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Show SF0RI1N& WORLD The chief excuse for playing hockejr seems to be to get a skate on. Basketball is a great game. It gives a lot of youths an excuse for fighting. "Benny" Kauff Is managing a fighter. Letting someone else do the hitting for him. Zulu Kid has sailed for England to meet Jimmy Wilde in Loudon in December. De-cember. Xou never hear of a player being In contempt for putting up a racket in a tennis court. Wild Bill Donovan seems bent on tightening his defense. See where ho lias signed up Buckles. Johnny Kilbane declares he cau make 11S pounds and is ready to meet Kid Williams at this weight. There isn't anything in a name, after all. For instance, there's Ileinie Groh. He's been 5 feet 7 Inches for six yearn. If Champion Jess Willard decides to fight again this winter he will have to be hoisted into the ring with a derrick. der-rick. They are playing golf by moonlight In Philadelphia. As you no doubt have heard, everybody sleeps in the daytime. day-time. Just as a matter of curiosily, what would It profit a fellow to gain an amateur golf championship and lose his job? Jake Daubert, who has always been regarded as the best first baseman In tbe National league, looked poorly in the world's series. Fighters who would rather battle than eat are commonplace these days, but you've got to admit some of them have mighty heallby appetites. John McGraw showed excellent judgment judg-ment in nursing Ferdie Schtipp for two years. lie bad experience in tutoring tu-toring Rube Marquard in the same way. Clarence Brodie, the big guard of the lOlo University of Chicago eleven, has left that Institution and entered the Sheffield school at Yale. lie will be a i-aluable addition to Yale's forces in, another year. |