Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1908 — SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPORTING WORLD

Coy an All Around Athlete. Edward H. Coy, who was recently sleeted field captain of the Yale eleven, is an all around athlete. Besides being the greatest fullback in football today, Coy is a baseball player and a fast track man who has already won intercollegiate mention. He has also shown good form in tennis and golf. Coy played fullback and was captain of his freshman team two years ago aud was varsity fullback last

year, making several of the All American teams. He tied with Bobby Burch for regular captain last winter, and the election had to be delayed for a month for the return of G. R. B. Berger to vote off a tie. Coy was graduated from the Lakeville (Conn.) school, wbere his father was principal

Professional Hookey. John T. McNamara, for several years manager of the champion Port&ge Lake hockey team of Houghton, Mich., Is anxious for a revival of professional hockey. He would like very much to get Duluth and St. Paul-Minneapolis interested, which, he avers, would spell success In large letters for such an organization as it Is proposed to form. On several occasions there has been discussed a league made up of St. Paul or Minneapolis, Duluth, Houghton, Sault Ste. Marie, Detroit and Cleveland, O. Buch a circuit. It is felt, would prove a formidable one and one that w'ould insure hockey becoming one of the leading winter pastimes in the United States.

Longboat May Retire. Rumor has it that Tom Longboat, the Canadian Indian long distance runner, will soon retire from the game. It is said that his physician has advised this course, as his many Marathon runs have weakened his heart to a certain Extent. and it might prove serious if the Indian kept on running the extra long distances. Reports say that Longboat will run only two more Marathons, which are to be held in Canada, and that after this fall be will retire, not necessarily from the cinder path, but from the long road runs. He may continue to compete in three and five mile races. Gophers Lose Chestnut Ed Chestnut, Minnesota's star football end, has bean declared ineligible by the Gopher faculty owing to his failure to pass a recent examination in engineering. The loss of this speedy little player is a severe blow to Minnesota, and the prospects of having a winning team are now ever darker than before. He was depended upon to make a great record on the gridiron this season. Allen Winter Sold For $50,000. Just after making a show of his field !n the three heats of the West stake in Lexington, Ky., recently Allen Winter, winner of the Rendville handicap and other good races In the grand circuit was purchased by I. Schleajpger of Vienna for >50,000. Allen Winter is a brown horse by Ed Winter, dam Miss Que, and be will be raced In Austria next season, Warner’* Now Wrinkle. Coach Warner has a new wrinkle for the Carlisle Indians. The entire back field and the ends have brown, full sited footballs woven Into the chests of their jerseys. This helps to keep an opponent guessing who has the ball, which, of course,’ is Warner’s reason for the unique decoration of his men. Yo*t to Coach West Point. The information has leaked out that Toot will assist tn coaching the West Point eleven in its final week of preparation for the annual grill with the navy. Michigan’s last game is with Syracuse on Nov. 21. This gives Tost a week at the army school, for the clash with the sailors does not come until tbs Saturday following.

TED COY OF YALE.