Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1919 — INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

Baseball is becoming very popular in Venezuela. e • Fred Anderson, Giant pitcher, has been mustered out of the army, * * ♦ - A movement has been launched to teach boxing in the schools of England. Arthur Irwin, Rochester manager, says Earl Smith is worth SIO,OOO to any club. Looks as if the Cards will have to pay Jack Hendricks cash to get rid of him as manager. ————— Nine trotting mares with records below .2:10 sere among those bred to Lee Axworthy;-4:5854, in 1918. ♦ * • Detroit tried to obtain Dutch Leonard from the Red Sox, but figured the price put on the pitcher was too high. ♦ ♦ ♦ Johnny Evers may not be able to play regularly, but he isn’t going to have much trouble landing a baseball job. signed to act as McGraw’s aid with the Giants. The latest is that he may manage the Braves. Duffy Lewis has wired the Yankee management that he is w ll satisfied with the trade that will send him to the big town. John Lane, former secretary of the Boston Americans, who is now a pay clerk in the United States navy, is on the transport Hancock. Clark Griffith is jyoud of a German helmet sent him by an army friend. It is as thick and solid a bit of work as ijjany a ball player’s head. John McGraw hopes Lieut. Jesse Winters will be mustered out of the army before spring. He believes the youngster will be a great pitcher. - ~•

Johnny Evers has returned from France with the word that a youth named Carter is a coming big league pitching star. Jvory hunters, take no- ... Sergeant Murphy of the Mare Island inm Ines C-tpeets to return to cific Northwest, and be manager of the Portland (Oregon) club of the Northwestern league. Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburgh Nationals, says that he expects all of his players, with the exception of Carlson,' will be back before the 1919 season starts. * * * *The Chicago National pitchers were pretty effective during the 1918 season. as they were credited with 23 shutouts. Vaughn led with eight, Tyler being a close secohd with seven. * ♦ * lohlya Kumagae, the Japanese lawn tennis player, is the only-exponent of the game among the ten ranking players of two, seasons ago who was not enrolled in some branch of the government war service.