Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — In the Sporting World. [ARTICLE]

In the Sporting World.

Manager McPhee expects io take the Ciuciuiiutis south ufter April 1. Many of the great bicycle riders of a few years ago are now engaged in following the peaceful arts of trade. George West, who died recently in Chicago, was one of the most successful drivers and trainers of horses in the world. So far as outward appearances go the new Aiuericun Association has been Inunched on the somewhat troublous baseball sea. Dan Stuart is trying to nrrnngo a mutch between Jeffries and Fitzsimmons, to be bold at Carson City, New, next May or June. Manager Ed Hanlon receives more b? ‘far for managing than any other man iu that capacity in the country. Ijlis salary Is SIO,OOO. Tom Daly, of the Brooklyns, is tho only hall player of Al Spalding's nround-the-ivoild baseball tourists of 1888 who is now in active service. In the west basketball has been the rage for some time, but they are trying to improve the game with novel methods. Some of the teams have donned roller skates and have played the game with so much dash nnd vim that the patrons do not care for any other style. The question of who Is the greatest bicycle rider In tho world will l>e settled when Major Taylor goes to Europe to tackle the foreign cracks. The dusky Major ha* cleared up everything in tha sprinting line on this the water, and it remains to be seen what he can do on the other side of the “pond.”