The Southern herald., 1917-02-23
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OF SPORT. J.
Tennis courts made of rubber are
the latest invention.

the latest invention.
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At Yale fall sports We're participated
In by 2,250 students. ~
The most vicious things about some
lighters are their faces.
FOrty-one figures make up the inter-
national ice skating code.
Cleveland will form a city lawn ten
mis- association early in 1917!3
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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.
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Wanted Someone to manufacture a
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 la
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 1t must
be nice to be big and peaceful like.
Jess Willard.
Jose R. Capablanca has gone to his,
home in Havana, where he will remain
for several months. =
If most boxers ran into a fight as
quickly as they run away from At
there'd-be action a-plenty.
Charley Ebbets still believes that
baseball Is in its infancy In spite of
the size Of Wilbert Robinson,
would you call boxing business or
a sport?" queries "a Reader" In
most instances it is a crime.
Cleveland and Buffalo yacht clubs
will go in for small boat racing in In
terlake competition next summer.
The average ball player doesn't care
any more about his batting average
than a hard-boiled egg does about a
nickel.
All sporting promoters are advocates
Of the catch-as-catch-c style Of
wrestling. They use the grip on the
public.
If Charley Ebbets could ring in Will
bert Robinson as one man, he would
be putting over a little something on
his rivals.
There's nothing like being a fight
manager. The other fellow does all
the fighting and his manager gets oil
the dough.
Now that John McGraw has won the
1917 pennant in the National league,
the other managers have nothing to
worry about.
Havana wants the Olympic games,
but If she can't get 'em she'll be salts
fed with the skating and ski-jumping
championships. = Ni -.
Cross-country running, like rowing,
is one Of the branches Of sport in
which the Cornell university athletes
are hard to defeat. ,i
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Manager Mitchell of the Cubs says
he fears Alexander more than any Ma.
tional league pitcher. He has nothing
on, about 200 .batters in the National
league. e.
Baseball players are to be forbidden
by their bosses from writing" stories
for newspapers on the worlds series
games. This will be decided gain fol
literature.
Western and Pacific coast colleges
will likely be given representation or
the intercollegiate football rules com
mlttee at the next meeting Of the OF
ganizatlOn.
tAl Mamaux lost ten pounds in vau
devile and had to quit to get in shape
orfhls pitching job. ,Mamaux is sAit
to have one of the best rlght-handeC
voices IN baseball. ::
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:, According to the papers, manages
, Of a. college baseball nine has been de
EptiEed of his. amateur standing be
tc6asEh he wprkedsin, a jewelry store OF
Satufdays and sold: iYoryaG ,i
Fl L 4 q - : ..H.< s.i.
The most surprising developments o
the Winter league season is Mathew
sons continued, popularity in Cincin