Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 113, Hammond, Lake County, 22 October 1918 — Page 7

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JAPANESE GIANT WITH A CEREAL NAME TRIES HIS HANI) AT THE GRIDIRON GAME

There nil! be something besides station championships i stake m lh weekly boxing: bout.- -t the Great Lakes Jsval Trainins Station tomorrow affrii"on. IV r the first iim rsi n Commander John B. Kaufman and Lieut. "Jack" Kennedy have birn putting on open air shows in the r;iv ine arena, professional mittsmiths who are acilng as instructors at the station will be present in the ring and nghtingfor something. This change tn the usual program Ins been brought about by the card of fistic battles among service men scheduled to take place In London on Pee. 11 and 1 .

King orf is offering trophies for the !

winners in the various classes, and Admiral Sims of our navy has ordered the Great Lakes officials to ship their very best to England.

Two Sure of Flacei. j Only two of the station warriors who foughr with the gloves for a living before the war are certain of place in the team which will make the trip.! Kaufman and Kennedy have derided on

some elimination battles among the. rest of their professional stars, and tomorrow will see the first of these scraps decided. Promising amateurs also are

eligible. j The bouts in England will be partici-j rated in by boxers from nil allied forces, and the Yankee navy is anxious ; to win the championships from the rival j fleets. i Pal Moore, the Memphis bantam-; weight, and Ritchie Mitchell, Mi'.wau-j kee lightweight, are the only giovemen j sure of being chosen for places in Uie i Great Lakes delegation. Dennis O'Keefe. j a middleweight, and Jack Heinen. a I heavywe-siht, are said to be fairly surej of taking the jaunt. !

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Otina, a Japanese student weighing 170 pounds, is tryini? for the varsity with the University of Chicago football squad. Otina was formerly a champion in Japanese wrestling. He was sent to this country to learn American athletics. Like all Jap3. he is an expert at ju-jutsu.

EDDIE GRANT IS ! KILLED III ICTlOHj j Former Major Leaguer andj i Harvard Star Dies Aid- i t ing "Lost Battalion."

HUNS HAVE BOWLING ALLEY BEHIND LINES

CHlOAG'i. Oct., 22. The Tanks have their sports behind the line in France and so do the Huns. At least h letter from Howard K. Huske, a leil Dog. to his mother here indicates that such is the case. IHike was among theso doing business when the marines ran the Oermans bow legged in the, St. Millie! salient. In his letter he said that particular pie'-e of vork was easy. As for the German and his sports. Buske writes that, among other things discovered by the marin.es in their drive was a complete bowling alleV in a thick wood immediately to the rear of the first line. The boy were too busy covering ground to stop and try their luck at. the game, but Eluske says he tarried long enough to notice that the pins were there, but th bowling hails wt re gone. He also w rote that many dugouts were encountered, some of them elaborately fitted

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From Alfred M. Stoker. Camp idtrrilt, N'uw Jersey, ilditor Times: Just a few lines to let you know that I'm out of the base hospital after being in there for twenty-one days, and I'm bure shd I'm out or that they put me en.; for a few days. After was out they had 650 cases of Spanish inlluf-uza come in and also hd 45 die in 10 hours, so you see I'm lucky I got away from there. My Coot is about the same, 1 can't walk on It yet. although I get around a little and I'm glad that I did not get my foot cut off. otherwise I'm feeling Kod. This in to Frank Blocker: Harry 'Shorty'" Hankee, an old school mate of the J D 16 clais, sends his best to him and the old boys). "Shorty" is the fellow that used to be around Dcais's and hung around Marie Iiates quite a bit. lie is my class mate now. I'm also with an old Hammond boy, Charlie 1'orsythe, from Wilcox avenue. He was made mass sergeant and is our cook, so ou see I have it good for when ii comes to the eats Charlie Is on the job and today we sure hud some dinner din-ken. r" cream and anything we w: tiled; that is. only "Shorty' snd 1. You can figure every time a Hammond ff!!ow gets a job as a cook all the Hammond boys eat and it's always the b st. My company left for France Sep: cither ti and I got a letter from one of the boys. He said that he thinks that the company he is in will never see any a 'Hon. I was the only one to May here from th- :i-nd Medical 'orp, the res? a!' xvrnt over. Mr. Daniel Seaman and the. secretary from the Uratid Uodge of the I. O. O. F. of the State of Xew Jersey was just in to see me, also som" members from the K. of V. Iodge of New V'orU, and I sure was glad to meet them for they sure do everything they can for a member. Also send my best to all the Hammond members. I As this camp is under Quarantine we can't get out for the time being and have no more news, Hope this will find you in the best of health. Respectfully yours. ALFRED M. STOCKXR.

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In order to gain more definite knowledge of the habits, migration ana length of life of wild ducks that 4'ould be invaluable tn compiling a history of the wildfowl family the American Bird Handing society has jdaced a serial number and the words "Notify American Museum, New York," on aulmiuum bands on a number of birds. The gunner who kills one of these tagged ducks Is urged to send with the tag an accurate statement of the specimen of bird, where it was shot, and when. The headquarters of the American Bird Banding Society is in the office of the American Museum cf Natural History. New York.

SIGNAL CORPS HAS BUST JOB IH' FIGHT

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WITH THE AMP.RH AN ARMY KORTHWHST OF VKRDFN, Oct. 22: Cart, Kdward Orant, former third baseman of the New York National League

wis killed by a shell while leading a

unit to the aid of the famous "Lost bat- !

t.-.lion." The bat'alion was surrounded1 for five days in the Argonne forest and I Captain Grant was killed during one ot" j the attempts to reach it. j

Grant first earned baseball honors while at Harvard University where be was one of the best all-around players of his day. After graduation he played with independent teams and later with the Jersey City club of the International League. From 1907 to 1010 he played third base for the Philadelphia Nationals and the following year he was traded to Cincinnati. In 1P13 he was purchased by the New York Nationals and played third and shortstop for the Giants until if'Ki when he resigned to enter business. At the outbreak of the war be entered an officers- training camp, where he was graduated later with high honors.

Grant is the first of the many major i

league baseball players in the service to give his? life, for bis country. He w as born in Franklin Mass.. in 1SR3.

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t Baltimore Kvering News.) taily there appears in the New t Baltimore News) quaint bits of humor under the caption "Abe Martin." Howshe idea originated no one sterns to know hut hundreds of racetrack gamblers believe that the grotesque illustrations give '.'tips" on the races. The absurdity of this is realized when it is explained th.it these illustrations are drawn weeks In advance of publication, whereas the racing cards arc not made up until the day before. Yesterday morning under "Abe Martin." which is reproduced In this paper, appeared the following: "You ar not giving your monev your lending it t" the govern no n t at a good per cent." The speaker tin the picture) has one linger raised on high, which the dopesttrs said meant "play straight." Abe Martin was shown reclining in a chair with two lingers of his right hand prominently displayed. "Another hunch." said the dopesters, "it means the second race," There was a hurrving for the form charts and a study of the horses entered n' Havre de Grace, Aqueduct and Lexington tracks. After a careful study they decided that lending money to a reliable party with interest was "Thrift" and a horse by that name was due to carry 109 pounds in the second race at Havre de Grace. Later these "wise boys" were seen strutting around town displaying wads of greenbacks and whispering. "We told you so," for Thrift won the secotid race st Havre da Gre and paid f 1 460 tor every ?2 ticket bought. "

Bv r.viTrn Frkss.1 WITH THR AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCIS, Sept. IP. (By Mail.) The signal corps men had to do some fast work during the recent righting to keep up with the infantry and to keep communications always open between headquarters and the villages newly captured where the doughboys were. The signal corps was the connecting link between the infantry, artillery, ambulance service, and headquarters. The signal corps did wonderful and lightning work. Every other department says so. It's no cinch being the signal corps after a division that is continually gaining ground. As soon as the infantry makes a rush you have to get telephone lines strung into the farthest ruins or woods or wheat field, no matter how many German shells are spattering eclat over the srea. Then, about the time you get a wire stretched along the ground and in working order, cell up headquarters to tell them. "This is the new post at Squeedunk, give us a ring to see bow she works. " along comes another boche shell

and cuts the communication. There s nothing fo do but go out and find the cut snd fix it. andrgbablj more boche shells are trying to make more cuts in communications, fr even cut you off.

The signal corps had wires every

where, iti bushes, along the ground, on poles left by the bodies, underground, through ruins Headquarters ray they never had such quick service, and ihev were never out of communication with regiments longer than the few minutes It took a signal corps nisn to inspect the v ire and repair a break. A signal corps man was stringing some w ires across a wheat field. "Some war this," he said, ' I haven't had a sleep for more than two days. I suppose I'd fall asleep on the job if it weren't for these shells that. come whistling along. Duck. There comes onel" After it exploded, be said. "They kind of scared me at first. I thought every one was meant for me."

What would you consumers think cf a wheel without spokes? What would you think of a man who would tako any or all of the spokes out of a wheel to make it run better? Swift & Company's business cf getting fresh meat to you is a wheel, of which the packing plant is only the hub Retail dealers are the rim and Swift & Company Branch Houses are the spokes. The hub wouldn't do the wheel much good and you wouldn't have much use for hub or rim if it weren't for the spokes that fit them all together to make a wheel of it Swift & Company Branch Houses are placed, ( after thorough investigation, in centers where they can be successfully operated and do the most good for the most people at the least possible cost Each "spoke" is in charge of a man who knows that he is there to keep you supplied at all times with meat, sweet and fresh; and who knows that if he doesn't do it, his competitor will. How much good would the hub and the rim of the Swift "wheel" do you if the spokes were done away with?

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TOMMY BURNS DOWN WITH FLU IN CANADIAN CAMP VANCOUVKR. It. C.. Oct. 22. Sergt. Tommy Hums, one time world's heavyweight champion, now athletic instructor with Canadian forces here, is suffering from Spanish influenza. Doctors say his condition is serious.

New Orleans will soon stage twentyround boxing bouts.

Australia boasts 75 pugilists who are fighting with the allies.

Kugene Crlqui. a bantamweight boxer, is the latest French sensation.

No permits for automobile races will be issued by the A. A. A. until after the

The San Francisco midwinter baseball league is In operation, having started play last week. Marshal Foch. Sir Douglas Haig. Admiral Beatty and President Wilson are golf enthusiasts.

It is estimated there sre 200.000 amateur players of halkllne billiard games in the United States.

The annual Madison Square garden (New York city) six-day bicycle race is announced for December 1 to 6.

Kansas City (M.) has a women's tenpin league. A team will be entered in the annual American bowling congress championships.

Shaw, the eastern intercollegiate halfmile champion. Is a candidate for the quarterback position on the Columbia university football eleven.

The New York Athletic Club has placed its football fields at Travers island at the disposal of the navy, and the squad from Telham Hay station will practice there.

The Pittsburg nr.d Syracuse, football teams will clash at Syracuse on November 23. The Orange jerseyed players

are expected to go to Ann. Arbor to ij.i Michigan November 16.

The winners of stakes valued at $1'.000 in Grand circuit light harness racs this season are.: Prince Loreo, 2:05U: June Tied, 2:05i; Chilcott. 2:05i4: Ante Guy. 2:04'i. and the pacer. Directum J., 2:03ti-

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CHICK HARLEY TO FLORIDA FOR MORE FLYING Chick Hurley, half back on the championship Ohio State eleven last year, who wns selected for a back position on the All-Americsn eleven, left, for Arcadia. Fla.. yesterday to report for active flying service. TIarley completed his ground course at Love field. Texas, snd has been in Chicago for ten days visiting his parents.

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WORLD'S BEST SWIMMER VICTIM OF THE FLU

Harry Elionsky. long distance swimming champion of America, died of Spanish influenza in New Uondon, Conn.. It was reported yesterday. Klionsky. who was unquestionably the strongest swimmer this country ever produced, was a member of th naval reserve at Pelham Bay. He recently secured a furlough and visited relatives at New Ivondon. Klionsky one time swam a distance of ninety miles without a stop. On several occasions, manacled and tied hand and foot, Elionsky swam from the Battery to Coney Island, dragging a raw-bout rilled with passengers after him.

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