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EL FASO RECREATION OUTDOOR LIFE FOR THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT Will Clash With Sturdy, Champions Easily Lead the Easterner Tomorrow at Cody Stadium. BATTLERS FINISH THEIR TRAINING League in Matter of Han dling Pill Safely. BACKSTOPS HELD UP BEHIND BAT vMP COPY boxing1 fans v. ill be treated to their first championship contest to be held ar the ig contonment Wednesday New YORK, Dec. fielding play eti no small part in the winning drive of the York Giants this year.

The of- when Eobby Wangh, lightweight ficial National league fielding nver- harapion of the southwest will meet ages, made public yesterday, show Kid Fitzpatrick of Cody, In a sched -1 the Giants out. in front of the league tied 20 rount bout. Both principals have been training consistently for big fight, and arc in fine-condition. Favor Champion. Utidt.

on the fight slightly favor Waugh in view of the and tuggedness of the Texas champion. Waugli has met practically every lightweight of prominence In the country and in his record of odd he has only been knocked out i in team fielding with a percentage of .068, and the records of secretary John Heydler show that i team played nearly a third of games without an error, turning in total of errorless contests. Such i fielding was without, a doubt a big aid to the pitchers. The Phillies and Cardinals ished second and third in fielding, with the Boston raves ranking fourth. Fred Mitchell's Cubs trailed their league in the acceptance of chances.

Played Good Game. catchers played a great fielding game behind the bat. Bill Rariden, who caught 100 games for the champions, had but five passed balls wall season, while Lew McCarty i had one and George Gibson one. In Individual fielding. Jack of the Hrris.

led nil He finished the with a fielding average of Johnny Rawlings, a new member of the Boston Braves, heads the second basemen with 467 accepted chances out of ITS offered in 96 games. Heinie Groli, of the Reds, was the best ing third baseman in the National last summer, lie played every championship game at third and finished i with an average of .966, making only 18 boots out of more than 500 chances at the hot corner. Heirtie Zim. of the i champions, collected an average of .947 in 140 games. Rawlings Is Srnr.

Johnny Rawlings hobs up again as i a. leader in the figures showing the i work of the shortstops. Artie Flet- i i cher, of the Giants, is the real leader, however, and Waller Maranville runs him a close second. aver age shows .956 in 151 games. Dodo Paskert, of ihe Phillies, 1st entitled to the leadership among the Dude played in 13S games and finiKlied season fielding Carey, of the of the and Ivauff, of the among the Rixey.

of the Phillies, and Demaree. of the Giants, are tied for fielding- honors among the pitchers. Each plaved in 39 games and went through without an error. Old Honus Wagner, the gnanddaddv of all the National leaguers, played over 30 games. In 47 games at first base he took 435 out of 462 chances, and In IS games at third base he made but three misplays.

The distinction of being rated In four different positions goes to Marry Myers, of the Dodgers, who EiEI ISH HEffl General White Declares Fifty Thousand Additional That Baseball Athletes Pastime Bugs Petition Should Join. President Ebbets. ENTHUSIASM CHEERING- VERY -EBBETS FAVORS TEAMS IN WESTERN EUROPE YORK, Dee. 21 EW YORK, Dec. man playing baseball in the thousand fans havy signed major and minor leagues A petition circulated by Charles should be in France with the army, H.

Ebbets, president of Brooklyn according to Brig. Gen. iifred Ar- Baseball club, requesting the legTs- thur White, C.M.G., who for three lature of this state to legalize Sunday years saw active service with the baseball. And this althougn the drive British armies in Franco and Flan- has just been started. By the time ders, and is now in charge of British the petition is ready to be sent to recruiting in this country, Albany it is confidently expected at should like to see every baseball least 100,000 signatures will be procured and probably many thousands mum Has Not Joined Either the Army or Navy, But Leads the Simple Life.

New York, Dec. coin Herzog, who was reported as a member of an army squad at Salt Lake City, brands the rumor as an exaggeration. "Aside from the fact that I never i was in Salt Bake, and since the series have not been out of i Maryland, the story' is true," says Charles Lincoln, "If I enter the air service." con- tinued the captain of the Giants, "I played the outfield and first, second would hardly go out to Ftah to land third base. Rollie Zeider broke it is true I'have been contemplating; such a step for some time, and would iitiiiiiiiniiinmHmiritiiiiiiiiiitMiiwRiHTtmiiimnmmtmiiitnKHiHiRiRiiiimtimitiiiHiniiHnmHiitmufiHHfiiuiiiiiiiiitiHiiHnHmiinniiiiiniiHiiiiiniiHiiti War Time Football Is a Big Success in the East iiuitimiumimnumi JACK EIOC K. uiiuiMiiMjumiiimiiinuiiumiiciuHiiimnmhiimiiiitiiiiK YORK, Dec.

time they are powerful linemen and football was successful this usually fast for big men. year in spite of discouraging I predictions made, for it In advance of the season. The grand old grin game lost some of its glamour in the east through the inactivity of the big Yale and elsewhere the sport thrived, and as ir. other years, it developed its stars. A great many football critics have refrained from attempting the of All-American eleVents, but we can see no good reason why outstanding players should mit Few were through either of them opposing during the leaxou, both showed remarkable ability In piling up the offense of the opposition and breaking through the line to block kicks anti break up before they could be fairly started.

Two western players who built, up like reputations are awarded the guard jobs on the second eleven. They are Dane, of California, and Culver, the big Michigan lineman. The center position on the first eleven is given to Rydzewski. of receive 1 Notre Dame. Coach Harper uncov- into the averages at second, third and short, and Fitzpatrick, of the net.

This came at the handy of Otto Braves appears among the outfield- allace in Milwaukee, and by decis-j erP second and ba ively beating AVallace in two return rnen- Waugh wiped the sting Weeghman has a of the defeat off the slate. The fight is expected to prove one of the biggest drawing cards witnessed at Cody in some time, inasmuch as each of the little battlers Yas a record following-. Fitzpatrick hciug heavily hacked by the in cantonment, anil is sturdy little man with an hard punch. hile he not favored to knock many believe that he will he on feet and fighting at the end of the go The adavnce sale of for the has been very large and Lieut. Hoy M.

Schuster, who has the big light in charge anticipates a record attendance. Southern League Ready for Winter Big Deal Pending President Clhatles Weeghman, of the Cubs, having been denounced by president Branch Rickey of the dinais for his intimation that he was about to buy Rogers Hornsby, just at i a time when Rickey was trying to i reach terms with Hornsby, now is out with another statement that he has not one hut three great big pending. Well, let them pend. So long as it amuses Weeghman to talk i about his deals and he say anything calculated to dissat isfy on other clubs he can deal i till the cards run out have been in long ago but for my family. the baseball season closed I have led the simple life and have gained more than 20 pounds.

I guess that ought to convince anybody that I was not right Inst summer. have been in hard training down on the farm, and many mornings I yank myself out of bed at daylight to get a crack at the festive duck. "I expect to go to Florida in about a month, and will remain re until spring training time. During the winter I intend to resume my 1 ssons in hydroplaning." Herzog will lie a visitor in New York during the National league meeting. He says he has heard nothing about being traded, and doesn't believe there is anything "in the wind" as fnr as he is concerned, because his contractual relations with the New York club provide that he cannot be traded without his consent.

mention as they have in the past, and for this reason have made selections based on the performances of those players whose work all season stamped them as the topnotchers oi 1917. Vo Surf Method. Many followers of football contend there is no surjr method of selecting the best players for an All-American eleven, even in times of peace, and in a manner this is true. Yet the fame of a football star is far-reaching, and the players who have broken into print consistently week alter week deserve to share the laurels dispensed each fall. Snph feaif been by the writer for 1917 and a glance at the firmt and second wet forth here will fshow that football fame, nm vve have it this year, far-reaching.

The great Pittsburg University eleven, considered by many critics as the strongest, smoothest working ered a diamond in the rough several years ago when he found Rydzeswski, and his playing for the past two years has placed him in a class with the great Peck, of 1916 eleven, and McRwan, of last Army team. Rydzewski is a shark in his place in the line. On offense he can more than hold his own against the most powerful opponent, and his accuracy in passing the ball was marvelled at in Notre Dame victorious attack against the Army this year. On defence the big center is equally efficient. Bailey, of West Virginia, is another performer of type, and is awarded the center position on the second eleven.

of Pennsylvania, deserves honorable mention. Hoynton a One of tIre most dashing, spectacular and all-around players of the season was Boynton, quarterback of the Northwestern Cracks Are Getting in Readiness for a Busy Season. Portland, Dec, information as to how Pacific Northwest ice hockey teams will line up when the season eventually gets un- der way is comin to hand, as details of the Canadian draft are worked out. There is still some un- certainty as to when the season will be In full swing. The opening, first set for December 7, was postponed until after the draft has made Its in- roads on the different ciubs.

The Portland Rosebuds are better prepared to open the season, than any i of the other clubs, according to man- ager Bryan. While contracts have not yet been entered into, pending definite action by league officials, it is known that many former members of the team are ready to start. Johnson, Chai les Tobin, i Tommy Dunderdale, Harris, and A1 Barbour are on the ground. G. Tobin, brother of Charles and a former Canadian hockey star, also is ready to be signed up.

as is Charles Pksila. a youngster with all the earmarks of a coming star. Only one Northwest hockey player, so far as known, has been caught in the draft. Fowler, goalkeeper for the Spokane Canaries, drew a khaki uniform. President Patrick is said to be op- early player enrolled in the is the way Gen.

White expressed himself. "The baseball players are easily the leading athletes in the public atten- tion. and they should take the lead in fighting the battles The ex. ample they could set would do as much as any other one factor in blaz- ing the glorious path to France. Make Good.

"There are many reasons why baseball players should make exception I ally fine soldiers, another factor to be reckoned with the benefits of the moral example their presence would develop. A baseball player should i make a hand-grenade throwing ex-1 pert "These men are of necessity nil In i splendid physical shape, and could do i much to help condition their fellow soldiers. The example set by Hank Gowdy, of the Boston team, and! I others is highly eomrfivndr.ble, 1 ontlnue Baseball. "But by advocating enrollment of I the star players I do not mean the closing down of baseball. On the I contrary, I would sjfonglv recommend the continuance1 all sports.

rotjh( kepf up with newly reeruitru would, of the quality the for long time, but I do not think It would detract too from the public interest. "In England the association football leagues are playing their schedules. The teams are composed of men mostly drawn from munition works, who cannot be spared for service in the army. "Practically all the leading football players joined the army voluntarily at the commencement o' the war. Workmen in the munition and ether factories are taking more irterest in the sport, and some fine are being developed.

"Amateur snorts of all kinds are to be encouraged. I have found that the amateur sportsman has the to the Englishman, and tin is also to be expected in this country. the athlete gone to the front place its athletic Immediately he filled, for the obvious have so proven their value that the in their innit remain depleted. litui The success of the autumn has so cheered the "Squb I RING NOTES of Flatbush" that he has sent a letter to all the clergymen in Brooklyn requesting them to give their views on Sunray baseball if It be conducted properly and in a way that will not Interfere with "church hours or the repose of the community With wlint degree of this lnieat effort of will be met cannot be at tbU lime. It cannot even he Hired, hut barley optimistic.

He that every person mast agree tiint Sunday baseball a to rny community long It ii ondueted in nn orderly manner, lie says that every broadminded man must agree that a law enacted 1 130 years ago is antequated and does not properly govern the changed conditions of the present time. For these reasons Charity jubilantly happy and sanguine that nis efforts to legalize Sunday baseball will be crowned with success. Cuesta World- Famous Clear Havana Cigar go to New York or San Francisco, Maine or Tex- ur.defeated Williams eleven. Boyn- timlstie riling an early start for work throughout the season was season schedule, which it is may get under way December Sacramento May Not Take Card Bill Jacobson Is at Norfolk Yard The league, the Orleans winter organization, has several professional players on its roster. Following are some of the best known io local fan.

Larry Gilbert, New Orleans outfielder; Bobby Brunet, Texas league outfielder- Mike Hau- Though there is no doubt expressed in Pacific Coast league circles as to whether Sacramento will Portland franchise on the fered, the Northwestern is going- ahead with its plans with the idea Portland will he in its circuit. Birmingham catcher, Blewett is quoted as saying that Portland will take the place of Russell Breaux, Texas league out fielder; Jake Atz, Texas league manager and formerly with New- Orleans; Bill Baile pitcher, and league player. American A ssocia Lurry Pezold, Texas Vancouver and that both Great Falls and Butte will be retained, though some of the magnates have favored dropping the two cities to the east. YUSSUF HUSSANE WINS A MATCH New Y'ork, Dec. the inter-; national wrestling tournament Mon- day night three finish matches were decided.

Y'ussuf Hussane (Balkan defeated Fred Pilakoff (Finland),) with a crotch and head hold in sever minutes and 50 seconds. Joseph Rogers (United States), threw Karrv Stevens (England) with a body hold 1 10 minutes and 26 seconds. YYladek 1 Zbyszko (Poland), conquered Pierre Le Belgo (Belgian), in seven minutes and 13 seconds with an insido nd body hold. Golf Champion Enlists in League Outfielder Bill Jacobson, of the St. Louis Browns, who last summer en- take the i listed as a navy yeoman, with per- terms of-1 mission to delay reporting- until the close of the baseball season, has been assigned to duty at the Norfolk navy yard.

Y'ale Sloan, another outfielder of the Browns, who enlisted with Jacobson, has not been assigned to duty so far as announced. Perhaps the navy has more yeomen and yeo- women than it can use just now. The Browns will not miss either player greatly, if Williams and Tobin, along with Smith, come through as All-American Selections First Eleven. Position. Miller, Pennsylvania End Carlson, Pittsburg End Cobb, Syracuse Tackle Hauser, Pdinnesota Tackle Neeley, Dartmouth Guard Sutherland, Guard Rydzewski, Notre Center Boynton, Ouarter Harley, Ohio State Halfback Oiiphant, Army Halfback McLaren, Pittsburg Fullback Second Eleven.

Robeson, Rutgers Bolen, Ohio State Hubka, Nebraska Williams, Oregon Culver, Michigan Lane, California Bailey, West Virginia Hill, Georgia Tech. Strupper, Georgia Tech. Ingraham, Navy Berry, Pennsylvania Atlanta, Dec. famous college athletes who have answered the call of Uncle Sam have nothing on Miss Alice Stirling, 19 year goif champion of the United States. She has enlisted in the National League for Women's Service, and with several others is learning how to doctor an automobile and drill like an infantryman.

A regular army arm officer has been detailed from Camp Gordon to drill the women. GOODWIN UN AVIATION. St. Louis. Dee.

11 Marvin the young righthand piteh- er of the St. Louis Nationals, has joined the aviation aeeticn of the United States Signal Corps. Goodwin was purchased from the Milwaukee American association last machine of the season, is three positions on our first Players representing Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Minnesota. Williams, Ohio Army fill up the OHS GET PLA1EH. DECREASE BASERIU MUL.

outfielder Frank Walker, tin yen- The advance in postage rates is ex- tral league slugger, who was claimed i pected to materially decrease the by the Detroit Americans on an op- baseball mail. Letters rion at the close of the Central sea- indigent tossers asking for ad- sori, has been claimed by the Chicago vance money will be less numerous Nationals on waivers. i than heretofore. i club of th 1 July. MAN II IN A 14.

Jimmy Viox, who quit the Kansas i City team last year and declared he was done with the game, met man- i ager John Ganzel in Louisville agreed to return to the Blues next year. Tt now seems that he quit only long enough to go home and help harvest the crops on his farm. JR EOF AlcidilS duaowomv mi HO liVlb siDfiaodd JDOA HO 9AU(j noxiQ pun 333 somv aoj psaq aipt jxiga jo jUBsnaicI pun eJfj-ei st juatudinba oj jo eutt nnj jo CO At XI tl.i uop.oojip aqt ut S3IHOSS3DDV tssg atp tpiM. jtioa dinbg HAY SEVER RELATIONS, Lafayette. Dec.

Tn all probability Purdue and Indiana wull sever athletic relations as a result of a bitter controversy now raging between students and athletic authorities of the rival schools, Indiana strongly resents Purdue's action in calling the conference eligibility attention to two ineligible Indiana football players, the committee having declared both of the accused men disqualified. Indiana backers refer to action as snap judgment taken on the eve of the annual game for no other purpose than to weaken the Indiana team 48 football a wa rd ed eleven, sylvan ia, Syracuse, State and the maining positions. ami arUon, The ends have been awarded to 1 Miller, of Pennsylvania, and Carlson, of Pittsburg. The work of these two wing men received consistent praise throughout the season and they broke into print time a ter time. Both are speedy, aggressive players, who have mastered all the tricks of playing their positions.

At smashing inter! ference, getting down under punts, i tackling runners and handling the forward pass both are past masters. On second eleven the vting hnve been awarded to Stair, and KohCMon, of who, like Miller am! hnve made great for themselves men. Cobb, of Syracuse, and Hauser, of Minnesota, are given the tackle jobs. Both players arc powerfully built. Both are thoroughly experienced and both are demons in the line, perhaps the greater of the there seems little to choose between them.

At opening holes for their so consistently brilliant that he was mentioned many times as All-American timber before the season was half over, and he is awarded the ack position because he has qualified for it in every department of the game. A great field general, an adept in passing the ball, a great open field runner arid a kicker of ability as well. Boynton stands at the head ot the list. Hill, of the wonderful Georgia Tech eleven, is a close match for Boynton and is awarded the pivotal berth on the second eleven. fwittmll fau name the greatest Imckfield plnyer in the game today nail the chan are that See will blurt out without much hutting an eye.

Oiiphant the backbone the Army team again year, lie the same great all-around that he been in no eleven ID 17 would lie complete without him. He awarded a halfback position. Chick Harley, outstanding star of the champion Ohio State eleven, ho earned a position on last All- Cobb is i American, was, like Oiiphant, the two, yet same great player this year as in 1916. He is given the other halfback Job on the first team. Strupper, star hacks, smashing the enemy attacks of Georgia champion aggrega- through the line and carrying the tion.

will be awarded a first team hail when called upon to do so. these position by many critics, but on powerful tackles are the last of the fact that he has not had word in efficiency. The second eleven the experience of Oiiphant and liar- tackle positions arc given to Hubka, ley, we have placed him on the sec; ond team. Without a doubt Strupper is one the greatest backs ever de; veloped in the south, and in another year, if he is not taken into the na- tional army, he will no doubt earn nis All-American laurels. rainer Bezdek Tries Out Punt Vallejo.

Cab, Dec. famous "Oregon Boot," as it is known in football parlance at the University of Oregon, is being introduced here by Bezdek, coach of the Oregon pigskin athletes and manager of the I Pittsburg Pirates, who is to tutor I the marines football outfit here for their game with Allentown. ambulance squad flayers in Pasadena on New Year's day. The is merely an effective kicking system which helped Oregon defeat California land other worthy rivals under Bez; dek's direction tills season. Bezdek ill use the Oregon sys- tem throughout on the marines, who just winding up a strenuous sea- i son studded with victories.

Bast year, under tutelage, the Oregon defeated the University of Pennsylvania at Pasadena. Three-Eye League Is Fast Circuit i Three-l league writers, analyzing the Western league playing averages. hich show the former league ranking high, are expressing satisfaction, taking that it is an indication that the Western was little i if any faster than the Three-I. Clyde McBride, former Bock Island outfielder, led the Three-I contingent in hlt- ting in the Western, with a mark of .295. Joe Berger hit .282 and Elmer; i Benson hit .273.

TiiiitiiitumiitHiiiiMitimiiiiiii.HuiuiiiiuiiHituiiitiiurHiiiiriiiiitnfiiiiiiinF Fnlton Victor. Columbus, Dec. a short i left jab flush to the point of the jaw, Fred Fulton. Rochester, heavy weight, knocked out Porky Flynn, of a rx Boston, after two minutes and 18 LiOFiCtOn OF i SF1S, Oil seconds of fighting in the second round of what was to have been a 12 Will lUlu Lil6 J.SIT10US round fight here Monday. Fulton was on his man from the start, using short blows to the body while Flynn endeavored to cover up.

In the opening round Fulton landed hard to the head with his left and I Flynn seemed dazed. Several times he was knocked against the ropes so hard that he had to be helped off. lake Off ilig Lid. Cleveland, Dec. lid on professional boxing in Cleveland, i which was clamped on temporarily by mayor Davis following the fatal aeei- dent to El Paso Jimmy Wilson at the Moose club.

November 28, will be re- i moved next week when the Cleveland boxing commission expects to resume issuing permits. Herman Rout. Philadelphia, Dec. Herman, bantamweight champion, had the better of the six round bout here Monday night with Joe Tuber, a local i boxer. Dundee Kuui, Bridgeport, Dec.

Dundee of New York, knocked out 1 Battling Kunz of this city here Moni day night in the fifth round of their 12 round match. It was one sided 1 bout with the New Yorker the master from the outset. JlOUG New Orleans. Moore, of Memphis, was awarded a decision over Artuur Simons of New Orleans, in a 15 round bout i here Monday night. The rnen are I bantamweights.

Racine. Dec. Brens nan of Chicago, had the best of Homer Smith of Benton Harbor, all through a ten round boxing match I here Monday night. BRAVES I.OSE IS UN. Boston Braves expect to los, Jesse Barnes, Joe Kelly, Walter Rehg and Ray Powell in the January draft.

With those already gone George lings will have to draw on the Inter- nntional league kind of a team discards to in the field. put any of Nebraska, and Williams, of gon, who were mountains of strength to their respective teams this year i and whose work was continually praised. Sutherlnmf Good. Sutherland, of Pittsburg, and ley, of Dartmouth, have received so i much favorable comment for their playing at guard that they are the i first players for those positions to A otoc to mmn as we glance back ovB Like Cobb Hai Ingrnlirm Good. Ingraham, of coach Gilmour Dome's successful Navy eleven, is awarded the other halfback position on the second team.

a ground gainer; Ingraham ranked tn- tack- field men of flu season IPs total points the season were. 162, and Gilroy, of Georgetown, who ran up 164 points iri 1916, is only other i player in the east, who has amassed a greater total in past five years. work this year was highly sensational and he is deserving of i honorable mention. The fullback position on the Irst eleven goes to the great McLaren, of Pittsburg. McLaren is not yet 21 (years age.

but he ranks as one of I the best fullbacks ever developed In i tiie east, and his work with the thers all season was consistent, if not highly sensational. McLaren kept i shite clean by tic.i lly cle- feating Pennsylvania singlehandnd. Howard llerry, Penn star. given the berth on the team. He distinguished himself in the Michigan game when he three dropklcks for Penn and paved the to inn 1 newer- In I oil STAUS SHV OP GOTIIYY1, New York, Dec.

John Sanford will not try to bring his Uh stall ion Nasso- vian, which was beaten heads in the Derby at Epsom in 1916 by Fifinella and Kivany Su, to New York this fall. He is afraid of the U- boat pirates. So Nassovian will remain in Great Britain with the $20,000 filiv Homage. whose dam was the celebrated Veneration. another season of ra- mg I ltimately they will come to tiie United States for service at liurricana farm.

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