Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-02-08
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Harvard will play ten football games
N 1917.
Nothing surprises Is any more. Kid
Broad Is In the movies.
Count that day lost when the Cards
and Pirates escape being sold.
The college professors are against
proselyting, whatever that means.
Our idea Of nothing to read-A re-
view Of the years wrestling bouts.
Roddi Mcdonald is middeweight
champion of Canada, proving nothing.
Fred Mitchell used to be a pitcher
IN the Athletics, and also on the Phil
lies.
The wise boxer will hire a manager
who can do the 10O-yard dash In ten
DAT.
Some of the pugs would get more
oouts IL 1t were not for the railroad
fares.
Jess Willard may go into the NOV
les. He would make a big a In the
movies. -.
Before baseball gloves were invent
ed players fought under London prize
ring rules.
Les Darcy is certainly a fine fellow.
He promised George Chip he will knock
him out again.
Beef is going up, but magnates OF
the diamond say bone will be cheaper
than ever next year.
Manager McGraw is still working to
get Tillie Shafer to return to the game
to play with the Giants.
: Johnny Dundee. the clever New York
lightweight boxer, earned $3O,OO3 in ~
boxing contests during 1916.
Every winter the National league
meets in order that it may 60 through
the formality Of adjourning.
Big league ball players have sad
lives. After they wear out their use
fulness they 60 into vaudeville.
Kitty Bransfield will become a Ma.
tional league umpire, showing that Kit.
ty doesn't care where he works.
Except in weight, height and reach,
Jess Willard doesn't seem to be ply
sically superior to any of his rivals.
It seems as though they can't keeI
Larry Mclean out Of such burgs al
Cincinnati, Milwaukee and st. Louis.
We note that Chick Evans will teact
the Cubs how to bat. We always won
dered what a golf champion was goot
for.
University of New Hampshire stu
dents are going to build their OWL
stadium, including bleachers, track and
field. ,
The San Francisco six-day bike race
has been called off. Showing that Sar
Francisco doesn't fall for the sQuirre
stuff.
1t is easy enough to fill an emperor's
shoes, but Ty Cobb's and Honus Wag
ner's footwear are something else
again.
The magnates lose money every veal
but you never hear Of any Of EN-
riding the rods to the annual league
meetings.
One would think there was a little
Indian blood in Ban johnson when II
comes to granting favors to minol
leagues. &
Australians are ready to pass LIE.
Darcy the "rawsberry" If he ever goes
back. Les may 60 back-but not t.
Australia.
Art Fromme, former New York ant
Cincinnati pitcher, was a star Of thu
first water last year In the Pacific
Coast league.
Many sporting celebrities have
broken into the movies of late, but Jost
Ca%pablanca, the chess wizard, has beer
a movie artist for years.
The early baseball dope from thu
Northwest Is that the Millers expect t.
have their uniforms laundered befort
the start of next season.
Some Of the players who vert
soaked by the national commission fol
transforming were not even accuset
Of playing ball last summer.
Football coaches should never cuss
They have no more right to cuss thar
a Greek professor. or a professor IL
Greek. But imagine a professor cuss
Ing In Greek.
A yarn from Pennsylvania tells Of
man over eighty years old playing foot
ball. Probably this mans father playet
football In Minneapolis q couple q