Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-15
OH, WELL, ANYWAY

Peanuts Schieberl, promoter, prom
ises one of the best cards Of the sea-
son for his first athletic exhibition
Jan. "a at the Owls hall in Rock Is
land.
Mike Dundee. the protege OF Pea
nuts. will go l0-rounder with john
ny Richie and is figuring on landing
a X. O. wallop.
Schieberl has matched Lee McMa-
hon, the Chicago Packey Mcfarland,
! Jr., to go six rounds with George Reed
of Pock Island. and that fight will be
ore of the best six-round fights ever
! witnessed in this part of the country.
Both boys will weigh in at 1873.
| Tony Caponi, the little local favor
/ lite, will step bout over the six-round
route with Kid Hale of Streator, Ill.
Tony has never really landed hard
fwallop to any of his opponents, and
( he intends to give the Hale boy gen.
uine poppy time of it.
Schieberl promises another fast
prelin in addition to the above and
states that the exhibition will be one
/ of the best that has ever been pulled
off in Rock Island. Dundee fans are
anxious to see him in action and ex-
pect to see great improvement in the
style of his work. Dundee promises
to make Richie look sick before the
fight is half over
u Peanuts is new at the promo
ter end of the fighting game and all Of
his followers wish him the best Of
luck, and if he puts on fights like the
ones he has promised on Jan. "a he
! cannot but help have luck. Fans are
going to flock to see the little wop in
action.
|. Each athletic equipment sent to va
! rious soldier and naval camps by the
, Metropolitan Association of the ANA
. teur Athletic union contains one foot
ball, one basketball, one soccer foot
, ball. one indoo- baseball and bat and
, one set of boxing gloves.
Women's national indoor tennis
championships will be held in New
: York in March. 1t will be handicap
event.
2 Cleveland Associated Tennis clubs
/ recently collected 1000 balls to be
, distributed to orphan homes and play
Y grounds.
. Hannes Kolehmainen, the veteran
| Finnish long distance runner, who
e won MANY races as a member Of the
Irish american A. c.. of New York, in
4 the last few years, will shortly join
t the Meadowbrook club of Philadelphia
o where he is now at work at his trade.
V The Sheepshead Bay Rowing clut
: of Long Island in an effort to attract
{ new rowing material, to replace va.
: cancies caused by the enlistment anC
e drafting Of its members, has adopted
: a resolution suspending initiation fees
for the duration of the war
Carlisle Indian school will have {
> baseball nine next summer for thu
l first time in several years.
y, Herzog has now figured in fiv
= trades made by the Giants. No othe
u player in the history of baseball ha
, ever been in so many deals Herzoj
Il has put in three engagements witt
e the Giants, will soon start his secon,
=, assignment with the Braves and pu
u in one turbulent period of two and
half seasons as manager Of the Cincin
natl Reds. The Giants have Away
il given more to get him back than whel
4 he was sent to another pasture.
II Trap shooting continues to grow il
popularity The latest compilation
show that more than four thousan
six hundred trap shooting clubs are il
existence, with that number bein
e added to steadily The state of Penn
/ sylvania leads all the others of tn
- country with total of SOS. New Yor
> is second with 1888, Illinois third wit
e 300 and Iowa fourth with 254.
t. According to the latest record @
" Princeton university students in tn
service all but one member of tn
e 1916 varsity football squad are nov
serving with the colors or in sam
!, allied war department The only "P
!, man who has not left college is unde
"a age, and he is member of the Prince
y ton reserve officers training camp.
Cornell blacklists tennis and gol
and inaugurates wrestling.
vi The Reds tried to send Waite
Ruether to Chattanooga, but tn
player refused to go and negotiation
k were dropped between the clubs
IS Norman Brookes, who with Ar
It thony F. Wilding, wrested the Davi
Y. cup, emblematic of the worlds anna
Y OF BIG LEAGUES SH(
GORDON Il GREAT BAL.