Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1911 — IN THE WORLD OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

How Catcher Henry Was Discovered.

It must be true that ball players are born and not made. True, all of them need to have the rough edges taken off and experience to perfect them, but a good ball player is usually so from the time he starts out. In Henry. Washington has picked up a player who is sure to shine, and no one excepting Scout Mike Kaboe deserves credit for his being with the team. Kahoe was sent to Amherst to look over a pitcher named McClure. He saw him and dismissed him from his mind, because he did not think that he was cut out for a major league career. But it was the big, husky youngster who was catching him that attracted Kahoe s attention, and he immediately laid lines to secure him. So instead of bringing back the man be was sent after Kaboe secured Henry, and in so doing be probably brought a player who will do much to make the Nationals a winning aggregation.

May Revise Cricket Rules. After a delay of at least fifty years an agitation has been begun in England to put more snap Into cricket. The scheme of the Cricketers’ association Is to make the bat narrower and the stumps higher. Followers of the sport charge that the game as played now takes too much time and add that ‘•this fact alone has prevented it from taking any serious root in the United States, where keeness on games is every bit as great as In the English islands and colonies.” All the big matches now take three days, and even then are frequently drawn for want of time. The proposal is to limit the bat to three and onehalf inches across the blade, instead of four and one-quarter, the present width, and to increase the stumps from twenty-seven to twenty-nine inches. This, it is estimated, will enable the four innings to be ended in one-third of the time they now require. Runner Monument to Quit. Jack Monument, the senior and junior mile champion of the United States, has announced that he Will never run another race. This dire news came in a letter from Monument to Trainer Lawson Robertson, notifying the Irish American coach that he would not be on the job this year. Monument gives business cares as the reason for his leaving the cinder path. Monament’s decision to quit athletics is a distinct loss to the sport. He is known as a quiet, gentlemanly fellow and as game a man as ever put on a running shoe. It is thought that the coming on of real summer weather and a few peeps at his fellow athletes in action may induce Monument to reconsider and come out on the path for another season. All the influence that the Irish American Athletic club can bring to bear will be used to get the mile champion into his running togs againfr

Holmer to Race Abroad. Hans Holmer, who recently defeated Ljungstrom in a fifteen mile race in New York, has received an offer from a European promoter who was present when Holmer won the Powder Hall Marathon at Edinburgh, Scotland, and who wants to take Holmer on a tour of the world. He has asked Hans to come to England immediately after his race with Ljungstrom and from there proposes going to Italy, Africa, South America and Australia. Kilpatrick After All Around Title. J. R. Kilpatrick. Yale’s track captain. will enter the all round championship at the meet to he held in Chicago in June. The track and football star weighs nearly 200 pounds. He is a good man in the weights, hurdles and the jumps. He will compete against Garrels. the famous Chicago athlete; F. C. Thompson of Los Angeles and other western stars.