South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-28
SOUTH BEND DEFEAT is MISHA WAKA IN BATTLE AT "Y"'

| THE WORLD O. SPORTS
Mordecai Brown, old time Cub
twirler says he much prefers sand
letters TO the college ball players.
Connie Mack who has built five
championship teams around play
ers from the rah-rah ranks says:
Give mo the college man every
time"
Brown Is manager OF the Terre
Haute Three-Eye league team and
Mack has held the reins in the
American league for nineteen more
or less successful years-facts in
themselves significant,
Frankie Mason packs up for To-
ledo Monday next Tor ten days hard
drill before his match with Jimmy
Wilde
Leo Ward. substitute forward on
the NOtre Dame basketball squad
for two years has burst into promI-
hence with a bang Ills sensational
playing in games of late is an out
come OF gritty doggedness. Too bad
this is his last year in school.
Purdue is king Of the college
teams in Hoosier basketball as a
result or it's victory over Indiana.
The Boilermakers still have
chance TO cop first place in the
conference race.
Indiana and Purdue sports are in
teresting themselves in the duh sea-
son in wrestling. Both have strong
combinations of grapplers
Johnny Kilbane retains his feath-
erweight crown, considerably dent
ed
George Goldie. Princeton univer-
sity's first physical director and
father OF the pole Vault" died re-
Gently. he introduced Jumping
for height with a pole" forty-five
years ago.
Those Boston teams are in desper-
ate circumstances. Now they're
signing up all free lancers their ivory
hunters can uncover. The Braves
have corraled Eddie Eayrs, former
Brown and Pittsburg player.
Knbane got $500 for his little
, hanging on stunt with Benny Val
ger. proving that the featherwelght
is some sticker.
Penn is TO have new athletic
headquarters and will name it after
Mike Murphy, the greater trainer
that ever essayed to put athletic
/ 2rowess into a college boy.
/ Fat Willie Meehan, recently trim r.
med by the ancient Gunboat smith
on the coast, is coming east TO meet
+ Gene Tunney the fighting marine
The scrap will probably be staged
in Jersey
New York papers are gloating
over Egon Ericksons defeat of
Johnny Murphy of Notre Dame in
New York, but they forget that the
local champion had some handicap.
Harvard Dartmouth and Cornell
/ come together I'm the biggest indoor
/ track of the season in Boston to-
night.
/ Stannislaus Zbyszko, the big Pole,
! who recently returned to this coun-
/ try, threw Karl Lemi, "the perfect
/ man." twice in thirty-five minutes
/ recently. More trouble for Stecher.
Two more members OF the famous
Shenag family. brothers of Wally
and Bob. are to take up professional
baseball with the Baltimore interna-
tionals. Both played semi-pro ball
in and around Buffalo.
That the big and near-big lea
guers are shy on material this early
] in the season is evidenced by the
visits of several ivory hunters TO
Notre Dame of late. Sjoberg and
Kline are being sought by pro clubs
Both have played their limit at
NOtre Dame and are now taking
extra studies in a post graduate
course.
The Boston Red Sox are after
TObin of ST.. Louis for their badly
weakened outfield. The Browns only
want half of the Boston team for
Tobiu, but Frazee ought TO find a
way ont ~ that