The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-31
SPORT BREVITIES

Today's calendar of sports:
Boxing-Rob Moha VS.. Charley Weinert,
10 rounds, at New York.
Joe yelling vs. Irish Patsy Cline 10
rounds, at New York.
Jack Dillon VS.. AL Mccoy, 10 rounds,
at Brooklyn.
Jack Britton VS.. Johnny Griffith, u
rounds, at Akron
Football-Trinity college VS.. North Tex
as State normal, at Waxahachie, Tex.
Cyclone Burns, the heavyweight
wrestler, is teaching the Andover football
squad how to be gentle in tackling an
opponent, even though the victim lives
after the attack.
In meeting Yale, Harvard and Colgate,
one right after another, the Brown foot
ball team is bound to finish the season
with plenty of football in their systems.
The Zulu Kid is matched to fight Jimmy
Wilde in London for the flyweight title
Wilde-Zulu battle ought to furnish some
genuine excitement.
Manager Fred Tenney of the Newark
International league team has been given
the gate. Newark fans complained that
Fred used some sort of an antiquated
system of plotting that caused the team
to run backward.
IT'S said that Clark Griffith is to pass
up Charlottesville as training camp and
take his Washington team to Cuba next
spring. Charlottesville was all right, eX-
cept that it's name was too long to get
into the papers, and the players had to
train in fur caps and listers.
Tom Bello, the Italian bicycle rider who
was runner-up in the amateur champion
| ship this year, has decided to enter the
professional class. Tom opines that
pedaling for medals. br1c-a-brac etc, is
all right as far as it goes, but it doesn't
bring home the spaghetti.
The way Harry Jones. the Yale star, IS
tearing up the gridiron makes it apparent
that he is out to show Princeton and
Harvard that he should have been barred
from athletics for life.
Barney Dreyfuss, the Pirates boss.
wants national commission composed
OF members who have no connection with
baseball. If that's all Barney wants he
need look no further than the present
"commish." Has not the chairman been
president of the Cincinnati Reds for
years?
AS there are only six nights in a week
on which boxing shows can be held, the
only way Battling Levinsky and Jack
Dillon can increase the number of their
| fight engagements will be for the promo
ters to stage matinees.
Even having Rutgers number (they
| wear 'em on their backs) before the whis-
tie blows, doesn't seem to make it any
easier for the opposing football warriors
to beat Foster Sanfords gridders.
The American league has been caught
with the goods. After all their boa sting
of how they downed their National league
rivals. it has become known that Amer
lean league teams carried % men against
| q in the National.
Jack Britton and Ted Cxid) Lewis have
met seven times, and now they are going
to begin another series of clashes to de-
termine which is the better battler.
The Dartmouth hockey team is nego-
tiating for the use of ST. Nicholas rink.
in New York. for practice sessions FROM
Hanover to New York for practice may
mean that the Green club wielders are to
play their scheduled games in San Fran
cisco.
1t is estimated that more than 70.OOO
football enthusiasts will see the Tad Jones'
Percy Haughton contest at New Haven
November %.
1 When Clyde Engle defeated Dan Nc
Grath. amateur golf champion of Peru.
the other day. the devotees of the an
Gent game learned that Peru has a golf
champion and his name is McGrath.