Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1919 — INTERESTING SPORT PAPAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING SPORT PAPAGRAPHS

Jack Barry declares he would rather play in Boston than any place. * • ♦ The Yanks have' a regular art” gallery of players in army and navy uniforms. « * * Stuffy Mclnnis will probably be back on first base for the Red Sox this year. • * ♦ Lee Fohl will lead the Indians again. At least he has been made manager of the club. • ♦ ♦ Some big bouts will be held in Chicago this year if the Illinois boxing bill becomes a law. * • ♦ Rube Oldrlng Is being touted as the coming manager of the Toronto club of the International league. t ♦ Christy Mathewson doesn’t expect to get back from France for the opening of the basebalP season. - - * * '* - The Illinois boxing- measure provides for 10 per cent of the receipts to go to the state treasury. t —« « ; Earl Yingling will return to ths Nationals this spring. Griff could stand another left-hander too. ♦ * ♦ Now it seems that the teams of the country are to have their usual “greatest season in history of baseball.” ■ ~—- * • ♦ ? All the minor leagues are getting ready to open the season with a bang. Maybe they’ll close it that way. too. Earl Baldwin is the latest Yankee recruit. He is a catcher who made a good record in the Pacific league. ♦ * * Ball players in the service are being released rapidly. Practically all of them will be on deck when the season opens. Jack Dunn declares that Eijrl Smith, the young backstop purchased by the Giants, is the greatest young catcher he has ever seen, ; —• » • * Wilbert Robinson has signed a couple of juvenile Infielders from Scranton. Hughie Jennings , must have overlooked them. -• ■ * * Eddie Plank isn’t saying anything about reporting to the Yanks tn the spring. The veteran doesn’t have to worry about playing baseball. • * ♦ Dell may - f ollow Lavan into retirement. He has said he must look out for his future, intimating that it doesn’t lie in baseball. • * * Dick Rudolph, a star with the Braves in the days when they called George “the miracle man,” is doing his best to get away from the Boston club. ♦ • • Now that Fred Toney has been acquitted of the slacker charge he may be of some help to McGraw this year. He will be out of jail in time to start the season.