The evening world. Newspaper, January 4, 1919, Page 8

ee ee ee oe coe WAR STORIES SHOW | i +- 3 Letters From the Front on Army Sports Contain Many a Thrill ; and Mention Many Names Well Known to the Sport : World—Johnny Schit! Had Many a Close Call “Right in a ‘| the Midst of It” in U.S. Army Ambulance Service, y Robert Edgren. ' Now York Brening World.) | ¢ front, Nearly all of then} SIV many pe rs | are about army sport make some mention of the boxers who | ' ‘have fullowed the colors into battle. Many names are mentioned, and “Mie and there 1 find a paragrapl of unusual interest. The readers of this | column will probably be Just as much ~~ 4 interested as I am in some of the| iQ men mentioned and their war ex-/ Eigen periences There is our old friend Johnny Schiff, for instance, the feather- ht, who voluntarily enlisted in tes Army Ambulance welg ted St " ervice and has been on the Itallan | ront. From somewhere down there | Johnny wrote me a letter Nov. ‘ which was only recently delivered “Right in the midst of it,” Johnny dates his letter, And he goes on: for a free world. Have t week, and at times it is he great strug ‘Am over on this front in eea under heavy fire Ward to tell the difference $n a nearby woods to change a punctured tire, and the vibration of the guns | th the near distance wa having the car on the jack it| shook off as if some derrick bad lifted it into the air, So had to run into “emp on th n. Am advancing every day with the Italian infantry, and | ap fast at tines that we into our own artillery fire. | Phe cry of the Italian soldiers is ‘On to Vienna!’ and when they advance they tak of prisoners. The roads leading to the rear are lined | ‘with droves of war prisoners, and they look very happy to be alive—but as night for the p: cen day and night. Yesterday had to stop o great that af aid of running if-ahey could stand to a few square meals, “I saw seven Austrian airplanes come down in a heap and got a few €fiefals off the dead aviators, I really look to have Christmas dinner back | Wome with my folks. By the time you receive this letter 1 am quite sure YoU will have heard of the fall of Austria’s gre old. “ave not had a hot b ren test strong thontt wy fw t 1 6 cause—a real honest-to-good. over you by a companion is a ‘bath'| ness battle with Jack Dempsey Fer hore | Fred Pulton—twenty rounds, and ail| ney to the Cre uid sure be more poy ifter that Havana s Fund. ar than ight. If mad IT wish he | ‘Save had many narrow escapes time Vince being on this front; ¢ ad front wh hot off. Another | w bad t no Kome. boy's shoes at. the Was when I stopped along the road to! front for only about ten minutes, of water fur the car's radi-! when t he is sending « barrage get,a bp ator from a nearby Fesurned I found only hyplance, and the other half smashed | Demy vo nd Fulton in’ the same ces about a hundred yards away | Ting, and I pet he'd surely fight and pryoee about'a hund aW2y | put the two of them away. Tam sure )mpossiblo to tell you about the pa-| no one can hurt him-saw him fight Ment The Italian soldiers are a) McCarty and Kearns. That's all I | have to write, but hope when you re- his letter it will find you in the] health, how T miss your great dunch of fellows, and think Yanks’ the only race in the world. | ceive merican infantry, all Qhio | best ¢ yivania fellows—d ring page! Regards to all from a lish and French soldiers a oklyn fight fan whien (mas are sow 1 50 PRIVATE ANTHONY PELO, SnO talk with thom. 1 can talk} Rainbow Division. “Always a great lover of your | sporting column,” writes another sol. |dier from “Somewhere in Franc Noy. 3, “and read your article yester- American Boxers in Paris. | day on the boys that are in the game Vohnny Dundee off the map in his OWa language now, Must JOUNNY SCHIFF.” NY BOXERS “DID THEIR BIT" Tornoe Sewers Map THE FRONT WMEELS East OFF Tuer AMBULANCE HE WAS. Deewine « THE EVENING WORLD, TEN MATES AT Tue Front Weve Have Mane WILLARD WILLING To FIGUT DEMPSEY AND FULTON AN TUE SAMS RING, FoR THe RED Coss, SAYS SeoviGa-: ONS WOUNDED To Quit Swimming Races If J He.Lands a Good Job National and “Met” Title Holder 2,500 Sailors How to Swim. pe ; | us their bi boxing instructors, ser ret. Ray Sm write Ihut why not mention the boys who +o Dt “Ecame to Paris to box Georges | have Kone over? By Alex, Sullivan. @arpen bu Hats off to little Johnny Lore,’ the nds upon what sort of a Qt on a ' best Hehtweight New York City ever lands whether or not Joc ing him nA produced, Who beat them all when hel ‘ KA C Atiting tt wa j was good, Met Leo Johnson here last! y of the . veasor t 1 tried to lay a week » He had a bout!holder of nation put Georges hwa Jentally, t ‘ th Mel Co Hi whi ‘0 he lost, al-|swimming titles, will continue to com Wise bird woke up u ' though it could have been called a/?* anak navents was thy have in Pa Shea) ibskt: fete 1 nH ld me little Johnny was Pete in champlonshij ib 2 id is doing 1} b He was killed inaction, 1 take much pride in| a busy lad yesterday, lool thre Wounded front, and n Johnny, as hy the best of them {the help wanted columns of the Mo! R « amnm when he 24 » eich as KK. 0.) m7 > i World trying to tind Mice of rete tees tra | Brown, when Rrown was at his best, 22s and Evening World try Jab of | 0 ( the St. Nicholas; Johuny Dundee, |a position. Bhates Army. “1 hap the Star Casino; One Round Ho-| Joe hax just been honorably dis a, ” Jsome more, Hest regards e b done tif Irving O Hay He's a ‘ charged from the navy, having when he ances t ‘ 1 Pe Sd Heels [charge ror Uncio Sum.’ Ho has been he ‘ PDRYO Reeh | Mentoh Charles) stationed at the Federal Kendezvou an I ¢ Ledoux’s name as avi ; iy of the lin Brooklyn for the past t months us” WP anotl nd Lean Lena hi e has taught about air sate thet (iis te & eee, 4 during that tim ' ey boy |the 00 sailors how to sw | | showed up. Of course I was not able Has Just Been Discharged |*°. 1" From Navy, Having Taught f ani aya 1 % was twenty-six years old st und bout with id Wheatley to day IT now xed jaw Now York t hat Lam tust getting along in sew A | Port n ioe mrenes, the d it’s about time that 1 secured 2.4 Noth corges Carpen- | MY, future I had f pret y oa au Wounded | ter ecamag eens |when the war broke out, but, thirs \ ihoueh {Wasn't enough money In ‘ as Martin Canole-- |¢ ! 1 and more worried abou asin euty 1 ons, they | records than anything clee, 1 i ua for an th Yi ferent now. If 1 secure a position | : ‘ # for another which will prevent my continuing / Al Benedict, who to participate in swimining, rac Bay \ Ary ao De Hie Beg [VHT be tough, but: work com * i Mitchell's old manag from now on and pars 1 f . ‘original aakirs| secondary importance” I w mM over thare|¢, Wheaticy holds the na tonal, A.A. ie IARVEL of the armise| Us champion hips at $00 and 1.5 i MM N “ ya ane ne etropolitan at a mile Boch pr ie. se at Jon Ffe heat Vollmer by one minute and 1s 1 patti Some day ltnirty-six seconde at Steeplec iia Kerlin. ‘The Ya We Old) park in 1915 ina mile event. Aloo in nist k ith y thing the| 1915 he went to the Coast and J, Hoing running ang | second to Rudie Langer in the aia Wounded Yank Would Like to » Kamerad!" "We nave a for of | eF, Nall and mile races: Dut ut M q rt enthusiasts, Oup| W&s necessary for Rudie to ¢ Be Willard, M nber of the Boston A. {new world's records in order to f r t ' : New Yorker, who pressed him M Magill, trom pat or . \ r 1 ra ' No go fans, 1d Allen ’ 1 one cold « | yanish ' Influen: 4 e soErstl ¢ is > Kill it quick. RACING SELECTIONS. Biles VEW ORLEANS jy CASCARA fee QUININE boy) tandard cold remedy f m—sale, sure, no Opa 24 hours—relieves grit if it fails. The ger With M:. Hill's picture hard all the way ‘Among other notable feats chieved y Wheatley was to beat Duke H smoky, the famous Hawaitan, 4 New York A.C. ina 220-yard race. a \ Vollmer imoin the final Last) summer NouK n een in the water for six me won the Michiga ate champic » and 109 yard. Jon was born in this city and 4 the r part of his life in the old Nin 4 at No, 88 Charles Street nr cof Rea 1 1 naturally be inelined to tein hat Joe was “horn in the water 1 Jit was only six years ago that he got | dip. There was a dr On th arted to learn to swim Vtw ars after wa fir ° Yon He one ated Ve ind n t “l ison reet t vn Liriad hard to for / Joo, “because 1} SMA Ye went off on a good ters 1 how our tea Ww ‘Of course you won t I replied. “oN but we “Well, w AS nd in th O-yard 1 m point hono “When L ret urned to th he executive © wo mad uid I We ay, but L won the ces, which gave adquar- Mfficer asked me out ay race, n't win that won all the rest of the race ‘And the 106 Again I told him I o won thie p0-vard 4 “Well, who ¥ t us in the 2207 By this time L shining in the chie ‘Lalso won that,’ 1 After that — there ‘ team, needless to say t ‘ 16 first time on record that a tean was disbanded beeau it won a miec H While Gunboat Smith. th veteran nie borkp Wan wilt Ruffalo on last M ' le b rece 4 $1,775 for The |"Gunner™ fought fo per cent, of the li at the w figuring up $7.1 Demp 1 iar Hi Tommy Walsh, ma 1 Pal st reduces the price whieh he demands for Moore t awiton " are th | | mm cS fe Hebrew avoweigh J with wot be a hos exsin ¢ ’ Nath rere” I | Puued . t . & of ©. of Phitadelphte on New oa \ h J esinaty was i ting 30 ' was declarisd K ever Grand 08 t 1 aile M ont |, ‘ A A ot Frida a. dan. a. ' sod ‘ F \ Hulgueen 1 the bout Willy Minke ap » meet UY ATURVAT, JANUARY #, 4, 1919. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK BOXERS WHO PROVED Y To utte SJounny Lome *ress Publighin ” While no official taken by the Columbia uthletic authorities with refer: maintenance rowing at Morning ot th soe! posal f the: ropre nd t Princeton and Pennsyivan Manual Trainin High torie night Ameri on whi to hav se plans matu iin hat it will a © for the School hockey at the Brook! in the I 4 me i Mfice of Pree Piney wil tre Herman cog ese 6 | Joe Wheatley of N.Y.A.C. (Sport Briefs action has been University ce to of intercollegiate side Heights this year, plans are already under way for the shaping of a schedule and Colum- bia will be represented at the meeting an College Rowing As- » is to be held in Phila- delphia next week to discuss the pro- real Henley regatta |for college crews during the coming season, It is practic ally certain that k venting World) a “ Ps Bop Savon SERVED S years wiTh THE Foreian LEG! dents. UTOMOBILES New Y 1918. 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Nothing like Musterole for croupy chil- the teams and dren. Keep it handy for ir nt use, w Last Wig! 30c and 60c jars, hospital size $2.90, " ‘ i é CUNT OAS ES Con UA RR ‘ \ car Bro.dway) whi he aad “Re noua of beae Poe: throat, bronchitis, tonsilitis, croup, stiff | MY 4 sy