The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1917, Page 12

(CS ONLY RELAXATION THAT CAN BE MADE PART OF + SOLDIERS’ TRANG WORK That Is Why the War Department Has Sud- : denly Awakened to Importance of Sports for | All Troops—The Army Athletic Fund Needs || Contributors to Purchase Sport Equipment | «for Each Regiment. J Cobsright, 1917, by the Prose Publiente ¢ The New York Hvening World : By Robert ‘dgren. . are raising the ARMY ATHLE II FUND to buy 7 W for our troops as they enter thy training camps, supplied when they go to the fiet ines. Yeu and your friends adi help bring the fund to the necessary site by buying seats for the monster I show this Sunday night at the Hippodrome. This bill, according jen! experts, is the best ever arranged. There will be forty te sets in which will be seen about every Known star of the theatri world. This isn't an instance where you are contributing to charity or + | giving up something for nothing. No, indeed—by buying te at price t ranging from 75 cents to $2 you will be helping # patriotic cause along and | getting an evening's entertainment which might cost fifty times more if You wanted to see all the acts provided separ ately, The it sale is now dalrry on at the Hippodrome whore those who can afford it may select their location for boxes which are going fast at prices from $100 to $26 H.. are more seats in some boxes than in others Pacvery army officer who has studied modern war methods knows the { importance of this work, and is lending it bis enthustastic support x war has brought out again, for the first Ume in centuries, the idea that the individual warrior should be a (rained athlete The trained athlete has two advantages over the untrained man Pe can fight better because of his skill and condition. He fights with better courage and confidence because he knows his own superior ability. athletic sport in the army gives an esprit de corps ch fighting unit so that it can strike a harder b'ow It gives the soldiers entertainment, and an entertainment that has ime of the qualities of fighting _ Hardy Sports Make Soldiers Fit. 6BAM tHe hardy sports fit men for fight han sports that inured men to hardship. he Romans had their chariot race And @adiatorial games. The French and British sports a few hundred yea ig. The anctont Greeks encourage 1 were archery and Jousting in tournaments © American Indians spent j thdlP lives in hunting and fighting two kindred pu * The original @ of football was an imitation of the clash of bodies of men in hand te 1g the eke, who wore band Jead or dried hide studded with brass knobs over their knuckles, Moders boxing with soft padded gloves is fighting. The object of it Is to deliver « ut and render an opponent helpless, Japanese jiu-jJitwu was invented taitltoie 4 man disarmed on the battlefield or unexpectedly attacked to fight » effectiVely.even without weapons. The first long distance races on record were the runs of ancient warriors carrying war mensages. r soldiers are to be trained especially in boxing. There are several reasous. Firat, boxing prepares a man for bayonet fighting because the ) movéments of the skilled boxer are exactly the movements of the ehil'd "bayonet fichter. Boxing gives a man shiftiness tn attack and defense TF) qukemind, instant decision, coolness, perfect judgment of direction aud | distance, and a remarkable ability to know exuctly what the neat movement of ex opponent will be. It gives great self-confidence. The whole sptrit of UF) it te that of the clash of war. Im. France tho Canadians held thetr boxing championships regularly behind the battle lines. Capt. Tom Flanagan has told me that the fellow comitig out of the trenches used to be weary of it all, tired and despondent inclined to worry over the chances of war. Since sport has been eneBuraged he comes back eager to see a boxing match, or to put on the loves himself, or to get Into a bali game, | At Vimy Ridge the Canadians held their regimental ba ship on the captured ground twenty-four hours after driving the mans out.sThoir losses in that sweeping attack had been severe, But they didn't mope over thelr pals who had died in th ge. They went to the ball game. It wan't indifferenc They purposely and erminedly put all ) disheartening thoughts out of their minds and aroused all their enthusiasm for the sport. With sport to take up thetr attention they could do it. With out sport there would have been nothing to do but sit around and think, Woo much thinking is not good for a soldier. The things he has to think about are not of an essentially cheerful aspect | Relaxation Needed to Prevent Breakdowns. Military training, where men are taken in soft and unfit and hammered to the toughness of steel in months of endless work, is a flerce grind. Under # it men are likely to break unless there is some relaxation, The chances for ) relaxation in a military camp, under restraint all the time, are fow. Th Bae, peatation that can be made a part of the train why the War Department has suddenly awaken of athletic training for all troops, It gives rela time, hand fighting. Boxing was real feuting ain work is athletics, 1 to the importance } mum have variety. That ix why the Army Athletic Fund ts being used te ) supply each regiment with a complete outfit of athletle goods. It o | about $1,150 to outfit a regiment. Included in the outfit are boxing gloves, f Dawedalls, mains, pads, gloves, footballs, basket and volley balla, medicine ) Dalls, quoits, ao. All these thir supplied packed in eases that ean be | mO¥ed with the stores. i The ARMY ATHLETIC FUND provides the only way to supply pill troops equally, The Government has provided a Commission on ining Camp Activities to take charge of all army athletic and entertainment features. This commission handl Fund at Washington, accepts bids, buys sporting g@ds, a “and packs the goods, and ships the cases to the troops wi ver they may be. There andard unit of sporting goods for each regiment. Each iment will eventually receive this standard unit. Gen. Pershing has sent word kf » France that the athletic train. in@ of the soldiers ts extremely im and that all troops leaving j America should bring their own athlete supplies along, as it ts nearly iim- possible t get anything the kind In Europe now The regimental comy 1 rs are all taking up the new athletic idea Our ‘armies may not dev 1 lot of highly specialized athletes and cham sts theipieharacter, their ability, their influence ng me ermarve, It is to the credit of the boxing prot r willingness Prominent boxer listed answered the eal! by volunteert yavp es beds Jength of time without pay. As it was evident that some men ¢ led Would need a salary to take care of their failimic was decided that all uctors would be put on a Government payr for this purpose The success of all of this work depends in some tho collec tionP&f the Army Athletic Fund in different States gloves there Cam be little effective ning in boxing. and without baseba and foot Balls there will be few Kames plaved. That is why The Evening World is ing every effort to induce the public—the friends and relatives of the ‘who are going to war—to help the Army Athletic Fund along. There is & very real necessity behind the great Hippodrome Army Athietic Fund Show Sunday night, and behind the other entertainments we have or. d and will organize in behalf of the fund. ality Madden Buys The Finn Back. t Maate Hamba John B. Madden, who bred and gold | Kr they i The Finn, the black son of Ogden nd w o Zdvonia, as a two-year-old to H.C.) fol is Ho th partion WaWotiback, bought him back at pri- | pray ne Ok ORR 1 vate terms involving ertain con-|the blood of st tingencies and shipped him to Ham-!dam, whieh Madden sold ffor Place, his breeding farm in| A. Cochran two years ago for $10,000. le ip @ daughter of Star Bhool. THE BVYENING WoO EST SPORT RLD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ING PAGE IN THAT OU GHT Don't_ Forget The seats/) Boxes ~ FR oe ‘FH 00.76, ' ! No Thrills for Mr. Belmont | In Race Where Cast-Off of His Stars He used th it did most good on Fra- Beats One Jockey Club Chairman, Awé ack, Avoids Seeing Fragonard Beat Masda up the chase, back to him and{ In the final] Mie over=willlng 1 champton- | By Vincent Treanor. PT BELMONT sta scem to have one-tenth of a chance | of winning Inthe ear stages. Masda mont appears to have made posing of the r have sold Masda. anything but cheering sensibilities: to his racing | vo expert: | club will reopen under the management] staged th of Billy Gibson, th would have of the supposed stars of soundly beaten by Frago- Fragonard sports, | his ata earlier in the season had been d xation and tt doesn't waste | 20t Booed enough to “ é |the South, the green a! Club Chairman.| pimerald Isle and the ragonard con and ran the if Our soldiers in the training camps can't all play the same games, ‘They |And to make It worse, ceded 9 pounds to M the mudh-touted bo |B stood off Mike Gitsiona, Jack Dillon and George | ¢ Chip, will meet Sle mute, In the other star ten-rouud tilt Mike Me ‘Tigue, the Irish champion, who recently whipped Frank Carbone, will hook wp with Montana Dan | Plies for the New York soldiers, as | Sullivan, the State tax, amounting to $ in the paddock Fragonard’s saddle. shed his overcoat tossed Into ways races the his stock farm instead o' What happened to Meteorite tn the Was asking that question at the track after the fourth vs exactly what happened to! since loving tho tched| a campaign at the never| Marty Crow to-morrow result in his winning bac other two ten-round tx behind | o'Hagen the Army Athletic | have fuiled to race to a cert | ard Id to] through imbles utter | seomed showing little or no speed in the Bel wasn't away | the son of Hast the crowd figured Robins would run over his opponents | east side fighter, and Young Laistis of the aa anything like ten-round evmut two fast be and in thea Vout of the money bad performance times third next abow of bh particularly Trainer Hildreth pury Pions, but they will deve undrveds of thousands of good, sturdy athletes. The physical standard in the United States will improve wonderfully be- cause of this war Best Coaches in Charge of Training. |trragonard have The commission is going about sold training 4 fle way, A large pumber of the bes own college athletic coaches in America have Deen selected to take chu of the ining 1 great camps, These men arerthe best in the world in their tine The boxing part of the training will be handled by a wrge staff of M knows professional boxers, among whom will everal world’s cha Hat Ue an@ ex-champions, These men have all by ful ted bal fast closing V oe WELLMAN MAKES RESTA OFFER TO ENTER RACE. |: ning her first start garded inthe was an odd straight and } iything would been matched to at the quarter pole, never for a sec Laser hosdqns 8 B hy at Mukdgaport 08 apt, 24, a 7. TO FETCH 'EM Benny Leonard and Johnny Dundee Furnish Plenty of Real Action in Bouts. and Gossip By John Pollock VER before have such rattling tests been seen at a show which the prince! volun their services as tc ph Two clubs will hold shows to-nigh the Harlem Sporting Club and the Cler-ljag night at. the Fairmor mont Rink of Brooklyn, The former| whore Billy Gibson and Tom McArdle popular uptown pro- | moter, In the main event heavyweights | Well clash, Jim Coffey, the Irish Gta WL box Joe Bonds of Tacoma, In the other ten-round affatr Irish Patay Cllne, (having seen such earnest fights f the clever lightweight, will meet Barney) bouts in which most of the boxe Adair, @ promising Harlemite contributed their services free. fistic ent rowded, As the fans filed out many oft At the Glerme night prices prevailed. Tho gross r pts were $1,019.50, but deat | was tur Martin, the agaresl and other expenses had to be deduc Jack Britton a who vas been taking things eaay ed Lewis, stare got whic saye will | pis lost laurela, In the Ted Lewis boxes Bute 4 Harry Gred me u Kid. magnets, Li, dee, the spe Matobmaker ad bout between wn McArdle has arranged « ton aul Dose, the pra r Jimeny Hegan Harlem and Jackie Burke of the Brong, will Matchmaker Doemerick of the Pioneer 8. C. to. Jay elgned up two good ten-round boute for the ‘ club on Tuesday evening. The| In the sixth and final round of the pattle are Jiminy Dutty, the west | contest fact that Veto Heme, ae tan. | tion for Paul's gameness. At any mwvig vion, has rate it showed that Benny was trynig ann Now Orleans t score a knockout when he floored ally decided Pew 2a | Paul tw und tat New Orlane on| 48 800n as Leonard fintshed boxing A fight promoter of New Orleaue to. asking tim for bie best terme to ma, being antious to meet H ined bantam. hae NATIONAL LEAGUE. Clubs WAL. PC. |Clabs WL. PC, Jon Waguer, the ret niunerous matches for Jack miner, since the ‘we gna New York 86 48 .642|Cinelnnati 69 70 inent Ligands peeping prd Phila 5 58 G64! Brooklyn, 62 70 .470 oun Best Ww Sere Nt. Louls...76 64 539/Beston... 68 72 446 Billy Bevan at Wilkes I Muy acti Jue Land at Albans Chicago... 70 69 504 Pitts'gh, 45 59 335 meampoete ae OS match will hp as New York, kiya, 0; Ist game. ae taliau. lightweight of Ih and’ Tria New York, 2; Brooklyn, 1; 2d game THEY line of Harlem, Anis Aantine Philadelphia, 6: Boston, 3 at form these de u | : fs enaious to stag : | and if Callahad | GAMES New York at Hosten. Tro Gomes. | Hrooklyn at Philadelp! athorweiayt, haw Pittsburgh at St, Leais, Hilly De Foe, the ) NEW YOR Fairmont A. C.’s Show lesa wood | Adds Hundreds to Fund | wrcsnceeeca ek _ For Soldiers’ Sport Outfit) °°" | to kas my hs On r big Army Athletic Fund | rtainment. ‘The club was m expressed their surprise at The regular Fairmont Saturday nly $677.71 | dover to the Army Athietic | | caine in the second round Fund with which to buy sport sup- | Noholas Riok against} Champion Benny Leonard and his eat lightweight rival. Johnny Dun- ly Italian, were the onard had the gloves on | with Jimmy Paul. The battle was Just as hard fought as any the uew | \ideholder has been in lately, He had | section for #tuniay night's feature Io the ocher | }iiy Knockout punch on exhibition, as he floored the promising Harlemito trade wallovs in both the first and third rounds, but Paul managed to weather the Paul was staggered again, aid dobeny nares. the wae!) out he wus on his feet at the final oe win ute | he! thoug! that Li Walter Laurett, the prvmiain Walter Fe *Jcould have put Paul away 1 he not nted because of his admira- | | SS prea er eee He MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS | | AMERICAN LEAGUE, Oe See ] Awd Boston Has Given Up All P Hope of Having a World's ° Series Ticket Scandal Th's ue Fall.” Entry List for Western Cham-) By Arthur ‘Bugs’ Baer pionship So Large That It Will a Coys © Be Necessary to Extend Tours sy" sation 10 otal ney Through Saturday. - HANT} PTLLA Hk ROWING | voor y CHICAGO, Sept. 1 —Baward Lous | t » Polladeiphia Cricket Clut| Sheke ‘em up. recent winners of the Shawnee If tt hadn't been for Henn W the Pirates would be wolf tour Ament, topped a fee professionals in the ¥ nals in (he M-bole pretim- 4 ms vary Westmoreland Country | te Veabew ub with an eveniy balanced 146!“ y two over pur for the 6466-yard Johnny urse rion 0 © te Amenee Evers ov) average aintaine hi Hob MacDonald of Indian Hill Club, | ump. tn ”" ago, Was Only one stroke behind, ne 73 for he second round whiir YRA HO. mn heeded y 7% Le Diesel « t an i Hutebinson of rat Me N Me Done ¥ 1» nt pur on the fret BUT UNOFLAT rite wp since md in a tle at 148 for! ,, " ind, ebnte 4 s invented the sace f | sry Westmoreland hk aco at r 72. wv 4 erored par . it « were wo the Ath bon the 41 and finished ¢ site , la at that. eure w Mackbarth, of | 44 tat a Nieh ew. York, S 8&6 without « J. rady of Boston and J. J. O'Brien t with oov Heavy Palle. ire f Nick v rd, Sa Pittsburgh and Willie lad “ne « S, and George In leading the National Lea ida ‘of 8 te Hand George | Q ton que | Minneapolis, 151. alsa won! in batting, you want to reme! Swell es dark when Magen) that Roush of Cincinnati. isn te eA rea, helped by batting against the Lay Ott tne lant raset| Clneinnatl pitehers "i he sate handicap for fo | A t batt wb fa base o wy ‘ ba st kar battin “ pen t rally Ww tor " the ‘offivers of the About t a ition) to extend the ¢ sant di ® thet ty Cems f 4a re on a short de ' rT laving thirty-sit bet by the ums . elahteen “ day, and the ston Nationals score a lot of day thirty-six ne runs on the hit and sq nay the first time in " r America. th LET'S GO ‘ i Hing ail ’ the. count . onabip The Browns might Jan exter playing tin 1 . A et trying ae Ginvis Wind Up im Went. Pigaten har pare 1 he thful » fond | the National a ‘ Nat enkue se ‘ at 1 unde yeaterday and LIL’ PEPPER, t tsion by putting es a e r yulder blades twice. Terry Turner got hit for ever t third double hi roby | h on his head yesterday, and he f va tut. Heinie Zim-| baldheaded, \ © up the second gane in elev ne by banging the ball Every fan who stays ie nei atre jog the winning rur | aye nine innings ‘ Looey ould e credited y Her get through him. | 1 1 for ah JovastOn OF | Cieeh dink oak Mite tfomantis ts P Hanlin: prcnta tage | SiS te rae Mareen iis “withowk 6 id-a-Half-eame lead rales vn all pennant pretenders, Reds beat the Cubs and have now won one victory on has given up all ho ga World Serles theket ma started to play with Ty Cobb. "ED IT. —_ INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. STANDING OF THE CLUBS, Clubs W. L. B.C, | Clubs W. L. B.C. Toronte...89 60 .597 | Rochester 71 78 .477 Prov'ence 85 60 .586 | Buffalo, . 63 3 .432 Baltimore 86 61 .585 Montreal 55 90.379 Newark...85 63 574 Richmond 53 92 .366 RESULTS YESTERDAY. Providence, Toronto, 3; Montreal, Montreal, 8; + Baltimore, 5 45 Iat game, Richmond, 15; Baitimore, 6; 2d game, Rochester, 3; Huffaio, Buftalo, GAMES TO-DAY. he dressed hurriedly as he bad catch a train for Pittsburgh, where he boxes Phi to-morrow night. Gib: anager, W&s Benny into a taxi 6o ey would not miss the train, but Benny told bim that he had to go home first “Did you forget to take everything bh you?" said Gibson. No," replied Renny, “but T want moth goodby.”” The bout in which Dundee figured was the best of the evening. He faced Jack Russo, a crack Italian boxer from New Orleans, who ar- rived here this week. It was nip and uck every second of the six roun? which they nged punches At the end bund 1 slight shade || Newark at Providence. on hi ive opponent Buftalo at Rochester. Sammy Diamond and Young Zulu Kid, two fast bantams, fought a fast draw The only knockout of the night was that which Paul Edwards, the east side lightweight, scored over Clitt Morris, a colored fighter, who out- weighed him ten pounds, The finish Richmond at Baltimore Barney Willi champion of the army and navy, was to have fought Edwards, but telephoned that he had hu his arm in training. Joe Bonds, the big heavyweight who boxes Jim Coffey to-night, was on hand to meet Tex McCarty, but the latter sent word that he was too ill to box. As there was no available heavyweight in the club, the notitte: tiun ‘from McCarty coming too la to permit of Matchmaker McArdle ounding up a substitute, Bonds was compelled to spend the evening watch. ing the bouts from a box. fhe first bout brought togethe: Sandy Taylor, colored, and eine Sheldon, the later wining easily after four rounds of fast fighting, Frankie Jerome and Young Sandy, two 105 pound lads, went at it hammer and tongs, with the former winning. > SPORTING, Worl Sertes Performance, a CHICAGO, Sept. 13, will elapse between — the Series sumes if played in Ne and Chi- BEAUTIFUL Ban Johns nt of the! to-day, | offered a twenty-hour| eH Would permit games to | ing | of! PARK AMERICA'S PREMIER RACE COURSE LAST 2 DAYS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY TO-MORROW RESULTS OF GAMES YESTERDAY, Nattung (eddy of Harlew ‘Cincinnati at Chicago. Cbs WL PC. Clubs WL Chicago... $1 47 660 New York 65 70 .481 Hoston..,.81 52 600 Wash'ton.62 70 470 Cleveland 75 63. .543/st, Louls...62 87 3 Detrolt,. 69 69 .500/ Phila,....48 95 CEDARHURST HANDICAP 2 MILE STEEPLECHASE NORTHAMPTON HANDICAP and 3 Other High Class Events BEGINNING AT 2 Dyes hace Philadelphia, ve Penn. station, dad at f Sid st. ang 7 Washington, Called ond of | |M Avey, #180, Hiatbush ‘Aven. Grooktty, Darkanes. Ho wad iat frequent Invervale iy Clevetay 2s A9t for Ladies. “Also Fouched "by ty v Grand Stand & Puddock, $3407" Ladies, 81,50, + Cleveland, 3; TO-DAY. nat New York Vhiladelphia at Washington. Clermont Rink, Brooklyn, Ke McTigue Montana Dan Sulliven, To-Night—~Harlem Sport, Club—J| ve Joe Bonde; Patay Cling va, c Hos