Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 36, Hammond, Lake County, 15 September 1917 — Page 3
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GOPHERS AND SOLDIERS OPEN FOOTBALL
The East Chicago Gohpers, strong contenders for middle western honors in th lightweight division last year, will start the 1917 football season Sept. 28 when they tackle, the Conserving Flyers of Mur.cie at the East Chicago athletic field. The entire squad of the famous downstate eleven are members of Co. G, 1st Ind. Inf.. stationed ct nast Chicago. The khaki clad warriors have been practicing: dally and expect to be in the best cf trim for the Rame with th'5 Twin City idols. The soldier boys think their team supreme and already several wagers have been reported. It Is probable that se-cral hundred dollars will
change hands on the outcome of the contest as the Muncie eleven has a strong: following- in this locality. In the meantime Captain Darrow of the Gophers is drilling his squad three nights a week. Sunday morning the local crowd will bo sent through a stiff scrimmage practice aftee which Darrow will announce his lineup for the first game. Although minus the services of eight of last year's stars the Gophers are confident of victory over the Muncie lads who in turn see nothing but win for themselves. Anyway there ill be a large crowd out to witness the exhibition.
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October 6th will see the close of the 1917 racing season, it being the occasion of the second Grand Prix race at the Chicago track. President David F. Held officially announced that the required A. A. A. sanction had been secured for a 200-mile race, to be run in four quarters. 20, 30, 50 and 100 miles, the hitherto unheard-of qualifying: markof 105 miles per hour being demanded of all entrants. It will be an invitation affair, with pilots of the calibre of Resta. De Palma, Chevrolet, Mulford, Vail. Lewis. Milton, Alley and other top-notchers in the lists. Besides being the deciding race for the Chicago Speedway championship, it will oiter the last chance for an onslaught on sufficient of the coin of Uncle Sairti to stave off the coal man, the f.our man and the income tax collector, several of the drlvprs
entered having: had a sufficiently prosperous season to Justify their feara In he above connections. It is fflt in local racing: ctroles that the choice of October 6th as a racing date is a happy one. It is likely that the city will be full of baseball Sans arriving- for the world's series, wHich in all llklihood open in Chicago on Sunday, October "th, the dopesters flouring that the Sox would be disposed to hurry westward, for Sunday playing is impossible in the east. If there should bo a conflicting date the race will be postponed until October ICth, the hoodoo number evidently being held In small repute by the racing drivers. The prices will be those established for the Labor day races. J1.00. J2.00 and $3.00, with cars admitted free, but with reserved parking spaces for those desirous of seclusion from the hot polio!.
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Earl Caddack. Earl Caddock, the wrestling wizard, i3 only one of many star ath lotes who have failed to be passed by the examination board in the army draft. Caddock was found to have poor teeth and was told to have them cnrrTd.
By H. C. EAHILTON (Unites Press Staff Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Sert. 15. -With the present lineups of clubs in the major leagrues from which to take bearings it begins to look more and more as if the west is ready to take some of the pep out of the east. With new, peppy clubs gracing the National league roster in Cincinnati and St. Louis, and with Fred Mitchell making motions like a regular mannger. the old one, two. three order of teams in the east, which has prevailed since Fred Clarke and Frank Chance ceased to building championship winners, appeared ready for the discard. Ad, In the American league the same restiveness is asserting itseif. Detroit has been a factor for lo, these many years, so' hardly can be counted stronger than when the Tigers started the season. Cleveland, however, is perking up so fast with Its young pitchers, hard hitters and close defense that more than ordinary attention is going to be centered this winter on the antics of Lee Fohl. The White Sox will have to re counted as a factor again in 1918. The club is comparatively young, and Is holding up well. Unless wrecked by war, the
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White Hosed gang will be right around there wlien the reckoning comes. T'he Cardinals and Keds, however, will get the fearsome eyo from rival National leaguers when they start the 191S chase. Hornsbys, Cruises, Taullettes, Goodwins and such have made of the Cardinals a real championship possibility. Likewise Toneys. Houschs, Grohs, and things like that but mainly the masterful, clever way Christy Mathewson has manipulated the Reds, has, for once, elevated them to the pinnacle of pennant hopes. Mathewson made the-remark before he went to Cincinnati, that he expected to make managing a ball club just as deep a study as he had made of pitching, and ho added that he would make just as much of a success or get out of the way. That much success means a pennant for Cincinnati. Maybe It Isn't so far in the offing.
Famous athletes, many of them boxers, are failing to "get by" In the examinations following their being called for the new national army. This is astonishing to the folks who take a keen interest In all sports, for they are unanimous in the opinion that men who are in such, good physical condition that they can battle In the ring, plaj baseball, .contest in track athletics, wrestle, or do other things that require endurance and vigorous action, should make husky soldiers of great value to their country in wartime. - We have for example the case of Tommy Gibbons of St. Paul, brother of Mike Gibbons, who by many Is considered second only to the St. Paul Phantom in the middleweight ranks of pugil
ism. This same Tommy Gibbons was among the early birds in the call, and. according to our information, which comes from St. Paul, Tommy was ready to do his bit lor his country. But when he was called before the examination board it was discovered that he was afflicted with hernia and the board promptly rejected him. Hard Fight Eoeta't Bother. Now it happened that at this time Gibbons was matched to battle George Chip. the Newcastle (I'a.) scrapper, than whom it would bo hnrd to find a tougher middleweight. Knockout Erown of Chicago and a lot of other fellows in Chip's class. Including the renowned Alike Gibbons, ran verify this statement. So only a fevv days after being rejected. Tommy hopped into the ring and went ten hard rounds with Chip, winning the popular verdict. Pretty good for a fellow with a hernia, who cannot fight for his country. There have been several other boxers rejected as unfit for army service, but there's a tale worth telling about a yourg man who wouldn't, be turned down and today is In the service and probably soon will be In France. This boy's name Is Johnny SchlfC, a lightweight battler. Ho never achieved wonderful success in the ring, tut when he adopted the profession of mitt slinging a few years ago he stuck to it and hasn't done anything else since. Schiff Tries to Ealikt. Now Schiff, who Is a Canadian and who In past years did a little scrapping for his native country, receiving an honorable discharge after having been wounded, is on hlB way to do a little alugglng with the Germans. Schiff first tried to enlist in the army and was turned down because he has a crooked arm and an impediment in his speech. That little rejection, however, didn't stop the determined Schiff. He simply thought about it a little while, then dacided to try another branch of the service. He went to the Great Lakes naval training station and offered his services there. Result another rejection, rinds Place at Xid.it. Schlff'a last effort to enlist brought iilm into the camp of the select University of Chicago ambulance corps, and thero he got by with the result that today he is "somewhere in America" and before long will be "somewhere in France." A fellow that will fight like .Schi;? had to do to get a chance to fight certainly ought to do his ehare of damage to the Teutons. Earl Caddock, the Anita (la.) farmer wrestler, who is considered the heavyweight champion of the world, Is another famous athlete to be rejected. Caddock was In the first quota selected, but he failed to pass the examination. He was rejected because of defective teeth. Ho was told to return after having the necessary repairs made.
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