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Show I QPHRT ffKQIP yJis Ol UlV 1 UUOOir OF INTEREST Bill Teates, locally famous as an athlete ath-lete and writer of sporting news, now a captain in the army, is In Salt Lake for a few days. He is on his way to San Antonio, Tex., where his younger brother, Russell Yeates, is ill of pneumonia. Russ will be remembered as a high school and university athlete of ability. Captain Yeates is almost directly from? New York. , He waa in Gotham on the day of the , armistice celebration and has a fund of yarns to spin about the day the big town went wild with joy. Numerous friends will earnestly hope that Captain Yeates will find his brother much improved. an O'Leary, the veteran pedestrian, will soon start on a tour of the United States and Canada. He will walk down the steps of the capitot building at Columbus, Co-lumbus, Ohio, with Intention of visiting the capitol of every state. Dan expects 1 to complete his tour in two years and seven months. On June 29, 1921, O'Leary -will be 80 ; years old, and wi'l walk 100 miles on that day. Any person 68 to 70 years old- can walk tho distance against O'Leary, with the provision that he wagers $1000 to endure to the finish. DENVER, Dec. 2. Captain Frank Cavanaugh, one of the most popular coaches that ever handled football teams of the Denver Athletic ciub, is reported wounded in France. Word came yesterday yester-day from Charles J. Boyle, who was a classmate of Cavanaugh at Dartmouth, that Cavanaugh had been wounded by shrapnel in the early part of October. He is now in a French hospital, where he is reported to be recovering nlcelv. Cavanaugh was one of a number of Dartmouth player.1? who figures in Colorado Colo-rado football, including F. G. Folsom, "Face" Rrandall and McAndrews. They were in Dartmouth at about the same time, and came to Denver as players on both the Denver Athletic club and the Denver Wheel club teams. As was the habit at this time, Cavanaugh played with the men he coached and was known as a nervy player and a fine instructor of men. After leaving here Cavanaugh returned to Dartmouth, where he was instrumental in building up the magnificent elevens that gave the "Big Four" teams such hard tussels, and which came near taking place on a permanent level with them. Cavanaugh took from Denver a number of players who shone as stars on the "D." ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2. Eighteen members of the 1918 Cardinals, ali of whom "were considered regulars, are now in the service ser-vice of their country, according to Secretary Sec-retary Hiram W. Mason. The names of the players in service follow: Major Branch Rickey. Chemical Warfare War-fare service; John C. Hendricks, secretary secre-tary K. of C. : R. D. Wallace, ordnance department; Douglas Baird, army; William Wil-liam Sherdel, army; Frank Snyder, army: Jack Smith, army; Sergeant Walton Cruise, army; Lieutenant Oscar Hors-man, Hors-man, army; Lieutenant Marvin Goodwin, , aviation corps; John D. Miller, marines; Elma Knight, army; Murphy Currie, army; Bruce Hltt, navy; John Brock, navy ; Tony Brottem, army ; Jaka May, army; Jenkins, army. Large numbers of members of the sporting fraternity laugh at wrestling and accept Its contests with a smile, but regardless of this it's a money-making game. Prank Gotch, who died a short time ago, left a will providing for the distribution distri-bution of an estate of about $750,000. Part of this came out of the mat game, and the balance he made by speculating in farms, fine cattle and hogs In his home state. Iowa. The wills of dead champions are interesting. inter-esting. Over in England the estate of Charles Mitchell, the former English boxing box-ing champion, and rival of our own great John L. Sullivan, has just paid the British Brit-ish 'government an inheritance tax op something like $2,000,000. A part of this sum was left the English boxer by his wealthy father-in-law and admirer, Pony Moore. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2. Andy Smith. who coached the victorious U. C. football team of 1918, will report to the naval training station at Goat island tomorrow. Smith accepted a post in the navy just before the quarantine was placed on the island, and was allowed by the war department de-partment to continue in his capicity as a coach of the U. C. team until the quar-tine quar-tine was over. He will be director of athletics on the Island, and under the command of the athletic officer. Cliff McCarl, who was once almost hired to play first base for Salt Lake, Is receiving the congratulation of his many friends in San Francisco. Cliff is the proud daddy of a baby girl. The new arrival's name is Maxine Dolores. It is doubtful if Kid Williams, the former for-mer bantamweight champion, will ever box professionally again. This was hinted hint-ed by Williams at the Southern cantonment, canton-ment, where he has been acting as boxing box-ing Instructor. The K. O. recently sustained sus-tained by the Kid at the hands of Joe Lynch of New York is thought to be the real rpason for his retirement from the game. -He has made a considerable sum of money and realizes that his best days as a boxer are over. CAMP GREEN LEAF. Tenn.. Dec. 2. Two all-American football players are with the Camp Greenleaf team, which is one of the sensations of the season. They are Jack Sutherland, left guard, formerly former-ly of the University of Pittsburg, and Sfdol, right tackle, also from Pittsburg. These are not the only famous players on the eleven. Telfer, right end, from Dartmouth, considered one of the fastest fast-est men on the gridiron, is a member. So are Stewart, left end, from Colgate, who was with Jim Thorpe's Massillon Tigers laat season; Topham. a right half from Bucknell, whose punts average seventy yards; Daly, fullback, from Holy Cross; McGill. a left tackle from Clemson, and Beck, from Indiana. The Oreenleaf line, from end to end. averages 182 pounds, and the backfield averages 165 pounds. The team is coached by A. W. Smith, the crack University Uni-versity of Michigan player, while Sutherland Suth-erland Is his assistant. A greatly enlarged athletic program has been prepared by the Y. M. C. A. for the period during demobilization. At the request of the army there will be athletics in France for soldiers two hours each da'y to take the place, in part, of drill. In charge of the Y. M. C. A. athletic ath-letic work is Elwood S. Brown, who. while in the Philippines, did the same work with General Harboard and the commander-in-chiefs present athletic officer. of-ficer. The program is divided into four parts. There will be mass exercises and athletics ath-letics in each battalion and regiment. Second, there will be championship events for the American expeditionary forces, working up with elimination contests, con-tests, through companies, battalions, regiments, reg-iments, divisions, corps and armies. There will he a pageant to show the French the best in American athletic life; also a gymnastic AB-C to help de velop the French, The armistic practically practi-cally doubles the number of men to train and greatly increases the needaif physical directors and funds. The vast army physical development program with the Y. M. C. A. co-operation means much for the American physique. Isolated detachments will be drawn Into larger concentrations to enable the men to have the benefit of this athletic program. - The events will constitute practically an Olympiad among the I American and allied forces. |