South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-19
GIANTS REMIND
ONE Of FORCES
IN RUSS LAND
Doughty Leader Has Many
AIibis for LOSSeS-0ther,
lettings About DoingS in
World of Sport.
BY Frank G. NIcnke.

by Frank &. Mcnke.
The Giants remind one OF the Rus
star army. Beaten TO a fragile on
numerous occasions. its doughty lead
er continues to issue official bulletins
stating that the beating was suffered
for strategic reasOns only, and ASKING
the public TO wait until we get start
ed"
Women want TO be enfranchised.
The claim they have as much right
10 vote as men. They assert they are
just as brainy. then they go
and wear furs in the summer.
Everybody's beginning to feel sorry
for Tom COwler. the Australian heavy
weight who was brought to these
shores by one James j. COTbett. The
SORROW isn't occasiOned by CowleT's
fighting ability. He looks like "A bat
tier. But the folks here are sorry for
him because jim COrbett linked him.
Jim calls him 1.-The coming heavy
weight champion Of the world"
Jim ranks as the worst little picker
in the country. Gamblers always wait
until Jim picks his winner for a com
ing Highland then they bet on the
other fellow and they usually cash
their bets.
And now Jim picks Tom Cowler to
win the heavyweight championship at
some future date. Poor Thomas.
Benny Kauff is more TO be pitied
than c~ensured. n praise heaped
upon him during the past year vent
TO his head and caused him to become
afflicted with one of the most eXag-
geTated cases Of ego in baseball his
tory.
Benny may recover and he may not.
But even If ne does he has lost for all
time the high esteem in which the
fans once held him.
Wladeck Zbyszko is his name-the
wrestler who never lost a fail. He's
a brother of Stanislaus Zbyszko and
he promises 10 be "a more famous
grappler han his brother, who is now
a prisoner of war in the hands OF the
Russians.
Wladeck is six feet and th~ree-quor-
ters of an nch tall. He's p years
old and weighs $50 pounds. In a year
or so he'll beam around $50 because
ne hasn't reached his fuIl Development
10 date.
Wladeck studied law and medicine
in Vienna. But he wanted TO be a
wrestler-and a wrestler he is. He
won a large hock of medals and huge
bundles of cash in Europe. Then he
anne to New York and continued in
his winning ways.
The town of Seattle became consid-
erably peeved recently when some
golhng person said that it rained So
much in the Washington metropolis
that n golfer needed a rowboat in go
ing around the course.
And so Seattle has come to the fore
with facts and figures TO show that
Seattle's average rainfall is less than
in any other city of its size in the
United States.
The baseball experts didn't think
much of the 1915 p%ennant chances
of the White SOX after they learned
that a busher was TO lead
the team But this busher person
Clarence Henry Rowland by name
seems TO be doing 50 well that the
White SOX fans are making world Sc
ries reservations already.
Baseball" remarks John Tener. lis
undergoing a change" The magnates
think it a sort of short change after
gazing into the club Golfers.
An umpire in one of the western
towns believes in the Safety First
rule. When he took his position be-
hind the bat in a recent game a Win
chester rifle was slung under his arm,
and an automatic bulged from his hir
pocket.
IN the meantime. what's become OF
Jack Johnson His sudden slipping
beyond the pugilistic horizon has been
n Of the surprising events i'm the
modern history OF pugilism. No eN-
champion has dropped so completely
out of sight-and OF mind-as has the
big Smoke" since that havana affair
Honus Wagner made his Tooth home
run the other day-and il was his
first four-baser OF the season. The
record of Wagner shows that ne hasn7
gone in for establishing records in the
circuit smash line.
over a 19-year stretch the Flying
Dutchman' has made only 100 home
runs-an average of only a tride more
than five per season. His biggest yeaI
was in 1898. when he got Il homers
His next best ear was in 1908. when
he made 10. Wagner made only one
nome run during the 1914 season and
only three in 1913.
Two months more and the mole.
skins viii be dragged forth from the
lockers. he footballers viii begin foot.
halling and the doctors will be hold.
ing themselves in readiness for HURRY
up calls.