Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1914 — MANY ATHLETES DIE [ARTICLE]

MANY ATHLETES DIE

German Football Players Are Killed in Battle. Men of Prowess In Various Lines of Sport Are Covering Themselves With Glory—Rewarded by Kaiser. Berlin. —Many of Germany’s football players and popular athletes of 1 all branches are at the front Several of the best known been killed. Among them are men who to the Germans mean what Hans Wagner or other famous ball players mean to Americans. There are numerous athletes too who have covered themselves with glory on the battlefield and accounts in the newspapers of their/ heroism add to their popularity. HerrAlbers, one of the “star” players of the Football Club “99” of Cologne, and Lieutenant Wunderlich of the same club have been awarded the Iron Cross. Eugen Uhl, of the “Schwlnqmerbund Schwaben” of Stuttgart, one of the foremost promoters of the swimming sport in southern Germany, has been killed in the fighting in the Vosges. Adolf Rees and Teo Rau of the same club also have fallen on the battlefield. Count Ferdinand Fischler von Treuberg of the swimming club of Munich, Captain Wimsen of the “Heljas” chib of Madgeburg have been killed in France. The Officers club and the Boat Club of Mainz mourns the loss of Captain Ludwig Peters, who was killed in France. Captain Peters founded the Officers club, the most exclusive organization in Mainz, and Was one of the ablest oarsmen in the Rhine province. He was the official representative of the German government at the Olympic tournament in Stockholm.