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“ SPORTS, FIRING LINE
AUTOS, FINANCE
Welsh Did Not Take Up Boxing With the Idea ot Becoming Professional
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Showed Remarkable Aptitude for
Sport and Was Persuaded to
Go After Title.
By JAMES J. CORBETT,
NE of the little known facts comn
cerning the career of Freddie
Welsh is that he took up boxing
not with the idea of adopting It as a
T R TI profession, but
T a 5 1 merely to save him
: T | selt from a eon-!
! sumptive's grave.
i j=~ W° Welsh was bomi
i p 1§ in Pontypridd
E‘ "‘ . ¥ .3t Wales, an March 5,‘
i (NA 1888, the son of a
PBB A7T rosperous a.ucuon-‘
: % a 9 B cer. In his early
} o % teens his health
{ e ¢ was poor and his
i : parents consulted
¥ b : various physicians
g ez voncernlrg him.
1 Bach declared that
L 3 Freddie probably
? wouldn’t Mve until
00l he was 20, but con
g soled them with the
o 4 suggestion that life
R N N might be prolonged
if Freddie was sent to some warm,
health-giving climate. California was
suggested—and Freddie was sent to
America and ticketed through to the
Golden West.
Arriving there Welsh sought ecounsel
froth some eminent physicians.
“Go in for athletics of some kind,”
they advised. “Don’'t attempt anything
too violent at first. Go easy. Choose |
some sort of sport as a starter that will
interest you and yet doesn't make too
great a demand upon your strength.”
Welsh had never had a boxing glove
on in his life, but the ring game had
appealed to him from his earliest boy
hood. So he enrolled In a gymnasium
and as soon as he had succeeded In
building up his strength a little bit
through gympnastics and calisthenics, he‘
sought a gymnasium boxing instructor
and took lessons.
Welsh showed remarkable ngtttude for
boxing. '%hn man who tutored began to
ingist that Freddie embark in the pro
fessional end of the game. FKreddle fin
ally yielded and mingled in his first
¥rorpssionul engagement in 1905—when
16_was nineteen years old. i
A Trather~ tough ‘‘ham’an” warrior
named Young Williams was delegated,
to try him out. Williams lasted just
three rounds with Welsh and never once
during the entire session of battling was
he able to lay a glove upon the shifty
Welshman—who then fought as a feath- |
erweight. That success so encouraged
Welsh that he made a match a few
weeks later with Johnny Kelly, and
whipped him decisively. Then followed
a knockout victory over Hddie Fay in
five rounds. !
The rise of Welsh in the pugilistic
rahks Trom then op was somewhat sen
sational. He qulc?ly emerged from the
preliminary class and began fighting In
main bouts. He took on all of the tough
men in the East and West and when he
had cleaned up the aspiring feathers,
he bt‘xan tackling lightweights, even
though he had to “spot” them from six
to eight pounds.
Late in 196 a cablegram apprising
Welsh of the illness of his mother caused
him to return to Wales. Soon after he
arrived in Great Britain, fight promot
erg, having heard of his American suc
ceds, sought Welsh's services. Freddie
accepted a match with Seaman Hayes
and fought his first battle on English
soil on February 13, 1%7. Hayes out
weighed Welsh nearly 16 pounds but
Freddie whipped him in six rounds
Freddle then accepted other engage
ments—and in all of them he was a
winner, Soon England was as enthuss
iastic about him as were the Americans.
Freddie in those days was a ‘“knock 'em
dead” fighter, one with a really power
ful wallop and he sent one foe after
another to dreamland.
Many men who saw Welsh in action
through 13505, 1906 and 1907 insist that
Welsh could drive a blow just about as
hard as ninety per cent of the sluggers
of his time.
Freddie's hitting power has demon
?:’rg_}tm in London In the latter part of
A few gweeks previously Welsh had
stopped Joe White in 36 rounds. This
caused the supporters of Freddie to com
ment profusely on his hitting power.
Friends of \Vh¥te took exception to this
attitude and an argument followed.
Those who were lauding Welsh finally
boasted: 2 > =
“Welsh ean whip any two men that
you, fellows can trot forth-—and do it .::
the same night and in the samq ring
in less than 20 rounds.”
The White followers a.cco(]:ted the Aefi
and then it was up to Freddie to make
good. Welsh showed no hestitancy In
tackling the job and made a side Bt
of {lbo that he would acmt:dpllsh the
trick. White's friends select Gynner
Hart, welterweight champlon of the
British Navy, who outweighed Welsh
18 pounds, and Arthur KEilis, anotner
champion, who had it on Freddie more
than 10 pounds in bulk.
It looked llke an almost impossible
task for a featherweight to dispose of
a welterweight champion and a 138
pounder champion in less than 20 rounds
~but Woelsh accomplished it without
®uch effort. He battered Hart into sub
mission during the 3rd round and then
almost without a rest, took on Hills and
. stopped him In five rounds.
The performance of Welsh that nlfht
stamped him as a man of real hitting
Power. Welsh, had he so willed, might
have continued as a knoekout phenom
for many years. “But he concluded that
the better plan wnalto congerve his ener-
Flc-a so as to last the maximum distance
n the ring. And so, from then on, Fred
die contented himself with wtnnlnf on
roimn—a program that was excellent
or him, because Freddie remained a top
notcher from 1907 until Benny Leonard
knocked him out-<for the first time in
his career—ten years afterward.
Clarence Rowland May I
Manage Cincy Redlegs
Clarence Rowland, former manager of
the Chicago White Sex, may manage n‘
Cincinnati Reds next season. Rowland I 8
at present in New York and attended the
recent baseball meeting there. He sald
1o had tot applied for the job as manager
of the Reds, but that he Is ready to talk
Lusiness. The fact that nothing has been
heard from Mathewson, manager of the
Hteds, since last November, leads to the be
lief that a manager will be appointed un
til MAII',' |rvtur;u. M:;!w at prel::dt 71(&
the American forces many,
thought will not return for several -gth-.
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Return of Champions and Generall
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Revival Will Mark Comeback
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; of Popular Sport This Year.
By JACK VEIOCK,
International News Sports Editor.
EW YORK, Jan, 25.—The coming
l of peace will see the return of na
tional, sectional and local cham
pionships in the-realm of golf.
Temporarily halted in its growth by
the eniry of the United States into the
great world war, the Scotch game is
ready now to bloam forth again as strong
as ever. Prospects for its revival this
Jear are as bright as the prospects of
|any other sport to return to its normal
plane. » .
The United States Golf Association,
fl\lch is the national parent body, num
rs among its members golf clubs in
every section of the United States. It
fosters golf as a national institution and
encourages the efforts of sectional golf
bodies as well as individual clubs where
ever possible.
Frederick 8. Wheeler, president of ths
U. 8. G. A, believes that the prospects
for the comeback of golf are roseate
He believes that the coming season will
see the game grow more popular than
ever before.
“Golf is a game that appeals to a
vast army of people of all ages," says
President Wheeler. “It is a healthful
and pleasure-giving recreation and
pastime, and I see nothing in the way
to hinder its speedy return to normal
conditions with the war at an end, In
fact, I candidly belleve there will be a
seneflu increase in the activities of golf
uring the Present year,
“Many followers of golf are business
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men who were occupied in various lines
which were necessary in the conduct of
the war. Because of this the{ found but
little time to devote to golf after the en
fi' of this country into the conflict.
ese players will now return to the
Eame as he urgent duties of war-time
usiness are lifted from their shoulders.
“In addition, there were many follow
ers ?r golf in the various branches of the
service, and because of the war the na
tional, as well as other championship
fixtures was suspended. L
“The fresent year will mark the re
turn of the national, local and sectional
or intersectional champlonshlg tourna
ments, and the result should be a gen
eral stimulation of interest. Peace
means a §eneml returning to the game
by all of its followers.
“In advance of ‘the annual meeting of
the association, which is to be held here
January 24, it is impossible to tell of
what the members of the association
may have in mind for the coming season.
T believe, however, that rerom will
show that the national organization ac
tually gained in membership during the
year 1918, 1 believe tliere were eight
‘o;I ten new clubs taken into member
ship.
~_ *““The building of new golf courses
should follow the coming of peace in my
estimation. Construction on a number
of courses was halted by the war as
‘sentiment prevalled that it was unpa
triotic to employ labor in the building
\ot links, which were nonessential, But
now that labor will be available foryfrac
tically everything, new courses will un
doubtedly be laid out in various parts of
the country. The idea of conservation
will also be slackened. :
The United States Golf Association
and its various units responded gladly
to the call for assistance in raising funds
for war charities during the war. In
dividual eclubs staged many patriotic
tournaments and turned the entire pro
ceeds over to“the Red Cross or other
charities. Individual folfera gladly gave
their services in exhibition matches, and
the various champions did their bit
wherever ggnnlhla to arouse Interest In
warifund benefits.
With the comeback of the national
amateur and ogen championships, the
various sectional title tourneys for both
men and women and the numerous lo
cal State and Inter-sectional events,
golf should flourish during the year.
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Hays, Illinois Ball
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Player, American Ace
OHAMPAIGN,: TLL,, Jan. 18.-—Tieuten
ant Frank K. Hays, formerly a player on
the University of Tilinois nine, is among
the 63 pces of the American alr force with
Bix enemy planes to his credit. Hays
has been awarded the distinguished serv
ice medal.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1919.
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Great Catch Robbed |
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Roush of Bat Honors
A wonderful catch of a difficult fly ball
deprived Ed. Roush, the Cincinnat! star,
of the batting champlonship of the Na
tional League. And what 18 more remar
kable than that is the fact that Bd. Roush
made the catch himself and did not have
the hit taken away from him. It was
one of the most freakish happenings in all
baseball history. .
The other day President Heydler award
ed the batting honors for the past season
to “Zach® Wheat, of Brooklyn who nu‘
335, Southworth, of Pittsburgh, batted
higher than that—.34l—but only played
in sixty-four games. Roush ranked next
with .333, just two points behind Whon..j
Bill Phelon, the widely known Cincin
nati scribe, points out the unusual play by‘
which Roush robbed himself of the cham
plonship. ‘
The apparent Impossibility of this hap
pening makes the incident remarkable. If
Roush had muffed the fly or let it drop
untouched he would have led the league
fA batting. ‘
“During a game against St. Louls, with
a Cardinal runner on third, Roush tore
in for a short, fast-dropping fly. He got
hold of the ball, but stumbled, went to
his knees, and let it get out of his hands
By a marvellous, lightning grab he got
the ball before it touched the ground, and,
| rising, threw to third base, whence the
Cardinal runner had started for the plate.
Roush claimed a double play on the ground
that the runner had left before the ball
was caught, and Hank O'Day, the umpire,
sustained the claim. ‘
“But the rules say that a runner can
start from & base ?flar a fly ball has
been ‘momentarily held.’ Jack Hendricks,
manager of the Cardinals, promptly pro
tested the game on the ground that Roush
had momentarily held the ball before he
dropped and recovered it. The St. Louls
clgim was disallowed, the game and all
that had been done therein, went off the
records. And, as it happened, Roush had
made two hits out of three times at bat
that afternoon. He lost the hit and with
those hits he lest the champlonshlp and
the honor of leading the league two years
in succession.” 1
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Night Practice Being i
Held at Kansas Univ.
LAWRENCE, KAN. Jan 26.—80 bu.y‘
has Coach W.\O. Hamilton, of the Univer
sity of Kansas, become in athletics that he
found It necessary to hold basketball prac
tice at night in order to devote more time
to the track team. Heretofore the eve
nings have been sacred to study-—or eo-eds
~but now the fair sex and books must give
way to work for the basketeers. ‘
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Fans Mourn Over Death of Bnl-i
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liant Old Player, Who Devoted
Forty Years to Baseball.
WAY back in 1899 and 1900 when'
A Theodore Roosevelt, America's
fighting statesman, occu‘)led the
executive mansion on Capitol Hill, Al
bany, N. Y., as Governor of the Empire
State, and up until a few days prior
to the time when Teddy assumed the
Vice Presidential office, he donned the
glovea daily for his boxing exercise with
tmmie I‘ilmn's of Newecastle, Pa., as an
opponent, and he asked and showed no
quarter. /
“Teddy was a grand old scout,” 1s
the way Dime speaks of the statesman.
‘“and had 1 those days to liver over
a’a.ln 1 would give twenty vears of my
life. Teddy was a fighter from the top
of his head to the bottom of his feet.
Changes Billlard Room to Gym.
“He had a large billiard, hall in his
mansion, and in order to turn it into a
gymnasium he had the janitors remove
the tables and installed punching bags,
weight machines and other parapherna
lla of the boxers.
“As he would enter the room for his
daily “esson’ the Governor would grip
my hand, smile and murmur: ‘All ready,
Jimmie; let's go to it And in a min
ute or so we would be pummeling each
other to a fare thee well. Roosevelt
was heavy and slow when he first start
ed hxxlng and went two rounds, but
wit a week he was xolg four in fair
fashion and within a period of a month
he would rush through six rounds like
a lightwelght. His wind grew good and
his musch‘ hdrd.
.CouldiW't Stop Teddy's Rushes.
“As 1 would call the end of time for
a new round to befln conttnued the
gray haired fight impresario, *“Teddy
would spring from his corner, rush right
into me, and whale away for dear life,
Often I hooked, jabbed and countered,
but each time Theodore met me almost
blow for blow. He didn't care a rap
whether I ‘beaned’ him on the nose or
ofi the jaw, and a blow to the stomach
which would have knocked out many
finished fighters {un naturally seemed
to prime Roosevelt for a terrific burst ot
fighting.
‘““The only thh‘)fi I might be revealing
whlr)\!!the Colonel might have objected
to was' that Theodore didn’t want me to
punch him over the eyes. In explanation
of this the Governor would say, ‘You
know, Jim, it wouldn't look very well
for a Governor to enter the Capitol with
a discolored optic.’ And, of course, I
never struck the Governor over his
eyes,
Makes Boxers of Sons.
*Teddy fairly bubbled when his two
boys, Theodore, Jr., and Kermit, would
box. He would stand and Watch the
exchanges, would sometimes quivver
with excitement. He didn’t care which
one got a nose bleed, and he was so
pleased with their gameness that he
would often remark to me in an under
tone, *Some lads, those, eh?” And be
lleve me, they were a grand palr of lit
tle g;lmesmrs.
“Ofttimes other boys the same age
and size as Kermit and Teddy, Jr.,
woulfl enter the homemade gymmasium
and battle. It didn’t matter to the Gov
ernor whether his boy was being slight
ly worsted or not, and the onl ything he
was Interested in was gameness. And [
can vouch for the gameness of both
those boys because they never showed
nor a.nkaty quarter. They were two chips
off the old block.
Allce Rooseveit a Watcher.
““At the time when I was his tutor
(the Colonel's) Mrs. Roosevelt and her
daughter, Alice, now Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, wife of the Ohio Represent
atfve, would enter the gymnasium and
watch the husband and father and
they would laugh at the Governor
prancing about like a lightweight. |
was a 128 pounder In those days and
Roosevelt kept me on the hop, He was
fast, quick, and a good puncher, and
when he hit—well, I just kept on boxing
in ard out and didn't take any chances.
‘“When Roosevelt received word that
he was to go to Washington he came to
me and told me. I felt sorry because 1
knew | was losing a real friend. [ did
not eare so much that it would lose
me a patron, because | was making
thousands of dollars at m‘; Manhattan
Athletic Club in Troy, N. Y., but I real
ized that he was passing away to a Plarc
where [ would miss our daily and friend
ly workout.
Refuses To Go to Washington.
# 'Well, Jimmie,’ sald the Governor,
Tm going to Washington, and if you
want to go let 'me know, [l'll have very
much need of an athletic Instructor
there and the position is yours "i”"
just say the word.' 1 couldn’t ledve
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England Offers Big
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Purses to Americans
l\kC":CA?%\ J‘nvn.“ll.—l:“beflu to look
€ we o o o get a peep at
Benny Leonard's wl“ulul after he has
crossed the water and tasted of the pick
ing in England which, according to all
reports, promises to be mighty sweet with
in_thes next few weeks.
While Billy Gibson {8 said to look with
longing eyves on the easy money available
across the water, it 18 not likely any defi
nite announcement regarding the scene of
lLeonard's after-war activities will be an
nounced until after Benny has received
actual release from army qu-.
According to dame rumor, a lot of army
and navy fighters will be lolling about
London shortly. These should furnish a
number of *remunerative bouts for the
Bronx wonder,
Bob Laga, whoe handled Lew Tendler,
talked with Gibson recently and is author
ity for the ur that Gibson has made up
his mind to hike to England and abandon
America for the time being. ‘
~ Leonard ts not going to be such a stick
ler for weight in the future and will take
on any of the welters that have the draw
ing power. This comes as somewhat of a
lurgrlle to Charles White, who received
a Christmas present of a half-way pro
mise from the Leonard party of a ten
round affair in Milwaukee some time in
January. ‘This half-way promise never
came direct from Gibson or Leonard, but
was passed to a friend of Nate Lewis in
the East.
A leonard-White engagement in this
soction would be about the choleest bit
that could be offered. This bout could
be counted on to draw a house second only
:o lt'i:: Willle Ritchie-Ad Wolgast gate
n y ¢
But, to get back to the alleged easy
picking on the other side of the water.
According to reports, Boxing Promoter
Cochrane has offered a purse of $25,000
for a bout between Jimmie Wilde, the
English bantam, and Pal Moore, of Mem
phis, who recently gained a peint decision
over Wilde in the soldiers’ and sallors’
boxing tourment in London.
We do not mean to say this is easy
picking for Moore, but—this Moore per
son is a pretty wise bird. Fer instance, at
the recent inter-allied tournament. Moore
figured that if he cowld get a peep at
Wilde in action before he boxed him he
could easily defeat the Welsh idol. A lucky
break in the drawing gave Moore just this
chance and he wean handily.
Wilde drew Lynch as the ?rst of his
American opponents. Moore was at the
ringside and saw how Wilde handled
Lynch-—winning easily. Then he mapped
out his plan of attack--carried It out to
the letter and wom handlily.
“Don't think this Wilde boy is .:."
sald Moore on & recent visit here. ou
have most likely heard some of the many
atories floating around about his freak
style. FHe is not a freak by any means.
“He is as fast as a bullet, a great boxer
;nddn whale of a puncher with either
and.
“l stmply mussed up his system after
seeing him use it on Lynch. No siree.
This Wilde is not an easy bird by any
means. That's my way of figuring It
and 1 know.”
Western Boxer Plans
: .
Invasion of the East
(By lnu?.uunl News Service.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—While several of
the preminent Eastern mitt artists are
preparing to invade the Far West, it is
possible that while the Western fistic
fans are commenting on the ring abilities
of our lads ‘w of the favorites of the
Pacific Coast®Wans will be performing in
gastern rings. One of the first of the
Western boxers to iourney across the con
tinent will be Battling Ortega, one of the
leading middleweights of the West and
who claims San Francisco as hls home
town. The Battier is making plans to
visit the East under the direction of his
manager, Tommy Simpson.
Battling Ortega is contemplating bouts
in Boston, Philadelphia and New Jersey,
and his first appearance in the East may
be made at the Hub with Jack Britten in
the role of his opponent. The pair will
probably come together In a twelve-round
contest at the Armory A. A. The Nation
al and Olrmplc clubs of the Quaker City
have displayed eagerness to sign up the
Western star. The trip aecross the country
will be punctuated by -bouts in the Middle
West.
Ortega does not confine his ring activi
ties to the middlewelght division; in fact,
he is a legitimate welterweight and once
fought Ted Kid Lewis, the welterweight
title holder, while the latter was out on
the Pacific Coast. Mick Kln,, the lon*:
middleweight of Australia, fell a vict
of Ortega’'s blows in the eighth round of
a scheduled twenty-round contest. He also
knocked out Marty Farrell, a local boy,
in one round.
Ortega was born in Los Angeles, loxl:‘
the same city in which Joe Rivers fi
saw the light of day. In the ring he
throws all science to the winds, depending
upon rushing tactics is brivg him vietorx.
This spegtacular mode of attack has made
him popular with the fistic lovers on the
Western coast, and ne doubt when he I 8
scen in the Wast his boring-in methods
will gain for him numerous admirers. He
is & good, strong, husky lad and is game.
He has received solid blows to body and
hend, but never falters, and in his right
hand carrtes a terrific wallop.
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my lucrative club business and I re
fused.
“Sometimes,” sorrowfully sald Dln:{
“l wish | had gone. He later box
under Mike Donevan and Ed Dwyer.
While engaged with either one of them
—1 believe it was Donovan-—he received
a blow on his eye which caused l’élnd
ness later, Had | been there, the Colo
nel's instructions, the same as when he
was @overnor—viz: ‘Don’t hit me over
the eyes' —would |m7llcmy have been
obeyo({. and :!e' would have had both
ood eyes In er rs.
¥ “Yes " ronc!udflX“Jlmmlo. 'N?
Roosevelt was a fighter with a big F,
game from the top of his head to the
bottom of his feet, showing no quarter
and asking none.' J
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l
Great Lakes Eleven Easily Out
-3 “
classes All Rivals — “Paddy”
. . .
Driscoll Is Individual Star,
By WALTER CAMP,
Director of Athlotlu* Navy Department
Commission on Tralning Camp
Activities.
N every one of the fifteen navy dis
tricts of the country football was
the predominant sport during the
fall of 1918. The development of the
mame, however, took on widely diverse
lines and methods of organization dur
ing the season. In the Second, Third,
Fifth, Sixth and Ninth districts teams
were formed representative of the entire
district, and the eleven representing the
ninth, or Grel‘ Lakes distriot, had no
superior In America, either in service or
university rivals.
In the First,) Fourth, Seventh and
Eighth districts elevens representing
the various stations were organized; in
the Twelfth teams from the various
compounds were formed, while in the
other districts the organization of the
elevens’ wa§ confined to varying units,
in most cases those of regiments In dif
ferent bases or stations.
Estimates re(uiln{,“u:- number of
men who took part in football games
played by navy teams durln‘othu sea
son ranged from 100,000 to 150,000, Of
‘this number perhaps not more than 2,000
‘were enrolled in the teams which ar
ranged regular schedules and played
games which were thoroughly formal in
their arrangement and officialing.
| Best Attended Matches.
In the organization and planning for
the season’s sport it was lald down as
a fundamental pmcegl that the games
were arranged and the sport developed
primarily with the idea of interesting
the men In the navy stations, both as
participants and spectators, rather than
{)mvldlnx sport programs for the pub
ie.
On this account the games played
were scheduled, wherever it was prac
ticable, on the grounds at the navy sta
tions. In many cases, however, matches
[plnyed by station teams attracted
crowds rullg as large as those {n attend
ance at the most brilliant university
games of the season.
The Great l‘kaa-AnmmMs game at
Annapolis, the Great kes-Rutgers
.game at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, and the
Nowgort-lv‘elham Bay game pl:{«l n
the Yale Bowl drew crowds numbering
in_the vicinity of 25,000 people.
The best attended matches of purel{
station teams were those which too
place in the First District, where a
league was formed consisting_of the
following ten stations of the distriet:
The Little Building, Radio School, Bum
kin Island, Hingham Tralning Station,
Hingham Ammunition Depot, Ports
mouth Marines, Camp Plunkett, Camp
Edgar, Portland, Battery Wharf and
Boston Section.
These games were played at Braves
Fleld, the grounds of the Boston Na
tional benfue baseball elub nine, and at
other public flelds, as well as at ther‘tu
tlons, and the matches at Braves eld
attracted between 15,000 and 256,000 per
sons regularly.
2,000,000 Witness Games.
Thé plan of placing the football teams
of the navy, as well as the other branch
es of athletics In the service, at the
disposal of the united war fund com
mittee In November resulted in games
helnf played In every station for this
patriotic cause.
An estimate '#lt 2,000,000 persons wit
nessed the games which were played
in the different stations is not mrurded
A 8 excessive. The attendance In the
First District mm;flsed about a quar
tersof that number, sixty belni plnyad
by the different statlons or unit teams,
the largest attendance games being
played by the different stations or unit
;guor‘rbs the largest attendance being fully
: :
'he team regraun!lnx Pelham Bay
exhibited remarkable defensive strength,
only two touchdowns bu~|nf scored
lfuln!! it, with one fleld goal, a total
of sixteen points, durln& the season,
Ru!ioru and Newport each registered a
touchdown, while the Bay Shore Naval
Aviators recorded a fleld g:ll.
Haslly the strongest football eleven n
the country, the sleven representin- the
Great Lakes Ngyal Station, defeated
allke Basterners, Middle West and Pa
cific Coast rivals, sweeping the navy and
college competitors.
The team was not defeated during the
season, but won notable victories over
Annapolls, Rutgers, lowa and the South
‘ern California naval eleven at Pasadena,
The team was developed by Herbert
’P Oleott, athletic director at Great
Lakes, and Dr. McCreavy, the former
Annapolis player,
In point of attendanes, quality of play,
Interest, enthusiasm and general char
acter and surroundings, the Great
\YAkM-AnnnroHu. Great f.lkM-Rulm-n
and Great Lakes-Pasadensa games de
serve comparison with the ordinary
Yale-Princeton and Yale-Harvard grid
iron matches.
“Paddy” Driscoll, the Great Lakes
quarterback and fisld general, proved
one of the most picturesque characters
of the gridiron season of 1918,
.
Famous Oriole Four
Hold Managers’ Jobs
NEW YORK, Jan. 25 --Stars of the
famous Baltimore Orfoles of twenty-five
yoars ago will contribute one-fourth of
the managerial brains that will figure in
the major league penant races this yea:
With the recent oppointment of Willtam |
“Kid" Gleason as mannger of the White |
Box, the Baltimore alumni association,
quartette” is complete John MeoGraw,
Wilbert Robinson and Hugh Jennings, 'hn'
wore teammates of (Jlenson on the famous
Baltimore champlons of 180497, are the
three other members,
The new manager of the Pale Hese
pitehed for Ned Hanlon's famous npmn-‘
gation. Robinson was first catcher on the
team., MeGraw the third baseman, and
Jennings the “only” shortstop. The fact
that this quartet s holding down big
league manugerships today upholds the
contention that the old Orfoles were a
brainy and capable outfit, and as l‘nmumn’
son says, “a veritable team of managers*
Today, after twenty.five years, Cileason
and Jennings are destined to mateh thelr
baseball brains in & peanant race, while
MeGraw and Robinson will figure once
again aa rivals In the sentor major league
While there is an element of mystery
in Charles Comiskey's action lin dethron
ing Rowland and elevating Gleason to the
muanagership of the Sox, balldem s agreed
that the Chieago club will find itaelf une
der the wing of one of the smmartest men
in baseball, Gleason i sald to have had
a big share In helping Chicago to the
world's ehamplonship in 1817 and Comis
koy evidently attributes the club’s success
to him.
SPORTS, FIRING LINE,
AUTOS, FINANCE
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Cleveland Veteran to Meet
.
Frankie Burns or Eggers Feb.
. . . .
22 in a Philadelphia Ring,
AWN KILBANE, champion of the
featharweights etnce he got a 20-
round decision over Abraham At
tell at Vernon, Cal., as long ago as 19193,
is coming back to the ring The Cleve
land Irishman has not/ had a profes
slonal glove contest since Benny Leon
ard, the lightweight bosa, raked him for
the count in the third round on July 25,
1917. Kilbane has been a boxing in
structor in the army since that time and
with no serious challengers in sight dtd
not waste any time in defense of his
crown.
Now John is ready for business.
Though slipping along in years as fight
ers go—he'll be thirty in Aprik—he thinks
he has several real scraps In his sys
tem. The champion opens up at Phila
delphla on February 23 in a six-round
match with Knockout KEggers, of New
York.
The National A. C. has secured the
match and/ Kilbane has sent word he'll
be present to show the Quaker fans
something ciasay In the way of a 28-
year-old tmmm They used to
call John the Colt, but net
any more. He Is far past the colt stage.
Burns Instead of Eggers? .
The Philadelphia eclub may use
Frankie Burns in place of W
vided it can arra an jon
match between thil;“oh. It wants to
put on Eggers and Burns February 5,
the winner to ft Kilbane. If the great
little Jersey Skeeter, long known as a
contender among the bantams, wants to
try oonclusions with Kilbane at 123
pounds he can have the chamea. The
club has put the matter compietsly up
to Frankie,
Burng went out of his class one nl{ht
in New York to box Kilbane and got a
lovely punching for ten rounds. The
Kilbane weight and reach were too much
for him, but he was in there at the fin
ish, still fresh and nghtlng.
It is not thought that Kggers will be
able to do much with Kilbane. He's of
the rushing, smashing type who tear
’ln wide open. That's the kind Johnny
likes to clout on the chin with his good
‘rlght paw. As a rule Kilbane can out
point a slugger with consummate ease.
When one stops to flgun it out, Kii
bane may have no trouble retaining the
champlionship for some time. There are
no feathers of renown in sight. Army
and navy boxing may have developed
some comers, but they'll need a lot of
professional experience to cope success
fully with a wise old fox |ike Johnny.
. - -
Jim Corbett Talka.
{nmu A (?o;bett I’l? r::w at Los Afn
geles, where he w onpf.‘
several weeks playing a “fuvenile lel(?""
in a motion picture serial. ’ :
“There 18 not a white hair th the old
boy's head. I'll screen like a youngster,”
he told the coast Interviewers, removing
A derby hat to Sivo them a flash at a
fine crop of black hair. Then Jim
switched into a discuséion of ring affairs.
“Don’t let anybody tell you that the
whz between Jack Johnson and Jess
Willard was framed,” he chirped. "Men
do not travel twenty-six rounds under a
hot Cuban sun when they are faking.
Willard triumphed because he had the
stamina to stand up and take every
thing Johnson had and finally put over
a telling punch when the old negro was
worn out.,
""What do you think about Jack Demp
‘sey? IHe certainly is a wonderful fighter.
Everything tha" have asked Jack to do
'he has sccomplished and there is none
to deny him the right of having the
first championship elash with Willard.
"I do not care now to make a predic
tion on the outcome of a Wmard-';')omp
sey fight. Jess has been idle so long
the condition problem is a hlf one with
him. I would have to see Willard after
he had trained for the battle before giv
ing an opinion
“People call me a loser-picker on box-
Inf matches. Remember that I picked
Willard to beat Johnson and also have
called the turn on many other big fights,
_ "The war period has done wonders
for the hoxing game. It will de more
popular in years to come than It ever
has been before. There will be numer
qus ehamplonship contenders come from
the ranks of the soldlers and sallors.”
. .
lK:lbam’ Will Meet
The Feathers Again
r Johnny Kilbane, fentherweight oham
plon, Intends soon to mo into aective train
ing with the mtention of defending his
title against all comers.
Since enrly In America's partieipation
n the world war the king of the feathers
has heen actively engaged in army box
ing lostruction. He has just resigned his
porition, and though the resignation has
as yot mot heen nocepted, Kilbane he to
‘be free to embrace the elvilian life lg;.rfi’
‘.mc-r the new year
. Kilbane has not fought in more than a
year. His 'ast engagement wos when he
went out of his class to engage LiAght
welght Ohampion Henny Leonard at Phila-
Asiphia Johnny had run out of oppe
nents in his class. Hut n the heavier
Leonard he met a real tartar and exper)-
enced the humiliation of & kneckeut in
threo rounds
Provided Kilhane esn gat baek to his
oM time form and welght there e Nitle
doubt that he ean rule king of the feath
ors for some time te come. Por Jehnny
s n real champlon and the erop In this
onee populnr division appears to run very
mueh to the cltrus of late years
y
Yankees Sign Baldwin,
‘ Coast League Catcher
- NEW YORK, Jan, 26— Karl D, Baldwin,
A backstop drafted lasmt year by the Yan
kwes from the Portland eclud, Paelfte
League, dropped into the cage of Harry
Sparrow. This amazed Sparrow, for he
| wos busy all the past few menths trying
Lo kot In touch with Baldwin, Baléwin s
Lonly back o few days from the other side,
where he fought with the 144th Artillery
He came over from Camp Merritt, from
| which #pot he expeets to be mustered
‘ out shortly
| The recruit is built along husky nes,
standing 6 feet 10 (hchea high and weigh
ing 182 pounds. He is considered to be »
entcher of exceptional ability, He was dis
covered Dy Clarence RHowland in 19156 whon
piaying on the High Bchool team of Opl-
Innd Rowiand sent hém to the Peoria
club of the Three-1 League, He playif
with Tacoma in 1916, and then went o
Portland.