The Washington herald., 1909-03-14
SPORTING SIDELIGHTC
By BILL BAILEY.

Jim Delehanty still has trouble with
his eyes-can't see the line on his con-
tract where he should sign his name.
Charley Hickman says that it was not
SeymOur's knocking down Of Arlie La
than that caused New York 10 drop him.
he AYERS that 81 has been slated for a
transfer some months.
The Capital City League holds an i'm
portant meeting to-day. and a schedule
viii likely be accepted. Bill BalIey's
church duties Will not permit him 10
attend.
In connection with this we also wish
20 add that we are not in favor OF Sun
day ball in Washington or betting a. the
Benning race track.
''Stokey" Thompson VIII to-day be
handed the proceeds Of the benefit bas-
ket-ban game played last night between
the ST. Stephens and the Ordways
"Stokey' gets about 500. Fine business.
boys. That IS the way 10 celebrate Lent
The fact that George StaHings' base
ball players had large sums OF money
OF which they were robbed does not puzzle
US, but we can't stand for the story
that a reporter with the team was
touched" Ter so. Probably it was 30
cents.
II jim Jeffries should come out with the
announcement that he will fight, what a
scattering OF 10000 fight promoters there
would be, to say nothing Of the hutter
It would start under Jack Johnson's chest
protector.
Was that a basketball team that York
Y. NJ. c. A. brought over here last night7
That's a fine mixture Of natiOnalities
in the six-day go-as-you-please race
which started in Madison Square Garden
yesterday morning. Too bad they couldn't
ring in a couple Of Cinnamon. At the
first set Of Olympic games held in Ath-
ems IN 1896 there were six starters IN the
final heat of the 100-meter race. and no
two OF the athletes spoke the same Ian
guage. The race was started by a Greek,
who gave the instructions in French. Can
you beat that combination The race was
won by an American. a German was sec
Ond. and q Greek third. There was no
chance 20 try TO josh your opponent in
that race. The most a fellow could do
was to give a hard stare and make mo-
tiOns.
They are claiming a scarcity Of rowing
material up at Cornell. but guess when
the big POughkeepsie regatta comes
around that the crew from Ithaca will
not be far below the standard Of the
Red and White. Cornell can't be ex-
pected 10 win year in and year out. She
has had more than her share Of glory
on the water. Courtney knows as much
about rowing as he ever did. and the
total enrolment at Cornell increases
each year. and one would naturally ex-
pect that the material would be there,
as in former years. But there is one
thing that must not be lost sight OF, and
that Is the fact that the other colleges
are coming into their own in rowing
Cornell has not been going back; the
other fellows are coming forwad.
Our janitor reminds US Of some Of the
baseball players We know. He has q
lame arm.
TONYISMS
Hans Kraussmeyer wants TO know why
in thunder CHans says "dunder'D Capt
Pat Tuohy. Of the Shamrocks, ignored his
application for a place on the Hibernian
team.
Arlie Latham's real name Is Walter
Arlington Latham. It seems that Arlie's
father, in naming the popular comedian
baseballist, thought Arlie would prove to
be a dead one" when he grew up, and
so named him after the famous Airing
ton Cemetery.
That $500 trap-sbooting gun Of John
Philip Sousa's vindicated itself last Tues
day at the weekly handicap trap-shoot-
ing events at Pinehurst, n. c., when It
helped its versatile owner make a score
OF &c. Mr.. Sousa won a handsome sill
yer loving cup. He was congratulated
by the frecracker trust
Manager Worley, OF the BIoomingdaie
Athletic Club. is not a votary OF the
mud bath fad, so he called off the
.cross-country run Of his club, scheduled
for yesterday. and the events viii take
place on April 3. at the Brightwood Driv-
Ing Park Worley claims, though, that
his men are regular mud larks, and in
competition with the other local clubs
yesterday, would have had pipe" We
presume he means clay pipe.
Trilby' Delehanty seems TO be anxious
TO keep out Of the presence Of svengan
CantiIlon.
A bevy Of red checked girls of the East
ern High School gymnasium class rushed
for bargain counter yesterday and
bought quantities OF white buttons. Are
they starting keno game down at the
Eastern, or are they playing basketball
too vigorously? None Of your businessI