The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-13
Sport SNAPSHOTS
(By Jack Keene.

FRITZ scheff. the actress. is mis-
tress of the intricacies of clay pigeon
shooting. She learned the art in
rather an unusual way. The care
near Waterbury, Conn, is a fair shot
with a % caliber rifle at 100 yards.
He rugged up a target last summer
and practiced daily-even nightly.
The nriua donna watched him,
never thinking TO try her hand her
self, for she had never fired any sort
of arm in her life. But one day late
in August she picked up the rife and
to her establishment in fifty shots hit
she practiced until she could 40 even
better. The Waterbury Country club
goes in extensively for clay pigeon
shooting, holding, tournament
president invited MISS schefr to par.
ticipate BY this time she had be-
come proficient with a s ~ pound ~
gauge gun. Her best score was 4S
out Of SO.
While on her way to rehearsal in
New York recently, Miss Schen drop
ped into a shooting gallery and tried
her hand with a revolver. She knock
ed down so many clay pipes, rabbits,
visions of business ruin and ordered
her to stop.
Nick Altrock was the big noise
among the ball players who visited
Montgomery, Ala, -not-fone ago. Alt
rock entertained the soldiers with his
pitching, coaching, fielding at frst
base, catching supposedly high ntes,
tight rope walking, fishing and last
knockout stunt Nick does the hit
ting as well as the falling in his kayo
act. bringing it to a climax with g
flop. in rnidair and sprawling full
Nick made a hit with his act is ex-
pressing it mildly The. soldiers. at
Camp Sheridan tried to recruit him as
a regular member. Iris Speaker; the
Cleveland Indians center tielder act
ed as referee and counted Nick out.
If Ban Johnson joins the army.
which hasn't been decided yet, some
of the American league men may OBJ
ject to the appointment of Edward
@. Barrow in Big Bans place: Al
ready these magnates, who still hope
that johnson will remain In this
country, are talking of eleeting Frank
J. Navin to the leagues presidency.
Navin is president and part owner
of the Detroit Tigers. He is one
of the Oldest club owners in the cir
cult and is a close friend of Johnson.
He is a smart baseball man and US.
ually is consulted regarding questions
of Importance. Should Navin be
chosen to fill Johnson's shoes he
would sever his relations with the
Detroit club. at least temporartly.
Miller Huggins' engagement by
the Yankees Is a case Of reprisal.
Last spring the s.. Louis Cardinals AZ
Browns by doubling his salary.
Hickey was the Browns business
manager and chief scout He could
not get along with Owner Ball, who
told him he could better himself But
when Hickey signed with the Card
inals there was much i'll feeling on
the part of Ball and other American
league men. By taking Higgins
away from Hickey, therefore, the
American league is getting square.
It's too bad. Notre Dame cannot
60 through its 1917 football season
meeting defeat, as some
fans led themselves to believe fol-
Of downing the Army ID not long
ago. Notre Dame has already been
defeated. Yep, Eddie Stewards Neb-
raska varsity dumped the beans on
October 20, winning To. This is the
same Nebraska eleven which Hurry
sS2o. h0''s Mionlsan varsity Haiiopsa
Christy Mathewson as q manager
has found more time to play golf
than he knew as player While he
only gets out around once . week
around 81 or So. II Il sim I'll II i o Sue
tion ais to who is the better golfer
among diamond stars. Matty or Chief
Bender. They are certainly the two
leaders. Some day there may be b
battle between the pair to help de-
a3da the issue