Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1919 — LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPOPT [ARTICLE]

LITTLE PICK-UPS OF SPOPT

Newport plans yacht racing next summer with small craft. y * * * King Alfonso of Spain is an enthusiastic huntsman and trap shooter. * » * \ Williams college may place a basketball team on the floor this winter. * * • Eddie Burns, Philly catcher, has just recovered from an attack of influenza. —A- ♦ ♦ • Kelly, a minor league star, has been mustered out of the service. He was attending an officers’ training camp. : ' ■ * • • League Island (Philadelphia) navy yard’s Soccer team is made up of players from ten states, while the eleventh expert is from the; Canadian border. • * * Thomas Welsh, manager apd trainer of the Joseph E. Widener racing stable, expects to sail for France shortly. He will look over Widener’s French breeding farm. By May 11, 1919, it is expected running horse- races will be resumed on Dominion of Canada race courses. The ban- was to extend until six months after the war-in Europe ceased- * ■* • .**- Huggins, who played left guard for Brown last fall, is a son of Charles Huggins, the Brown trainer, who 4s a lieutenant in the United States aviation service stationed at Mineola. ♦ ♦ ♦ Three Amateur Athletic union championship events have been awarded to the Los Angeles Athletic ciub, namely, the basketball and handball competitions and the gymnastic contests. LT-LM • * * Great Lakes Naval Training station basketball quintet may make a tour ot the West, and also visit eastern cities. As in baseball and football, the station promises to have a crack team of cage,experts. For the first time in many years Ruston has not a representative on the slated executive committee of the United States Golf association, to be chosen at the -annual meeting in New York city January 27, 1919. i ■ ■ * • * —* No better proof of the value of having a reliable, goal kicker from touch-downs-ISTO be had than the ClevelandPittsburgh game. Tty missing the goal Davies lost the point which would have given Pittsburgh, a tie instead ot a defeat. ... • • ♦ The. Hog" LsiandTAthletic association, connected with the famous Hog island shipxard, z was the ohly applicant for the 191 C -track and field championship meet of the Amateur Athletic union.. It was not awarded, action being deferred until later in the season. \- Boston, as well as New York, boasts a Chinese all-collegiate soccer football eleven. The New England team is cqmposed mostly of member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is carried on under the supgrvisipp of the Chinese Student’s alliance of the