Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-01-25

Williams II deserves to rank first in
the tennis rating.
In order to purify the wrestling
game they should put college profess
sors In charge Of 1t.
Plans are on foot to revive the Kitty
league, with Evansville and East st.
Louis in the circuit.
The White Sox and Indians may
play in Canada. Wonder what they've
got against Canada?
Joe Tinker will start training at
once to get In shape for playing short
stop on the Cub team.
st. Louis fashion experts are pre-
dieting that red hosiery won't be worn
so co~nspicuously next fall.
There Is 40 truth In the report that
Horace Fogel will be the next presi-
dent of the National league.
Percy Haughton would eliminate the
spitball. This move ought to bring
down the price of slippery elm.
Canadian racetracks will enjoy 21O
days Of racing, beginning in May and
ending In October of next year.
= Brown may be a popular color In st.
Looey next autumn. and then again 1t
may be only a dark brown taste.
A sport scribe says Joe Walcott was
longest in the ring. Pin1esticks! Joe
isn't much If any ove five feet long.
Almost a million horses and mules
have been sold to the entente allies
|. by American horsemen since the war
began.
nes Moincs has been awarded the
1917 bowling tourney of the Midwest
association and will hold it next No.
vember.
Chicago paper says that "tlie Cub
machine Is to he reconstructed on n
solid foundation" Going to use more
concrete?
Boston Red Sox will give 100000 for
Walter Johnson. Yes, and Barney
Dreyfuss would give almost that much
for Ty Cobb.
Henry Kendall college. Tulsa. Okla,
will have n new gymnasium construct
ed to replace the one destroyed by
fire recently.
Chrlsty Mathewson would do well
to call n convention of the Cincinnati
hammer throwers before the spring
training season.
"Christy" Mathewson Is a regular
Cincinnati manager. He says the
Reds ought to finish In the first divi-
sion next season.
Among the professional baseball
players are men who are stars in va
rious forms of athletics. but jumping
has quite gone out.
However, the fans are not expected
to suffer seriously from the increase in
price of baseballs, as most of them
pIov tho po,no Inv rrOyv
When asked If he was going to sell
the Pirates, Barney Dreyfuss laughed.
The mention of the Pirates generally
creates mirth these days.
A Kansas man hns invented a new
dog muzzle. If he ally wants to in
vent something, he should turn out q
muzzle for boxers managers.
On the occasion Of the recent meet
ing at Mont.de-M arsan, Antivnrl, a
horse belonging to the king Of Spain
carried off the prix de ~relevago.
Many a baseball find" is getting a
column now who won't be able to get
into the baseball briefs" when the
training season Is well under way.
The Louisville Colonies won the
American association flag last fall and
will train at Athens, Ca, next spring.
where the Braves formerly got into
condition.
Philadelphia is building the largest
government-controlled garage In this
country. 1t will contain 10000 square
feet of space. 1t will be n story Of
| fireproof construction.
The Cantillon faction is given credit
for downing Tom Chivington in the
American association.
AL Baum, the president Of the Pa
cifc Coast league, was reelected for
| a term Of FIVE years at the annual SEES
sion Of the league.
Where nre the peanut growers and
pop-venders? They should have an or
eanization effected by this time to com.
bat that proposal which Is going to
o,tuinate the 2S.cent bleachers from