Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT

Manager McPhee expects to take the Cincinnati south after April 1. Many of the great bicycle riders of a few years ago are now engaged in following the peaceful arts of trade. Tom Sharkey is at West Baden, Ind., getting Mi condition for his meeting with Kid McCoy at San Francisco Feb. 28. George West, who died recently in Chicago, was one of the most successful drivers and trainers of horses in the world. So far as ontward appearances go the new American Association has been launched on the somewhat troublous baseball sea. Dan Stuart is trying to arrange a match between Jeffries and Fitzsimmons, to be held at Carson City, Nev., next May or June. Manager Ed Hanlon receives more by far for managing than any other man in that capacity in the country. His salary is SIO,OOO. Tom Daly, of the Brooklyns, is the only hall player of A 1 Spalding's aromul-the-wdild baseball tourists of 1888 who is now in active service. “Pedlar” Palmer, so reports* from London say, has decided to retire from the ring. Palmer was the kingpin of the bantams in England for years. There is big money in college football, particularly among the leading elevens. The report of the president of the Yale team for the past season shows that the gross receipts were nearly $45,000. In the we'st -basketball has been the rage for some time, but they are trying to improve the game with novel methods. Some of the teams have donned roller skates ams have played the game with so much dash and vim that the patrons do not care for any other style. The question of who is the greatest bicycle rider in the world will lie settled when Major Taylor goes to Europe to tnckle the foreign cracks. The dusky Major has cleared up everything la the sprinting line on this side of the wnter, and it remains to be seen what he can do on the other aide of the "pond.”