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IN FIVE DAYS AT THIS CAMP Turning Country Boys Into Fighting Men an Interesting Job at Camp Grant, Where Boxing Is a Real Sport—Gen. Martin Insists That Every Soldier Should Have at Least One Ex- perience in a Real Fight and Each One Has. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). CAMP GRANT, Illinots. OR two days I have been watching the athletic work in this great mil. {tary camp, where Capt. Lewis Omer, the famous college coach, 1s athletic director and Fred Dyer 1s boxing instructor. ‘ “Treat ‘em rough,” {s the slogan here. Capt. Omeg’s theory is that fighting men are not made by young ladies’ boarding school methods Every game played has a fighting turn. And how the boys do like it! There are over fifty thousand ath- letes in this camp just now, and the trainloads leaving day by day are replaced by new thousands of sturdy country boys who will in turn be quickly made over into real fighting men. ad Boxing is the great sport in camp. What do yon think of three thou- sand real glove fights a day for five days? That was the latest fighting spurt. Gen. Martin, who believes in boxing as @ training to develop figh ing men, said that he wanted every soldier in camp to have at least one experience in a real ring fight—and it was done. In the following five days there were fifteen thousand fights—thirty thousand men with the gloves on in real contests. Scores of knockouts—and in spite of the strenuousness of it all, not a man received any injury worthy of note. Capt. Omer, formerly all enthus-¢————$$<$$—$—$—$—$$—$$$—$—$——_—— jasm for track and field sports, has become one of the greatest advocates of boxing. “It I go back to coaching at some college when the war ts over,” he told me, “I will refuse to go to any college that will not agree to make boxing one of its major sports, Box- ing ranks next to football as a sport to develop character perhaps even head of fe ll. It is @ splendid hysical exercise, and it gives a man perfect confidence and ability to take hare of himself. I think after the we will have universal physical training for boys and young men, and | we will have boxing everywhere in| the United States. Every man who from the war is going husiast, and 1 r public otticia ng will have at the command the Mnes turned about face and advanced toward each other, “carrying on" with smashing blows at each step, The effect was even more startling than before, for lacking a command to halt the two ines of men crashed together. very man select his opponent,’ shouted Dyer, and for fifteen seconds lore Was @ mix-up, Then again the mand to halt and the laughing men lined up to be dismissed. A fist | fight to these boys is just a joke. Prom Dyer’s classes I went with Capt. Omer down to the recreation sround of the negro regiments, Here nere fighting worth seeing, and plenty of it. I doubt that there Is as x much boxing to be seen of a quiet afternoon anywhere else on earth, The big, level field, about half a quare, Was covered with groups n, playing rough war games. Most of them were fighting. These | black boys are built for the game, 4, Handling the gloves comes naturally t ‘They seemed more lithe and box opposes THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1918, SKETCHES AT CAMP GRANT Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Dvening World.) chance of 0} | catlike their movements € Fred Dyer has made good as boxing | white mon. There wee ae a ane instru at Grant. Dyer hus an in-!noss as they stepped” around each teresting history. His father w other and drove home sudden blows, Irish athlete and boxer and his It was like watching a hundred- er @ Welsh singer. When he was alring circus. I stopped beside one of boy his fu taught him boxing and | the rings, formed by about fifty men want to become a boxer, and | si in a cirele on the ground, un- his mother taught him to sing and/der the direction of a white officer, | wanted him to become a singer. The | Inside the ring were four men with result is that Dyer fights and sings| cloves. ‘Two would fight a minute | equally well, and he has travelled a halt furlous pace, then | a@round the world fighting and sing-| step back and let the other two mix ips in different countrics. In Aus. lit, After cach pair had fought two t he f twenty rounds with] rounds the gloves were pulled off and he great Los Darey w men leaped to take their places, When the war began Dyer tried] In this way the fighting was continu: to enlist in Ca f Was’ turned lols and sak mee Ian tion had down wih ny examiners|his chance, the men being paired off found that inju shi |as weil as possible according to their knee. He could box, but we lame | weights. on @ hike A tow retired after thetr bouts with times to en dripping noses. One big, husky Hig brot! darky was clouted unexpectedly upon ish Arn Fred the nose when he seemed to be win- wante the ice he ning his fight handily. The circle manage era and jeered him good-naturedly about hav- “et to Camp [ here he lasted ing to wash the blood off his uniform, three weeks b s bad kr was until he turned about and sald: discovered. Out again, he applied for “Pat's all right, boys. Ah don't mind @ position as boxing instructor. He washin’ dem pants. Ah wuz jest a was sont to Camp Grant hopin’ to see a little blood.” I found Dyer just as he was about ey fight like wildeats—these to begin work ‘with a class of 300 ek ‘boys—but they seem never to men, It was hot. A Sahara blast was their good humor, They are be- blowing clouds of dust through the hardened to pain and roughing camp, The miles pine board hey like it. IA other circles they buile were obscured in a yellow playing a game that is in great ze mmering heat waves and favor among the negro troops, an in- neing dust devils. Here and there vention of Capt, Omer called “Swat columns of men marched, om di- the Kaiser." Somehow everything in rectly o head the sun bla 1 down these amps turns on atting the as if its rays were centred that | Kuiser, Fifty men stand in @ elrcle one part of all the earth's surfa facing the centre, One drops out of Dyer stood on a raised platform, In! place and walks slowly around be- a minute or two the officers hadj| hind the other id drops a leather marched a company and a half of|belt with a heavy buckle right at men into position in front of him, | some soldier's heels, and the work began. On the plat-| If I were playing that game I'd al- form, stepping, thrusting vicious|ways t.y to pick a fat man who blows into the Imaginary opponent |couldn't run fast, for the man at before him g out orders sharply, | whose heels the belt is dropped grabs Dyer put the men through a number |{t and runs furiously after the one liminary boxing movements. | who dropped it, yelling and swinging There were jabs and thrusts and up-|the belt with all his might, beating percuts. A $ the runner on the buttocks with the then the sharp orde ‘carry on,” at) buckle end. Around they go, while the which the men advanced step -by | circle shriek hter, until the step, striking furiously blow after | pursued makes a te circuit and blow until the salt sweat ran down ips into the vacant place, Then the thelr red faces in streams, and the | other drops the belt for some one else, dust they kicked up inclose and is chased around and larru like a fog. It was an Impressive sight |turn, When the game is over t —three hundred men coming forward | are many limping soldiers to fall in in a mass, stamping the ground, driv- | a+ command, but there is a wide grin ing their six hundred fists in furious |) fyary face, blows. War may be a rough game. But From in front Dyer shouted “This one 1s right on the training for war {9 no scented bed of Healeae's| foece either beak! At night, several nighta in the week, j Ana then—Yea Bo! how those boys |», \xiny ip © held in the did slam big boxing stadium, the finest T ever At he end of yd Dosing eyes | aw It is a huge board structure, oe ar ard ne men to form |S THADe (Leaked weonie Found an assistant Instructor, fac-|circular in shape, flanked by high ng outward, d to advance m3 | at nde Ove usand men tre at the ommand, st ws dhe centre at, he command, sens {can he seated in the stadium Itself fut ely. ‘Then with a wink to me|nd fifty thousand more can find seats tern icred “about face,” and sent |on tho sloping hills within easy range of the ring the t ‘The night I saw a show uts were all of two rounds each, decisions, and every one was a fight, Whites were matched them toward tho centre, striking out 3 before. “hive were three hundred men) stepping swiftly toward a point from | > assistant instructor had|asainst whites, and negro soldiers ne lees against others of their race. ‘The ere was nc 4 to halt. spectators wero marched {nto the Fy oe tik oll pea arena under their officers, for at A soldier doesn’t stop until ordered | {Camp Grant seeing boxing bouts is toSurey ont shouted Dyer, And in| part of the regular training of the an inatant there was the prettiest|men. They are supposed to learn on hundred man battle royal one| fighting methods by looking on, and ed wish to seo, every man strug: | try them out later among themsolves, fling furiously. 19 harame Wayland there is something in the notion pling nire, bare fis ig and{of accustoming the men to the spirit fast clouds envelopin Tt was| of ring, which 18 pre-eminently | breaking 4 hun hand. to| the spirit of battle, hand fights whon Dyer stopped. the eas ticane instantly there were three! sesey and Kilkenay te Raitt pennies i eine ae bee The challenge championship Gaclio Re ERIN BON I are football game between Kerry and Kil fight ‘Yet when they came to ¢ kenny, at Celtle Park, on Monday. Labor Day, ts attracting widespread in- terest among the followers of the sport. The two teams have met in several battles, with no decision. Paie "Gras aden Bod. Grant very few of them had ever put up their hands to bex. In his next class Dyer varied the finishing melee a little by placing the mea in two lines, facing away from other and advancing =: they perech ous win jabs and nooks, ‘gaen Dtonte tone ado PR, a, i a sons inine at at Rit ci #29 Chicago Cubs ton Rec Sox, in which club, have In st ing ive p: game entire who are about the in baseball in that depar' True, also, it is the indi ging ability of Babe Ruth and his li- ability to break up a game at any mo- ment that gives the Red Sc vantage in that departm) vantage not overcome to extent by the fact th Hendrix can go ome in the slugsing line himself. We find now that the t all intents and purpc matched, Boston has in the outfield, Chic: light edge in the infield 1 on catehing, while ( in @ measure by of Ruth, In ordinary World's pitchers and catchers hold all the bal- ance of power, and I expe one or the other team balance this year. To d they do not makes the the pitching strength and the Bos- to reveal marked superiority for one or the other two teams praeti- cally equal, True, the Cubs -the evercome almost hitting power of f Red Sox pitchers, most able citizens ge on straight pitching, possess stu DOPING THE WORLD’S ‘SERIES By HUGH S. . FULLERTON, Article No. 8. THE PITCHERS. CUBS. RED SOX. Offensive, Defensive. Total. Offensive. Defensive, 7838 94 1658 792 858 CUBS. CLEVELAND. 164 wi 828 which makes his ball faster than it ts, and you in @ second,” ing players. and his cl up his que his unexpected speed. Ruth, of course, upon his terrific power. mendousily strong boy, less, and he fast I expected shows the depends He Total. 1615 1569 RE'S a howdydo: The study of | about all the change there is to him ot the|He has an odd manner of delivery appear “it's on top of according to oppos- His curve is just fair ef strength lies in mixing r floating slow ball with largely 1s @ tre- almost tire has great speed and a is a speed mer- cracking curve, @ big lead] Bush, of course, ‘ight pl chant, with a tremendously fast ball and a curve, defens- | #% art of the but that is k pitcher of the game, to break in on ly by the}a marvellous pitcher control, he wants it to break. used in the games tment, vidual slug- the ox thelr ad-/ the ball shoots, and Mays is the oddest man whc te chief reliance 4s upon an un derhand fast ball which he can make a right hander aud away from the left handers, Mays is when he but an easy mark when his underhand ball is not breaking where He ought to be in which Klem umpires behind the bat because Kle can see those low breaking fast bal better than any ump in the business, and @ lot of umps will not give Mays corners on account of the way bit ent, an ad- any great), It is @ tough thing to dope how a nat Claude team in another ue eat against Mays becaus ing like him in the } there 1s noth- ational, I sup ama are to| Pose Mitchell's strategy will be to e wait and perhaps to bunt, which is sade bard to do even for as strong a bunt- ) holding a | 188 team as the Cubs, when Mays ts in possession of all his and a big thicago has which the hitting as he has been, Beries the great strength, pcted, to find that | iscover that udy of indi- riously, peed, Ruth cannot be figured as effective Some of the keen ness has been taken from his pitching by his work in the outfield and he 1s Plainly in need of rest in apite of his but only recently began to take t Ae se Vaughn, of course, 1s Mitchell's ace, Ho has been a great pitcher for ye He has behaved him vidual pitchers more and more im- n perfect condition and has portant, In fact, it looks now as if § team this year ag weil the es will be decided by the skill elf. His con n seems of the ma rs in selecting pitchers and the days of eas to work against certain other pitch-| Work and pre paration ought to send as we will discover when we him into the big show in fine shapc me to analyze the teams as aly w not having the “stuff whole, I have been purposely hold- | au ses, 19 f Ing back that whole study of the| hard probles as teams to the last minute to flgur has one of the nicest slows in the effect of grounds ai ing the games upo also to wait to see wheth minute changes are made Mitchell is a man who pitcher without much starts him, do the guessing. P' the And a depends this time upon which pitoher Barrow names to start since it 1s practically a Mitchell will open with V: The fact will use V ughn, then Ty letting the other manager is that I expect Mitchell business, and he figures Ruth and Hooper bet Vaughn, Ono reason 3 of play- teams, and r any last in the clubs. chooses his regard and pitchers do, I have t great deal| of games in which spring trip, and it played with Ruth, who, the series cinch that ‘aughn, was then, thea, if ler; has pitched @ lot of ball against the older members of the Red Sox and | knows the team better than the other} fore me scores | yler worked for| the Braves against the Red Sox one | looks aa if he | however, i# a nore dangerous batsman now than he | Hendrix 1s a spitballer with @ lot of the 8 goes Well for him, Hene stuff and a good head. and come back with the same th Of the second string men, Chicago | lass being held for 'eS./ has a slicht edge in having Shuffling Boston, it would see ') Phil Do » who will work a whole every one, would open with Ruth, yet if the series is going right, the chances are that Barrow will start sia Mave Adasen Sao ihe ih with a right-hander, and he may la | spring a surprise in the big show!’ put there Is small use in consider with Jones Ht at Adams of this series who has been held because of his ing almost unnoticed, In Leonard left the club, Jones was not| th, Jones has a chance to be the etivity, and this| to season he has come along gradually, |ing more than thre am, a# the schedule will easy to rotate that many. rating | would not be hard for ¢ Babe is a piteher low fact, until | Pitchers, pitchera on each make it) carry out the series with two | This concludes the position study of © teams, To-morrow we will add upon to any great extent as 4| up and see what the total strengths | at element in the alah are, Then we can commen. 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AMERICAN LEAGUE, Louis (wet grounds), West Side Tennis Club, vs. Lyle E. Mahn, West Side Tennis. Club, At 4 P. M-—Robert Lindley Murray, Niagara Falls Tennis Club, vs. S. Howard Voshell, Terrace Club of Flatbush. CLUBS W. L. Pe. | OLUBS W. TL. Pe, Hoston.73 49 .508 | Chicage 57 ATO AU leve . D4 BGS | Bt, 1... Wash ..6 SS O66) Detroit 52 69 N. ¥...60 60 .496| Phile ..60 74 .403) GAMES VESTERDAY. iy aul DEVILLE \ND PHOTO PLAYS. Washington, 6; New York, 1. Four Harmony Hoston, 12) F Hoxton, 44 Philadetphia, 1 Cleveland, 2) Detroit, 1 (1 — SARATOGA SELECTIONS, Race— Dimitri, Sandman, jadelphin, O (Ist game). amo). Cleveland, 4 Detroit, 2 (2d game), «The Four Mo Wives for Ni c Other Bia Features & Acts. vanmlirtiterue, Wheeler & Moran, nit | il gene, Miura an Firat net Annie Edgar “Baby, Kecond Race—No selections. fa Murray, Third R War Marvel, Vindex, | jl! 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