Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-05-17
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Of SPORT
The hardest thing about basketball
Is the other fellows elbows.
When a bicycle rider gets a pune
ture could you say he was tired out?
Umpire Joe O'Brien will not be In
the American association this season.
The difference between a fighter and
a butcher is the way they make weight.
Twill be a cold day when we con-
sent to watch a bunch Of dog teams
race. +.
Outfelder Al Sheer will change uni
forms. The Toledo club sold him to
the St Paul club.
A professional amateur n runs
with his head. And he don wear
spikes N his ears.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned fight promoter who used to stage
championship bouts7 !
Nothing wrong with the New York
Boxing commission-nothing but
charges Of extortion, bribery, etc.
Percy Haughton wants to reduce the
size Of the home plate, and it's already
SO small that the umpIres can't see it.
President Weeghman Of the Cubs,
had a salary roll of $145,000 last year.
This season he will not 60 above the
$4,000 mark.
Suggest that those baseball recruits
who look good, but need further sea.
soning should be sent to the Mexican
state of Tabasco.
Baseball experts" figure that Ty
Cobb is losing his batting prowess, but
what difference does it make so long
as the pitchers don't know 1T
II the various sports continue to
adopt different definitions of al anna
teur there soon will be as many kinds
of amateurs as there are sports.
A year ago Benny Kauff was talk
ing over 400, but in the subsequent
season he batted only .275. This win
ter he has been talking less than .275.
Philadelphia Grand circuit horse
races will be decided over the Belmont
club course at Narberth a few miles
outside Of the Quaker city.
Ten Of Manager Connie Mack's Ath.
letic club pitchers are players who new.
er wore the ex-champions uniforms be-
fore the present training trip.
Lot of players got fined last Novem.
Der for playing baseball, but 1t is a
safe bet that some Of 'em won't be
charged with that crime next July.
Kitty Bransheld, the new National
league Jump. played first base for the
Pirates a dozen years ago, and Barney
Dreyfuss is still hunting for q success
sor to him.
The annual Army VS.. Navy football
game will again be played at the Polo
grounds, New York, Saturday, Novem-
Der "a, the Saturday before Thanks.
giving day.
If all the fans organized a union and
agreed to stay away from the games It
would be mighty tough on some club
owners, but Connie Mack wouldn't no.
tice much difference.
Georges Carpenter, the French
champion heavyweight pugilist. and
Bombardier Wells, the English fighter,
are to box In Paris and the proceeds
will 20 to the Red Cross fund.
San Francisco Pacific Coast teams
new baseball park includes a grand.
stand with a seating capacity OF 5,7OO.
with additional bieachers, which will
bring the seating capacity to 14.OOO.
Between Mexico's gulf and Hudson's
bay there are now to be found. or so
they say. four million folks who at
tennis play. Just how they counted
'em they don't explain.
At Nome, Alaska, there is a gun club
which pulls of its shoots at midnight.
Some local shooters are ut their best
It that hour, conversationally.
A fighter used to need two good hsts
to win q reputation, but now all he
needs is q press agent with two good
fingers