Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1909 — The SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The SPORTING WORLD

Janes B*ys Ha Has Rati rad. - Charley Comkskey, owner of the Chi cago Americans, will have to hestlt himself and seek a, new manager. Fielder Jones Is In earnest about retiring from the game and going into the lumber business. Jones is now in Portland, Ore., where he says he will ■pend the rest of his life. “1 said In 1907 that I was through with baseball,” said Jones to some newspaper men who saw him at the Union station In Chlcrfgo recently, “and I meant It. I would not have played last season only that Comlskey did not take

my statement of retiring seriously and made no effort to get any one In my place. Not wishing to leave Commy in a hole, I came back. "Now, however, I am through. The old Roman has had sufficient warning and can bestir himself and pick out my successor. I don’t see why I should wait until I am too old to work before entering Into a real business. Baseball was all right, and I have a lot to thank it for. But I really don’t need the money any more, and I think seven months a year Is too much time to devote to the game when I have other Interests to look after.”

Blind Boy an Athletic Marvel. A new athletic wonder is being developed in Boston in Tommy Stringer, the blind boy. a pupil at the Perkins Institution For the Blind. Every pleasant afternoon he is out In running togs dolug stunts on the trapeze and the flying rings or making a mile run In company with his teacher, George Pluto. Young Tommy is quite an expert on the parallel bars, and so delicately sensitive Is his power of feeling that he can follow accurately all his teacher’s movements and reproduce them Immediately. He Is perfectly fearless—ln fact, fear does not seem to occur to him. He is proud of his muscles tmd delights iu displaying the knot on his arm. A new world has been opened up for him in this training.

Pigeon Racers Organize. The Atlantic combine is a new pigeon flying organization just formed in Philadelphia. It is made op of eastern fanciers. who will hold concourse races on the plan now' in vogue In England. Boston and vicinity. New York and New' Jersey, as well as Philadelphia. Baltimore and Washington, and districts. The first race will occur on the third Saturday in .Tune from Midland, Ont„ a distance of about 400 miles. A charge of 15 cents is made for each bird entered, and in addition the members can engage in a big pool sweepstake. Prizes will be awarded the three winners in each division, either cash or its equivalent.

Harvard May Meet English Crew. It was learned recently that the management of the Harvard crew had arranged a race with the winner of the Oxford-Oambridge contest In Eugland next fall. The date for the Yale-Har-vard race has not yet been settled, bat Harvard will try to arrange for It a week earlier than usual. The crew will then leave for London and have a full two months for training on the Thames before racing with the English champion crew. Siegfried After Gotch’s Title. Ernest Siegfried, the “German Oak,” champion wrestler of Germany, who arrived in this country recently, has challenged Frank Gotch for the championship of the world. Siegfried is under the management of Ernest Roeber. who has secured Madison Square Garden for Jan.' 28. when Siegfried will wrestle Joe Rogers and Atlas. Siegfried has agreed to throw both men lb a half hour each or forfeit $250. Chicago Americana’ Naw Infielder. Barney Reilly, who has been variously reported as the Yale freshman football captaiu and a famous Yple varsity baseball player, but who ww neither;* has signed with the Chicago Americans. What Reilly did do at Yale was to play in the infield on tb* freshman nine. Since then he baa played professional ball and Is no longer eligible at Yale.

FIELDER JOKES.