Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1920 — NOTES of SPORIDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES of SPORTDOM

The Illinois High School A. A, includes 418 schools. Michigan will lose eight of this season's varsity football eleven. Join McGraw says he did not offer $100,000 cash for Roger Hornsby. The Indiana University A. A. cleared $22,500 on football last season. All the umpires to share equally in a world’s series split is the latest suggestion. Nebraska will meet M. A. C. In football next season in Lincoln, Neb., on November 20. Branch Rickey has signed a new three-year contract as main works for the St. Louis Cardinals. The decathlon and the fifty-six-pound weight throw have been dropped from Olympic games. The Queen’s university, Kingston, Ontario, will spend $70,000 on a new stadium and hockey rink. St. Louis writers have nicknamed Hornsby “Pep," probably not because of the way he plays baseball. The Toronto Hockey league includes 100 teams and the players want dressing rooms provided in city rinks. Bob Zuppke, football coach at the University of Illinois, has signed a five-year contract with that Institution. Jack Kearns, manager of Jack Dempsey, says he will be in no hurry to accept a bid for the Dempsey-Car-pentier fight. Connie Mack, boss of the Athletics, is the oldest manager' in the major league. He was fifty-seven years old December 22. The Chicago bowling tourney drew an entry of 480 five-man teams, 1,193 in doubles and 2,377 in singles. It is a record entry. The New York Giants and Boston Red Sox will meet in several games on their way home from the spring training camps. The official navy gold star that goes to men who take part in the annual army-navy football game will be given to 14 players this year. Clyde Engle, former well known American league ball player, is mentioned as the University of Vermont’s most successful athletic coach. Those baseball moguls should have pulled off that row when there were not so many counter-attractions if they expected to get much attention. The Purdue football team had a most disastrous season this year, playing three games in the Big Ten conference and losing all of them.

Unless Manager Tris Speaker of the Cleveland Indians is sadly mistaken. Pitcher Roy Caldwell will be the wonder of the American league next season. Herman Obertubessing has announced his candidacy for president of the Amateur Athletic union at tie next annual election of that organization. Now a war is threatened among the boxers. It is declared that France and England will not accept the American ring champions as international title holders. The Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball league, composed of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Dartmouth, will play a series of thirty games. Australia has a freak welterweight .in Will Leahy, who stands 6 feet 2 inches and weighs only 150 pounds. He is said to have the remarkable reach of 82 inches. ♦ ♦ • In booking a football game with Center college next fall; it looks as if Harvard had beaten the big teams" to it. Center’s gridiron warriors are bound to be a big attraction. The notion of Jack Kearns, manager for Jack Dempsey, that the Demp-sey-Carpentier bout would draw a million dollars is not shared by any of the American fight promoters. • • • Ping Bodie of the Yankees seems destined for another trip to the minors. Miller Huggins, so reports state, is endeavoring to closet'tor the fence buster to return to a coast league team. — Jimmy Wilde, English flyweight champion, believes he got the worst of the decision in his recent bout with Jack Sharkey at Milwaukee and will most likely seek another contest with the New York bantam. -•—• p Two leading professional golf players may visit this country next year. namely, Abe Mitchell, the latest European sensation, and George Duncan, while Harry Vardon, James Braid and J. H. Taylor ire possible visitors, _