The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-02-07
In Other Games.

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Tennis is lu no Wis, d.poudeu, upon
ga'" r"celpis. There are no gato re-
r,.pis 10 rolf which m this wny has the
advantage over hem all Football needs
It's slhfc Of gsic jrDcipts but IN" Arm,
HII N1vN have proved That the game
can b" p.a 81 without a box office, as
neither 'har<os admission until the fl.
nal game
~ tho mnior sports baseball and box
ing nrc dependent upon u sufficient box
offic" output 80 get hy Their app,d
must he made 10 the average citizen. ur
hnl one result can he obtained the
sam" being dissolution
But the average fight promoter and
manager and the average boxer have
NO Thought ~ nll for those who pa1 20
much per io witness nu evening smear
of al connected with thg professional
sport ihos" Who should huld MP boxing
are tho ultimate and concluding limit
Annual Ode TO February
Last month Of winter and the long, cold
drouth
Last month cf winter when the teams
start south.
Hurry up and move along take q jump
Bring Ms hack the gossip of the training
camp again.
Last month of winter and the long rSv
wait.
Last month ~ winter when spring &, a.
tho gate
Hurry up and move. along over ridge
and glen,
nut us IN the hunh-is frf Il uihnyk shot
again
Don't YOU believe writes Andy ".
that the fact thai Cuhb was ~ lss'
beaten out for tho lead will take away
lo' oi MS ambition ANA IN" dctcrmlm
ton he had 10 make a ten wear sweep
lsn this likely to affect his play ''
Knowing Cobb az We do We should
ray that tho only element calculated to
crush his ambition and break up his de-
termination would he pine box about
seven feet long with thn I'D nailed over
hts remains Cobb was stopped IN his
len-vear drive. hu, he slll ycdrus To lead
the league for matter Ot ten wears.
even tho achievement isn't a success.
sive affair
"Alnt I, the Grand ard Glorious zee,
ling
When after you've topped your drive
And PLAYED your approach like sin,
You SNEAK TO the edge of the green In
And tho putt for drops In,
Or after you'vo smesred two shot.
And YOUR rival seems two up
lNu tlNf Nff \ roc WIN inc ffnHN'N NNU
She drops two feet from the cup
n Grover Cleveland Alexander isn't
worth = fancy stipend II would be hATf
10 find hall PLAYER thai is Al.Nandcr
lHst season WAS worth ~ least asa mon.
eN maker t2t 0oo to tho philucs That
H, without Alexander the ne, income
~ thr club would have been NJ least
fsb nON less Aud this IL using the mus'
moderate flsur. In sight man who
ran pitch sixteen shout outs and win
over thirty hall games I'm This nEr ID
one ~ those rare apecinsns worth "
good hlt more than he will ever collect
There have been amy number Of hail
PLAYERS ovetpad Hut one ~ these IL not
Alexander n he has been getting lass
than 'l0O0n year he has bocn badly
underpaid Tor the last two ~ three sea
sons
pitcher In baseball, not leaving out wal.
,er johnson, who II supposed TO he draw.
Ing down va ,0On or more = year With.
out any question the big Nebrssknn last
season vas the most valuable pitcher IN
the game wl,hou, 9 rival N close Sigh,
Hush Duffy having been appointed
coach N tho iisfvNtd university has,
han team, sold his Portland Eas,ern
league club 10 Hiram Abrams. who es
pect. 10 cnntlnue n In Portland. though
there had heer talk " transferring I, IN
some Msssachnetts city in nfdsf In
shorten the Jumps In the Eastern lsigue