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SPORTS, FIRING LINE
AUTOS, FINANCE
Welsh Dl:d Not Take Up Boxing With th_e"fiicfil‘;awo‘fmfieé‘omfi}o?e_ssional
POOR HEALTH
MADE FAED
0N GLOVES
By JAMES J. CORBETT.
YE of the little known facts een
cenping the career of Freddie
W:Ssh is that he took up boxing
not with the idea of adopting it as a
jrrEEmmEmeEnwew profession, but
T | merely to save him
o & | self from a con
& "M\ | sumptive's grave.
t e~ B\ welsh was born
I PN ¥ inPontypridad,
W Yt Waies on Maren s,
g \’g % 1888, the son of a
U el S %&“ presperous auction
g i % eer. In his early
b % teens his heaith
i RS X < was poor and his
t ¥ 3 : parents consulted
: % various physicians
£ g i uoncerninf him,
e § Each declareq that
£ Freddie probably
3 wouldn’t - Hve until
®§ he was 20, but con
-4 soled them w;]l(h (lt;e
suggestion that life
R — might be prolonged
Il Freddie was sent to some warm,
health-giving climate. 'California was
suggested—and Freddie was sent to
America and ticketed through te the
Golden West.
Arriving there Welsh sought ecounsel
from some eminent physicians.
‘“Go in for athletics of some Kkind,”
they advised. “Don’'t attempt anything
too violent at first. Go easy. Choose
some sort of sport as a startep that will
nterest 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 gymnastics and calisthenics, he
sought a gymnasium .boxing instructor
and teok lessons.
Welsh showed remarkable aptitude for
boxing. The man who tutored began to
insist that Freddie embark in the pro
fessional end of the game. Freddle fin
ally yielded and mingled in his Jfirst
proféssional engagement in 1905—when
he was nineteen years old.
A ratifer ‘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 encoura?ed
Welsh that he made a match a few
weeks later with Johnny Kelly, and
whipped him decisively. Then followed
a knockout vietory over Eddie Fay in
five rounds,
The rise of Welsh in the pugilistic
ranks from then on was somewhat sen
sntlon?l.‘ He quickly emerged from the
preliminary class and began flihting 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 began tuckllnq lightweights, even
though he had to “spot” them from six
to eight pounds.
Late in 1906 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
ers, having heard of his American suc
cess, sought Welsh's services. Freddie
accepted a match with Seaman Hayes
and foug\t his first battle on English
soil on February 13, 1907. Hayes out
we(ghed Welsh nearly 16 pounds but
¥reddie whipped him in six rounds
Freddie then accepted other engage
ments—and in _all of them he was a
winner. Soon England was as enthus
iastic about him as were the Americans.
I"reddie in those days was a “‘knock 'em
dead” fighter, one with a Ml{o‘mor
ful wallop and he sent one after
another to dreamland.
Mani men who saw Welsh In actlon
through 1305, 1906 and 1907 insist that
Welsh could drive a blowdjn-t about as
hard as ninety per cent the sluggers
of his time. ~
Freddie's hitting power has demon
;;ro?ted in London in the latter part of
A few weeks previously Welsh had
stopped Joe White in 36 rounds. This
caused the supporters of Freddie to com
meht profusely on his hitting power.
Friends of White took exception to this
attitude and an argument followed.
Those who were lauding Welsh finally
boasted :
““Welsh ean whip any two men that
you fellows can trot forth—and do it on
the same night and in the same ring and
in less than 20 rounds.”
Th%'Whue followers n.cceJ)led the defl
and then it was up to Freddie to make
good, Welsh showed no hestitancy in
tncklt* the job and made a side bet
of iz that he would accomplish the
lek. White's friends selected Gunner,
art, welterweight champion of the
ritish Navy, who outweifihed Welsh
18 pounds, and Arthur Ellis, anotner
champion, who had it on Freddie more
than 10 pounds in bulk. ‘
It looked like an almost impossible
lask for a featherweight to dispose of
a welterweight champion and a 188
pounder champion in less than 20 rounds
but Welsh accomplished it without
much effort, He battered Hart into sub
mission during the 3rd round and then,
almost without a rest, took on Ellis and
stopped him in five rounds.
The performance of Welsh that nl,ht
stamped him as a man of real hitt ni
power, Welsh, had he so willed, migh
have continued lal knockout phenom
for many years. ut he ooncludgd that
the better plan was to conserve his ener
rlm 50 a 8 to last the maximum distance
n the ring, And so, from then on, Fred
die contented himself with wlnnlnl on
rnln(n—n program that was excellent
or him because Freddie remained a top
notecher from 1907 until Benny Leonard
knocked him out-—for the first time in
his career—ten years afterward. L
Clarence Rowland May
Manage Cincy Redlegs
Clarence Rowland, former manager of
the Chicago White Sox, may manage the
Cincinnati Reds next season. Rowland is
at present in New York and attended the
recent baseball meeting there, He sald
he had not applied for the job as manager
of the Reds, but that he is ready to talk
bhusiness. The fact that nothing has been
heard from Mathewson, manager of the
Ttedn, since Inst November, loads to the be
lef that a manager will be appointed um
til Matty returns. Matty is at present with
the Ameritan furz- in Germany, and it is
thought will not feturn for several mouths.
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Return of Champions and General
Revival Will Mark Comeback
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 entry of the United States into the
great world war, the Scotch game is
ready now to bloom forth again as strong
as ever. Prospects for its revival this
year are as bright as the prospects of
any other sport to return to its normal
plane’
The United States Golf Assoclation,
which is the national parent body, num
bers 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, belleves that the prospects
for the comeback of golf are rogeate
He believes that the confing 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 returm to normal
conditions with the war at an end, In
fact, T candidly believe thePe will be a
s—neral 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 they found but
‘ little time to devote to golf after the en
try of this country into the conflict.
These plavers will now return to the
\game as he urgent duties of war-time
usiness are lifted from their shoulders.
“In addition, there were many follow
ers of golf in the various branches of, the
service, and because of the war the na
tional, as well as other championship
fixtures was suspended.
“The l,relcnt year will mark the re
turn of the national, local and sectional
or intersectional champlonrhlg tourna
ments, and the result should/be a gen
eral stimulation of interest. Peace
means a general 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 seasen.
I believe, however, that ref»orts will
show that the national organization ac
tually gained in membership during the
vear 1918. I believe there were eight
o;-u ten new clubs taken into member
ship.
‘““The building of new golf courses
should follow the coming of peace in my
estimation. Cgnstruction on a number
of courses was halted by the w/nfia as
sentiment prevailed that it was Ainpa
triotic to employ labor in the building
of links, which were nonessential, But
now that labor will be available for ?rac
tically everything, new courses will un
doubtedly be laid out in yarious parts of
the country. The idea of conservation
will also be slackened.
The TUnited 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 clubs stamed many pa(riotlc
tournaments and turned the entire pro
ceeds over to the Red Cross or other
charities. Indi¥idual golfers gladly gave
their services in exhibition matches, and
the various chamr&lnns did their bit
wherever possible Yo arouse interest in
war-fund benefits.
With the comeback of the natfonal
amateur and o?en championships, the
various sectional title tourneys for both
men and women and the npmerous 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
CHAMPAIGN, 4LL., Jan. 18.—Tjeuten
ant Frank K. Hays, formerly a_player on
e University of Illinois nine, Vs among
6‘ $3 aces of the American air foree with
' enemy planes teo his eredit, Hays
has been awarded the distinguished serv
e medal.
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1919,
Great Catch Robbed
Roush of Bat Honors
A wonderful catch of a difficult fly ball
deprived Ed. Roush, the Cincinnati star,
of the batting championship of the Na
tional League. And what is more remar
kable tham that is the fact that Ed. Roush
made the catch himself and did not have
the hit taken awgy from him. Tt 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 hit
336. Southworth, of Pittsburgh, batted
higher than that—.34l—but only played
in sixty-four games. Roush ranked next
with 333, just two points behind Wheat.
Bill Phelon, the widely known Cincfn
nati seribe, 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
in batting.
“During a game agalnst Bt. Louis, 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 thé piate.
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 a base after a fly ball haas
been ‘momentarily held.’ Jack Hendricks,
mangager of the Cardinals, promptly pro
testod the game on the ground that Roush
had momentarily held the ball before he
dropped and recovered it. The St. Louls
claim 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 lost the championship and
the honor of leading the league two years
in succession.” i
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Night Practice Being
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Held at Kansas Univ.
LAWRENCE, KAN, Jan. 25 --80 busy
has Coach W. O, Hamien, of the Univer
sity of Kansas, become in @thletics that he
found it necessary to held basketball prac-.
tice at night in order to devote more time
to the track team. Heretofore the eve
nings have heen sacred to study-—or co-eds
~~but now the fair sex and books must give
way to work for the basketeers. ’
Fans Mourn Over Death of Bril
liant Oid Player, Who Devoted
Forty Years to Baseball.
WAY back in 1899 and 1900 when
A Theodore Roosevelt, America's
fighting statesman, occupied 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
5:10\'9." daily for his boxing exercise with
immie Dime, of Newcastle Pa., as an
opponent, and he asked and showed no
quarter.
“Teddy was a grand old scout,” is
the way Dime speaks of the statesman
“and had 1 those days to liver over
n?'uln 1 would give twenty vears of.my
life. Teddy was a fighteér from the top
of his head to the bottom of his feet
Changes Billiard Room to Gym.
‘“He had a large billlard 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
lia of the boxers
‘““As he would enter the room for his
daily ‘lesson’ 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 boxing and went two rounds, but
within a week he was going four in fair
fashion and within a period of a month
he would rush through six rounds like
a lightweight. His wind grew good and
his muscles hard.
Couldn't Stop Teddy's Rushes.
“As I would call the end of time for
a new round to befln," continued the
gray haired fight impresario, ‘Teddy
would spring from his corner, rush right
into me, and whale away for dear life.
Often 1 hooked, jabbed and countered,
but each time Theodore met me almost
blow for blow. He didn't eare a rap
whether I ‘beaned’ him on the nose or
on the jaw, and a blow to the stomach
which would have knocked out many
finished fighters {ult naturally seemed
to prime Roosevelt for a terrific burst of
fighting.
“The only thlnfl 1 might be revealing
which 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, [
never struck the Governor over his
eyes,
Makes Boxers of Sons.
"Tedd'{ 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 hleed, 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
lieve me, they were a grand pair of lit
th&muters.
“Ofttimes other boys the same age
and size as Kermit and Teddy, Jr.,
would enter the homemade gymnasium
and battie. 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 iameneu of both
those bogs because they never showed
nor asked quarter. They were two chips
off the olg, block.
Allice Roosevelt 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
ative, woui@ enter the gymnasium and
watch the husband and father and
they would laugh at the Governor
pranci about llke a lightweight 1
was a"fzs pounder in those days and
Roosevelt kept me on t}:a hop. He was
fast, quick, and a godd puncHer, and
:‘en he hlt»vel“ just kept on boxing
in and out and diin't take any chances.
“When Roosevelt received word that
he was to go to W*shlmnon he came to
me and told me. Tl'felt sorry because 1
knew | was loslnmn real friend. [ did
not eare so much that it would lose
me a patron, because | was making
thousands of dollars at my Manhattan
Athletic Club in Troy, N. Y. but I real
ized that he was passing away to a P\af‘d
where 1 would miss our daily 'nd friend
ly workeut. &
Refuses To Go to Washington.
“ "Well, Jimmie,' said the Governor,
‘l'm going to Washington and if you
want to go let me know, I'll have very
much nn& of an athletic instructor
there and the position is yours if you
just say the word.' 1 couldn’t leave
F .
England Offers Big
Purses to Americans
CHICAGO, Jan. 18It begins to look
like we of tfm West ‘I not get a peep at
Henny Leonard's wa: until after he has
crossed the water and tasted of the pick
ing in England which, accerding to all
reports, promises to be mighty sweet with
in_the next few weeks,
While Billy Gibson is said to look with
longing eves on the easy money available
across the water, it I 8 not likely any defi
nite announcement regarding the scene of
Leonard's after-war activities will be an
nounced until after Benny has received
actual release from army duties, i
Adcording to dame rumor, a lot of army
and navy fighters will be lolling about
Lonabn shortly. These should furnish a
number of remunerative bouts for the
Bronx wonder, ‘
Bob Laga, who handled Lew Tendler,
talked with Gibson recently and is author
ity for the tip that Gibson has made up
his mind to hike to England and abandon
America for .the time being.
Leonard is 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
surprise to Charles White, who racelvx!
& Christmas present of a half-way pro
mise from the Leonard party of a ten
reund affair in Milwaukee some time in
January., This half-way promise never
came direct from Gibson or Leonarde but
was passed to a friend of Nate Lewis in
the East.\
A Leonard-White engagement in this
sedtion would be about the choicest bit
that could be offered. This bout could
be counted on to draw a house second only
to the Willie Ritchie-Ad Wolgast gate
in 1914,
But, to get back to the alleged easy
xlcklng on the eother side of the water.
ctording 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 sailors’
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. W%or instance, at
the recent inter-allied tournament. Moore
figured that if he could get a peep at
Wilde in action before he hoxed him he
could easily defeat the Welsh idol. A lucky
break in the drawing gave Moore just this
chance and he won handily.
Wilde drew Lynch as the ?rst of his
American opponents. Moore was at the
ringside and saw how Wilde hnndlog
Lynch-—winning easily. 7Phen he mappe
out his plan of attack-—ecarried it out to
the letter and wen handily.
“Don’'t think this Wilde boy sis u?.”
| Baid Moore on a recent visit here. “You
have most likely heard some of the many
lmnrhs floating around about his freak
style. He is not a freak by any means.
““He is as fast as a bullet, a great boxer
ind a 2 whale of a puncher with either
and.
“I simply mussed up his system after
seeing him use it on Lynch. No siree,
This Wilde 18 not an easy bird by any
means. That's my way of figuring it,
and I know.”
Western Boxer Plans
.
Invasion of the East
(By International News Serviece.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 2§.—While several of
the prominent Rastern 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 few of the favorites of the
Pacifiec Coast fans will be performing in
Eastern rings. One of the first of the
Western boxers to journey across the con
timent will be Battling Ortega, one of th:
leading mlddlewel{htl of the West an
who claims San Franciseco as his home
town. The Battler is making plans to
vigit 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 Britton 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 Olympic clubs of the (*unker City
have displayed eagerness té sign up the
Western star. The trip across the country
will be punctuated by bouts in the Middle
West,
Ortega does not':;on!lnn his ring hotivi
ties to the middleweight 2}“‘!10!\: in fact,
he is a legitimate welterweight and once
fought Ted Kid Lewis, the welterweight
title holder, while the latter was out on
the Pacifie Coast. Mick Klng. the former
middleweight of Australia, fell a vietim
of Wu'a blows in the eighth round of
ase uled twenty-round nfmmm He also
knocked out Marty Farrell, a looul boy,
in one round.
Ortega was born_ in Los Angeles, Mexico,
the same city in which Joe Rivers first,
saw the light of day. In the ring he
throws all science to the winds, depending
uvon rushing taeties to bring him vlctnrx.!
This spectacular mode of attack has made
him popular with the fistic lovers on the
Western coast, and no doubt when he Is
seen in the East hia boring-in methods
will gain. for him numerous admirers. He'
is a good, strong, husky lad and is game
He has recelved solid blows to body and
head, but never falters, and in his right
hand carries a terrific wallop.
my lucrative club business and [ re
fused.
“Sometimes,” sorrowfully sald Dime,
“l wish 1 had gone, He In?r boxed
under Mike Donovan and Kd Dwyer.
While engaged with either one of them
—1 believe it was Donovan—he recelved
a blow on his eve which caused blind
ness later. Had 1 been there, the Colo
nel's instructions, the same as when he
was Governor—viz: ‘Don't hit me over
the eyes' —would Im?llcmy have been
obeyed, and he would have had bhoth
good eyes In after years,
“Yes " concludgd Jimmie, “Ted%y
Roosevelt was a fighter with a big F,
ame from the top of his head to the
go(mm ‘of his feet, showing no quarter
and asking none.'
.
Great Lakes Eleven Easily Out
: “ "
classes All Rivals — “Paddy
Driscoll Is Indwidual Star.
By WALTER CAMP,
Director of Athletics, Navy Department
Commission on Training 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
game, however, took on widely diverse
lines and methods of orgfnization dur
ing the season. In the Second, Third,
Fifth, Sixth and Ninth districts teams
were formed representative of the entire
distriet, and the eleven representing the
ninth, or Great Lakes district, 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 was confined to varying units,
in most cases those of regiments in dif
ferent bases or stations.
Estimates regarding the number of
men who took part in the football games
played by navy teams durinq the sea
on 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
theigr arrangement and officialing
Best Attended Matches,
In the organization and planning for
the season’'s sport it was laid down as
a fundamental precegl that the games
were _arranged and the sport developed
prim&iily with the idea of interesting
the men in the navy stations, both as
participants and spectators, rather than
Hrbvidlng sport programs for the pub
c.
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
played by station teams altracted
crowds lullg as large as those in attend
ance at the most brilllant university
games of the season.
The Great i‘ko--AnnamHa game at
Annapolis, the Great kes-Rutgers
game at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, and the
Newgort-}'elhnm Bay game played in
the Yale Bowl drew crowds numbering
in_the vieinity of 25,000 people.
The best attended matches of purelfi
station teams were those which too
place in the First District, where a
league was formed consisting of the
followinf ten stations of the district:
The Little Building, Radio School, ulum
kin Island, Hingham Training Station,
Hingham Ammunition Depot, Ports
mouth Marines, Camp Plunkett, Camp
Edgar, Portland, Battery Wharf and
Bc;ton Section. .
hese games were played at Braves
Field, the grounds of the Boston Na
tional Leafue baseball elub nine, and at
other public fields, as well as at the sta
tions, and the matches at Bra Fleld
attracted between 15,900 and 25‘0 per
sons regularly,
2,000,000 Witness Games.
The plan of placing the football teams
of the nnvir. as well as the other branch
es of athletics in the service, at the
disposal of the united war fund com
mittee in November resuited in games
heinf rluyed in every station for this
patriotic cause. ¢
An estimate that 2,000,000 persons wit
nessed the games which were played
in the different stations is not rerurded
as excessive. The attendance in the
First District comprised about a quar
ter of that number, sixty boln* played
by the different stations or uni tenms.‘
the largest attendance games hem’
played by the different stations or uni
%guor&; the largest attendance being fully
The team rea;enemlng Pelham Bay
exhibited remarkuble defensive strength,
only two touchdowns belmf scored
urxlnat it, with one field goal, a total
_'! sixteen points, durinm the season.
utmm and Newport each registered a
touchdown, while the Bay Shore Naval
Aviators recorded a field goal.
. Easily the ltronfnt football eleven in
the country, the eleven representin- rthe
Great Lakes Naval Station, defeated
allke Basterners, Middle West and Pu
cific Coast rivals, sweeping the navy and
college competitors,
The team was not defeated during the
season, but won notable victories over
Annapolis, Rutgers, lowa and the South
oern California naval eleven at Pasadena.
__The team was developed by Herbert
P, Olcott, athletic director at Great
Lakes, and Dr. McCreavy, the former
Annapolis player.
In point of attendance, quality of play,
Interest, enthusiasm and general char
acter and surroundings, the Great
lAkau-Annnfilln. Great f‘hn-Rutnrn
and Great kes-Pasadena games de
serve comparison with the ordinary
Yale-Princeton and Yale-Harvard grid
iron matches. §
“Paddy” Driscoll, the Great Lakes
quarterback and field general, proved
one of the most plcturesqlue characters
of the gridiron season of 1918,
Famous Oriole Four
Hold Managers’ Jobs
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-—Stars of the
famous Baltimore Orioles of twenty-five
yoars ago will contribute . one-fourth of
the managerial brains that will figure in
the major league penant races this yoear,
With the recent oppointment of Willlnm
YKIdY Gleason as manager of the Whito
Sox, the BaMimore nlumni association,
qunartette” s complete, John MeGraw,
Wilbert Robinson and Hugh Jennings, who
were teammates of Gloason on the famous
Baltimore champlons of 1804-97, are the
three other members,
The new manager of the Pale* Hose
Atched for Ned Hanlon's famous AEEre
smlnn. Robinson was first catcher om the
team. MeGraw the third baseman, and
Jonnings the “only" shortstop. The fact
that this quartet is holding down bhig
league managerships Qodn& upholds the
contention that the old soles were a
brainy and capable outfit, and as Gleason
son says, “n veritable team of managers.'
Today, after twenty-five years, Gleason
and Jennings are destined to mateh thelr
baseball brains In a pennant race, while
MeGraw and Robinsen will figure once
again as rivals in the senior major league,
While there I 8 an element Bf mystery
in Charles Comiskey's actlon In dethron.
Ing Rowland and elevating Gleason to the
managership of the Sox, balldem s agreed
that the Chieago club will find itself un
der the wing of one of the smartest men
in baseball. Cleason 18 sald to have had
a big share in helping Chicago to the
world's champlonship in IM7 and Comis
knyhnvldnntly attributes the clulh's guccoss
to him.,
l SPORTS, FIRING LINE,
AUTOS, FINANCE
lCleveland Veteran to Meet
. -
Frankie Burns or Eggers Feb,
' . ' .
22 in a Philadelphia Ring,
AWN KILBANE, champlon of the
featherweights since he got a 20-
round decision over Abraham At
tell at Vernon, Cal., as long ago as 1912,
is coming back to the ring The Cleve-,
land Irishman has not had a profes
sional glove contest since Benny Leon
ard, the lightweight boss, 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 did
}nul 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 April—he thinks
he has several real scraps in his sys
tem. The champion opens up at Phila
‘delphia on February 22 th a six-round
matich with Knockout Eggers, of New
York.
~ The Naftional A. C. has secured the
‘mmch and Kilbane has sent word he'll
'be present to show the Quaker fans
something classy in the way of a 28-
year-old featherweight. They used to
\(‘Al“ John the Cleveland Colt, but net
any more. He ls far past the colt stage.
Burns Instead of Eggers?
' The Philadelphia club may use
Frankie Burns in place of Eggers, {n—
vided it can arrange an elimination
‘malch between this galr. It wants to
put on KEggers and Burns February 5,
imo winner to get Kilbane. If the great
little Jersey Skeeter, long known as a
contender among the bantams, wants to
\u:\ conclusions with Kilbane at 128
pounds he can have the chanee. The
Ivluh has put the matter completely up
to Frankie.
Burns went out of his class one nlfht
in New York to box Kilbane and go
lovely punching for ten rounds. 'fi
Kilbane weight and reach were too m'
for him, but he was in there at the fin
ish, still fresh and fighting. :
It is not thought that Eggers will be
able to do much with Kilbane. He's of
the rushing, smashing type who tear
In wide open. That's the kind John
likes to clout on the chin with his :o:x
right paw. As a rule Kilbane can out
point a slugger with consummate ease.
When ope stops to niure it out, Kil
bane may have no trouble retaining the
championship 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 like Johnny.
PR
Jim Corbett Talks, .
James J. Corbett is now at Los An
geles, where he will be enufed for
several weeks playing a “Juvenile lead"
in & motion picture serlal. ’
“There {8 not a white hair in the old
boy's head, Flll screen like a youngster,”
be told the coast interviewers, removing
a derby hat to give them a flash at a
fine crop of black hair. Then Jim
switched into a discussion of ring affairs.
“Don’t let anybody tell you that the
fight 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 th
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? Ie certainly is a wonderful fighter.
Everything they have asked Jack to do
he has accomplished and there is none
to deny him the right of having 'the
first championship clash with Willard.
"I do not care now to make a predie
tion on the outcome of a Willard-Demp
sey fight Jess has bheen idle so long
the condition problem is a big one with
him. I would have to see Willard after
he had trained for the battie hefore give
ing _an opinion
“People eall me a loser-picker on box
11\7 matches. Remember that I picked
Willard to beat Joth‘m and also have
called the turn on man¥ other big fights.
“The war period has done wonders
for the boxing game. It will be more
popular in years to come than it ever
has been hefore, There will be numer
ous champlonship contenders come from
the ranks of the soldiers and sailors.”
»
iKzlbane Will Meet
The Feathers Again
! Johnny Kilbane, featherwelght cham
plon, Intends soon to go into active train-
Ing with the Intention of defending his
title against all comers.
Since early in America's participation
n the world war the king of the feathers
has been actively engaged in army hox-
Ing Instruction. He has just resigned his
porition, and though the resignation has
as yet not heen nccepted, Kilbane h to
be free to embrace the elvilian life :‘:fl'
after the new year,
Kilbane has not fought in more than a
year. His ‘nst engngement was when he
went out of his class to engage WQ-';
welght (’hn’nmon Henny Leonard at Phila
delphin. Johnny had run out of oppe
vente in his class. But in the heavier
Leonard he met a real tartar and experi
enced the humiMation of a knockout in
three rounds,
Provided Kilbane can met back to his
old time form and weight there is Nttle
doubt that he can rule king of the feath.
ers for some time to come. WFor hllz
8 a real champlon and the crop im th
onee popular division appears te run very
much to the eitrus of late years.
Yankees Sign Baldwin,
Coast League Catcher
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Earl D. BaMwin,
A backstop drafted last year by the Yan
kees from the Portland elub, Mflo;
League, dropped into the cage of Harry
Hparrow. This amazed Sparrow, for he
was busy all the past fflv months !ffl!l‘
to get in touch with Baldwin, Bal@win is
only back a few days frfim the other side,
where he fought with the 144th Artillery.
He came over from Camp Merritt, om
which spot he expects to be m ed
out shortly. ¢45 Wikt . R M
The recruit ls built along nes,
standing 5 feet 10 inches high and welgh
ing 182 pounds. He is considered to be u
eateher of excoptions! ability, “He was Asa
covered by Clarence Rowland in 1915 whon
playing on the High School team of ()Ms-7
land. Towiand sent him to the Peoria
club of the Three-1 Feague He playod
with Tacoma in 1916, and then went: e
Portland, o