Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT

The Boston Club will have no fewer than seven college players in its ranks this season. ‘‘Australian Billy” Murphy, the once well-known featherweight boxer, is now a watchman in Sioux City, lowa. Some critics believe that the pennant race in the National League will be a onesided affair between Brooklyn and Pittsburg. Ireland will send a fine team of runners, jumpers and weight throwers to represent her at the Pan-American Exposition during the four days devoted to the Irish caruival. A team of picked American athletes will visit the British Isles the coming summer to try for the English championships and incidentally to have a crack at the Irish and Scottish titles. The announcement by the allied bicycle manufacturers that they would support racing teams the coming Season means considerable to the sport and the racing men. It means that the best of the racing men of this country will be seen on the national racing circuit. The American team of shooters that Is to compete against the pick of English, Scotch and Irish marksmen In England this summer w ill be captained by Tbotnos A. Marshall of Keithsburg, HI. Marshall is one of the boat-known and moat expert shots in the country. Anent the reported fact tbnt a hunch of sports in DatTifon City is willing to give SIO,OOO for a match between Tom Shsr key and Frank Slavin, a New York man advises Sharkey to etay awuy from Daweon. The Qothemits iias figured it out that Sharkey’s expenses in the land of ice would be about f 15,00 d