Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-11
sPORT0GRAPHs

SPURlUGRAPHS
An automobile authority estimates
that over 100000 cars will be built in
the United States next year.
:. The twelfth National Automobile
Show in New York next January will
be the last to be held in Madison
Square Garden.
Billy Sunday. the evangelist, who
was formerly a baseball player, has
cleared up about $4,000 this season,
It Is said, The Gospel League evident
ly pays.
II is said that the manager OF the
Phillies is arranging to have an am
bulance, surgeon and nurse accompany
the team on its travels next year. in
order to cut down expenses.
Ty Cobb has caused a sensation in
big league circles by announcing that
he isn't a Georgia peach at all, but
was BON in North Ca'lina. The Tar
Hells have right to be chesty.
Oklahoma City fans are growing
peeved with the Texas League and are
demanding that the local magnate try
to get berth in the Western League.
The Pueblo franchise may go to the
Oklahoma metropolis.
Even If they don't win the pennant,
the Pirates are mighty proud of that
III" which the government has re-
stored to their home city. II is said
a Pirate licked" Chicago reporter
because he refused to spell II Pitts
burgh.
Two weeks from this afternoon the
official football season will begin for
number OF Eastern and Middle West
ern colleges, and in three weeks near
ly all the elevens will be playing the
first contests of their regular SEIZED
ules. How time flies!
Funny, but did you ever notice that
baseball press agents are always opti-
mists while, football writer's are fairly
saturated with gloom? Just now We
may read in almost any paper: Owing
to the loss of several of last years
cracks, football prospects at --
are not very bright this fall"
Speaking of hens molars, there have
/ been only twenty-six no-hit games in
the major leagues during the last
twelve years. There have been only
two no.man-to-frst-b games in the
history of baseball. Cy Young and Ad-
die Joss being the pitchers. Cy's glori-
GUS victory was in 1904 and Joss in
1908.
Detroit, the home of the automobile,
will hold next years show during the
week of January %. Last year the
Wayne Gardens were taxed to their
capacity in housing the exhibits, and
the coming show promises to be equal
lily as successful. More automobiles
are manufactured in Detroit than in
any other city of the country.
The Chicago White Sox manage
ment has recently bought a number of
the crack players of the Western
League. Among the number are Joe
Kelley, right fielder of the st. Joseph
MOI club, and Outfielders Middleton
and Davis, Catcher Clemens and Short
stop Berger of the Pueblo (Colo)
team. The latter, which started the
season in Wichita, Kan, and was later
transferred to Pueblo. is owned by
Frank Isbell, a former White Stock.
ing.
At Charter Oak park, Hartford,
Conn, this afternoon Ralph De Palma
in his powerful racer will attempt to
J break Barney Oldfiield's records at
Charter Oak year ago. The car in
which De Palma will make his as
saults on the track records is the
same one George Robertson drove
} when he defeated Oldfield at the
Brighton Beach motordome. De Palma
has also entered in the events for
small cars. Besides De Palma's record
trials there will be a ten-mile open
race, non.stock A five-mile race for
amateur drivers is also on the pro
gram. The A. A. A. contest board has
sanctioned the meet.