ♦ • • The University of Michigan baseball nine may abandon the usual southern trip this year.' Players who get sore at the umpires this summer can tell ’em “to go to the International league.” * ♦ • The Buffalo International league ball park has been sold In bankruptcy court to satisfy the creditors. • * * Interviews with Connie Mack on the player situation are as full of blanks as a letter ffom Europe. * • • The%niversity of California football eleven will play Oregon Aggies at Berkeley, Cal., Saturday, November 18. Thirteen games are scheduled for the Purdue baseball team. Only two games will be played on foreign dla; monds. - ' .

- * ' • • A dispatch from Louisville says that “unofficially” it is stated that Ferdinand Schupp’s salary is to be SIO,OOO for 1918. • * * Missouri Intercollegiate A. A. may use Jake Beckley and Kid Nichols as umpires in the organization baseball games this year. - * ♦ . The Great Western Trotting association will award purses aggregating $135,000 at the eight race meetings, July 31 to September 21. Inexperience Is blamed for Fred Fulton’s previous fiascos. Yes, and Helnie Zlm did not know Collins could run so fast. We all must learn. ♦ • • Jack Lelivelt, former American leaguer, has been signed to play first base and right field by the Louisville American association team. • ♦ ♦ While the war has proved a detriment, to many sports, it has greatly aided trapshooting and helped place it in the front ranks as a sport. • • • Detroit yachtsmen will build a. Miss Detroit 111 to defend the gold cup at the motorboat carnival, to be held on the Detroit river next summer. • * « Brooklyn Polytechnic preparatory swimming team has been Brooklyn scholastic title holders for four years. They promise to repeat this season. • • « Bill Ritter, pitcher, is lost to the Giants, as he has signed a contract with Uncle Sam, and will hurl grenades In a greater league than the big one’s here. • • « Bob Emslle, the veteran National league baseball umpire, is the president of the St. Thomas, Ont. Gun dub and recently promoted the international trapshooting tournament. Dr. Paul Withington. who coached the University of Wisconsin football team, has been commissioned a captain in the army. Withington is stationed at Camp Funston, Fcrt Riley, Ark.