Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1901 — ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT

Eastern sports will soon have a chance to get n Hue on Marvin Hart, the Louisville niiililleweight, whose work lias stamped him as a championship possibility. The conqueror of Tommy West ie hooked to meet Hilly llanrnhiiu at Bridgeport Sept. (5. That Creaccus, the world’s champliti trotting atnllioii, is a wonderful horse was demonstrated hy his record performance nt Detroit when he trotted 51:03 in his Inst Imnt, breaking the record of 2:OCiV4 made by Directum, the ex stallion champion, nnd also hy the champion ipnre All*. The best previous record of Oreeccus was 5!;00. Cy Young, the veteran pitcher, who Is with the Boston Amcrlcnn League team, has been doing some tine work with the stick this season. lie has a hatting average of .407 nnd stands second iu tbs American League. “Anson once remarked that I was tk* greatest third baseman In the business, ** •ays First Baseman Dexter. “| was (•laying third und he hit about hulf a dor.cn scorchers dowq to me. They caiue so fast that I shut my eyes and stuck out mpr hands. The ball happened to land right in my bonds each time end 1 threw the old mao out at first.”