The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1917, Page 4

' { i ; : I KEEP MEN FIT FOR FIGHT, ~ WIL ILL RULE IN U.S ARMY er , 7 ye Evening ss itiees Sends Of-|*48 4nd in England. We haye a | ready begun working on similar lin |f say that Commissioner Fosdick re- end of military training with @ great deal of enthusiasm. At once he was so Closely questioning the Canadian of- ops Most Enduring Because | ticsre on every detail of their work, hal of the Games" They Play ana, without doubt, the hours spent in the interview will help in getting Before Charges. pth The Commission at Washington has By Robert Edgren. already begun to organize for the pein! Stat Compsponteat of The Erming | athletic end of military training. In some ways we have « great ad- WASHINGTON, June 16—1 have} vantage over the Canadians. We are sfust been among the whirling wheels | fortunate in having in the United = cogs of the American war ma-| States the finest lot of skilled > q| handlers of athletic men in the whole ehine, The people of Europe and) oud, the college coaches. Every biz those Americans who thought || college in America, and nearly every ‘would take year for the American] mall college, has it# special coaches * giant to rousé himself will be sur-|in different branches of athleti within dhe next few months. They are men accustomed to the de- velopment of great football teams, © the giant ts up on his toes. He I8/ Saseball teams, athletic teams, oars: wide awake and determined, Above/men, They are keen men, and ex- ‘ all he is actively up-to-date in the|perienced men, And under the plans |, whethods of his training and prepara-|°f the commission these college physical directors and coaches will tion for war. Every modern idea that) take @ very important part in the {kas been tried out in the past two| training and preparing of athletic or three years, the past two or three | Soldiers in the great training camps all over the country. Each man se- Months, or weeks, or days, te being) oieg wilt have un honorable posl- seized and tested. We'll have no|tion in which he can uo @ splendid work for his country, This idea, in training methods in THIS) the opinion of the Canadians, Is one of the beat yet advanced for the pro- duction of trained fighting men. tn The Americans of the North—the| Canada, with the short outdoor soa- , _| son, whe colleges have not gone into Canadians—vent into the war exact-| Tnietic work as extensively as our ly as we are going into it. Their American institutions, ’ “Lt will be @ fine thing to have men People were like our people, peaceful o¢ such standing im every camp.” suid citizens of good stock, and except for|Col. Greer. “I cannot exaggerate the importance of sport in the modern &.small minority, untrained in mill-|srmy. The. psychological effect of tary affairs, Yet the Canadians, from|competitive sport is almost miracu- lous. how patriotic men the first herolc fighting of the famous) in (he ranks are, and no matter how “Princess Pats" to the taking of Vimy/fit, with @ continual grind, grind, * Ridge. have been second to none on{étind of military work and drill ;: a there ¢omes a time to every man | the fring line, To-day they are) wien he ig desperately sick of it. He _ counted among the strongest, most) must have something to keep him ) enduring, most aggressive treops that | (rom thinking all the time of bls wife or his sweetheart or bis family at pow llpebet ane dear gat iia home, His interest must be centred And one of the most important) in ihe place Where he must stay. factors in Canadian military prepara- Sport is the ouly thing that can turn tion has been active athletic sport,|a discontented soldier into a contented both in the training camps and at the} and happy one. It gives bim an in- eat terest in every minute of his life. March a regiment twenty miles with The men who more than any others! nothing else in prospect, and men will j Rave been active in the athletic side) ing, ut have the marcbing in com- of Canada’s military training are Col.| petition with some other regiment, or Greer and Capt. Tom Flanagan of the) have athletic sports following the , 5 r march, and it's altogether diferent. Athletes’ Battalion, Col, Greer, alive geen men after a hard march prominent lawyer of Toronto, whose|/running to get into thew military experience began with the! suits, and ten minutes war, has given his trained Intelligence |playing vaseball = or fo baer br} fo the problems of organization, whild| lacrosse as enthusiastically | as sas there was ne ng else of consequence V) Capt. Flanagan has furnished the| ren” “Short is the greacest. pro- wide knowledge of athletics and of/ducer of esprit de corps. A soldier men gained in years of promoting | takes pr. in being ® member of an fees Jathletic regiment that holds some mrercesional and amateur sport championship. And if his ment ENGLAND HAS ADOPTED FLAN: | or his company is behind the others, AGAN’S IDEAS. then he works with every other man The athletic side of Canada in it to bring tt to the front, The same spirit of rivairy is carried into tary training was so tremendously] pariie, Athletic competition has made successful that Englund has adopted) the British soldier one of the keenest the Canadian methods in every detail,| in the world, Beort, or us, partly In fact, English authorities speak un-|takes the place of the intense, over- ’ patriot! the French ftically of the work as the ‘lana: mpaiming -pasriovam gf Mie e gan system.” Cap nagan doesn’ * peak of it that way, He regards mnenen Biren Vel anne IN himself as only one of the cogs—not . here is no patriotic frenay in the even one of the important cos—in| worid like that of the French soldier the great machine, It js the same| to-day, Love of France has become Col. Greer, almost a religion, English soldiers Knowing the importance of the|%0n't fear death, but the Frenchman glories in being killed, if only he can work carried on by those two officers) strike a blow fo France in his dying. and their ociates, The Evening} 1 don't believe such intense patriotism World invited Col, Greer and Capt, exiset In any country that Bean & Flanagan to come to this country for] French woidier will die to drive the the purpose of giving Americans the] invader back a single step, If Ger- benefit of their experience, The in-| many ever conquers France it will be vitation was accepted. only when there is not a Frenchman Ps . i left alive to fight, The things the age pee nei, Flanagan and Wbrench have done are the marvels of wen ‘ashi . thin war ‘The capita! is the busicet city on “But the English and Canadians this continent. ‘The President and] and “They ma fet a different minute of their time occupled with! yo ‘over the wn) ra charge # military problems vt our vern-| couple of footbalis are thrown out in ment is no one-man affair to-day.| front of each company, and the men There are commissions to handio| Kick them alony until they kick them A a over inie the ¢ and every detail, The commission that] pile in after the Uebine overs athletic work in the army 18) and shouting, as if it were all a gam known as the Commission on Train bag moral > pt of Mt te ime: ase c at raed ve soldiers fo ut the bul- ing amp Activities In @ certain lets. And the motal effect on the duliding there are offices for this! Germans ia just as xt Wwork—extremely busy offices, There|the English are devils, The German Are no banners or signs outside to] soldier has no sport. He ts a unit in 4 acniae, held rigidly in his place. announce the importance of the work | ® Machine, he ; , ame there, Over the outer door is a| 0 !8 wothing ela. He can't under small brass plate, with the name of|to the English. ‘That long line of men the commission on it in small black | charging, laughing, kicking @ Ietters. Inside, after passing through | a!onK agent rg Du read oO} nunc & room filled with hustling stenog- two or th thousand men surren- fephers, we found Chairman of the| dering in a body, with hardly any re- Commission Raymond Fosdick, the | or ke umpe neliah never surrens der like that ney fiht while they on, at. They say it ian't in the game to quit. It's all vocational and recreation affairs | against every principle of sport for the soldiers. |""“ewhy, at the capture of Vimy | Ridge the fight was hardly over wh COMMISSIONER FOSDICK FULL! {he if m py the Canadians were clearing ground OF ENTHUSIASM. for a ball field, and forty-eight hours * Commissioner Fosdick is typical of | later they were playing the final game Stes wo. tovnenment. tie th the battalion baseball champion- is young enough to be full of pep and . © @pthusiasm, yet he is @ man of wide | surrounding | a8 Commissioner of Accounts in New | AEHt in the air was etill going on! " York City, He is tall, athletic, keen, | she} screaming overh @erds himself only as a con A the SPORT IN ARMY. greet machine. He is @ “we” man, “This may not be the old mill Bot an. "I" man. tary idea, but think of the m “We know all about you and your effect on the soldiers, They are work,” he said quickly as he shook exhausted, keyed to the high: hands with tho Canadian visitors, Pitet Of nerve train, alter, the “We have been studying the resulta tek with for meant have been your athletic sreanlegtiow in Can- killed, others wounded, | lee ~ ficials to Washington to | na we will be very glad to dave any | | aasint Pi “Lona rom” 6 stance you can «give us.” . ay ve Explain Details. | 1am not exposing any secret when 1S A_Goxer's Lert Lead. “4 BENEFIT OF FOOTBALL. @arda the athietic and the sporting Toa “prarty Good ReaiMEnT THAT CAM UUMP THRE MILES , ie ee ees + RB LAS sie HOW SISTEN OF SARIS, BEST SPORTING ‘ATHLETES MAKE THE BEST SOLDIERS Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) eon A& POSTBALL ALONG AHEAD OF THEM. “Even if the Giants Didn’t Play, It Was Some Satisfaction YANKS JOBBED ST. LOOEY WINS RACES HE DOESN'T EX prose Play Toy’ Goes Across Just as Did Gold Tassel Last Week. = ly Vincent Treanor, OHN E. MADDEN aimply can't tose it off. Every other day some horse of his wins in thegmost ¢ur- prising fashion, and just when John F. has'‘little or no confidence in the steed. Only on Wednesday last he sent Gold Tassel, a receding first choice, to post against one of A, K. Macomber's “good” horses, Hand Grenade. On the way to the post Madden told all “inquiring” friends [that on work he had no chance to beat the Macomber horse, What happened? Gold Tassel just rolled home, Yesterday something of the same order happened. The wizard of Hamburg Place started Play Toy, @ daughter of Star Shoot, John plained before the race that he had no chance of beating “that crowd,” "I may be « contender and possibly drop in third,” he said, Again what hap- pened? Play Toy fought it out with Tea Party for a while during the last eighth of a mile and then came home "The MOVEMENTS OF Boxina to Lamp the Liberty Loan Hitting Three Billion”— |°" ‘e >i. Madden didn't have @ ARE Bayonet - Pent MOVEMENTS Bonne 1s A Reauiarn By Arthur (‘‘Bugs’’) Baer. TRAINING STUNT | Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Tie Wert Sow vp WELL 18 Bons Throwna Contests - time for despondency—but there ia the game. Let the game go on. Enthusiasm comes up again. Talk about your enth: About Your Auto; How The Reds were the Reds aga “L would say that boxing ts quite the most important sport in the‘army, Kvery soldier is taught to box, must become expert ‘with the gloves, Bayonet fighting has veen changed to conform exactly to the movements of fighting move- The bayonet fighter's position To Drive and Keep Tt) verve ain ic cP med the teas eather first thrust tm a lett lead, nothing else. ‘The sevond i# a lifting left hook, The third ds a right crows with the butt. In every thrust or blow the fighter’s is perfectly protected, In boxing, not left wide open to at the old style of bayonet boxers always ake the best bayonet men, [couldn't gerate the importance of boxing By GEORGE H. ROBERTSON. chauffeur and his motor tae, Jsverybody is invit truck form a powerful combl- who can. Little pepper, Let's go. modern warfare. York National Guard units reach France they will be al- eq ho, Walter has been with Washington so log that he's acting most absolutely dependent on chauf- that way. motor trucks for every- Right now our If an officer sees two men quarreling he at once orders them to put on the thing an army needs. city chauffeurs are responding with’a high degree of enthusiasm for war Manager McGraw Is now only ten days away from an ump. His fur- ring is formed, As soon as the fight the men shake handa, just as they do in the ring, and it is over ¥ friends again. ful aid in keeping ‘the men together, There is no dissension—no chance fof the quarrelling or jIl feeling that dis- integrates a military feres with its efficiency. “ompetitive sport is necessary whip a body of men into condition. while the others look fonal supply train and the ammuni- will be all motor. About| 1,000 high class chauffeurs and me- chanics will be required to handle the vast amount of supplies necessary for goat from a difficult angle. nber the ammunition train will take | Forgnaesryrod Mceont Both thes» units offer excel- Managers used to holler for a pltcher who could twirl an airtight Uncle Sam and yet unit and inter- matter what we think about it ball game we have eighteen athletes the fleld and people sitting in the grand stand look A fow of us are athletes and the rest of us need months of ath- letic training to be fit to fight at all. Every soldier MUST be an athlete to be of any use where there's fighting The man who isn't fit Is a the New York division. over 600 and the supply train about 324 lent opportunities to skilled automobile men to serve do the work théy are best qualified for, The ammunition train is recruiting at National Guard Headquarters at the Municipal Building, Applicants for the supply train should apply! at the State Arsenal, Seventh Avenue sad Thirt¥-fitth Street, " Bouievard, Turn and follow to Elmhurst have made it our work to train, champions as in What do you think of a new inven- attached to ex- ted to manifold elimin-| ‘The Pioneer and Fairmont clubs will , cooling en- ars be done that He turns a curve? haust conne ating carbon gine and increasing pow Greet ibd: Cant Piansaac rac to Canada immediately But they first assured Commissioner Fosdick and The Ki ning World that and willing at any moment to voli , of ther experience in ho are to train our sol Commissioner Due to centrifugal force on the inside tend to leave the ground when rounding a curve turning to the e the ones to raise the interview, will be ready e right hand! ‘ph. generally works well and helps] Indianapolis boxer, will make bis Man- down carbon ccumulations, Automobile Buiter What is the best way to go to Del- ———_ |Party desires to OTTAWA ENTRIES. } , OTTAWA, Ont, How many miles is long would it ford on the way. from hereva our products to steamers lying| meet. The winn it are as follows BLOWER COM ty-wecond Street Hackettstown, stand the Idea that fighting is sport | ware Water Gap. Will you kindly tell me the shortest] yoyy Weisman Dingmans Perry y-seventh miles, ‘ from 1 Will you kindly give ntend taking my ie | Annapolis, 3 on LEW EHMANN. | «ix montha, ‘They i thiwe yaoi ‘tea route as follows ners, Cohoes, | Mechantesville, Malta Wilton, Glens Warrenburg Bs i * ig ens uf t New York City, Je fl ion Springs, Philet Chestert Elizabethtow wht on the ground the Germans had occupted, Imagine the Above them hundreds heey He made a great record Of airplanes were circling, and the 2) ae Lacy sheath |Gien burnie, an automobile road map fom New York to Bridge- tell the shortest way ninth Street e of the Queensborough Bridge 6 sky waa full of bursting shrapnel, 4 What is the best road from Pros- | pect Park to Elmhurst, THOMAS DUNLOP, to Bedford Avenue At fountain turn left to Berry Street r-| Turn right and follaw to park, Turn| 4. r Street and follow to then left into Man- |hattan Avenue, Follow to end, cros: turn right to Jackson up to the minute, And he, too, re-| BoxiING 18 MOST IMPORTANT den boxed t automobile supply len x ten t rounds to a draw at store have these Brown's Far rtockaway Club last ni, y end, Turn right, "| bridge, then Pane kt es! PO-DAY 3.0. McoN I, Amst: and Neck With the Giants.” For EVERY HE folks who save their money up for a rainy day are sure getting | Yoel dns an opportunity to spend it this summer, It rained again yesterday. | Liberty Loan hitting three billion, The Government had to declare ground rules, more than 2,500,000 fans buying tickets to the big loan. Every base- ball fan likes to see the home team win and the United States Army is every fan's home team. Next to the loan the biggest game on the schedule | was the Yanks-Browns tournament, and the Yanks jobbed St. Looey out of a little percentage. Score, five to one. Lee Magee got a hit and has) ‘What Vou Should Know 2,500 affidavits to prove it. ee | Brooklyn lo: Why not? yesterday. Which is a recipe for a victory for their opponents twelve times out of a dozen. The Phils ck with the Giants. If a short neck accumuli extravagantly and bought a lot of runs. Score, twelve to which m 8 you wonder if admi charged to the gam Expert Advice How to Keep Automobiles Running Fi The Feds’ cluim that baseball is monopolistic is being substantiated by | Smoothly and the Best Way to Remedy Machine | the White Sox. ‘They are acting very monopolish and monopolized a little more of first place by tossing off the Red Sox gently but firmly, Williams, Trouble—Traffic Suggestions and Pleasure & wrong-hander, pitched very correctly for the Chicugo birds, No us Routes for Evening World Readers. mentioning the score, You'd forget It by next week, Big benefit cantata for the New York Engineers will break out at the Polo Grounds to-morrow afternoon, Yanks will play the Browns, which \ shouldn't spoil the afternoon. Music from a-big band won't be so hard to d except rain. If you can't fight, help the guys Walter Johnson got some mail order pitching off his chest yesterday. Eight bases on balls, two hit batsmen and a wild pitch ChicagA will have to drop out of the National League. el legalize nine-round boxing was killed in Illinois, so we guess lough is gradually getting fewer. Manager John ain't saying anything. He sits in éhe grandstand ‘on on his face like Washington re-crossing the Del- defend his title again in ten days. Manager McGraw promises never to lift his hand in anger against an ump. Guess the next ump he meets will turn out to be a perfect field the divis- t|game, Since the big rain started they want pitchers who can toss water- proof games. day evening, June 26, Dillon to secure McAllister hed Weismantel ._Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock Harry Pollok, mani nounced to-day that other fighter under hie mi io Marty Farrell jariem, of Freidy. Weish, at bas * management should de. Again hold shows to-night. At the club velop into « real good fixhier, J. @, [in the Bronx Milburn Saylor, the famous yi Bande. the me little Brookien ban mn weight been clamoring for « return : Pete Hartley, | match with ¢ Burns, the sepeational Jer: hattan debut by meeting say Cily bantamweight, has finally seenred it, the new Durable Dane, who hasn't 108t/ paddy Mullins, matchmaker of the Clermont A. a bout this season, Johnny Ldsse and ©. of Brooklyn, succeeded in getting Burns's con. the State of| tonnny Murray battle in the semi-final. wnt to meet Krandt, ‘They will cume together in the number) yt the Forty-fourth Street club Joe | the main 4o of ten rmunds at the Clermont A. C. made to that ee ee ree ck west aide bantam, on Satunlay evening June Tue boys have a year by aj °* * already fought two bitter oo which we! apd Willie Astey of the east Ole as bee of this Ko Acconding to Marney Furs. former teainet ot | promised the match with the winner of Ad Wolgast, the “Dut man bout, man" is doing nicely in the Jack Sharkey-Joe Bu ted to | way swap punches In the semi- final at | viysiclan is confident of his ultimate recovery, | the Pioneer to-night. | An {mportant bout between heavyweights i the Broadway slated to be fought io Pittatangn to-night Bearcat” McMahon of Pittsburgh and Bob Allister of California are the batters wh n the fighting, ‘They were secured b in, the WMeteburgh fight promoter, to clash for ten fast rounds at the opeuing boxing show of the Pittabmiyi Boxing Club, which will be at the Academy ‘Nheatrr, Sporting Chad of Brookirw, Would | muggat and agarewive light bean) wee ‘OY? 1] ajwlie, and Hoo McAllister of Caife nt boat | been improving tn all of bie bom sme toget goof ten rounds at Welemantel’s chi on MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS National League. | American League. 1 WoL. PLC. Chaba. W. LL. PLC. | Clubs, ni Schroov ttsburge miles rally good * Cc, 22 25 468 20 29 408 New York 27 20 67, 17 28.378 Cleveland 26 27 491 Wash'ion. 18 30 .375 GAMES YESTERDAY, New York, 5; St, Louis, 1, Ai Detroit, 4; Washington, 3, if Chicago, 8; Boston, 0, edad 4 Vitisburgh ve. New York, Kain, | Philadelphia, ow Yor Partohent: GAMES TO-DAY. Norwalk, Mt. Louis at New York Chicage at Besten, Cleveland at Philedel iphia. Detroit at Washington, Even if the Giants didn’t play it was some satisfaction to lamp the) Oval, near Dyexman § upon th shift from second speed into reveree ; the Milwankee anitarium whore las has been | which will feature the club's show next | confined for several weeks owing to « breakdown, | days in any| Tuesday night, Walter Laurett of the} Fury ease W outside the | ‘This applies to driver's! west side and Paddy Burns of Rocka-|sanitarium daily for wales, and the attending | “The Phils Accumulated a Win and Are Now Neck |e idn'., tute ist or tol, nd he didn't, But a lot of folk who always take the opposite view of John E, especially when there is @ price, wrote out wagers on the Star Shoot filly. If Madden had confidence in his own horses and wagered on thelr chances he might now have money to burn. George Odom tried to make a field day of it at Belmont yesterday. He saddled Corydon and Milkman in @ row, went tu the bad on Ed Roche in the fourth, when Precise beat him « Wead, and then sent Double Eagle across, Three in a day is a record not to be despised by any trainer, but the defeat of Ed Roche spoiled what looked like the best parley possible. Kd Roche should have won his race by himself with anything like a well judged ride. Willie Travers, the clocker, h horse to train now. When Corydon was offered for sale after wine ning the fourth race, Travers stepped up to the judges’ stand and bid $1,600 right off the reel. George Odom, present, as he should be, offered the extra $5, retaining the horse for the time being. Travers promptly went to $2,000, and Odom turned on his heel and walked away minus Corydon, Double Eagle, who has been bowed twice, is about ready to lay himself up again, Yesterday he lasted long enough to win without much trouble from Sam MoMeekin, but pulled up lame. Double Eagle was a drug on the oral betting market wntil just be- fore post time, when the “action” pm him made him look almost @ cer- tainty, . Ed Roche should have won the Brentw Selling Handicap, and should have won by himself, Odom thought it the best thing of the day, hut the public was allowed to go to Old Broom so anxiously that Roche, the legitimate 1 to 2 shot, went back to) evammmieney, Then See the real di Every, loser was double crossed, jy ah 8 to 1 shot, up- set the dope all around, winning with a bit to spare. —_ -—— Danbery Club at Dyckman Oval, The Danbury Club outfit crosses stickn with the Kingsbridge Athletics to-mors row afternoon at 3 o'clock at Dyckma pet subw: tion, Andy Coakley pitches for the Athe leties — = They will provide you with a ist of books on these subjects. Automobile Editor What Is the chief examiner's name? Will you stall the motor if you push the clutch out and feed gas at the same time? Is it proper to shift from third to second speed in turning @ corner? in going uphill on second speed and the examiner tells you to urn around to reverse, 1s it proper to put the lever in neutral or shift to reverse? G. Ww 1 don't know. Inquire at the office of the Secretary of State, Seventy- fourth Street and Broadway. No, not necessarily so; jt depends entirely onditions, You could not without passing through the neutral position, Automobile Editor What is the best route to Ri field, Conn., by auto? CFF New York City to New Rochel Mamaroneck, Rye, Port Cheete: ireenwich, amford, New Canaan, Ridgefield, 55.2 miles, SPORTING. RACING BEGINS MONDAY JAMAICA $3,500 Excelsior Handicap $1,500 GREENFIELD STAKES and FOUR other Good Races BEGINNING AT 2.90 P.M, SPECIAL RACE, TRAINS Btutton. (ad St. and Tem m Flatbush Av.. "Brookl: nnd at intervals up, to ‘Course also reached by Trotleys, Admission #3. 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