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‘Farmer Burns, 57, Yearns to Try for World’s Mat Championship
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Man Who Brought Out Frank
- Gotch Could Make Good Show
_ ing With Giants of Today.
By JAMES J. CORBETT. ‘
At the age of i7—~When some men
‘‘are ‘nearly in their dotage—Martin
¢'Farmer”) Burns, hero of more than
‘:!500 wrestling clashes, yearns to tus-.
e for a world’'s championship. |
The sporting world generally might‘
scoff at the defi, but no man who knows
Burns doubts his nhenomenal abilitwe,
Whether Burns could conquer the giants
who now dominate wrestling is a ques
tion, But there isn't any doubt that if
%rns 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
b 0 years. His first bhout was at thy
age of 8. He won it—and a side bet
of 15 cents. In all the years since then
wigurns has tackled every great man
that wrestling has produced—and only
seven of all that number gent him down
to defeat.
Defeated Gotch.
Burns conquered Frank Goteh, and
afterward won the world’s heavyweight
“wrestling championship from Evan
(“Strangler’’) Lewis. Some time after
ward Tom Jenkins wrestled the laurels
from him. Burns defeated Dan Me
l.eod, 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 Lion"—
* weighed 302 pownds, and was a moun
. tain of bone and muscle. He ranked as
the most powerful of all European
- wrestlers. He tossed all those who
tried conclusions with him-—except
. Burns. The Farmer stayed the stipu
lated 90 minutes and won a big purse.
+ Burns perhaps is the only man who
* ever submitted to hanging to prove
the strength of his neck muscles. It
happened nearly 20 years ago in lowa.
* A noose was placed around Burns' neck
f&d the rope was hung from a cross
e under a railroad trestle. Tha box
he was standing on was kicked from
under him. A drop of nearly three feet
. followed, As the body of Burnhs 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 cleap living, while the rope pulled
« tighter " and ever tighter around his
neck.
- Had Toug}h 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
sand the rope taken off, Burns rubbed
the neck-skin which had been gashed
and torn by the rope and then grin
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 to an
extreme, and his various stunts during
q}’s heyday vears made him a theatrical
S#ttraction of the best kind. Burns was
perhaps -the pioneer in the all-comers
~ wrestling bouts. For nearly one year
he was on tour with a theatrical troupe
offering SSO to any man whe would stay
*with him 15 minutes, and S2OO to any
~oße who could gain a fall in that time.
N“Our show gave fourteen perform
ances a week, and I wrestled on an av
erage of 30 men each week,” declared
Burns. ‘I never had to pay out for
. feit, although some of the fellows who
tackled me outweighed me from 50 to
120 pounds.’
~ Burns gained considerable fame due
«to his ability to break a rope merely
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 éon- |
clusions with members of the feline
* tribe, which sought to use ‘“foul meth
ods”’ by biting and scratching. |
Burns has heen 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 se\'eml‘
« vears he trazined him and later acted as
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3,000,000 Men Lgarn 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 d&-closed when the
Commigsion 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 I)e?‘artment. 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
organization had worn a glove before
coming to the camp. Men ciose to the
e e i it
his advisor. The latest pupil graduated
by Burns is Marin Plestina.
Boosts Plestina.
“He is one of the best men that ever
stepped onto the mat, and if this Ples«
tina boy ever gets a chance at Zbyszko,
Stecher, Caddock and Fredericks, whe
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.”
HEAR®, 8 SUNDAY AMERICAN . A Newspaper for People Who Think -~ SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1919.
lboxlng game are responsible for the
guess that not more than three thou
|sand men before the war received as
‘much tramir&g in the arts of self de
fense and offense as the three million
havfe received in the last year and n‘
half.
D. Josegh E. Raycroft, head of ath
l:)ics at Princeton University, a mem-
Iber of the Commission on Training
‘Camp Activities and a few days ago
y starting with the Crane Commission to.
'study conditions in the near KEast, can
{ be considered the boxing Moses of the
United States army. On April 26, 1917,
at the first meeting of the commission,
Dr. Raycroft was asked to visit the Ca
nadian military headquarters at Toron
to. Dr. Raycroft there became a thor
ough convert to the place boxing
would have in the training of the army.
He had a chance to present his belief
to the thirtg men, first called into the
camps as physical directors when thei'
met at Princeton September 5, 1817,
Most of these men were college coaches
and heads of college athletic depart
lmonts 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.
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
kaiger. Slowly the theories of an ef
ficient army percolated down through
the ranks. Boxing came into its own
with a rush, when practically at the
same time, the bayonet instructors
from overseas realized that many of
ilhe moves in bayonet work were the
same as boxing moves and some of the
! best known and cleverest of the pro
fessiona]l boxers reported at the camps.
In the first three or four months each
man worked out his own program, some
i 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
Keamefi, Cal., the camg most distant
from the seat of trouble in HFurope,
every fighting man in camp was com
pelled to box at least two, three-min
ute rounds every day. At Camp
Sherman, 865 men were given special
instruétions to enable them to qualify
as instructors in the different compa
nies. At Camp Lewis 472 men per
formed a similar mission. These enlist
ed instructors continued on with the
|divisions as they were ordered over
{ seas while the head instructor re
mained in camp to train the boxers
of & new division. In this way a large
number of men attained experience as
boxing teachers.
Probably the most far-reaching ef
fect of the work of the men in boxing
in the camp was the promulgation of
'a new set of. rules, Former rules
failed to fill the need of the camps for
aggressiveness in” fighting. Some of the
instructors were inclined to favor a man
in whom they saw a prospect of a fu
ture winner under the former regula
tions, as 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
been tried under all of the conditions
arising in the camps and were the
ones used in selecting the champions
of the A. E. F. So well did these rules
work that several near champions with
the A. E. F. refused to meet the ag
gressive youngsters developed in the
army and were therefore barred from
fighting under the name of the A. T. F.
in the time they remain in France.
I The important part of the rules as
!promulgated for the championships of
one of the bases in France, follows:
Championship Rules.
“In all competitions the number of
rounds to be contested shall be three to
lslx. The durntiork,ol rounds shall be
limited to two minutes each. The in
terval between each round shall be two
minutes. The referee shall order one
additional round of ‘three minutes in
case the judges disagree, if in his opin
ion such is necessary. If at the end
of the additional round the judges stili
disagree, the referee must decide in
favor of one of the contestants. (To
run off a large number of bhouts with
out undue delay, four contestants cah
be in the ring at the same time. While
two are boxing, two are resting.)
i ‘““The manner of judging shall be as
follows: There shall be two judges
stationed on opposite sides of the ring
and a referee in the ring. At the end
of the bout, each judge shall write the
name of the competitor who in his
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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 126 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
alay more games in such a short period of
me.
John Dee, of D Company, won the en
listed men's checker tournament after
playing twenty-four matches, He defeated
R. Kirkwood, of Company C, three games
out of five, there being four draws in
their match. A b5-franc Belgian coin of
1870 date was given as first prize to the
winner. g
Lieutenant A. D. Whisler, B Company,
won out in the efficers’ chess tournament,
defeating C. 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 plaved in the series. One took
3 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 1. ¥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 sald he deserved a
prize also.
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Joie Ray to Race in
.
John Overton Memorial
PHILADELPHIA, May 24.—A leading
feature of the Meadowbrook track meet,
to be held on Franklin Fileld June 7, one
week after the intercollegiates, is expected
to be the John W. Overton memorial run,
in which Jole Ray has been asked to try
for a world's record.
Three other runners 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.
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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 judges
disagree, the anhouncer shall so in
form the referee, who shall thereupon
decide as in rule I.’
“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
qunllfi/lng a contestant for any of the
following acts: For 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 anf’
other acts which he may deem foul
The referee shall also have the power
to stop the contest if in his opinion a
contestant is outclassed or accidentally
disabled.
o Yla Ahe 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 belnfi madde at the pres
ent time, the athletic division of the
commission on tralning 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 instructors
were drawn from the ranks of the Arma',
a large number of good youngsters find
ing theilr way into the ranks by enlist
ment or draft., Several of these were
largely relieved of their military work
to assist in training the men in box
ing, especially In the camps where
boxlnfi instructors were not sent by the
commis#on.
' The list of boxing instructors of the
commission follows:
William P. Armstrong, George V.
Blake, Harry L. Brewer, Bobby Burns,
Mike Cantwell, Tommy Connolly, Eddie
Coulon, Johnny Coulon, Tommy Dixon,
Jimmy Dunn, Fred S. Dyer, Martin J.
Faraher, Mike Gibbons, Tom Gibbons,
Danny @(oodman, Frank T. Gormley,
Johnny Gx;jrmhs, FEddie Hanlon, Joe
Herrick, Jerome V. Jeffords, Johnny
Kilbane, Mike King, Benny Leonard,
Charlie Leonard, Battling Levinsky, Ted
Lewis, Jack London, Rov C. Loveridge,
Robert MeAllister, Packy McFarland,
Tommy McFarland, Patsy MeMahon, J
Hume MacDonald, Joe Mandot, Richie
Mitehell, Frank Moran, James P. O'Don
ovan, Mike Orrison, Al Reich, Willie
Ritchie, William Rodenbach, Hugh
Ross, Frankie Russell, Tommy Rvan
(Philadelphia), John Tholmer. Georgie
Thompson, ‘‘Spike” Webb, William R.
Whipp, Charlie White, John Young. ‘
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Britisher Gazes With Amazement
on Spectacle of Players
Wrangling With Umpire.
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, May 24.-—Baseball in
England, as played by members of
the American and Canadian expedi
tionary forces and sailors from the
United States war vessels, has excited
no end of comment from British
sportsmen. Some of the eriticism 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 siower, 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 timé taken by many baseball
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 flieldsman before getting to work.
Yet bageball 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
clogse 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 been
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 pro
ceedings. Suddenly the uproar ceased,
the players resuming their game in
the most amigable way as if nothing
whatever had happened, and no one
seemed a penny the worse,
“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 “element 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 the
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. O,
A. is conducting boxing bouts on the front
lawn of one of Rhineland’s palaces for the
training and diversion of the doughboys
of the American army of occupation. A
new “Y"” hut, especially built for a box
ing arena, has een erected right on tep
of the imperial grass, which the all high
est used to tread, in keeping his watch
on the Rhine,
The doughboys, too, are keeping the Hei
nies busy dodging hot ‘flies.” There are
about ten divisions of the A. B. ¥. in the
Rhineland at present. In the first division
alone there is a baseball league of 130
teams, which keeps not less than 2,000 to
2,500 men in actual play a number of aft
ernoons each week. 'There is Also a base
ketball team for each regiment, making
not less than eight teams for each divis
sio'r]\, engaging, more than 100 men in play
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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 break the rule. All over New
York the fans are talking nothing but Willle Ritchie, Of course there
is some mention of Leonard, but the loger of the big fight seems to have
gained the mob'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 refused to go down. At the finish of
the round he was slugging with Leonard, weakly of course, but fighting.
A champlon 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,
recei®ed 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
go-called ‘dry’ town. The only dispensary in existence was operated by
the city, and was open from 6 to 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 club. 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. 8o he whiffed the next two strikes and
cut across the fleld 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,
3 “ALABAMA RAMBLER.”
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Women Meet Japanese
. Star in Wrestling Go
Professor Ito, world judo champion and
likewise a bear at catch ' as catch can,
had a new experience at the Los Angeles
Athletic Club recently, He wrestled 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 the tricks of Jjiu-jitsu. Xach of
thom made it lively for the Japanese ex
pert, There was a number of feminine
spectators,
The professor, beln’ gallant, was ine
clined to be gentle at first; he dian’t take
the thing urloull{. Seemed to think that
if he used any of his strength his advers
sary would go to smash like a wax doll or
a candy cane.
When Miss Laura swiftly and easily
picked up the honorable heavyweight and
tossed him upon her shoulder like a bag
of hops he began to take notice, He real:
ized that he had a trained athlete to deal
with and got busier., Ditto the girl. There
was a scramble of judo, cateh as catch
can that made the few old-timers that
chanced to be in the gym gasp. It was a
real match. There was no reféree, conses
quently no decision.
The women are not only wrestlers, but
fencers and boXers. Miss Lura put on the
gloves and gave a splendid account of
herself in a fast round with Ad Geyer,
one of the athletic club’s handy fist men.
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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, make it imperative
that you keep Sloan’s Liniment handy
for instant use. It quickly penetrates
without rubbing, bringing a tingle of
comforting relief to the afflicted part
and putting you in ship shape for the
next day’'s doings.
The stings and bites of insects are
al}ayed, as are the many pains, aches,
strains, sprains and bruises.
All druggists. 30c., 60c., $1.20.
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