Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1920 — INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

Denver has organized a six-club indoor baseball league. * * • The University of California crew candidates number 250. • • • The American Olympic games athletic squad may number 200. • • * Peru will bid for the Olympic games to follow the Antwerp renewal. • • • Rowing during 1918-19 cost the University of Pennsylvania $7,760.18. • • * ; .T- ■ - England will hold the open golf championship at Deal next summer. • * • Philadelphia ha* 1,800 soccer players registered in open league matches. * • I* The New York Athletic club boasts of 6,265 members, its largest in history. * • • * England wants catch-as-catch-can wrestling added to the Olympic progra»i. • • • Penn will hold the Intercollegiate wrestling championships March 26 and 27, next. • • * The Cardinals are seeking the services of Pitcher Brown of the Los Angeles club. • • • Paddy Livingston, old-time catcher, has signed to coach the Boston Red Sox pitchers. • * * Forty horses, with records better, than 2:10, have been sold to foreign buyers this year. * • • Baseball fans expect to hear of several big trades in both major leagues in the near future. ~ • • * Pittsburgh fans are elated over the selection of George Gibson as manager of the Pirates. / * * *

University of Indiana will play Rutgers football team at New Brunswick, N. J., Oct 23, 1920. • * * The 1920 Yale vs. Harvard rowing classic will take place over the New London course June 25. * • • Atlanta Will be the scene of the Southern Intercollegiate track and field sports May 14 and 16. • • • Amateur sports are booming In Sweden, while professional sports are given little encouragement • • • - Billy Doyle has been added to the Detroit scouting staff. .Doyle is a man of vast experience and excellent judgment • • • Lightweight Boxing Champion Benny Leonard, it is estimated, made $200,000 from Liz boxing engagements in 1919. •♦ * \ The Asbury Park (N. J.) Fishing club will have built a $40,000 clubhouse on the ocean front of the organization. University of Nebraska has offered Rutgers a guaranty of $5,000 for a football game at Lincoln next Thanksgiving day. • • • Harry Sallee, veteran pitcher, has given up the simple life, selling his farm at Higginsport, 0., and moving to Cincinnati. It may be a long time before soccei football is on as strong a basis in this country as the professional game is in Great Britain. • * * Dr. John Lavan, shortstop for the Cardinals, has opened an office In St. Louis. He was a surgeon in the navy during the war. * * * Penn has ten football games schednled next fall, including the usual game with Cornell at Philadelphia Thanksgiving day. • * *

“Buster” Caton, a Pittsburgh infielder who jumped to the Franklin, Pa., independents last season, wishes to return to the Pirates. * * • Johnny Evers, who Is a pretty wise Judge of baseball, says only one thing may stop the Cincinnati Reds next sea-son—over-confidence. • * * ■ - — The Yanks have made a bid for Sam Rice of the Washington club. He was Hie hardest hitting right fielder in the American league last season. •National Collegiate A. A. has‘Started a campaign to bring about the adoption of more adequate rules for standardizing swimming records. Reports are being circulated that an astern revolt from the National Trotting association is pending, due to the passing of the “unshackling rule.” The Naval academy has raised boxIng to sport. Dual bouts will be held with the University of Penn sylvania exponents of the manly art this year. ' - ♦ Joe Guyon, a member of the noted family of Indian athletes, who was a' star with the Georgia Tech football ream two seasons back, has signed with the Atlanta dub of the Southern association for the coming season.