Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1905 — The SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The SPORTING WORLD

The Cincinnati Team. The Cincinnati team has several new faces this year. Bridewell, Blankenship, Street, Overall and Chech are all new players, and their work will be watched with much interest. Manager Joe Kelley of the Cincinnatis says Overall is larger than James

J. Jeffries, the champion pugilist of the world. He is said to have great speed and good control of the ball, and when Ted Sullivan found him he was known as “the Mathewson of the Pacific coast.” Overall has been pitching good ball for the Reds, but Kelley says he will do even better with warm weather. Although the New Yorks trounced him severely, Kelley is as enthusiastic as ever about the twirler. The Bookmaking “Crew.” Races and race tracks without the wily bookmaker, the layer of odds, who usually goes off with a satchel full of money, would be like the veritable flah out of water. According to a sport who has followed racing the greater part of his life, the bookmaker who Is provided with a good “crew" has occasion to pat himself on the back, for, as a good many of the layers are constantly complaining, first class crews are scarcer than losing 1 to 10 shots. Speaking recently he said: “Only a few of the best known members of the Metropolitan Turf Association, the organization of the leading New York bookmakers, have retained their ‘crews’ In steady employment for years at a stretch. Most of them are obliged to hunt around for good men to fill out vacancies in their ‘crews’ at the beginning of every racing season, and some are in constant hot water throughout the entire racing season owing to the unsteadiness of one or more members of their crews. “It is not at all a matter of competency, for all bookmakers’ crews have to be competent for the performance of even a day's work in the ring. It is a matter of steadiness. The good crew is the steady crew. It is composed of men who go to bed at night instead of remaining up to play in faro and poker fiestas and to indulge in the liquid accompaniments thereof, and turn up at the track for business with clear beads and steady hands.”

—’ German Athletes. Twelve young men, the pick of the vast German empire as the nearest to physical perfection and the champions of German athletic prowess, are now visiting America to give exhibitions. They recently appeared at Indianapolis In a series of competitions. The men who have come to this country to compete with America’s best are all thorough athletes. The system of physical culture in Germany has been so perfected and so universally adopted that each little village In the empire has Its amateur athletic association. These clubs, or “turnverelns," as- they are called, are generally In charge of a professional teacher, and they conduct schools for children and grown people of both sexes. Professor Frederick Kessler, the director of the Royal academy for the education of athletic teachers for these schools of the Country, is in charge of the party of athletes. Professor Kessler may be considered the highest authority of physical culture in the German empire.

The Vanderbilt Anto Race. A 300 mile road race without any control in the course to check the speed of the cars certainly will be a thriller. This is what is being aimed at for the Vanderbilt cup race of 1905. Long Island, N. Y., again will be the scene of the race next October, but the course will not be the same. The donor of the trophy, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Is now busy selecting a course In Nassau county that will run more to the east and to the north In the endeavor to avoid the towns of Hlckßvllle and Hempstead, where “controls” had to be established last year. Foolball Tsngkt With Snapshot. In order to Illustrate proper positions In passing, receiving, punting, catching punts and correct formations Ooach Yost of Michigan bad all the veterans, Including ex-Captain Heston, pose for thirty-five snapshot pictures recently. The coach posed the men with special attention to accuracy, and these photos will be used to illustrate the Yost idea of football. Princeton’s Pitcher. Don Doyle, the Princeton pitcher, has the spit ball as fine as any one, and bad the Pittsburg batters clouting the ball to the inflelders. Doyle is a heady pitcher, and works the batters for every point

JOE KELLEY.