The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1918, Page 8

_ A LOT OF MEN READILY ADMIT THAT THEY HAVE OFTEN SEEN FOR- "UNE SMILE—AT SOMEBODY ELSE. OTHING LIKE eee Cushman Rice, Veteran of Many Conflicts, “Gassed” in France, __Avers There’s No Excitement in It, That It Is Scientific Annihilation on Both Sides, but He'll Be Disappointed if He Doesn’t Return to Firing Line Within Thirty Days. Copyright, 1918, by The Prom Publishing Oo, (The New York Byening World) AJOR CUSHMAN A. RICK, who was in charge of the American fiy ing squadrons connected with the British Flying Corps when the “big push” began several months ago, is back in the United States on @ short trip. On his left brea: the Major wears a row of narrow ribbons which denote the fact thai be is @ veteran of several wars, yWhen be left for the front the Major was a strapping 200-pounder, & football player. He has come bac with high cheek bones over which the skin is tightly drawn, 8," said the Major briefty, changed appearance, 1 noticed that besides the V shaped service stripe on his left sleeve he wore two “wounded” stripes on his right. “Old wounds,” he explained. “And bow did you happen to be gassed” I asked. ot up in the air?” The Major gave a snort of derision at such a foolish notion. “Do you think a flyer stays up ine-———————————________ the air all the time?” he snorted ? course ck| landing. Or . I was in a village away back &. : over our quart P of the tinee-ordinarily out of dun. one that mi } ®er—end | strayed a little too farlin a field a few yards away, Kht a Boch: flew low vr half a dosen gas shells over ore to find out how it was made. nearby, and before I realized chat| i ye4 there was any trouble coming, I got) a target from a height at night” a.” “How about the gunfire?" was too busy. A fellow doesn't go to} On earth,” said the Major, “It'n a deep, grumbling roar hour after hoi Pmewpital unless he has to—or unless) Once in a while a big gun someninn, the doctors catch him and send biM| near you puts in a louder er, mostly {i all blends into one down the scale a that he is a born adventurer, He left) stony» Mitte but never revolution when he was «| qualities of our boys?” American y Game into the United States Army to look at some of their youn of When the Spanish-American W2f strolling about swinging a little oa broke out, and served in Cuba, and and talking in what | thought afterward in Chins and in the Philip- a very affected manner, and . with some distinction, Winning have dl didn't een the Turks and the Greeks, ‘hell with a smile. y can fight rians and Serbians, and when too! ‘The British soldiers are as gar these slight amusements pailed, went as any fighters in the world. 1 ha gad in the Far East, tiger hunt- let any one tell you that the Germa aren't game, “1 suppose,” I suggested, “that ¥ U) that ‘Kamera found more excitement in tho fight-| don't yell merad' wh: in France than in any of the| against it. ‘They fight just like any Witte wars?" body else. “Excitement!” exclaimed Rice. “There's no excitement in it. Noue Courage Is Where You Find It. at ell, There was some thrill in the hand-to-hand war in entirely different nd wonder how on earth ar “It isn't exciting. It isn't like any]ever let him get into the army, He endless § slnughter. Th Germans | to him he jumped like a rabbit wtarted with everything worked out] “We gat to the front, from Eng ner, So many men to be sacrificed | big German drive. The she so many miles gain about so far, and then they ai Their losses gains arc | we: mile of ditch. that the Germans were driving into, meet them at their own gan to master them at it. 4 id the | wounded man had been hustled back tific annihilation on both sides, Wot a Bit of “Excitement”! “Why,” said Major Rice, “therc | fine got cloar, hav. fast six and a half months, when || shell c wasn’t under fire day and night. My | head c headquarters have been up close to|tered him. He , right beside him, and splat asn't any good after- 4 - ) the front ali the time. During the | ward. He was my driver, When a . e near us he'd @ay the Boche guns shell us, and at|shell burst anywhe: might the Boche planes fly over and|stop the car dead or run it off the @rop bombs on us. And we do tue} road.” same to them. I don't mind the shell. bout the alr fighting?” Dot that nightly bombing used to ‘Don't let them give you any bunk break up my » Then we'd go uP] about that,” warned Rice. “We are fter them, once in a while, and the | doing our work, of course. But we toughest job in the world is hunting | don't go up and shoot down a Hoche Boche in the dark, with your | squadron every da “You'd think it would be easy to sew/and first thing we know about five am enemy plane on a moonlight night, | Roches drop down from about twenty when you're up there too, but it isn’t.| thousand feet up, where we didn’t And te the bombing, though. Got so 1| if we can do a few acrobatics and Gidn’t sleep well if it was quiet. Com-| wriggle out safe we're tickled half Just now—nearing shore-- to death over it. And we drop on pome practice firing along the coast|them the same way, and get them It's almost impossible, We got used | notice them, and get on our tail. mg over half woke me up—sleeping lightly,| now and then. 1 you know—and 1 just grumbled: |tion to that "Those 4. Boches again,’ and roMed jeither. There haven't been any ar over and went sound asleep, Felt|mored planes—ye quite at home. shot Lufbery down wasn't __ “The big bombs they drop at night | He just are the worst. They have one de-|—that's all, He was #hot do layed fire bomb that is @ peach, Has | killed a few minutes later himself.” n't pay any att mored few seconds and then—bang! If one | gested those dropped on the New York | Hall over there, for instance, \t| Major Iti There never been | would go right through into the cel- | war in all the history of the world | lar without exploding. Then it would | that could compare with it, Alexander ©) Net gv and there wouldn't be one|and Caesar and Napoleon never 4 left of another. They make a| what a wur was. The little wars I've ly hole in the ground. It's lucky ‘Most of them land out in the fields, seen W © just picnics, Gia it won't explode, for it has athe most disappointed seangenen, in it that has to| erica.” y alr pressure for a cer- EVENING W ORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1918. - REASONS A 1818, by the Press Publiching Co. (The New York HERE'S ONE OF : THIS FIGHTING, SAYS MAJOR BACK FROM WAR sun baked, sturdy, looking as fit as | forty pounds underweight, sallow, | when I asked him the reason for his , Boche from blowing himself up with “No, I was gaysed on the ground, of| his own bombs if he make a forced | d dropped a bis | dus and buried itself, lt w without my mask, The Germans/a ‘dud.’ We dug it out and looked tt | n higher it would have ‘ortunately, it's hard to tind But he didn't go to a hospital. He} “It’s like nothing else that ever was | C.4. RICE Back From THE” FIGHTING FRONT M, Dut | ' ndlens | Those who know Major Rice know| Poll of thunder, that goes up and | home*to take a flyer in some South} “what do you think of the fighting . ype “They're just as good id and just ambled about from ove rhey 8 good as any.” said herp ther aa long as fight-| Rise. “I won't claim they are better revi n to anol There was a time when I didn't think belt any novelty for him. Hela whole tot of the English, T used | rs, ne MAJOR LEAGUE AVERAGES Compiled by Moreland News Bureau The Camp Upton baseball team will | clash with the soldier nine of Fort| popular St. Paul heavyweight, should ee ee te uncut are| Keep Jack Denipsey stapping at /O. pill. One time he remarked that mong those in the . € was very great opinion of them a mgrestonal medal and other Pehters. But those same boys would of appraciation of good fight- mroll into the most desperate fighting qualities, He mingled in the war just ay lightly—yes, stroll right inte American 1 aque Hatting Averages. akue Matting Avernges.| Nationat avers who have played ap to Costello of the Pirates, Lieut. Dunn, i BaKunore; Keller, Newark; Cérison,| benetit of the Army Equipment Fund Toledo, and Lieut. Donald Syracuse, who plays first bas ‘aptain of the team, Ray Fisher, for- Players and Clubs over to Manchuria, Ceylon and other @ lot of respect for them, And don't ther, When you read |), New York stuff, forget it. They ) they're up WASHING Ainsmith, mitt, Ht Lavin or be placed in Class 1A of the kind of fighting 1 used tu go through. “You can't tell where you'll find f've jiandied machine guns and ar-| courage. I had a secretary—a skinny tillery, and seen a little shooting and | little, mild faced kid, who was @ apping. But this| puzzle to me, I used to look at him y board n served With a similar notice, CHICAGO, July 13.—Chartes Hol- Jocher, tweity-one years old, star short-| Fred Fulton. of the Chicago Cubs, has been| Dempsey believes that he can learn ordered to report on July 15 for medical | gor }imself what bis chances are of examination for mililary service. He in| a brilliant flelder, and, according to other war. It's just one continuous, | was so timid that every time I spoke im the coldest, most scientific man- |land, just in time to meet the first BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK THE HORRORS OF SOME PERSONS NEVER REALIZE COME TO RECEIVE THEIR PORTIONS. WAR UNTIL THEY ovening World.) “THAT NIGHTLY Bompina™ USED T) BREak UP WS SOLVER, His Secretary RESCUED BRITIN WOUNDED. ahaa Benny Leonard, Risking Light- weight Crown by Meeting Willie Jackson, Conqueror of Dundee, in One of tl Other Star Bouts on Won- derful Programme for Army Equipment Fund in Madison Square Garden. | By Alex. Sullivan. IT" the manner in which he polished off the experienced but rat neient mari Gunboat Smith, Diamond Dust [in Jeraey City lan night iy any dication of what may be expected of fi Miske, the| together two lads who possess K. O bine Tusedey night Biby 2 Nobody ever accused John- ny Dundee of carrying around a K. and Duffield of the Yankees, Boyle, | in Madison Square Garden. of the Yankees, is Captain of th Slocum team And will probably | ty, whicb is a guarantee of pitching for his nine, Sale colty, (woe of the Washington | in some useful occ sutional new star. Dempsey ha by his local draft board, t baseman of the club, has averages, is batting .310. He! lifire that . Exactly|day was bike a bhist of death. It ted costs and outlays and re-|was the kind of a bombardment that sults, When they are going to drive |makes a man wish he could find a | through they drive with tremendous|hole the size of a bucket and crawl Pressure of men, and they go just] into it and pull it in after him. Then ; the Germans came and the British § forced back. Do you know figmred as Coldly and scientifically es} where my skinny little secreiary was? an engineer would figure the hours of | Why, he as out helping carry labor and the expense of digging 4) wounded men back from a section Niinamnaker. ‘St. Tata Himberg. hicages i] Jimmy Johnston 18 ne longer the | no longer wanted tn be ide | atanee of ‘Ted “Kid Lewis, the Eng- | the officials quickly anointed Corgan to the job, lish boxer and recognized welterweight | again the boxwa have done thelr share ins champion of the world. The break | glorious manner in offering thelr wervices for ® came in Cleveland on Saturday, Lewis | benefit boxing shew which nett ‘ance against Johnaton | dollars for the welfare of the soktiers and milors 5 and finally relieved | ¢t the frout, At Providence, R, 1., o0 Thumday|tanburg last night that Joe wns in| At form and would anrive here to- Miller, New York. ©) Whiteman, Reston’ || eauzt 2 Schaite, Washington fas halace & for several wi | his feelings by telling him that he was through with him and that in the fu- “The Allies have been forced to! He worked with a couple of English and | doctors, and he stuck unui! the Inst *22' have done wonderfully well. | When they left at lasf the Germans But it isn't exciting. It's just scica-| were right on top of them, but they last week from Cleveland that he going to fight Frank Carbone at| Spring A. C. of West Hoboken and | furthermore Although the writer stated at} Now he will perform the daty of beoxning ane time that Lewis would not fight | of Uncle Bam's ene fishters Carbone, Johnston stated that Lewis would surely box. Ted did not do so, ‘land he has told all his friends that he | { and Johnston are through for £004. | the army Athletic F “I had another man—a fellow 1 used to look at and think he was the soldier T ever maw, He was en just eleven days, in the|perfect. The first day at the front me along and took his pal's Wiltiame, Cleveland | aura Rntton it dona Riaian! National League P Pitchers and Clute, Pitchers aml Chit Roose, Washington . * naw attached to the Unite! Staien Navy before lunch, We Own barrage bursting all around you. | go out and start aver the Boche lines, ing boxing show of that elwb on J 4 not pure whether Jaskon will go throurh with W" Johinge” Washington, rmored plane’ talk, The Boche that ad the luck to get Lufbery » and xing shoree at the Auditorium three weeka, At rment there are thousands | | & mechanism in it that starts when| “Pretty tough war. I suppose | ftir | the bomb first lands, It whirs a| you're glad to get a little rest,” 1 sug he will wait umtil Uney are goue befor “It's @ tough war, all right.” said y, it's so quiet over here 1 can't| Rie: “You see, a Boche has to be up|sicep, If! don't get back to the front | forer'ie metres to drop one, If he's| within thirty days I'm going to be man in Am atchmaker of the Spring A. C, of West Hobo-; officiated at bis fine N. J, Corrigan was Geeretary of th and when Jaa Jokneton gent wort (o the offi roundly « % (he clue Ate Amie mmcwes Whivw Une RP Len muiUnds Hae Ore, Lb eeerres - ( Fistic News sorn toon and Gossip ) night many of tainment held » bora appeared at the enter Lewis sent word to the writer) © | nary, Wil was through with John= | deci 4 to wait wntil be had finished them. Grupp’s gymnasium for hin bout with I St, Peat at the boxing show uod at M: Jen on next Turaday night a very bowy fighter, and his manager, his collection af ints | oo at the Armory A ) next Tummlay night, He will go Bablie Shevlin, the Boston welterweisti colored men, ‘2 good showing in ley of Newark to take the place of +18. it | September ag he brute training when he learned | 2 nee ee ener . unite was not going to box Bim 0) yey city hemball em 1 to Baw account of @ broken band, tom today for the puryow ig AL Lie, Matchmaker Charley Murray of the Queenetersy | manaaw of Jeff Smith, the Mayonme m TiwtYalo, N. ¥., will not hold any more | Reigiit, to sign articles of agreement for J Buffalo for at | ‘makin quartered thew waiting to be trang | @eneture to the artichw, red to the different came. As it will be at] 1. paste. manager of Willie Jaciwm, wae wt Lw0 works before they are removed. Murray to-day offeret a gua now at Wrightwown, N, J. cinb, recently, aud hie work wae uo good that he w Ee fast pace when they face each other in the great boxing show for the and i8/ Miske is fighting even better than he did upon his last appearance in one of the mosr exciting aeavyweight July 18.—PMward! patties ever waged in this country | thirty-six rounds of boxing—three ten Club, has been or-|when he opposes Dempsey, the da six round forged his way to the front via the) knockout route, and he hopes to stop the St. Paul wizard too, which would leave his path to the heavyweight crown clear, with the exception of beating Fulton by the way he fares nst Miske, It was only a few claims no exemption. months ago that Miske met Fulton 4 Uxnsands of! Kid Willian National A. ©. of that city for the Tetmcen Fund and alto the dependenta fl man, necant c he would look after his own af | Upcie Sam's men, The alow realised ove $4,000, | fra Jacknon, the ora! lightweight, will go to Pelham Pay @ark today and entie in the | hot Lie has teen waiting his chanes to join | Vlame forven, bat as he had several matches on. he Jack Dempery has started training at Rilly ¥ Miske for ar denn | | Kearns, said to-day that be in ready to have him | take on any of the tig wile fellows, but mo Mee against Willie Jackson at the| during July amd August and got going again in A reprenemtative of the New Jamey Exhibition x with Jolmny Howant at the abow club in two weeks Howat has alwady effised ie | of ee of SND with an option MK tor a battle LLIES WILL WIN WAR po =f, THERE “isn't A Bit ~ —- OF EXCITEMENT, * \ \ Dempsey Will Have to _ Step Some to Beat Miske Tuesday Night and, according to @ majority of re ports, bold Fulton even. If Demps whips Miske he will have greater confidence that he can defeat the lengthy plasterer. Miske, however, bas another tough opponent to get by before be tuces psey T ht at th y he conquer: | ture eve sday night, On Monday Armory A. A. of Jersey il meet_ Bartley Madden, of Jim Coffey, in the fea- of eight rounds, Miske jis contident that he will easily dis- | pose of Madden, whose chief recom- nendation is ability to take punish- ot and a good, healthy wallop, | Another corking attraction for the | big Garden show is the setto between jthe great Harlem rivals, Champion Benny Leonard and Willie Jackson. |The latter was substituted when nr | |Johnny Dundee announced that he |had broken his hand, | ‘This attraction is probably better than the original card, as it brings wailops. the | light that they tickled them. such a thing is possible is admitted. round bouts here affair in Philadelph ltay Rivers in two rounds. his title by ing Jackson, but Ben where he is now I'd be @ fing kind of a champion d the popular Camp UL |my hat to him.” Joe Wagner, manager of Joe Lynch, the only lud who ever knocked out former bantamweight champion, received word from Spar- le day, Lyneh hopes to beat Dick Load nque’ mant, Johnny Ertle bantam title ak | to attend a show which features | great bouts, can you? No miss are likely to happen as on next Tues day night. versa, or Jackson or vice-versa? Oh, boy! bouts, BENNY VALGAR SCORES LONG BRANCH, N. J., July 19 Rer stanza Val Ss eae eh Weeaseentts tae ik boxers at his weight in the game Umenty” years asp, Wile & mh Weperies 99 0H | “now one of the licenax! reform for the ox | Loadman Scores Another K, 0, Frank Corrigan of West Hobolma is now the| ing game in the Sate of Now Jenwy, Waitee| SYRACUSE, N. Y., July 13.--Dick Loadman of Lockport, ose swe ro {Camp T }eeed W his opponents liked to box him, as said that his punches were so Jackson can be depended upon to try to knock out Leonard and that It was Jackson who electrified the sporting world by scoring a one- round knockout over Dundee, a feat that Leonard could not accomplish in Dundee previously to his encounte: with Jackson had never been floored, Het alone stopped, nor has he been off |his feet since. Jackson also has |knocked out such tough boys as Chick Simler in twelve rounds and || Leonard realizes that he ts risking ny is a good sport, or he wouldn't be pton in- structor, “if T wouldn't risk my championship against all comers. {tf |Jackson can stop me—and I know that he packs such a good wallop +d with the om that it is possible, but not probable or the Soe) Pardon me for admitting—I'll take otf r of the former Who wouldnt want to be there when Miske stopped Dempsey or vice- eonard was K. Od by Anything may transpire when such | funds to supply our New York boys in the service with sporting para- A QUICK Recekon. GRAND CENTRAL PALACE y Valger, the French flash, scored | NOW OPEN a quick knockout over Frankie Mason |TORRANK ANDERSON and 4 Donaldson, who meet for + individual championship — to« day, easily defeated Gerald Emersoe and Hal Taylor in the final round jof the Junior Metropolitan doubiaa championship at the courts of the Terrace Club of Flatbush, and proved their right to be called champions, They scored handNy in straight sev at 6, 64, 64 Ensign Don Lippincott, former imter- iegiate sprint champion, and one of tho holders of the intercoliegiate record Jof 21 1-5, for 220 yards, was one of |competitors at a swimming meet neld in |the Brooklyn Central YM. Cc. 4 WASHINGTON, D. ©. July 15.~De, Joseph Io. Rayeroft, head of the athietias department of the War Department's Commission on Training Camp Activiti has announced the appointment of Paul J. Davis, former ‘Tri-State Leaguer and football coach, as director of athletics at ylor, Kentucky, Davis wi ant L. Lamber Jto enter an office aw » Who has resigne t training camp. | GHICAGO, July Duke Kahane {moku, Hawaiian swimmer, set a record for sixty yards im the Chicago Athleti« Association tank meet. He covered toe Jistance with the crawl stroke in 25 | seconds. ‘The previous mark was J seconds, made by C. M. Daniels in Pitus burg, Dec. 19, 191 WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W, Va. July 13.—George Clark of Bayside, L. defeated G. B. Carpenter of Medfo Ore., in the final round for the Gre: brier Summer golf championship, in « $6-hole match, 3 up and 2 to play. Cli « was 4 down at the end of the mom 1 }round, but played almost par golf in (iin Jatt oon, The victor was the meda n the qualifying round. CLEVELAND, July 12. The larg crowd that ever gathered inside iis ‘orth Randaf racetrack attended io closing day's meeting of the Grand ( cult. Miss Harria M., queen of the 1 pacers, won the free for all race in m sensational time, after one of the gam struggles ever witnessed here. Carbone an Leonard Win By Lamplight PENNS GROVE, N. J, July ‘3 Frank Carbone, the New York m dleweight, and Joe Leonard, Brooklyn bantamweight, were turned winners in eight-round bos at the Penns Grove A. C, last nix, Carbone administered a severe be. ing to Battling Kopin of Jamestov N. Y., while Leonard, scheduled meet Joe McCarron, who failed show, rather than disappoint fans, went on with Al Wagner, Philadelphia lightweight, and ga him a terrific lacing. Although outweighed imuny pou by Wagner, Leonard beat his op pent all over the ring and had } recling with right hand wallop. the body. The Carbone-Kopin battle was one-sided affair, with the ga kK on the receiving end fur the en eight rounds. In the sixth and seventh rou: + Carbone floored Kopin with h punches to the chin and the finvs bell Kopin was tottering around 1: ring. Just before the main bouts the ele tric lights were accidentally pat of order and the fights were he 1, with lamps around the ring. A come sized crowd saw the Bouts. QVONKERS & MT, VERNON) Tickets are selling like proverbial | MON DAY for this show. You can't mul boxing fan for wanting such n would show in which such big things X_ ATTRACTIVE INCLUDING THE Tarrytown Stakes and Tuckahoe Handicap FIRST RACE AT sO oP, My SPECIAL RACE TRAIN | leaves Grand Central. Terminal, Harlem Division, at Regu at it Additio tring notable gladiators are pitted against Jno via Wes each other, even though tt's all for | glory and for the purpose of raising | one {0 Foodayn Gatos . thence by trolley also 6th and Ave. ‘1 and Subway to Woodlawn Station. "tom Manassa SOeTEE In| _Jahe Doherty, manager of the Nationmt a. 0] 18 the Jerome Ave., thence. by ‘trotlos ta in that city the chances are the flee oro ie Mitomtl 4) O. chernaliae hard to out Sheriin away oe Marre, Be T. announen! today that bel” erhere will be no collections or auc- | nd, Stand & , Pudiork, 83.20, oe rare fo Feanen his boring club on labor Day./ tions of any kind, which assures the | Although the offriaie of the New Jerar Sorts | Hie furlten stated that @ pairone of the Mm | fang that nothing will take their Weehawten, H. J.. Rave cowed | oo cathe be thoeghe be wonll ‘clase doce | minds of the various espectacular ROLLER SKATING avannah, Ga, last night. The first round bristled with action, both boys! mixing in rapid fashion, but after two| minutes of fighting In the second r doubled up Mason with a Y. ¥., world's Me We, W Pantamwelght championship claimant oe ly the speutacere aver =” knocl oul nie YNell of oy duds bere leat oll, *"ADMISSION 30c. Admission Includes Skates Ward’s Jazz Band aging chow 0 Jackson Kanma, the Huttalo [left to the solar plexus and quick ag a| Splendid, Moor—Pertert Ventilation, chnay Dundwe has deckied to go te the moun to be fougin at the Wrightstown Sport| flash crossed his right to the jaw, | SUNDAY TERNOON AND EVENING, Zut'| , Havant ening Ms, fee " ; » of Wraicamm, NJ. a two vents | HHooring “Mason for the full count. Ta | LEXINGTON AVE, pay ated ; uroed down the «fer as he saye Ix oan {the other bouts Da ds ar . mie hand, whicl be ‘ bre than the ng Jackson box Kan: | Harlem Eddie Kelly boxed eight fast | Use 7th St. Entrance, Cleve lant Satertay, 10 got wo » Tutfalo, rounds to a draw. and ‘Johnny. Murray Y | han bere. 4 cawily one for the little Italian as 4 2 + pana. [Knocked out Johnny Lisse of the navy A pics competed to carve! hie bout with Hrankie| Walter Campha, tbe okt time figtter of Phita. | Knocked out, Jonuns Ol Ic Fi Id in Howtos last Tuesday night aod with | deipiia, who was one of the festent ant clovereat mee ym le lane h St. & 5th Ay, TO-MOR., 1.3 % Ase ncoln Giants » Cuban Sta TT A A RON ats