The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-22
S P o r E T T E S

The Great Lakes naval training sta
ton football schedule is out and
shows game with Iowa to be played
| on September &c. The Jackies handed
Iowa beating last year and with
such men as Paddy" Driscoll on this
years eleven. should make it pretty
hot for the Hawkeyes.
Joe Tinker has hired girls for his
| Columbus A. A. park this season. They
will take the places of men on the
ticket selling and taking Jobs and it
is possible that they will be used to
kid the fans into buying peanuts.
Bobbie Quinn has come out with
the statement that he would not trade
George Sisler for Ty Cobb and that
statement has created somewhat of
sensation in baseball circles. He ar
CUES that Sisler is just starting his
career while Cobb should start to go
down soon after thirteen seasons.
Mt Pleasant high school basket
shooters will tangle with the Lebanon
Indiana team on the 18th of this
month. 1t will be an intersectional al
fair between the champions OF the
two states.
zbysko tried some of his rough-neck
tricks on Stranger Lewis in their
iudI poul l0SI hlSII IA -NS'S x ~ -
was Immediately disqualified by Ref
cree Roach. The writer saw the Pole
work against Caddock in Des MONIES
this winter and it was one of his dirty
tricks that gave him a fall against the
Iowa boy.
The Iowa baseball schedule is out
and has a game carded with Notre
Dame. This is the first time that the
Hawkeyes have tackled the irish
globe-trotters in any contest.
John Richards has signed con-
tract to coach wisconsin football
teams for three years. Richards
moulded good team out of green ma
terial for the Badgers last fall
Missouri, Kansas and Ames are the
only Missouri Valley conference
schools that will have baseball teams
this spring. Kansas having only TWO
veterans looks likely to hold down
last place.
Chicago golf fans are indulging in
a newspaper scrap, all caused by some
bug suggesting that they use the
park links for garden plots this sum-
mer.
1874 men registered for athletics
last week at Kelley aviation fleld III
San Antonio and there were TWO
rainy days in the week at that. a
picked team is practtcing for the
games to be held with the ST. Louis
Cards and New York Giants who are
heading that way on their tralnins
trips.
Grover Alexander and VIM. Wrigley
have been playing lot Of golf on the
Pasadena links. This may account
for Alexis decision to sign for s7-I
200 90 and quit cumming uD the Cubs
practice.
Fifty golf clubs in Chicago have
taken up the question OF eliminating
the caddies this year and 1t looks now
as though boys over sixteen years
old will be barred from work on the
links this summer.
Willie Hoppe has been placed IN
class four Of the draft. He was
granted this deferred classification
because of having wife and child
and also contributing to the support
of his father and mother.
Charley Hollocher, former Keo.
kuk player, seems to be making gooo
with the Cubs this spring and is to
be taken to San Diego today for the
opening training game with the Los
Angeles club.
Jess Willard is having a little peev-
tsh fit now. Jess says that he won't
fight in New Orleans and besides
S o.. 10000 isn't enough. The New
Orleans promoters have shown Jess
that that city on July the fourth, Is
cooler than any city that might be
available for the fight.
Twenty thousand barrels OF clay
pigeons were recently shipped to
France from this country. The gov
eminent is furnishing the soldiers
with traps and targets.
-S-DAY-S MARCH 81