Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1920 — LITTLE PICK-UPS Of SPORT [ARTICLE]

LITTLE PICK-UPS Of SPORT

The Royal Montreal Golf club Is the oldest golf club In America. * * * George Bothner thinks the toe hold should be barred from wrestling. • * * Since lockers have been abolished, golf is no longer a rich man’s game. • * * Stanislaus Zbyszko Is having great success In his matches in this country. • • • A new chess club has been formed at Waltham, Mass., known as the Waltham Chess club. * • • England, India and America are working out a set of rules to govern the game of polo. « * « Fred McLeod won the open golf championship of the North and South _ at Pinehurst, N. C. S. W. Armstrong ’2l has been elected captain of the Oregon Agricultural college wrestling team. • ♦ •

John J. Burns, guard on this sea- . son’s Wabash basket-ball team, was chosen, captain of the 1921 team. Frank Walker has been engaged to ofiiclate as starting judge during the Grand circuit meeting at Readvllle. • * • Lew Edwards, the lightweight champion of Australia, does not think very highly bf America, and has left these shores for England. — e • * The Pocatello (Idaho) Country club golf links, confpleted a year or so ago, just off the National highway to Yellowstone park, plans to build a $25,000 clubhouse this season. • ». * * * Even the four-round game isn’t fast enough for the fight fans on the Pacific coast. They are asking that boxers enter the ring with their gloves on and ready to start the dance. * * * “Back to the mines,” means nothing in the life of Jimmy Wilde. The little boxer made sl2 a week working in the mines. Now he makes more than that a minute working in the ring. * *