Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1919 — INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

The Toronto Canoe club will erect a clubhouse this year, * * * Roscoe Troxler is about to begin his twenty-first year as a jockey. * * * English championship track and field sports will take place in London July 5. * * * Harvard university boasts 614 men taking daily exercise with the various athletic squads. * * * Jim Jeffries, once heavyweight pugilistic champion, is now a breeder of Holsteins in California. • * * Canadian Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic association plans a revival of all branches of sport this season. * * * Tris Speaker Is all set for his usual campaign In the American league. He may be with a pennant winner this year. * • * Six schools of the New York Public Schools Athletic league wilL play lacrosse for a championship emblem this summer. 1 » * * George Gibson, manager of the Toronto club, and some of his hired men are working out with the Giants this spring. ** # „ -i • " George R. Hodson, champion swimmer, has returned to Montreal after three years’ service In the English forces overseas, * * * Peter the Great, 2:07 1 ,4, Is the sire of 302 trotters In the 2:03 list. In addition, 51 of them are in the 2:10 list, and 10 are in the 2 :Q5 list. • * • The Patergbn (N: J.) soccer team, holders of the National league cup, one of the strongest teams in the East, may tour Europe next summer. • * • Charley (Chltfk) Artman. though deposed as manager of the Binghamton team of the International league, will remain with It as second baseman. * * * If Carl Wellman comes back this season he will surprise St. Louis fans pleasantly. Reverse English goes on that for the other cities on the circuit. s • i • Arthur Irwin will have three boys on his Rbchester team this year who learned their baseball on the Brooklyn lots. They are Jack, grady, Hank Hagan and Waite Hoyt. / • •• Brooklyn has signed an Inflelder named Brazil. Pittsburgh will shortly sign Pitcher Chile; the Giants are after Catcher Ecuador, and the Reds will probably engage the fapous battery of Paraguay and Uruguay.