Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — The World of Sport. [ARTICLE]

The World of Sport.

Louis Scholes, the Canadian oarsman of Toronto, Is already at wotk with the Idea of competing In the Olympic regatta at London next summer. Jim Jeffries has unearthed a new wonder In the heavyweight class named Hector Hook, a Boer, who has been defeating all comers In Africa and India. Dr. Jimmy Casey, Brooklyn’s third baseman, who was recently sold to the Jersey City club, will next season manage the Montreal club of the Eastern league. News comes from England of the death of the stallion Pietermarltzberg, which bad been sold to a prominent breeder In the Argentine Republic for a sum equal to $75,000. A Philadelphia sporting writer says there are about 750 men and boys playing socker football every Saturday afternoon. The game has been played in the Quaker City for twenty years and has a firm hold on the public.