Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-01-27
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Of SPORT

The most vicious things about some
fighters are their faces.
Forty-one figures make up the inter.
national ice skating code.
Cleveland will form city lawn ten.
mis- association early in 1917.
Some golfers can get more distance
in putt than they can In drive.
Most wrestlers must like to preserve
their bouts, so they have been framed.
Wanted-Someone to manufacture II
scales large enough to weigh Jess Will
lard.
Most boxers ought TO make good with
a circus; they are accustomed to ring
work.
Footwork is the chief feature In In
savate. 1t is also the chief feature In
boxing.
A bicycle rider Is the only one who
can ride for six days without getting
anywhere.
We can't help thinking that It must
be nice to be big and peaceful like
jess willard.
Jose II. Cnpablanca has gone TO his
home I'm Havana. where he will remain
for several months.
If most boxers ran into fight as
quickly us they run away from 1t
thered be action a-plenty.
Charley Ebbets still believes that
baseball is In its infancy In spite Of
the size Of Wilbcrt Robinson.
"would you call boxing business or
sport?" queries "a Reader" In
most instances 1t is II crime.
Cleveland and Buffalo yacht clubs
will go In for small boat racing In in
tcrlake competition next summer.
The average ball player doesn't care
any more about his batting average
than n hurd-bOiled egg does about u
nickel.
All sporting promoters are advocates
of the catch-ns-catch-can style of
wrestling. They use the grip on the
public.
II Charley Ebbets could ring In Will
bert Robinson rs one man, he would
be putting over II little something on
his rivals.
There's nothing like being fight
manager. The other fellow does all
the fighting and his manager gets all
the dough.
Now that John McGrnw has won the
1917 pennant In the National league
the other managers have nothing t.
worry about.
Havana wants the Olympic games
but II she can't get 'em she'll be salts
fled with the skating and ski-jumpinl
championships.
Cross.country running, like rowing
Is one of the branches of sport II
which the Cornell university athletes
are hard to defeat.
Sherman was right about war, bu
why did he stop there? So Is mntrl
mony, football, umpires, twins and ,
lot of other things.
Barney Drcyfuss, the Pirates boss
wants n national commission CON
posed of members who have no con
nection with baseball.
Manager Mitchell of the Cubs say
he fears Alexander more than any M
tional league pitcher. He has nothing
on about 200 bn,lers In the Nationu
league.
Baseball players are to be fOrbidde
by their bosses from ''wrlting" stOrle
for newspapers on the worlds serle
games. This will be decided gain 70
literature.
Western and Pacific coast college
will likely be given representation o
the intercollegiate football rules con
mittee ut the next meeting of the OF
ganiZation.
Al MamauX lost ten pounds In val
dcville and had to quit to get In shar
for his pitching job. Mamaux Is sal
to have one of the best right-hande
voices In baseball.
According TO the papers, manage
of IA college baseball nine has been III
prived of his amateur standing b.
cause he worked In jewelry store
Saturdays and sold ivory.
The most surprising development
the Winter league season Is MATHEW
sons continued popularity In Cincil
natl. He is so popular that some
the fans call him Won Mathewson.
Harry Frazee, the new head OF II
Red Sox, started life in much the san
monner os JOe L0nnin late owner