Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1907 — the SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

the SPORTING WORLD

How to Get Into an Upset Canoe. Many a boatman’s life has been saved because he has been able to get back safely into a boat or canoe after an upset. The recovery of an overset canoe is a delicate process, but on? that can easily be learned. In the group of pictures illustrating this column the various steps in the

recovery of the canoe are shown, perhaps much plainer than could be done by words. The first diagram shows how to grasp the canoe for the jump. No. 2 illustrates the little leap by which the canoeist puts his weight evenly on the boat. In No. 3he is rolling gently into the bottom of the craft. No. 4 shows the canoeist in full possession and ready to bail it out.

Victorious Girl Jockey. Miss Dorothy Tyler, fourteen years old, daughter of Dr. R. B. Tyler, exmayor of Joplin, Mo., made her debut as a jockey at the Joplin race track recently and won her first event, a quarter mile race, on her own horse, Blackmare, crossing the wire ahead of Dolly-. Varden,. ridden by WHLJfewn,

and Annie, with a professional jockey named McDowell up. Miss Tyler’s victory was greeted by wild cheers from the crowd, which had “backed her off the board” before the horses wenj to the post. Since she was a small child Miss Tyler has been fond of outdoor sports. Her father has let her have her way In most things. She owns two race horses and personally sees that they are well groomed. In addition to her ability to ride she is an all around athlete. It is said that no boy in Joplin of her age is her equal in physical strength.

Democratic Dovey. President Doyey is a most democratic magnate and 1 has become immensely popular with the members of the Bosbn National team through his great liberiTtlty, a fact that is being remarke.l freely ail around the league circuit. He is iiail fellow well met with the : >n players, win or lose, congratulating them when they win, sympathizing with them when they lose. There are no recriminations, no knocks. He has gathered together a good team, and there are many predictions among the other clubs that the time will come when the Boston Nationals will take their old place as favorites with the Hub fans, because the team under Dovey will eventually win a pennant.

Ball Players’ Wives. Charley Carr, manager of the Indianapolis cluU has undertaken a contract which is more difficult than winning the pennant with the Indianapolis club, according to Louisville reports. He has undertaken to separate players’ wives at ball games. He says the women talk about players during the game, and then a wife goes home and tells her husband, engendering animosities. Charley would better back off. One of the inherent prerogatives of a woman is to talk, and she w’ill kfep on talking, whatever Manager Carr says about it.

Washington’s New Pitcher. Walter Johnson, the famous boy pitcher of the Weiser baseball team of the Idaho State league, has signed with the American league club of Washington. Johnson’s record as a pitcher is a splendid one. He has pitched seven-ty-five innings without a run being scored against him and has struck out 166 men in ninety-nine innings. The Weiser team has played seven straight shut-out games and has made ninetyeight runs, while their opponents hav* made but five.

How About It, Silk? The Detroit News says that despite Umpire Frank o’Loughlln’s ability and popularity with the public he 1® disliked by nearly all of the players.

Willing Wilson. Bob Wilson of Brooklyn, N. Y., well known as an expert swimmer, is open to meet any in a contest from two to five miles for a purse or a trophy.

RECOVERING A CANOE AFTER AN UPSET.