The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-12-31
Sport Snap Shots
BY JACK kEENE,
I've been wondering If recklessness

I've been wondering If recklessnes
due to the blasting of his romance OF
the battlefield of France played a par
in the recent death Of "Hobey" Baker
famous athlete. HOBBY was killed |,
fall from his plane while awaiting
orders to return to America. A mem
Der of his squadron wired news of his
death to America.
Baker had gone through innumer
able air battles during the war with
out injury. Last summer, dispatche;
stated, he met Miss Mimi Scott, New
port girl, in France when he took
three lost children to hut in the wal
zone. The engagement of the grid
star and the girl was announced later
Then few weeks ago the girls
grandmother announced that the en-
gagement was broken. No facts con
corning the romance or the reasons
for terminating it were given. Miss
Scot is popular and held in high es
TEEN by her friends, as was Baker.
Few men earned greater fame In
sports and few have been more pop
ular than Baker, due partly tcethe
fact that he did much and talked little
liC CAIl AlouCoJ anu " dS us
posed to make light of his own bril-
liant performances on gridiron or ice.
His personality was most attractive
and he made friends easily and quick
ly and held them, too
Baker first earned prominence In
football In the fall OF 1911, when
Princeton defeated Harvard to 6 and
Yale to 8. He was a really great
halfback and in the opinion of many,
ranked with the best of all time.
With remarkable speed and striking
agility he combined quickness of
thought an deye, which made him a
hard man to stop at all times, and
particularly dangerous in a broken
field.
One can not recall Baker without
remembering his brilliant eighty-flve
yard run for touchdown against Dart
mouth in the fall of 1912. after catch
ing punt on his own fifteen-yard line,
or without remembering that his dead
ly drOp-kicking was responsible for
holding Yale to tie score of 6 to S
in 1912 and of 3 to 3 in 1913. In fact,
Bakr was one of the few Princeton
football players who PLAYED on three
teams without suering defeat at the
hands OF Yale
He was captain of the eleven In
1913 and his team was beaten by Har-
ward 3 to 0. but after being clearly
outplayed by Yale week later, he
came to the rescue In the third period
with drop-kick from difficult angle
and SO saved the Orange and Black.
He also earned prominence in hook
ey while In college, and played TO his
greatest fame after being graduated in
1914. Few faster men have ever been
seen on the ice.
Baker took up flying soon after
leaving college and was one OF the
first to make fight from Long Is.
land to Princeton to see football
game. When the war broke out, he
was one Of the first. to enlist in the
aviation service and son rose to the
rank oil lieutenant. His work In the
air was characterized by its daring
and he was ono Of the first Americans
% bring down a German plane after
war was declared.
Rogers Hornsby, the Cardinals
great young shortstop, didn't play in
MS usual fine style last season. but
lie Is confident that he will do a real
comeback" in 1919. OF course there
s nothing original about Rogers sent
ment. for that's the way they all
eel at this time of the year. However,
ct Rogers tell 1t himself:
Just tell the fans that I will be
'ack as a 400 hitter next spring. II
dipped last sumner. but will show
hem that I am not a one-year phe-
ION. and that I can hit a low curve
IN the outside. won't need much
raining in the spring and could
tart in today and play at top speed"
The first tenement house In New
fork city was built in 1888. II was q !