Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT

It is said that the bookmakers at Chicago the past season lost $250,000. Rliey Grannan has been beating thebookies at the California race tracks. The percentage of the Chicagos thisyear is the best since the twelve-clul> league started. It has been figured that during the National League season 173 times pitcherswere driven off the slab by opposing batsmen. Jockey Dick Clawson will get a salary from Whitney & I’nget of $7,500. beside* being paid the regular sum for winning; and losing an# outside nn unts. A few years ago Dick thought he had a good jobwhen he was picking strawberries at 50 cents a day. The total membership of the Longue of American Wheelmen is 78.077. Pennsylvania has 17,792 and Now York 17,686. Massachusetts is third. James Daly of Buffalo, who was Corbett's spurring partner several years ago, has been appointed boxing instructor of the Buffalo Athletic Club, and will retire from the ring, It is generally agreed that it was a mistake to abolish the lining system in the National League last season, and in 1899 it is npt to cost a player a bit of his stipend if he dares an umpire to put him off the field.