The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-02-15
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the latest invention.
At Yale fall sports were participated
In by $3.50 students.
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 a drive.
Most wrestlers must like to preserve
their bouts, so they have been framed.
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 II. Capablanca has gone to his
home in Havana, where he will remain
for several months.
If most boxers ran into n fight as
quickly as they run away from IL
there'd be action a-plenty.
Charley Ebbets still believes that
baseball is in it's infancy in spite of
the size OF Wilbert Robinson.
"Would you call boxing business or
sport?" queries "a Reader" In
most instances 1t is q 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
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nickel.
All sporting promoters are advocates
of the catch-as-catch-can 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 all
the dough.
, Now that John McGraw has won the
, h917 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
he'd with the skating and ski-jumplng
championships.
Cross-country. running, like rowing,
} is one of the branches of sport in
which the Cornell university athletes
are hard to defeat.
Sherman was right about war, but
why did he stop there? So is matri-
, mony, football, umpires, twins and
! lot of other things.
, Barney Dreyfuss, the Pirates bosS,
wants a national commission COM
posed of members who have no con-
nection with baseball.
Manager Mitchell Of the Cubs says
be fears Alexander more than any Ma
tional league pitcher. He has nothing
on about 200 batters in the National
league.
Baseball players are to be forbidden
by their bosses from writing" stories
for newspapers on the worlds series
games. This will be decided gain for
literature.
Western and Pacific coast colleges
will likely be given representation on
the intercollegiate football rules com
mittee at the next meeting of the or
ganization.
AL Mamaux lost ten pounds in vau-
deville and had to quit to get in shape
for his pitching job. Mamaux Is said
to have one Of the best right-handed
voices in baseball.
According to the papers, manager
: Of q college baseball nine has been de-
prived of his amateur standing be-
cause he worked In jewelry store on
Saturdays and sold ivory
The most surprising development OF
the Winter league season Is Mathew
sons continued popularity in Cincin-
natl. He is so popular that some OF
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