Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 73, Hammond, Lake County, 9 October 1918 — Page 12

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"Knockout Meyers Now inj Aviation Corps and Anx-, ions for a Bout With AnyJ Hun in the World. ;

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Th sporting- editor of T!iKTiv..K3, acknowledges tho following fi iritevt letter from "Knockout" Meyers an Knst ChCtgo boy who Is now at Co. A. CuxnPKie Institute, rittsburgh, in the a elation corps. Ha says: Co. A, Carnegie Inst., Oct. 5.j,151S. To Sporting Editor, The Times, Hammond. Ind. Dear Sir: Just a few lines to remind you nnd also the fight fans of r northern Indiana that "Knockout" I Meyers is still among the living. I didn't get tired of the boxinff s:nme : or didn't like it, for I still 1'ox for the boys out here in camp attd also bold two titles, the 115 lb. championship of the Valpariso le. and also the Carnegie Tech. Iwre in Pittsburgh, but t thought it (wasn't in It. So I took up Uncle Sam's style of fighting and now stand reedy to meet the best Him that ever dares to appear in No Man's Land. I have received three r.onths' training here at the Carncgie School Technology and have been 'ssigned to the aviation corps. We iro due to leave any day. . We are all well out here and have the Spanish influenza pretty welli

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"KNOCKOUT" MEYERS. che-ked. We will have our Thanksgiving dinner over there, but let's hore we have our Xnns dinner here at home with the folks and the way our boys are going after them now it's just a matter of a short time now. Well, I guess this is all I have to say row. Hope this letter finds you all well and in good spirits, and also we boys were surprised to hear of the Liberty Bonds that were sold out your way. I got The Times the o'.hrr day and about twenty of us pretty near got in a fight over it. It sure makes a fellow feel better when he gets a paper from home. I have The Times sent to me from home every day and it sure keeps me from getting lonesome. Yours respectfully, KNOCKOUT MKTERS, 105 lb. Champion of Xorth. Ind.

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I REVISED BIG 10 DATES ! SATUEBAT, NOV. 8. Iowa Illinois at TJihana. Northwestern v. Michigan at Ann Arbor. Purdue Chicago at Chicago. SATURDAY, NOV. 9. ZlUnols vs. Wisconsin at Madison. Michigan vs. Chicago at Chicago. Minnesota vs. Xowa at Iowa City.

SATURDAY, NOV. 16. Ohio vs. Illinois at TTrhana. Wlsccnsln vs. Minnesota at Minneapolis. Chicago vs. Northwesters at Chicago. SATURDAY, NOV. 23. Illinois vs. Chicago at Chicago. Minnesota vs. Michigan at Ann Arbor. Wisconsin vs. Ohio at Colamhns. SATURAY, NOV. 30. Ohio vs. Michigan (either Columbus or Ann Arbor.) Minnesota vs. Chicago at Chicago.

loothall schedules of the "Big Ten" were completely revised at a special meeting of the coaches and athletic directors of the Middle Western seats of learning here yesterday. They were changed to conform to the War Department ruling limiting the teams to two forty-eight-hour trips next month. All games previously scheduled ior October were canceled, so the Western Conference championship season will be entirely confined to November. The season will open on Nov. 2 and close on Nov. CO, the Saturday following Thanksgiving, instead of the preceding Saturday, as had been the conference custom for years. One of the coaches attempted to scheduleule Thanksgiving Day games with conference elevens, but as holiday football always has been a big attraction in th" Middle West, some of the coaches undoubtedly will arrange games with service elevens. It will be tho first time since 1905 that Thanksgiving Day football will be served followers of the sport hereabouts.

GOVERNMENT GIVES. NATIONAL SEMI-PRO LEAGUE FULL 0. K

CLKVIXAXD, O., Oct. 9. The government has approved the pUin of the National LlascbaH fedrrntion to form a semi-professional lentil" t' play in major league parks on Sat ji days jui'l Sundays during the corning season, it was announce,! here last rii 'ht by Clayton Townes, Cleveland's Member of the executive committee of (he federation, upon his return from Washington. Townes, with Cliff Mnrtln of Cincinnati, president of the federation, and Ualph Davis of I'lUf-ljunrh, executive board member, conferred with members of the war activities commission and wjth officials to the railroad administration. Week-End Trips Possible. The latter believe the week-end trips of the teams could be made without handicapping railway facilities. The league will be comprised of teams representing eight cities including Chiago, Detroit, Cleveland, riti sbiirgh. Cincinnati, and Akron. The remaining two will be selected from Louisville, Indianapolis, Johnstown, JPa. : Canton and Dayton, O. F.ach city will have at 1 ast two clubs, one remaining at home, while the other is on the road. Receipts to Soldiers Sports. After traveling expenses and the upkeep of the parks have been deducted, the receipts will go to the national commission on training camp activities for athletic equipment for soldiers and sailors.

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Vincent Richards of Yonkers, N. Y., seems destined to become one of the foremost lawn tennis players of this country. In 1917 he won the national boys' title. This year ho has won tha boys' championship, the national men's doubles with William T. Tilden and tho national junior doubles with Howard Taylor. Richards will not be 13 years of age until next Jlarch.

are business nicn, having offices in New York.

The Anglo-American baseball league, made up of enlisted men in England, played more than 150 games this year. There Is talk of organizing a league made up of London, Manchester, Sheffield. i:1rmi:igham. Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh and in addition two clubs in London.

following closely upon the action of the Ontario Rugby Football Union in

(abolishing the scrimmage buck, the To

ronto High School Rugby League has adopted a similar rule. The abolishing of the scrimmage buck with mass plays in Canadian Rugby football, and to make the play mure open. It tends to produce more spectacular Rugby and is also bettor for tho spectators to watch.

Some 75,000 pcoplo paid admission on one day at the Wisconsin state fair at Milwaukee and between 150,000 and 160.000 were claimed at Hamline, Minn.

goalkeeper for the Merchants Ship soocor team of Bristol. Pa., which will bi entered In the National League Berles an 3 also the National and American cu tourneys this season. I'earce is one ol the most expert goalkeepers in the east and has played the position for half dozen years for prominent teams ol Philadelphia.

Coronado Country Club, near San Diego, Cal., wiil revive military pony polo this winter. Metropolitan Association of the Amateur Athletic Union Is represented by over 1.500 of its 2.627 registered athletes in the war service of this country.

Amateur billiard players of Philadelphia and New York City will play s home and home game at 18.2 balk lin for charity. The Philadelphia matches will be r laved October 14, 15 and 19 and the New York games October II, 22 and 23. Prominent academies el each city will stage the matches. For the f,rst time in many years th West Hudson soccer team of Harrison, N. J.. will not be represented. The Jersey A. C. and Disston A. A., the former

fof Jersey City, N. J., and the latter of

Tacony, Pa., will not take part in th N'afional League race thia season.

Secretary Thomas CahiU of the United States Football Association is managing the Chinese students soccer team of NewYork City. During seven months ending July 31 last over 31.000 balls for all kinds" of

games were sent to France for use of i enlisted men by the Canadian Y. M. j C. A. They included baseballs for in-'

door and outdoor contests, soccer, rugby, lacrosse, tennis and volley balls.

Athletic contests are to be among features of the. California Liberty fair to be held at Exposition park. Los Angeles, October 12 to 26. A football game will be among the features.

Harry Pearce, second baseman of the Philadelphia National League nine, is

CULVER SEEKS CONTESTS WITH LOCAL TEAMS Ct'I.YFi:. 1XD, Oct. 9. War tim conditions, which resulted in the cancellat'on of several games, have If ft ths football schedule for Culver Military academy with several holes. The cadets are anxious to took games with high school or preparatory school elevens around Chicago, to be played here. The open dates are Oct. 19 and Nov. 2, 16, and 2S.

P. CARROLL IS

VISTIM OF FLU P. J. ("Paddy") Carroll, noted as a I boxing promoter in the days when the glove sport p'ayed "big time" in Chica- i go. is dead, a victim of pneumonia following an attack of Spanish influenza, j Death occurred Monday morning at his;

home. "54 Kast Twenty-sixth street. For more than two years "Paddy," as he always was called by his friends, was a sufferer from diabetes, and for eighteen months was in a Chicago hospital undergoing treatment. It was two weeks ago that he was attacked by influenza, which developed into the fatal pneumonia. ' It was in 1SS0 thst Mr. Carroll came to Chicago, and incidental' saw his first pair of boxing gloves. He soon became .idept as a boxtr and von the heavy

weight championship of Illinois. Later

he boxed all the heavyweight stars when they vir-ited Chicago, i.v - ting Charlie Mitchell, A'.f Creenilels, Paddy Ryan, Jack 'Burke, and others. Before entering the boxing game as a matchmaker and manager of fighters he spent three years in California. He was matchmaker for Rattery D and other clubs and the most successful boxer he managed was Tommy Mowatt, the stockyards lightweight, who died a year ago.

The Schoellkopf Memorial clubhouse at Cornell University will be closed as headquarters for the athletic system of the college within a few w? :ks and turned over to the college authorities, probably to be used as a barracks for cadets of the aviation department. The Cornell boathouse at Cayuga Inlet will be closed and the shells stored for future use.

Swimming is enjoying wide popularity in France. A crowd of 300,000 watched contestants in the recent cross-Paris race.

The recent four-round boxing bout between Jack Dcmpsey and Willie Meehan netted $17,000. which was divided between Pacific coast navy and army for the purpose of securing athletic equipment.

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One of the greatest coursing events In the history of dogdom will be the meet at Army City, just across the reservation east of Camp Funston, Kansas, from October 12 to 20, when tho national futurity dog races and Waterloo cup stakes races will be run. More than four hundred greyhounds will participate for prizes aggregating $6,000.

Organizations fostering swimming are beginning to wonder what they will do for instructors hereafter. Many of the country's leading coaches already are engaged in war work of some kind, and many others will be taken In the new draft, so the tield is likeV to be quite bare in the future.

The Shackamnxon Golf Club of NewYork boasts eight Japanese golf players undc-fthe tutelage of Cyril AValker. pro

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