Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — The SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The SPORTING WORLD

Golfer Travis. Walter J. Travis, the world’s amateur champion golfer, is now back In the United States looking for more scalps. His feat in winning tbe amateur championship title of Great Brltaih is unprecedented, and Travis should

have no difficulty in winning in every tournament in which he enters on this side. Travis is to play in the American amateur championship contest He already holds the title, which, by the way, he has captured no less than three times. In the amateur tourney Travis will meet his old time rivals, Eben M. Byers of Pittsburg, the Egans of Chicago, Findlay S. Douglas, C. B. MacDonald and others. Well Filled Races. It is a matter for congratulation that the two SIO,OOO grand circuit purses opened by the Empire City (N. Y.) and Brighton Beach (N. Y.) management have filled in such a liberal manner. In both stakes the number of entries is tbe same, sixteen, but there 1b a difference in the horses, so that one race will not be an exact repetition of the first Four of the horses named for the Empire City event are missing when the list for Brighton Beach is scanned, and it is possible that the four horses added to the Brighton Beach purse may be in such form by the time the race is decided that one of them will be able to defeat tbe victor at the former track. For the purpose of maintaining interest in both events nothing happier could have occurred. A royal lot of trotters have been named in each event, and at the present time it looks as though they would not only be open races so far as picking the winner is concerned, but that they will both be very evenly contested, making them two of the star trotting events of tbe year. OatSeidera Who Befss la the Box. Many of the most prominent outfielders in baseball today and in the past formerly were pitchers. Every outfielder on tbe Cincinnati, team today was once a pitcher, three of them, Seymour, Donlln and Dolan, having worked on the rubber in the big league, while Odwell and Kerwin were minor league twirier* of some note before they finally took to tbe outfield for regular work. Manager Kelley of Cincinnati la another pitcher who developed into an outfielder, and one might go down the line of other teams and find any number of players who gave up the work on the slab for the steadier and more lasting position of guardian of the outer gardens.

TRAVIS AT THE TOP OF HIS SWING.