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Show IMMUNE. "What are you roughnecks laughing for?" the boxing w-riter cried. "The price of bread! The price of bread!" the pugilist replied. "What is tho laughter all about?" the boxing writer cried. "The price uf bread is going up," the pugilist replied. For it really doesn't matter to a gent who wields the mitt Whether bread is sold at six per loaf or just an old-time jit. When ho reads about the price of bread lie merely laughs '.at it He can always hit the free lunch in the mornin7. There are two games we don't know anything about. One is poker and the other is golf. W'e never have tried to play 'golf. "It was psychology," says Sam Potts Hall, speaking of White's inabil-itv inabil-itv to put anything over on Welsh. Psychology is fust as good a name as any other. Psychology has a great deal to do : with" Bat Nelson's success as a fighter,: but if you were to tell him so he wouldn't believe it. "Where do you i get that noise?" he would say. "No- body with a name like that ever sat in j my corner." "Even with Larry Doyle on the injured list, Charley Weeghman is not losing anything oii the Zim-Doyle trade. Larry Lar-ry can 't play for the Cubs and Heine wouldn't. Chick Evans may be the most popular pop-ular golfer in America, but a good many sporting editors evidently have a grudge against him. They print pictures pic-tures of him in knickerbockers. We thought for a time that we were growing old, but we find that we still are chicken. Heading an exchange a moment ago, we- discovered that Willie Hoppc is the "Boy Wonder." It happened in Ohio. A baseball hit an outfielder named Nutter on the dome and bounced over the fence to a home run. He pronounces his name with the accent on the first syllable. Some persons like to read football schedules and some don't care what they read. Ty Cobb, we are informed, is slowing slow-ing up, but a study of the stolen base column leads one to suspect that he can still navigate without the aid of crutches. |