Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1920 — GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

. Earle Neale, Cincinnati oatfielder, la a holdout. • • • Nine members of the Pennsylvania football team have left school. • * * Dr. John Lavan Is now a regular practicing physician in St Louis. • • * The Amateur Athletic union has 488 clubs and 11,543 registered athletes. The Texas league has ruled against all freak pitching except the “spit” ball. • • • Harvard plays its first baseball game April 10 with Bowdoin at Cambridge. • • • The plan to form an all-Georgia league appears to have been abandoned. ~ . . ; . » « » Looks as If the Dempsey-Carpentier bout would be fought on this side of the pond. • • • “Rabbit” Maranvllle is coaching a Springfield, Mass., industrial basketball team.—— • • • Money does not seem to be any object to the owners of the New York Americans.

• * • Harvard has invited University of California baseball team to come East in the spring. •• ♦ ■ Six of the Western conference football elevens have named tackles for 1920 captains. • • * a Connie Mack Intends to make* a big effort to dig up a winner in Philadelphia this year. Branch Rickey has been chosen manager and vice president of the St. Louis Cardinals. * • * * The Cincinnati club is trying to secure the services of Casey Stengel from Philadelphia. • • • A bill has been Introduced In the Massachusetts legislature to curb gambling on boxing matches. • ♦ • Bob Fitzsimmons has a son who bears all of the earmarks of being s great fighter like his father. » • • Akiba Rubenstein, Russian chess champion, has completed arrangements to come to this country. — — - e e ——— Boston .Athletic association has asked to have the Eastern Olympic tryouts at the Harvard stadium. Road Secretary Hiram Mason of the Cardinals has been promoted. He is one of the new directors of the club. • • • It Is said that Indianapolis will receive four players from the Reds as part payment for Shortstop Sam Crane. * * • Maybe Ruth objected to going to the Yankees because they have no home. You can’t make a home run if you have no home. Jim Corbett is one of those who inclines to the opinion * that Carpentier stands a good chance of defeating Dempsey. ■ e ♦ A story from Milwaukee has it that the club there is about to dispose of Pitcher Earl Howard’ to the Chicago White Sox. — • • ♦ The wildest pitcher in the American league last season was Howard Ehmke of the Detroit Tigers# who gave 107 bases on balls. • • • Now that it has been settled where “Babe” Ruth will play the coming season everything Is ready for the opening of the baseball season any time now. The Nashville club has transferred Pitcher Arthur Decatur to Louisville, getting In exchange Infielder Ballinger and Pitcher Mels, and a cash bonus. Ijhe New York High school games committee of the Public Schools Athletic league, has requested the restoration of paid coaches of athletic teams there. President Walsh of the South Atlantic league announces the signing of four umpires for next season. They are Blackburn, Shuster, Manning and Browta. _;• • • The men who control college athletics have decided to take away “letters” awarded college athletes who after leaving college become professionals. ( Tom Gannon, a young catcher who has been making good with independent teams around St. Louis, has been signed for a trial with the Bloomington Three-1 league dub. ; -• • • According to precedent in such sales, Dow that “Babe” Ruth, the home-run king, has beep sold for $125,000, he may be expected to establish a strikeout record this' season. It seems most of those offers of fabulous sums for that Dempsey-Car-pentier fight must be for home consumption, as Carpentier’s manager ttys be has not received them.