Show r Fine weather speaking AI Alo fine tl o weather for for lucks ducks Theres There's more truth than a n litt little litH hit lilt in iu that remark too r P The he death of Frank Gotch 4 should fix matters so o 0 that the dear pub lie lir w will ll again agnin sec see a n few the on heavyweight wrestling mate r I We c tb do not mean to imply by that that the the late champ champion on q dd d not a al aI I ways do his best far from it but that some of the big hams w will 11 no noI no I have u at title to strive for and will probably run into each other fo for j blood The Thc championship is open with wHit number of If claimants and aud matches arc are apt to be he comparatively honest until a n. successor of Gotch is proclaimed Wrestling has been lIeen largely a crooked game because it ig ij easy to fake on the mat and t many barnstormers have taken advantage 1 of this b by 1 d di dividing i ing the called so-called victories an and framing framing- up in in their tri trips tripe a around the country Now that all the big hig fellows want Gotch's Cotch's crow crown t and the emoluments that go with it it they arc are trying to win Therefore I wrestling should be he fairly good sport for a few months at least One claimant to the thc title is John Ol Olin n who has just returned t to America lI He lie is the husky husks lad who amazed fans about a year vear no hir making Joe the Nebraska braska giant quit in a n match at nt To Worcester Mass lInss Olin has been heen in Finland It required more titan than a month fo for him to get et hack to this tins country As soon a as he hc heard of the thc claim claims 0 of Steelier Earl Caddock Strangler ler Lewis Lowis Zbyszko and others ther he be at challenged erl all of them However Caddock appears to bo ho tile the bc best t 0 ol ot i f ithe the lunch bunch and md he lie has joined the thc arm army IWillie i Willie Villie eminent cue cuc artist will likely be lie named b by the g gov gO eminent as us instructor in in billiards to sonic some of the army trill men It mi may h ha he hen a n little lit hit interesting to those who do not know the fact but hut at nt n nearly arl every evely regimental reg headquarters in cantonment C camps there i is u ii billiard or pool table and while this ma may bo he shock shocking n to some there is is a n very good g ra reason on back of it all Officers have ha found that men who make good ool also make good marksmen and there ii is the tion Aside from tins this the tables also furnish much nee needed erl recreation j The important part that sports take in the development dc of the national army will be lie more and more realized as time goes goe oes by 1 J JIt It is difficult to figure out the attitude of some person persons regarding sports ports for their pinheaded littleness s so o exasperates one as ns to affect hi Ills his sound powers 1 It t is is hard bard to imagine men So o downright downright down down- right small as those preachers preacher at Kansas City who yesterday t tried so 50 hard to stop the boxing matches o that arc aro being heing arranged cd by and for the soldiers of the camp located there but hut people of such sueh small caliber seem seem to exist and they are ale the incentive of this particular comment tb this 3 mornin morning Undoubtedly lr there are a R great man many people in the country who do donot not like boxing They think it is brutalizing and they object to it it IL but those in charge of the men of the national arm army know very Cry well that boxing is a good thing for them It is something something- the boys bos should lie he permitted to see to put into their minds the proper fi spirit and it i is something they can well in indulge in in because it teaches leaches them self self- d defense efen Se f If any of our dear parents or any of our teachers or any of our o pastors or priests of the land think for one moment that the men of our our national arm ni-mv are arc entra e 1 in any elc elegant ant Ili minded h-minded nicely J Honed pamby pam pastime when they arc training to kill they I would better banish the tile idea The fact of the matter is that regrettable regret regret- I I ta table le and tell terrible as it may be E our men arc nrc being taught to comm commit cominitI t. t I legalized murder and horrible as that lint is we Wc may have haxe to face it ouri our our- f i selves Anything that will vili perfect them in the art of taking life and l at nt the same time reduce their own chances chance must be taught the boys 4 no matter how ho much macli the thc sensibilities of some som of the gentler creatures of i the thc world ar are assaulted War tar is a terrible thing tiling and rind this war which W wo we have now tackled i ii hr the most terrible in in all an history It is hard to think of your our son and my brothers as ns legalized murderers but the exi exigencies are such that this is the fact and we must not be squeamish about their preparation for what they are going to be called upon to do in behalf of this nation andI and I the people of other nations for all an time to conic come The ends justify the means and boxing is so elegant and ancl refined j in comparison with what they will have hare to do over o there that jt it it r seems rather small and inconsequential to take up the tile time to object to it it It seems to me that parents teachers an and preachers have so other things of infinitely greater and graver importance to attend to that they will vill refrain from wasting their time on J. J little thing like at a. a i boxing match |