Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-06 | Page 42 | Death Claims Many Noted Sport Stars

i NOTED SPOHT STARS i Gotch, Fitzsimmons, Temple Tem-ple and White Among 1 Others in 1917 Roll. j i N i: W YORK, Jan. .".The Gnm i Kcuinr did much to thin the ranks of sport di:uic the year just closed. Neaiiv K0 men answered the last call and took the final count, and included in-cluded in this number were some ot" 1 the best known "lights" in one branch I of poi't or another. i The dcalh f frank lioteh at hU j home in Humboldt, luwa. was tho latent Ucorc ni:?de aaint sports by the Header, Head-er, and throu-h hit passing - Hie wrestling world Ion its greatest ui all ' mat champions. 1'nrlv in the year, in .lanuarv, to hit i exm t. "William i bac Temple, donor ot : the Temple nip n nd lurmcr president of the l'ittshmi bail clttli. was taken down the trail o or which no man returns. re-turns. Temple was one of the granddad grand-dad dies of present-day baseball, and the first man to introduce a plan for deciding t he world 's champion-hinfw Henry Moltgrieve, former world's chain-W pinn 'weight lifter, and Kddie Doheny, who used to pitch for the Giants, also di( d in .In unary. February mark oil the parsing of T. H. Murimue. eteran baseball scribe of Bust on. a power in the minor leagues and a writer of country-wide fame for his sotmd sense and laimess. Joe Lind- jev, iornirr worm s eijuiupiun nine nu-er"; nu-er"; T. If. Stuckney, former president of the Louisville National league club, and Andrew Welch, harness racing veteran vet-eran and owner, ail died during the same month. From March until the (lose of Mav the following deaths were recorded: Kobert Poweil, former tennis champion of British Columbia, killed in France: Jim Harry, heavyweight boxer, shot in Panama; Arthur Kedlern, once famous jockey, died in New York; Lester Thirty, middleweight champion of Australia, died at .Memphis; J. Arthur James, famous fa-mous race horse owner, died in London; William iudhoff, former major league pitcher, died in St. Louis. Jn June, Phil Dwycr, veteran racing rac-ing man. answered fhe la.t call at h;-home, h;-home, in New York, and Joe A ''tun. formerly wrestling champion of Amci-ba Amci-ba and England, died at Portland, Ore. P r. James D w i g li t, veteran t c n u i s player and formerly president of the Lnited States Lawn Tennis association, associa-tion, died in July. AI l'alzer, the heavyweight boxer, was shot and killed by his father the same month. A. ('. Huckenherger, formerly manager of the Pittsburg club and later its president, also died in July. William A. (" Tony ' ') James, veteran vet-eran baseball catcher, took, the long trail in August, and Hy Alberts, another an-other vetera 11 of minor league fa nu died the same month. Knap McCarthy, McCar-thy, a veteran racing driver, answered the call in September. October and -N ovember sa w twelve football plaAers pass along as a result X, of injuries received on the gridironT Bob Fit,simmons was counted out for the last time in a Chicago hospital on . ( October 22 and Willie Lucas, a light--weight boxer, also died in October. Sieve Brady, veteran ball player, once captain of the famous M etropoli tans of New York, died in November, as did Dick Roche, former manager of Jack Dempscy and Jack MeAuiiffe. Charley White, veteran referee, was called early in December, and Kobert Kob-ert MeKoy, business manager of the Cleveland Americans, died in Milwaukee Milwau-kee December 2. William G. Weart, veteran baseba!! writer, also died in December, passing along after a short illness due to pneumonia.