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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1917
Page
8
A 1900s baseball play illustrates a snap throw on a double steal. The umpire rules only one runner is out. the second base runner is exempt while the first runner remains on base. The decision hinges on runners' positions and tagging timing.
The Silent Man of Tennessee aged sixty five after a July spill required hospital time in Cleveland. He returned to racing last month winning again and upsetting the odds. Known as Ed in 1800, Geers has earned well over a million in purses with a peak season near 11 thousand dollars, earning wealth, honor, and a spotless reputation on the turf.
Dr Laure Muller Brazil’s ambassador suggests baseball games between northern and southern hemisphere players could foster goodwill and fraternity among American republics. The idea envisions an all American league possibly expanding to an all world league to promote peace and fair play through sport.
Karl Keffer, twice open champion of Canada and Royal Ottawa Golf Club pro, has enlisted with Col. W. W. McLean's Ottawa battalion and will go overseas. Keffer, current Canadian open champion since 2014, joined the Ottawa club in 1911 and has served as Jekyll Island club pro in winters, well known to New York amateurs.
Mordecai Brown known as the three fingered pitcher for the Chicago National League team received unconditional release from club president Charles H. Weeghman at age thirty eight. Weeghman offered help to Brown to obtain a managerial post in a minor league club. Brown joined Chicago in 1904 after coming from the St Louis Nationals.
Walter McCredie will coach the Oregon Agricultural college base ball team next spring. He filled the post last spring and led the squad to the Northwest conference championship, though they lost the Coast title to the University of California. Phil Koerner will coach USC baseball starting January.
A mixed roundup from the Sporting World covers boxing glove safety, golf banter, and baseball chatter. It notes the US Lawn Tennis Association list, calls for heavier boxing gloves, and jokes about Mathewson, Kauff, Hickey, and Ebbets while nodding to Gretzky-like rumors and hypnotist tricks.
The Atlanta Public Ledger reports Robert Tyre Jones Jr. known as Little Bobby Jones balances schooling at Tech High with golf fame. Born March 17 1902 in Canton Ga he rose from East Lake streets to East Lake course records and early wins at Birmingham Druid Hills Cherokee Brooks Haven, besting Perry Adair in a noted 1916 Georgia championship.
Italian racer Dario Resta warned he may quit the Chicago speedway circuit after earning more than $60,000 since its 1915 opening, including $27,250 last year and $60,000 this season from events and challenges with rivals such as Oldfield Burman DePalma and DePalma.
Harvard to trial an English racing shell from a renowned builder against American boats. The English shell, used by Oxford and Cambridge crews for years, arrived aboard the steamship Cambrian. Trials next spring will decide which boat will carry the Crimson eight at New London.
A southern France baseball league is planned when the war ends. Vicomte de la Panouse, president of a Monte Carlo sporting club, has written the New York Giants and secretary John B. Foster has mailed rule books. A four or six club league is contemplated.
The Columbia Sportsmen's club forms with James T. Sheckard as president Joseph J. Lutz elected treasurer and M N Cleffer secretary The group will seek membership in the United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania and aims to curb stream pollution in Lancaster County using legal action.
A collage of notes on Michigan athletics plans and student participation, hockey and boxing quips, Red Sox and Indians chatter about Canada, fashion trends in St Louis, and various pro baseball opinions. Mentions Evansville, East St Louis, Des Moines, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh with restless sport speculation.
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