The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-26
On the Other Hand
BY ROY GROVE.

Tonne MACK says ne IS through
trading star players. However, we
would hate TO see some one offer
Connie $4,000 for a $4,000 ball
player.
| There are some experts who will
insist Mack has no star players 10
| trade, so why worry.
Do you know that: In 1888 Yale
kicked its first football.
| Ty Cobb was fined out in the
Winter league. He's pIayin' his
regular game.
We heard guy mention the vice
president of the United States the
other day.
The rumor that Jack Dempsey
will coach Vassar next year has
been denied.
Red" Faber, in discussing his
comeback as an American Lacquer,
says he has enough stuff TO win
without using the spitball. Which
will probably cause lot of Amer
lean league batters to dare him to
try to do that very thing next year
|, Walter Johnson strenuously de-
MES the many reports that he is
through as star pitcher. That
( Will be bad news to a lot of recruits
: who are planning to make good in
the American league next year.
= Coach Sanford of Rutgers intro
2 duced many novel features in his
/ efforts to develop a winning foot
A ball team. After looking over Rut-
f gers scores, we would suggest that
the novel features be excluded next
t year, or some unkind person will
r be asking if Rutgers is a prepare
G tory school.
|. Tea Time.
1t looks as if England has really
I developed something in the way OF
| boxer. Some time ago, at the
| National Sporting club in London
the authorities told the writer thai
= the first one who could show his
: skill in an English prize ring ought
f TO clean up everything, for there
3 were so few in the game. AnC
that very thing seems to be hap.
pening today. Kid Lewis at pres.
= ent Is holding three titles. He
4 started cleaning up the feathers
' and as a fast growing boy he an
/ nexed the weller crown and mid.
2 dleweight championship. He has
l now challenged Carpenter and
: there is little doubt but what be
could outlook Beckett, the best OF
English heavies.
= Connie Mack ought to rent out
= his players for mob scenes in
: comedies.
} Many's the guy who wishes he
= hadn't started being somebody s
hero during the football season.
For the season is fast drawing to
a close and now. he finds. staring
( him straight into the face, HER
t Christmas.
The other day a fellow hung ur
swimming endurance record. He
was in the water for Is hours. Tell
= that to little Elmer the next time
4 he hollers about washing his ears.
Headline: Rabbit hunter kills
a wolf" They generally do hit
:, everything but the RABBIT.
= Buy q little auto, race a little
! auto, skid a, little auto-JUNK,
Wrestling tonight: Young Squeez-
cum VS.. "ChOker" Blaaa. Let your
t conscience be your guide
He who fights. and runs away
, is in demand for future fights.
At that, some of these funny
/ fighters around the country are
right Jack Dempsey will be starry
ing soon.
Connie Mack would make a good
mob director
Hugo Bezdek's football team has
covered a heap of ground during
conference games and in practice.
If he had aimed them in one df-
rection, they could have been in
! Seattle for their battle there in
December.
Wrestling is taken from the An
glo-Saxon meaning-to wrestle.
Wonder if the Shade brothers
fight around the house.
J The boxer should worry if the
world runs out of pillows. He can
/ always go to sleep on a boxing
/ glove.
/ Ted Lewis. the present holder
Of three British titles, has chal-
/ lenged Georges Carpenter for the
heavyweight championship. Whole
sale or retail?