Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 235, Hammond, Lake County, 2 April 1918 — Page 7

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BASEBALL AMATEURS II SESSION

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Tk C'.v U-ag-c held K-eeklv meeting at the Br

.t nisrht in Chicago. Prey-dent John Hvrne was m the ihstir. with John Miihael hinvnv acting as sfcrtfar A ommiUoe on.ist'.n.5c of Tnmmv Carr, :? Parduhn. Edward McGarry ani ;:.i;rtette Smith was appointed to draw it a sehedul '! !h i--nitnR season. pniTsf April 2S. Harry Cohen of the rodger Trainings was appointed ehairran of the committee on publicity foe tsf of umpires is to be selected; "t f:n a list to be presented by the manig.ra of the league. The ai;iif will rtect next Monday night so-n place.. The principal businc?? of thp night i the m'x'tiiis of the f'hicago ball - which wa. in session at the !ohwk ctnb in the Windy City wa.' . straightening out of the reserve ists handed in ?or,in time ago hy the uh manager.. Jo Weis.. who wat Oa'med by both the Garden City and r-.e G'JnthT5. was awarded to the forPresident Rill Neisen. who if alio ve.i1pnt of the prnt-.-t board and r?nar of the J'inthera, on of the ;-.bs contending for the services of iss. settled the question before a :ha nca for vote could be taken, by rninjr Weis over to tht Garden

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United Pre?s Ptsff Cnrreipondfot) versity of Pennsylvania, believes that NEW YORK. April 2 The r sump- the advent of another autumn will find tlon of boat racinjr. baseball, tra.k eastern "'dl'-ges ecAag along at the and other sport" at the blttner nniver- same old pace. Pennsylvania, by the aifiea of the east foreshadows a re- way, was one of, the few bl eastern turn of football when next fall rolls coilces that ignored the troubles inarounJ. (idnt to the war and went rieht abend Thj terrible Wo that wa dealt with its athletic problem? and no one' college pports in 1S17 probably will not n say Pennsylvania has not done be repeited this year. At any rate its share of the war-work. It may be stated positively that the Irn- Sports suffered through the lack of petus plven sports by the sprincr and i(S sames last year. Football was only early summer events already iH-cn a half way sort of frame with the sanct'on will give sports a start for the splendor of Harvard and Tale. Harwinter that should branch into some- vard and Princeton and Princeton and thir.ar ral before the end of the year. Yale. There is no use to surround the War or no war. it has h"n found issue with camoufaKe. Yale. Harvard that athletics must be carried on. The and Princeton uphold the torchlight attention the war department is pay- which leids football. Without these in to sports has had some effect in b1sc grames football is only so so. These producing- this feeling, but the cry of j eames are to football what the world's the public and the athletes themselves i seri's is to baseball. They btinif a has had more to do with it. College j climax of srlory. (rritty determination.

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mentors have come to the conclusion that arbitrary euttinfr off a man's chance for physical development and concentrating time on othT things

reads like the old proverb: "Ail work

end no play makes .Pick a dull hoy." War-time football, therefore, may be loot. forward to No less an authority than Coach Robinson of the T'ni-

and drama to the football season. The Army and Navy always have supplied a color that was sadly missed last year. This binr grames. however, seems definitely abandoned, but the army and navy reasons are far more Important than those which emanated from Cambridge and N w Haven when hostilities broke out.

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They asrreed jointly to seine Wolf PittsburK Pirate, and now a Brave, was Lake, which Is partly in -a-h state, the man who caught the ball. Wilson and at the request of Alderman Cross and Humphreys have been friends for the coarse fish will to- s,.ld under the! years, ever since Art used to catch direction of Game Warden Oscar Staff. I inr P.loo-ninsrton in the old Three F.yes to the people of South Chicago, at the j ICfteue. Humphreys was in the whole-

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LEONARD IS SHAPING FOR BOUT WITH BARREL

NEW TORK, Anril 2 Hnr.y I-eon-lt d. world's lightweight champion, has egun to get himself in condition fur i s return to the ring next week at ""hiladelpltia when lie meets Young fe Barrell. Leonard has done no looting since hn began his duties as joxing instructor at Camp Upton.

MALONE IMPRESSES FANS IN GYM WORK Wi.e ones among the ring sharks rho watched Jack Malone the new ?t. ran! sensation, go through his ires at. the Arcade yesterday, agreed .hat Bryan Downey, the Columbu wel-r-wcight, faces a defeat, if not a mocUi.-i. when they meet in the Fort ?beiidan ring Thuisdav night. Maione is a combination ..t a Billy 'ap and itike Gibbons rolled into ne, as an old-timer expressed if. He .oxes with the skill and dash of Oihwn and hits with the power of Papke en the Hltnois Thunderbolt was boxrg at the top of his ring career. The 8;. I'aul battler stepped s:x ounds. three with Johnny Rose and with Johnny Salvatore.

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hiah cost of living and at request of

i Mr. Deuter. the lake will be stocked I with game fish for the benefit of the 'people who haven't the price ,.r time

to ko fishing in the lakes of V i.-'-onsin and Michigan. The proceeds of the sale f the coarse fUn will go to the fishermen who are to do the seining.

Millor Hajrginn stirring 'em up at the training camp. There will be a little more pep and ginger in the American league this season if Miller Hugfjins, Yanks' new boss, can manage it, and anyono wbo knows the small manajrer will admit that he is able to do it. The sort of ginger and scrappirress that Hugging brings with him will not be unwelcome in the younger circuit, where that sort of thins is enjoyed.

WOLF LUKE TO BECOME I FlSeiifS DELIGHT Black Bass and Pickerel to Replace Carp and Fish of That Ilk.

Ye anglers and the entire Calumet community, sit up and take notice! No longer will it be necessary for you to go to the Wisconsin and Mich

igan lakes, and to more remote parts j

of the country to engage lit your fav-

orite pastime. Wolf Uake is to afford you as fine a variety of fishing as any amateur fisherman would desire, as a result of arrangements which South Chicago and

Hammond people are perfecting.

Chicago Calumet. Alderman Cross of So CWk ago has taken an interest in ang'.ir.g. Some time ago lie talked the M."ttir over with Oscar Staff, the game warden, who told him how the carp, the Hickory Shad and the Buffalo and other fish now populating Wolf Lake could be exterminated and replaced ty Mack bass, pickerel, perch, blue gills, sun fish and th like. "Let's do It." Baid the alderman. Saturday a conference was held. Aid. Cross. Warden Staff and Herbert C. Deuter of the Chicago Journal, representing the Hod and Gun Clubs of Calumet and Wolf Lakes, met with R. F. Bradford. Illinois State Game Warden and Fred Madden and C. T, McGarry. representing thu fish and (fame department of Indiana.

AERO BASEBALL. Catcher Art Wilson t Ilriivea flitches Sphere Uroppcil from Plane hy Illinois Flyer. By John ALCOCK.

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when Art was performing for that town.

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Catching a baseball dropped from the top of Washington monument in the national capital has been the prize fent In professional circles for years. Only a few star catchers, among them Hilly Sulivan, of the White Sox and Charley ?treet of Washington, have been able to perform that stunt. Now an Illinois boy has brought out a new trick, which seems f u more difficult In three tests in dropping a baseball from an airplane traveling about S( miles an hour, this flyer succeeded in dropping one which was caught by a player standing within the pitcher's limits. Hoger Humphreys is the aviator who performed the trick. He pulled it recently at Miami. Florida, at the park where the Boston Braves were playing an exhibition game Art Wilson, former Chicago Federal catcher, then a

LONDON Boys from 12 to 14 years old now serve as "white wings" in London. Handles of shovels and brooms are shortened for them and they dodge in and out among busses and other traffic cleaning the streets. LONDON A young American officer from the middle-west, after three days of seasickness, while enroute here pro

duces this: "Don't talk to tne about , fighting for freedom of the seas. Anybody who wants the a- ocean is j welcome to my part." LONDON. The American army al- ' ready has the reputation among the Tommies of being a "tee total ' army. The Tommy gets his regular ration of j rum in the trenches. He can't under- i stand the Americans preference for ! water and hot stew.

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Every dollar you spend for non-essentials goes to buy labor to make an unnecessary tiling and it takes it away from government work. So lonjj as you have not bought your quota of War-Savings Stamps you really have no right to complain about our boy lacking their supplies

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Left to right E. W. Cochrane, stakeholder; Jess Wil!ard, Col. J. C Miller, promoter; Fred Fulton, and Mike Collin. Fulton's maBayer. Willard and Fulton have agred to all the terms and have signed-the papers for thoir big fight on Jaly 4th, nd the picture abova shows them engaged ln doinr it There ia yet to bo a bit of discusaion aa to the purse which the pair will split and the most dependable ' amors bo far say that Willard is to pick off $120,000 for his friil while Fulton will get about $25,000. The place, and referee have rot been picked, bat it prooably won't take as lonjr to pick them as it did to drae Willard into an arrrrecimer.t.

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