Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — IN THE WORLD OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

Captain Howe, Yale Star Back Field Man.

Although Yale has practically lost her entire back field since last season, Eli coaches are optimistic and declarethat the Blue will have a formidableaggregation behind the line before the big games with Princeton and Harvard. The 'coaches have some splendid material from the 1910 eleven. Captain Howe and Kistler are the only ones left. Yale’s greatest fortune is the possession of Howe as quarterback. This is his third year on the team. He held down the position on Captain Coy’swell nigh perfect eleven in 1909, and last year he was aliout all that stood between the team and utter rout.

Women Take Up Rowing on Coast. According to a report from Berkeley. Cal., a varsity intercollegiate boat racebet ween women crews from the University of California and Stanford isthe latest innovation in college athletic activities, and if the present plans of the California women do not miscarry the Pacific coast college public will witness the spectacle of two women’s crews struggling for victory over a regulation racing course equipped with a regulation shell. Rowing as a purely local short been carried on in the University of California for some time, and interclass races between women crews of the two classes have been held every year on Lake Merritt as one of the features of the women's day celebration. __ Moriarty Boosts Clark Griffith. George Moriarty, the injured thirdsacker and captain of the Detroit Tigers, is still one of the stanchest admirers of Clark Griffith. Moriarty recently was shown a newspaper story in’which Ira Thomas said some ninethings about the former Highlander leader, and George echoed Ira’s sentiments. “ ‘Griff’ is the finest in thebusiness.” said Moriarty, “and this talk about results don’t go with me. He knows everything that is to be known about baseball, but is the unluckiest man in the game. 1 almost believe if the magnates let Griffith have Cobb. Crawford, Eddie Collins, Chase. Lajoie and Mathewson, the whole bunch would immediately be caught in a railroad wreck.” a Tennis Players Have Their Foibles. The tennis players, like all otherclasses of sportsmen, have their foibles, their strong and weak spots and some individual characteristics. Oneman may have a terrific service, while ’another may be endowed with a fearfully strong backhand, and still another with a terrible forehand, and on the other points there may be a string good at passing, court covering., volleying, baseline, driving and overhand smashes. Nearly every player in the front rank today shows some methods peculiarly his owm. Beer Goes Into Sewer. Greenfield, Ind., Oct. 27.—Two and a half barrels of beer and more than 390 pints of bottled beer confiscated by the police in the raid on blind tigers at Shirley were emptied in the sewer in front of the mayor’s office in thiscity. Purdue Man Made Wiley Aid. Washington, Oct. 27. —Professor A. W. Bitting of Purdue university was appointed food Technologist to assist Dr. Harvey Wiley in the enforcement, of the pure / food laws Cunning. ' Maud —It’s singular Ethel is so coy. Jack—Not at all; her object is to decoy.—Boston Transcript.

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