| Show r 1 4 c- c Backseat Driving r Fifteen Years Ago Jrr jf Willard Willa-rd W Was Champ I I By FRANK K BAKER Telegram Sports Editor End of Great War Recalled Through Mists of 15 Y tears cars Armistice Dayl Day What memories the day brings to the world Which still is struggling to find Its wa way out of oZ the entanglements roughton broughton brought rought on n by the great war It Jt is is' IsM 15 years now DOW since the Armistice brought the men o out t of ot the trenches years in which mens men's memories fade ye years rs in which hatreds have mellowed Into regrets at the useless sacrifices made by those who didn't when the transports sailed Fifteen years in which the world has stepped forward In great strides I which we find hard to comprehend at nt this modern date Out of ot the mists of ot the Pasing passing years come memorIes not of war S but of the world that greeted the call of peace with a hope that has only partly been Justified Utah sun still b had bad d I t. t Is first Rocky Mountain 1 football lI championship to win In fact still had to wait walt four years until 1922 when the dethroned Utah Aggles 14 0 M as James Moyle loyle a tickle tackle scored on a fumble and Halfback Brick Whitney ran 95 05 yards for the second touchdown In the midwest Iowa was celebrating its first i victory i in ti history over ove Minnesota 1 a 3 6 0 triumph scored two days before the Armistice was was' signed which scribes declared surprised Iowa's Iown's most ardent ardent- followers But nut stranger still lUll from the modern outlook Colorado Mines UDes was happy In a two old victory over Denver's Pioneers 14 But Dut those were the good old days ys for the Miners nen who annexed the Rocky Mountain title that year rear for lor the seventh time Dempsey's Victory Over Willard Still Nine Months A Away Aay ay Jess JeM Willard the Giant Kansan was heavyweight champion of the world He had won the title April 15 1915 by knocking out Jack Johnson Johnson John John- son sonin In 26 rounds at nt Havana Cuba in a n bout for which his only re remuneration remuneration re re- was his training I expenses and the worlds world's championship A right promising young fellow from Utah was on Willards Willard's trail troU but so far had been unable to get a hearing c despite spite creditable showings This young youn mans man's name was Jack Dempsey Five days before ore the Armistice this man called Dempsey knocked out Battling Levinsky of New York at Philadelphia in the third round with a hook to the Jaw It was the first time Levinsky had been knocked cold A short time before Dempsey had shellacked Fred Fulton the Minnesota pl plasterer On July 4 of the next net year the Utahn got a hearing with Mr WIlard Willard Wil Wll- lard Jard at Toledo Ohio and sent him kicking in the third round for the championship and while big Jess took his guarantee of One Charles Evans Jr was national open and amateur champion cham pion pon of the links Jinks R. R T. T Jones Jr was just just a. a lawyer from Atlanta I Sun Sub and George Von Elm hadn't dreamed of business man golfer roller The Atlanta J lawyer wy got rot to the finals of the amateur tournament J ment merit the next year but he be was defeated 5 and and 4 4 by br S. S Davidson Herron Baseball leaders leader looked forward to a big reconstruction program There had been a world series serle with a team called the he Red Sox from front Boston whipping the Boston Nationals jour o. o our games against two I J v J The young pitcher who learned d to play ball at an orhan orphans orphans' or orphans orphans' or- or I han home had hurI hurled d the first game for the Red Sox and arid won 0 i entirely unmindful of his hitting power that would make him i world famous a decade later Yes his name was I Babe Ruth i Baseball had been shattered by th the war Hank Gowdy of the Braves Brav was one of or the first to togo go Christy Mathewson Mathew- Mathew son was mixing poisonous gases for the to inhale Cleveland claimed a record with 18 players in some branch of Uncle Sams Sam's service but Detroit challenged the la m. m Seventeen Tigers were In the army seven mo more in i thel he and the manager was headed overs overseas as to ta take e in K of C. C work Governmental Washington was was' enthused over the practicability ef Of f th the automobile A man ma didn't have to be a a. Barney Oldfield to drive the horseless boneless carriage any more Why even the statesmen of high rank frankly admitted that the motor c car r was the only thing that saved and untold Inconvenience in the national capital The motor car industry celebrated its anniversary with the happy reflection that it had bad grown frown from a national joke to the gigantic proportion of a third largest industry In the nation I Still it little dreamed of a Sir Malcolm l Campbell who would ride more than miles an hour in a giant auto Even less Jess did the the in Industry in- in hazard th the prediction that Ab Jenkins would drive 2815 2315 miles in 24 hours on Utah's salt beds Why man the speed was impossible and man wouldn't be able to stand the strain so long JODI at the wheel whee S Silt Salt lt Lake Boxing at Standstill Be Because use of Flu Epidemic A. A lanky fight promoter hoped to reopen weekly fight tight programs In Salt take Lake 1 if the flu epidemic subsided enough so 50 the board of ot health would lift lUt the ban on public gatherings The promoter was Hardy Downing Young Gilbert was to fight Swede Johnson and Battling Travis was to meet Kid Davis Dav in two six on the first card I he J It would h fe have ve b. b been n amusing then t to tell Davis that 15 years rears later e wc would ld be Hardys Hardy's matchmaker r and a good one at that I I t Notre Dame was Just a little church school for boys in Indiana I Its lb football team pl played the Great Lakes Training school two days before the Armistice and was tied 7 I The foresight then that the same South Bend school would some someday day have a II Knute Rockne for lor coach and that it would beat Army Pittsburgh and the rest with regularity would have been absurd d T Ten second sprint men were vue iL rare The l Wykoff had bad not yet arrived with their second nine-second running Bill BIU 1 Johnson L n and William T. T Tilden II were promising young tennis I players but it it was still two yean ears until they won a Davis Dan cup for America California was AI the Ule Pacific coast cout football champion and Yale was wu without a team on account of the war B But t that was an aU 15 years ago aro a u time rots flies and aDd long as men mens men's memories go when ro-when when the world was awakening from a bad dream |
