The evening world. Newspaper, July 30, 1917, Page 8

ee LIVELY BOXING EXHIBITIONS FOR PLATTSBURG OFFICERS Five Thousand Hard-Working Candidates for Army Commissions See Lightweight Cham- pion and Clever Italian Box Two of Their Own Members in Huge Open-Air Theatre the Bouts Resulting in Hard Battles as the Soldier Boys Try Their Best to Land Tell- ing Punches. Copy right t by The Press Publishing ening © IVE sand candidates for army « Benny Leone: end Johnny Dundee jn action at Platioburg Saturday niedt. 1 purely @ voluntary contribu festivities on the Johnny and Benny ] Up at Plattebure there are over 5.000 men in camp. They are about | 4 the hardest worked lot of mer in| ° these United States today Kvery morning they get up at 6.30, and in| fen minutes they must be dressed | and ov parade. work hard from 6.30 in the morn t a | = i/o —, at night every day, until Saturday They dig trenches, put up barbed | wire entanglements, hike all over | the country at practice making mili tary maps, march, drill, throw hand erenades, learn bayonet fighting. soot on the range, assemble ma chine guns, handle artillery, hike around the country in full marching | order, carrying over forty pounds On their backs, camp, cook, come back. When they have nothing else to do they cram the book of knowledge of fighting and attend lectures. They Are supposed to learn the profession of being an army officer- late four West Point years- in about three months. Baturday aft nd evenings. & when they can't stand any,more of) Major Barlow when I explai the grind, these 5,000 men must have! there were no a littl or go absolutely stale, Major Reginald Barlow, vet i [be arena at Platteburg is a eran of several wars and the livest wonderful aight at night, ‘The man at Plattsburg, makes it his soldiers gather In the dusk ts fil, the men looki ul especial business to supply the en- ne sea n looking all 1k t tertainment. la oe in the army khaki and paign hats and service c Major Barlow built a theatre with ix a glow here and there an open-air seating a capable of tte or a flickering match, Above holding rome 6,000 men and a# few of | Lah eta nce (forest cor th j And over that the night their wives and sweethearts. |sprinkied with dim ‘stars. Not x | Ho wanted that theatre—needed It! badly. It was his original Idea, and | tain, no stamping or whistling to-day it stands the first and only | *°lderly silence ; date + | When the curtain roll theatre in an army training camp.| were vaudeville acta, monclogues.| Where was no military appropriation: Hawaiian mu dancing, acrobatic! Handy. The Government hadn't ar- feats and some really remarkabl rived at the theatre building stage. S!n8lng by a small thirteen-y old boy from Jamaica, A. Russell Thomp- So the Major just “got” lumber and gon, ‘me! PN haved | to assim 4 why| sto pay recreatio! cam ps. There from « cig My up there He is # mess boy in the camp, nails and other material in @ome spending @ summer vacation w inysterious way, and a great army of @M4 getting an eyeful of military life He Just sang around the cam d carpenters, He started building MS the “Major caught he and gue na theatre and seating arrangements In| on the stage, and he made a hit. fa little open space among the pine ‘ oer ir the. meric 1 show came the ‘ ¢ | Doxing. The soldiers gave a rousing « Nineteen hours afte rat trees. Nineteen hours after the first! petsotion to. Dundes, “wie “wenn ne nail was driven it was finished and/ first for three rounds with Johnny the curtain rose on the first show. | Walker, an officer candidate, Three Can you beat {t? |good hard rounds for. Walker, who| . A fanned the air enthusiastically where | And it tsn't any haphazard at-| johnny'y head had been but. wan't rangement, either, It's fit to stand | Until he wax winded and arm weary for many years. Over the 7 nium | Dundee gave a fine exhibition, ‘Then are there is a splendid statuary § Leonard went on for two rounds with ea, who bh he doing representing modern war—two f@-| quite a little boxing. Adrien was anx male war figures w 4 h sword and) tous to land just one good one, and trench spade, a shield, an eagle with | he trie often, Benny talked to the Robert L. Aitken, the famous sculpto' who has laid aside lucrative commis: | Johnny Burke, Dundee's spar Ye at Plattsbure working day and) with a leaping, bobbing Imitation of night to prepare for the part he/ Dundee himself, which brought a wants to take In the war, Rob Alt- | {laugh from the crowd. ken modeled his group with a lot of |, Tocday the Tlattshure camp, Is racking, two barrels of plaster and| p. M trench tools, ‘The finer touches were | made with a sharpened piece of hoop from one of the plaster barrels, ‘This 1s all typical of the American spirit At Plattsburg you get results, tools or no tools Hob De ere, the Kansas City heavy- - | welght, hax been matched to box Jack HICH brings us back to MMor pition at Kansas City Aug. 9 Bob ts Barlow, The Major gets re- now being handled by Ed Patterson, sults. He wired me that he would iike to get Willard to box for 1 #, Willard was one-night ing it down in Pennsylvania, He had"! ‘ ee val} brought Benny Leon the manager who made Shamus O'Brien famous throughout the country in a sol a clr on hin hands, advertised ee te uniy wan ee ee) two weeks In advance In each town: | pointed his lightweight was through A circus left me for a couple Of the use of horseshoes In his gloves. days is likely to run away, Willard | Devere 1 receive a guarantee of wired that he was desolated, broken | $1,000, with the privilege of accepting hearted to have to turn down the in cent, of the Kross receipts, which Mitation, but that hei be in Platts. |! the Inrkest sum he 2 a ever fought burg Aug. § and would do everything oe eee ae vat apring soni he possibly could then, thing more sensational out there than T Just about that t voned Ben~ dig in the O'Brien-Leonard match at and asked if he'd box at! syracuse ation Thurs to Platts any. “LL be rhaps they nything rime soldier they'd like to put me. He can fight as hard as lew . t hurt him," 7 . ' ndee, Who Wag in * aime of be h Avgie It the { ; t paid John-| Latch Crise, in showing yramine of derelonng 4 nto cane 6 e Widilleweigits in the do you want me vi a ret ea ynigtemy eae ey x sumebody in the camp on the train Leone | pan ideie ‘ s1 1 agreed that they | pearyweu “ w hot y volunteer their ser | 4 Tom ( Nearat Valuable at any boxing ClUD| sedtahow twelve runde to « doision at his 1 st upon paying the p expenses, Because, they st Walter Laure ne of the 4 who come 1a . © want my left eye,, exclaimed | ex sounds,” oid Lawsets THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY. JULY 30, — LEONARD AND DUNDEE GE ©+=EBES‘T SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK + WITH LEONARD AND DUNDEE IN ARMY OFFICERS’ CAMP LAB WIDER AND Vows Waurem, mare Bene Bu Two More Days at Yonkers And Then Racing Shifts To sroeet Te at Spa Most Important Turf History > of Year to Be Made at ee Comin THR’ The Baroer wire atisfactory mile in 1.4L 14 James Butler “padded ‘handicap to bis already goodly string of victories at when Spur was along just in time to the Yonkers his Empire BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP Christy Mathewson, Former Star of Giants and Mana, By Vincent Treanor. WO more days of racing at the mpire track and then the bis) ntally equalled the track record for a mile and a sixtecr made by Whitney's Borrow in 1916. KENILWORTH ENTRIES. ith of 1.44 3-5, ant turf history lestined to be » Yonkers course compared with of Cincignat! Reds akuer's term for of thinking out Reds Developing Into a sm: ar es being made up of overnigh good horses are and have been tting ready for the rich events which the month's racing there provides, + the first to call it that five god a halt tute Continuously Them Skull y my team has its he a man got a base hi @ pinch the other day ack to the bench mutter nd owling. up all the time, REAR END COLLISIONS. ves AL CHASE the bases in ts the headiest man pt d just late I didn’t piteh| , and he ought to have! hit that ball ‘out of the stable room was never at tum as this year. “Burns Was Called Out for Passing Poll on the Baselines” | nearly enough sta —When a Twirler Is Coagulating the Base Procession ° Time Should Be Called in Order to Allow Him to) many nave found it necessary to en- e quarters as near as pow ‘There aren't sat the track to the number of hor opportunities daring chances and crossing up the ute an opposing Neale in getting tare three-year pitcher was ew he was wrong. His attitude further convinced me that he| was any hea sound of Impatience before the cur-| other team club up In the air, lot of pitchers to a pretty good alti . by surprising them when he Kisses those balls on former weakness. getting a safe one on 4 thinking and kr Recover.” woud do his t If a play comes up that if new we will chew It over and talk about it so we will know how big hoteis are well avold in the By Avni (“Buge") © three reerplde py right, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) HE handicapping in the National League last week, Poll Burns fermenting on eased a single to right field and Burns waved his ankles so copiously that he caught up to Poll and sy for passing Poll on the baselines. You can’t blame I don't recall him ball on the "Alex Gets, to comers are likely to pay big re very punkish. Perritt was hibernating on Kauff or somebody straightaway Artis Middietown, , And are liable to cross ne | Now where he likes the to right fleld That is one thin years tn the rent! , and he hits hard t * of cottages, and making runs count, ier hace. : puree 81,200; for I can say for my forward to a most profitable month. ked him on the cap. yas called out, Perritt only had ninety feet handicap. He's supposed to be a pitcher, not a blooming |j, see 104 Frit Cake, Kanehor 128 SIXTH [ACK and have gotten away from straight period of the year to the Spa. > tuft and cross eae a aE veloped of visitors to the , and these visitors leave thou- Purse $800; for thrne-year-olde one mile and twenty rand into a smart ball club which means @ thinking aggregation Spot yall Staples lat dig The fault lies with the National Commission. through some blunder or boot by Kismet, or one of the other infielders, should be automatically advanced to third b Then they would be in a good position to score on a triple or a scooter should be allowed on the ba clogging the right-of- ion statistics show that the rear- When a twirler Pitchers who get to h . a long way toward paying | a friend of mine asked me in Ki Ganesuitacdtnn teat ch (eaeaee, Many of the dyed tn the wool regu- Yonkers meeting | a had defensive club, defensive aggregation, working together Turw $900, for, three-year have continuous skull “We have It on The infield Is No regular b corridors at the same time that tate Commerce Commi cn ig the most deadly of railroad wrecks. is coagulating the base procession, time should be called in order to ines ie a terrific shock to And a pitcher who has only ninety feet start on a union basehobbler can't be expected to keep from gumming the cavaleade, Two of thone ninety feet are a big handicap, because they are h outfielders who can go get th games and sometimes in the lobbies telx and on the trains.” ‘d like to see you out there on the . answered th when skull Then he boxed two rounds with|on in the dugout, am discussing th rtain hitter with | Fetoce eras xt Tuesday evening. rs will reach the Springs via the in which reserv been sold out. , the outlook for big crowds and the highest more favorable In five years, *Apnrention allowance SWIMMING GUARANTEED win Bark biin, ‘his all means we must mal nd lots of them, a while one of my » come through allow him to recover. any pitcher. Being on the b have long since y. but the records show | when we are not hitting we There are a tough losers! This is tho ason So many managers stick to the am trying to fill my SPORTING. SS f RACING ‘Empire City Track (YONKERS & MT, VERNON) TOMORROW LAST DAY OF SUMMER MEETING White Plains Handicap Take Ace A SPEUIAL KALB Commish would provided hannoyance would be nally oraani, 18 & good asset, » doesn't go so far with It h Ae himself out of shape thing In the world for a ball club is 4 lot of fellows who take defeat sheor- Sula up the Whenever a pitehe ts to second or who comes close to being the cham- year-old of the year, Is fit y Saratoga engagements. last he stepped a mile up without He carried Hourless may turn the yam if they meet boys full of ba urning ‘torped Warning sema 8 at Biares Tntervais between second and first 6 red Ights should practice," of course, next block these danger signals would be base sprinter i 8 this attitud Ah ean thie a Jeliminated from the tournament by the long breath » is always bound to occur when pitchers and orthodox e tracks at the same » set of tracks is dangerous business, In order to keep the baserails clear hasestepper and humanity prevents the basctrotter rench middleweight Vioneer Sporting Club to-mor Lewis's trail until | be agrees to give me @ mate,” 2 basehoofers get on the and expresses on » found out many a time, pitchers should run Running locals annie toc kiak| ater pall or tear down the n things don't break a | thinks they ought to. and I like to see on Ms mind so much | which Is not like ner for the R. isn't yet satiafled who was the beat of ar-olda, cannot hold the best of the threo- worked him a mile and there will be four ita at the special olow at the Queens that Campfire, lust year's two-y It affects his work: n running over a pitcher t ghee poten ng Dick Hyland and Bat ieapliomesaanay Uraing slop at "1d (ing Hurley will apy , we ought to keep | | going some time ers run with « piano in their hip pockets, tiieuce, ty "Yerome how of the west am not very! Newark hear we necessary with It is always harder On the discipline because it Is n my present t | dies, 81,00, SE first five furl ones | part of the trial, He went the but tailed off at the ind prevent ‘Dhe feature bout at the Pal than a winnel » on different levels on the bases? : boys work hard to a and Knockout Kawem consistently » just fnishin x Island Railroad, 88th Semi Annual Remnant Sale is On Absolutely New Haven Labor Da ecision for the featherweight EMPIRE CITY ENTRIES. It's time that something was done. to get on the bases ahead of Burns, and this time Poll might not get As it was, the last time his wheel dented and his chew of tobacco completely telescoped. Any day Poll Perritt is liable away so fortunately. buggh manager irrespective of former thousand suit ends are now reduced to a uniform price. All weaves— Suit to Measure $21.50 Coat and Trousers $19.50 Arnhetnt Two STORES BROADWAY & NINTH STREET ANO BET, FIFTH & MADISON AVES, with pitchers’ hoofs is that the trade of twirling gives‘ that bars so many young gents from » horizontal feet. flattened fect, -all colors. st pitchers depends on the » parts of the either atl pa MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS National League, |r Bt. Loule. 61 41 J Cipeinnati 54 45 » true of Big I American League. 635 New York.47 45 5 P with his theories 47.520 bt. Loula. 36 69 RESULTS OF GAMES YESTERDAY, New York, 6; Chicago. 5, Philadelphia, 1; Cincinnati, 0 Boston, 3; St, Louls, 1 GAMES TO. nav |. Louis at New York, Chicago at Bowton, Detroit at Washing Cleveland at Philadelphia, 50 E, 42D ST., at Weeghinan F Before questioning a man over whether he has been running on a smovih or a rough road, Arnheim Axiom, é sin their oat New York at Pittsburgh, Brooklyn at Cincinnati, Boston at Chicago, Philadelphia at St, Louis, | DT. MN Y. Ame: permitted #