Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1901 — ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT

Torn Cooper lias made, nnil likewise saved, bis money from the cyclitis game. Eddie Bald, the old bicycle champion, once more makes the announcement that he will return to the bicycle racing circuit. Among the foreign bicycle riders who are expected in this country shortly is "French” ’tyiylor, the hour champion of Europe. Marvin Hart, the promising Louisville tighter, is not a bruiser, but an exceedingly clever mid a clean-cut man of the "Kid" McCoy style. If their curves are anything like their names, Comiskey's two new twirlevs ought to puzzle the American I«caguo batters. They are Revoyr and Skopec. The majority of college teams are against any change in the baseball playing rules and will probably follow the lead of the American League in using the old regulations. No man in the featherweight class hns done better work of late than Jack McClelland, the clever Pittsburger who by his own efforts has worked himself to the top of the ladder. He has lieen in the fighting game four years and has but one knockout against him. American bicycle riders do not seem to have very good luck In Europe. Of all the speed merchants who have been sent from this side to meet the cracks of foreign countries Zimmerman • fared the best. Harry Elkes also did well, but Tom Cooper nnd many other good flyers w’ere obliged to bow to the superior prowess of European cyclists. Advices from Australia are to the effect that Peter Jackson, the once famous colored heavyweight, is fast nearing the end of his days. Jackson is now nt his home in Sydney struggling with consumption and is said to be a wreck of hla former self. William C. Whitney, the New York multi-millionaire, has an entire farm of 500 acres given up to his horses, near Lexington, Ky. In this establishment be has about $350,000 invested In horseflesh. For three of the stallions alone Mr. Whitney gave $114,000. Hamburg comes flrat in price, with SOO,OOO.