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‘Farmer Burns, 57, Yearns to Try for World’s Mat Championship
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Man Who Brought Out Frank
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By JAMES J. CORBETT.
At the "age of J7-—-When some men
are nearly in their dotage-—Martin
(“Farmer'') Burns, hero of more than
4,600 wrestling clashes, yearns to tus
gle for a world’s championship. ‘
The sporting world generally might
off at the defi, but no man who knows
Burng doubts his phenomenal abilitre
Whether Burns could conquer the giants
who now dominate wrestling is a ques
ion, But there isn't any doubt that if
: ‘a,&usns were thrown into the same ring
with any one-of the half dozen top
notchers of today he would put up a
most remarkable battle
Burns has been wrestling for nearly
0 years. His first bout wag at thy
wge of 8. He won it—and a side bet
f 16 cents. In all the vears since then
{iurns has tackled every great man
that wrestling has produced—and oni:
seven of all that number sent him down
to defeat.
Defeated Gotch.
Burns conquered Frank Goteh, and
afterward won the world's heavyweight
wrestling championship from Evan
(“Strangler’’) L.ewis. Some time after
ward Tom Jenkins wrestled the laurels
from him. Burns defeated Dan Mec-
Leod, Fred Beall, and never was beat
en by any of the great foreign wrest
lers that came to these shores, And
Burns, mind you, never weighed more
than 170 pounds at his best
Hali Adali-—**The = Sulton's [ion”
weighed 302 pounds, and was a moun
tain of bone and musecle. He ranked a
the most powerful of all Furopean
wrestlers. He tossed all those who
tried conclusions with him—except
Burns. The Farmer stayed the stipu-
Jated 90 minutes and won o big nurse.
Burns perhaps is the only man who
ever submitted to hanging to prove
the strength of his neck muscles. It
happened nearly 20 yvears ago it fowa
A noose was placed around Burns' neck
i\n«l the rope was hung from a cross
kree under a railroad: trestle. Tha beox
he was standing on was Kicked from
under him. A drop of neariy threc foet
followed, As the body of Burns shot
downward and the rope tightened
around his neck, the crowd thought that
the wrestler's neck had been broken,
+But Burns, to the astonishment of the
crowd, began to deliver a little lecture
on clean living, while the rope pulled
tighter and ever tighter around his
neck.
Had Tough Neck.
The bet was that Burns couldn't hang
for two minutes. He hung for nearly
four, and talked all the time. At last
when the box was slid back under him
and the rope taken off, Burns rubbed
the neck-skin which had been gashed
and torn by the rope and then ;:rin«“
ningly exclaimed:
“Pretty tough neck I've got, eh?” ‘
Burns is the greatest show man that
the wrestling game ever produced. He
has performed feats spectacular te an
extreme, and his various stunts during
«his heyday yvears made him a theatrical
attraction of the best kind. Burns was
perhaps the pioneer in the all-comers
wrestling bouts. For nearly one yvear
he was on tour with a theatrical troupe
offering SSO to any man whe would stay
with him 15 minutes, and S2OO to any
yone who could gain a fall in that time: |
“Our show gave fourteen perform- |
ances a week, and 1 wrestled on an av- |
erage of 30 men each week,” declared
Burns. “I never had to pay out fur-{
feit. although some of the fellows who |
tackled me outweighed me from 50 to
120 pounds.” ]
Burns gained considerable fame due |
td his ability to break a rope merelyv |
by chest expansion. He has wrestled
lions, tigers, bears and kangaroos and
never lost a fall to any animal He
had many narrow escapes in trying e¢on- |
clusions with members of the feline |
tribe, which sought to use ‘foul meth
ods'’ by biting and scratching.
Burns has been given credit as the
man who brought Frank Gotch to the
front. It was the veteran who saw in |
the lowa boy the makings of a cham- !
+pion of champions And for several |
yvears he trained him and later acted as’
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3,000,000 Men Learn Boxing
Army Gave Game Big Boost
WASHINGTON, D C, May 24—
Three millions and more men were
trained in boxing in the nineteen
months the United States was in the
war.
This total was disclosed when the
Commission on Training Camp Activi
ties compiled the figures submitted by
their physical directors in the different
camps. The compilation was made at
the request of the historical arm of the
War Department. With many of the
men in the camps the instruction in the
simplest moves in boxing had to be
started at the beginning, Many of the
regiments had only one or two men,
proficient in the sport and one regiment
at Camp Jackson was able to demon
strate that not one man in the entire
erganization had worn a glove before
coming to the camp. Men close to the
his advisor, The latest pupil graduated
by Burns is Marin Plestina.
Boosts Plestina.
“He is one of the hest men that ever
stepped onto the mat, and if this Ples
tina boy ever gets a chance at Zbyszko,
Stecher, Caddock and Fredericks, who
has been wrestling under the name of
Strangler Lewis, he'll win without tak
ing a long breath,'” asserts Burns.
Asked as to his recipe for long living,
Burns replied:
“Two meals a day, no coffee or tea,
plenty of deep breathing, eight hours’
sleep and fifteen minutes of exercising
each day--that's all.”
zm{gsr'si%rx\riw AMERICAN . A N_!wsnaeer for Peo_ple Who Thmk,"" SUNDAY, MAY ‘2‘.’». 1919,
|boxing game are responsible for the
guess that not more than three thou
'sand men before the war received as
| much training in the arts of self de
fense and offense as the three million
havre received in the last year and a
half.
D. Joseph . Raycroft, head of ath
letics at Princeton University, a mem
ber of the Commission on Training
,Camp Activities and a few days ago
| starting with the Crane Commission to
study conditions in the near lEast, can
,he considered the boxing Moses of the
| United States army. On April 26, 1917,
|at the first meeting of the commission,
! Dr. Rayeroft was asked to visit the Ca
| nadian military headquarters at Foron
to. Dr. Raycroft there beecame a thor
lough convert to the place boxXing
would have in the training of the army.
1110 had a chance to present his belief
to the thirty men, first called into the
camps as physical directors when they
met at Princeton September 5, 1917,
Most of these men were college coaches
|and heads of college athletic depart
ments and were slow.to be convinced
that boxing was what the men needed.
All of them, however, were willing to
try the matter out and after the first
trial, they were the most ardent ad-,
vocates of the padded mitt game as ap
plied to the training of a soldier.
1 Camps Didn’'t Like It.
Boxing did not take hold so rapidly
|{in the camps. Most of them were from
{ sections where the game of boxing was
held in none too good repute. Also
they did not see the use of this part
of the training. They wanted guns
as the quickest way of dispatching the
kaiser. Slowly the theories of an es-
Ifivient army percolated down through
|the ranks. Boxing came into its own
with a rush, when practically at the
lsame time, the bayonet instructors
from overseas realized that many of
{the moves in bayonet work were the
igame as boxing moves and some of the
!best known and cleverest of the pro-
I?fesslonal boxers reported at the camups.
!In the first three or four months each
i man worked out his own program, some
,with exceptional success. Then a school
for all athletic instructors was institut
ed at Camp Gordon and the work of
{all the men brought nearer to the high
| est standards.
{ In many of the camps the work in
'boxing was «compulsory. In Camp
.Koarnefl, Cal., the camp most distant
! from the seat of trouble in Kurope,
every fighting man in camp was com
pelled to box at least two, three-min
tute rounds every day. At Camp
| Sherman, 865 men were given special
instructions to enable them to qualify
as instructors in the different compa
nies,. At Camp Lewis 472 men per
|formed a similar mission. These enlist
led instructors continued on with the
Idlvislons as they were ordered over=
| seas while the head instructor re
mained. in camp to train the boxers
of a new division. In this way a large
number of men attained experience as
boxing teachers.
Probably the most far-reaching es-
I sect of the work of the men in boxing
ii" the camp was the promulgation. of
a new set of rules. Former rules
{ failed to fill the need of the camps for
!amessiveness in fighting. ‘Some of the
instructors were inclined to favor a man
lin whom they saw a_ prospect of a fu
! ture winper under the former regula
itions, aR against a man who ‘‘went to
|the mat.”” " The new rules put a pre
{ mium on aggressiveness, They gave a
iman who “mixed it up’ the advantage
over the “hanger on.” These rules have
Ihf-en tried under all of the conditions
arigsing in the camps and were the
jones used in selecting the champions
tof the A. E. F. So well did these rules
‘wark that several near champions with
[the A. E, F. refused fo,meet the as
igressive youngsters developed in the
‘army and were theérefore barred from
i fighting under the name of the A, 0. F,
jin_the ‘time they remain in France.
| The ‘important part of the rules as
!promulgated for the' championships of
jone of the bases In France, follows:
j " Championship Rules.
| “¥n all competitions the number of
' rounds to be conteésted shall be three to
tsix. *The duaration 6f tounds shall be
; limited to two minutes éach. The in
| terval between each round shall be two
minutes. The refereé shall order one
additional round of three minutes in
| case the judges disagree, if in his opin
i ion such is necesgary. If at the end
{ of the additional round the judges stilj
gdisagree. the referee must decide .in
| favor of one of the econtestants (To
| run off a large number of houts with
{ out undye delay, four contestants can
{be in the ring at the same time. While
{two are boXing., two are restinz.)
| ‘“The mauner of judging.shall be as
I!‘nl}nwfl: There =halt he two ijudges
tationed on onposzite sgides 6f the ‘ring
iand a referee in the ring, At the end
I of the bout, each judege shall write the
name of the competitor who in his
. . .
Fighting Engineers
Play Chess, Checkers
The returning regiment of railroad en
gineers, on the Italian steamer Belvedere,
which landed at New York on April 28,
conducted a chess and checker tournament
which aroused great interest among both
officers and men. About 1256 men entered
the checker tournament, which took ten
days to finish. The chess tournament for
{the Y men and officers had only twelve
entries, as this game is too intellectual
for the usual person. The enlisted men's
tournament was composed of one man only
| from a company, as it was imyossible to
‘pllay more games in such a short period of
time.
John Dee, of D Company, won the en
listed men’s checker tournament after
| playing twenty-four matches. He defeated
| R. Kirkwood, of Company (', three games
| out of five, there being four draws in
| their match. A H-franc Belgian coin of
1870 date was given as first prize té the
| : winner.
! Lieutenant A. D. Whisler, B Company,
won out in the officers’ chess tournament,
defeating €. A. Russell, the "Y' expert,
three out of five games. These games
took two hours to play, and were wit
! nessed by over two hundred 'men and of
ficers.
_ Blackie Wells, of F Company., won the
enlisted men's chess tournament from G.
Gelzer, of E Company. Their games were
the longest played in the series, One took
2 hours and 50 minutes. A captain un
| dertook to referee the match, but he gave
it up after two hours had passed and
turned it over to L. F. La Rose. A car
ton of cigarettes was given to Wells, the
| victor, as first prize, but he divided up
with the loser, as he said he deserved a
prize also.
. .
Joie Ray to Race in
.
| John Overton Memorial
| PHILADELPHIA, May 24-—A leading
| feature of “the Meadowbrook track meet,
! to be held on Franklin Field June 7, one
| week after the intercollegiates, is expected
I to be the John W. Overton memorial run,
!in which Joie Ray has been asked to try
ll'm' a world’s record.
| Three other runters will be asked to
! run against him. Two of them are Charles
| Stout, of Chicago, and Ivan Meyer. who
| was at Overton’s heels when the latter
| made his indoor mile’'s record.
opinion has won, and shall hand the
same to the announcer.. In case the.
judges agree the name of the winner
is announced, but in case the jud%es
disagree, the announcer shall so in
form the referee, who shall thereupon
| decide as in rule 1,
“Marks or points are awarded for ‘at
tack,’ direct clean hits with knuckle
part of the glove of either hand on any
| part of the front or sides of the head or‘
body above the belt, for ‘defense’,,
guarding, ducking, slipping or getting
away. Where contestants are other
wise equal the majority 'of points or
| marks shall be given to the one who
does most of the leading off, or who
displays the better style.
“The referee shall have power of dis
qualifying a contestant for any of the
following acts: TFor hitting below the
belt, for using the pivot blow, for hit
ting with the open glove, the inside or
with the but of the hand or with the
| wrist, for holding or shouldering, in
| tentionally falling without receiving a
| blow, wrestling or roughing or for any
other acts which he may deem foul.
The referee shall also have the power
to stop the contest if in his oPinlon a
contestant is outclassed or accidentally
disahled. S
‘ “In the event of any question arising
| not provided for in these rules, the ref
eree shall have power to decide such
questions.” |
Good Instructors, ‘
‘ Because many claims of being of as
sistance to the army as boxing in
structors are being made at the pres
ent time, the athletic division of the
| commigsion on training camp activi
{ties is making public the names of the
| men who worked under it as baxong in
! structors in the different camps. Other
‘men who helped as boxing instructor
were drawn from the ranks of the army,
i a 4 large number of good youngsters find
il’ng their way into the ranks by enlist
| ment or draft. Seyeral of these were
il:\rgely relieved of their military work
| to assist in training the men in box
| ing, especially in the camps where
hoxing instructors were not sent by the
| commission. |
| The list of boxing instructors of the
| commission follows:
{ _Willlam P. Armsirong, George V.
| Blake, Harry L. Brewer, Bobby Burns,
Mike. Cantwell, Tommy Connolly, Eddie
Coulon, Johnny Coulon, Tommy Dixon, !
Jimmy Dunn, Fred 8. Dyer, Martin J.
| Faraher, Mike Gibbons, Tom Gibbons,
Danny Goodman, Frank T. Gormley,
Johnny Griffiths, Eddie Hanlon Joe
Herriek, Jerome V. Jeffords, Johnny
iKHban&-. Mike King, Benny TLeonard,
{ Charlie Leonard. Battling Levinsky, Ted
, Lewis, Jack London, Rov . lLoveridge,
Robert McAllister, Packy McFarland,
Tommy MeFarland, Patsy McMahon, J |
Hume MacDonald, Joe Mandot, Richie
Mitchell. Frank Moran, James I’. O'Don.
pvan, Mike Orrison, Al Reich, Willie |
Ritchie. William Rodenbac Hugli |
Ross, Frankie Russgell, Tomm; I:-::".1
(Philadelphia). John Tholmer. Georgic |
w’!ompsnn. “Spike’’ Webh, William R.
hipp, Charlie White, John Young ]
Britisher Gazes With Amazement
on Spectacle of Players
' ' '
Wrangling With Umpire.
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(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, May 24.-—-Baseball in
England, as played by members of
the American and Canadian expedi
tionary forces and sallors from the
United States war vessels, has excited
no end of comment from British
gportsmen. Some of the criticism ad
vanced by Englishmen has been the
cause of considerable amusement on
the part of American players and
fans, yet, on the other hand, much of
it has been direct and constructive in
character. Americans will be sur
prised that many Englishmen, com
paring baseball to cricket, find the
former slow and somewhat tiresome,
but the following intelligent com
ment by a writer in The Field, an
English publication, will meet with
the approval of many in this country
who frequently have railed at unnec
essary delay in the course of games:
“The more than baseball is studied
by cricketers the more apparent it
becomes that of the two games base
ball is much the slower, and that the
only thing which is really fast about
it lies in the elevation of ‘over' to
the rank of an ‘innings.’ If a bowler
at cricket were to require a quarter
of the time taken by many bascball
pitchers to make up their minds, the
game would soon become insuffer
able to spectators. Last Saturday,
the American pitcher, Bishop, in the
watch against Canada at the Queen’s
Club, was so deliberate in his meth
ods as to be a subject of wonder, not
unmixed with admiration. He always
walked to his place with extreme
slowness, generally looked around
three or four times if a man was at
first base, raised his hands as if about
to throw, dropped them and twiddled
the ball several times in his glove,
swung his arms in windmill fashion,
and, finally, when one had almost
given him up in despair, threw the
ball at the batter—if he did not throw
it toward the man at the base. Several
times he began his duties by holding
the ball high at arm’s length and
standing motionless for some seconds,
after which he went through the usual
performance. Once or twice he al
tered his mind, signaled to the catch
er, met him half way, had a consul
tation and went to give instructions
to a fileldsman before getting to work.
Yet baseball enthusiasts did not seem
to recognize that there was anything
slow abuut these things.”
The same writer gazed with amaze
ment on the spectacle of players
wrangling with the umpire over a
close decision. As he saw it there
was “a hullabaloo and commotion,
such as must have been seen to be
appreciated. Excited players from
both sides ran from one office to an
other, shouting, gesticulating and ex
plaining. The officials, with the sin
gle exception of the umpire, whose
imperturbability could not have heen
surpassed by Bob Thoms, was as
excited as the players, and there are
simply no words In the language to
describe the performance of the spec
tators. Amid the pandemonium two
of the American fieldsmen, who had
not moved from their places, sat down
and phlegmatically watched the pros
ceedings. Suddenly the uproar ceased,
the players reésuming their game in
the most amicable way as if nothing
whatever had happened, and no one
seemed a penny the worse. 1
“Any experienced observer of the
crowds must have noticed from the
very first that the Americans knew
perfectly well that they had not a leg
to stand on, and that the whole pro
ceeding was only a specimen of the
bluff for which the game is famous.”
Continuing, the writer sets forth
the opinion that the game could be
greatly improved if the “elément of
bluff could be done away with en
tirely,” but he admits that if such
came about the pastime might lose‘
much of its attractiveness for lhel
spectators. |
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Yank Boxers Mix on
German Palace Lawn
- COBLENZ May 24 While Wilhelm
frets away his time and Count von Ben
tinck’s patience in Holland, the Y. M. C
A. is conducting boxing bouts on the front
lawn of one of Rhineland's palaces for the
training and diversion of the doughboya
of the American army of occupation A
new ‘Y hut, especially built for a box
ing arena has een erected right on top
of the imperial grass, which the all high
est used to tread, in keeping his watch
on the Rhine
The doughboys, ton, are keeping the Heol
nies husy dodging hot flies.”” There are
about ten Jdivisions of the A. E. F. in the
Rhineland at present, In the first division
alone there 8 a baseball league of 130
teams, which keeps not less than 2,000 to
2,600 men in actual play a number of aft
ernoons each week., There is also a bas
kethall team for each regiment, making
not less than ecight teams for each divi
sion, engaging, more than 100 men in play
daily
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It is seldom that we turn to the loser of any event and write of his
greatness, but Willie Ritchie makes us hreak the ruble. All over New
York the fans are talking nothing but Willie Ritehie. Of course there
is some mention of Leonard, but the loser of the big fight seems to have
gained the moh's admiration,
He showed the stuff that champions are made of. He showed the
heart of the lion man, and after being floored in the second round he
came back in the third and chased his opponent from corner to corner.
He was willing to trade punches, tired as he was, Is it any wonder
that Ad Wolgast (the only American of German descent who ever held
the lightweight title) lost heart and quit when Ritchie, bleeding and
sore, kept tearing after him?
Again, in the seventh round, when Leonard hit him with every
thing he had, bouncing him along the ropes and knocking him from one
| side of the ring to the other, he refuged to go down. At the finish of
' the round he was slugging with Leonard, weakly of course, but fighting,
‘ A champion must have much courage. He may not show the same
degree of courage that Ritchie did, but he must have it stowed away
in his system some place,
Ritchie could have taken the count in that eighth round and stuck
the limit. but he didn't. He stood by his guns and fought until the last
punch had left his system. Then and only then he fell limply across
the ropes. He was fought out. There was nothing left. He stuck to
the last. There was no thought of the floor.
He had the stuff that champions are made of.
When Tham Langford was in London some years ago a London |
gporting writer was chirping with him about Peter Jackson. He told
Tham that Peter was a gent of the first water and was never mixed up
in a brawll outside the ropes. “He does all his fighting in the ring,”
piped the scribe.
“Well,” said Tham, “you see, I'm married and have two kids up in
Boston. I can't say the same for myself.”
CASEY AT THE BAT
Tere's a letter that Warren Brown, of The San Francisco Calll,
received a few days ago:
OAKLAND, CAL.
“Warren W .Brown, The Call:
““This is a little info.to interest you and the entire b. b. fandom of
the West, the inside dope on how and why the Mighty Casey struck out.
“The game in question took place in the town of Derby, Conn., a
so-called ‘dry’ town. The only dispensary in existence was operated by
the city, and was open from 6to 6. Casey, as we all know, was a man
that followed in his father’s footsteps, a heavy drinker as well as a
heavy hitter. At the time he went to bat the score was 3 to 1 against
his elub. Two men were on bases when Casey came to the plate. He
took a look at the town clock. It lacked five minutes of 6. Casey knew
if he hit safely the score would be tied, the game would be going at 6,
and he would lose-his bottle. So he whiffed the next two strikes and
cut across the field in ‘a northerly direction, the dispensary being in
said direction.
“If any one doubts this, he can consult me, for I was on second
base at the time, The date is too famous:for me to forget, forr Casey
struck out the same day that Coxey's army struck out from San Fran
cisco for Washington. Yours for the truth, ;
“ALABAMA RAMBLER.”
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Women Meet Japanese
Star in Wrestling Go
Professor Ito, world jude champion and
likewise a bear at catch as catch ean,
had a new experience at the Los Angeles
Athletle Club recently, He wreatled with
two women—one at a time, to be sure,
The strangle hold was barred.
The female grapplers, Misses Alla and
Laura Bennett, know the game, even to
many of thd tricks of jlu-jitsu, Each of
them made it lively for the Japanese ex
pert, Thore was a number of feminine
spectators,
The professor, heing gallant, was in
clined to be gentle at first; he didn't take
the thing seriously, Seemed to think that
if he used any of his strength his adver
sary would go to smash like a wax doll or
a candy cane
When Miss Laura swiftly and easily
pleked up the honorable heavyweight and
tossed him upon her shoulder like a bag
of hops he began to take notice. He real
tzod that he had a trained athlete to deal
with and got busier. Ditto the girl. There
was o seranmble of judo, catch as cateh
can that made the few old-timers that
chanced to be in the gym ‘.‘F It was a
rel mateh. There was no referee, conses
quently no decision.
The women are not unl]y wrestlers, but
fencers and boxers. Miss Lura put on the
gloves and gave a splendid account of
herself in a fast round with,K Ad Geyer,
one of the athletic club’s handy fist men.
SLOAN'S LINIMENT
Be Sure to Get a Bottle Before
Leaving and Keep It Handy.
The strenuous exercises and un
usual taxing of muscles that accom
pany the vacation period, especially
the first few days, male it imperative
that yvou keep Sloan’s Liniment handy
for instant use. It gquickly penetrates
without rubbing, bringing a tingle of
comforting relief to the afflicted part
and putting yvou in ship shape for the
next day's doings.
The stings and bites of insects are
allayed, as are the many pains, aches,
strains, sprains and bruises.
All druggists. 30e., 60c., $1.20.
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