Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-10 | Page 4 | Boys on Rhine Go in for Sports

BOJ O RHINE IN f SPORTS r J 0 A Army of Occupation Indulges in Every Branch of Athletics By WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent C CO LENZ Germany May l 10 The The American arm army of o is worrying ing little whether the Germans pa pay or not or how much more territory is occupied All Its attention Is centered on baseball basketball soccer polo tennis ten ten- Ills nis field a athletics and boxing With little to do except wait wall for the orders back to the United States which are not expected before late summer the army Is II manifesting Interest In athletics There ar art no less than two thirty full edged baseball teams In action and tho the Rhine and Moselle le leagues league with eight teams In the former and six In inthe tho the latter Tatter opened their season April 16 In the tho past month over worth of ot athletic equipment has been Issued Including 1097 baseballs and 71 sets of boxing gloves I ACTIVE Other sports are running baseball a close second Three leagues of or twenty teams each played thirty-six thirty games gaines of basketball In the past four weeks and the exponents of the padded glove staged thirty six boxing shows comprising 19 bouts There were twenty two twenty two matched games I of ot soccer and one ono track meet In which the American team beat a French army team 94 91 points to 22 2 Is haIng havIng having hav ha The aristocratic game of ot polo ing an unusual vogue on the probably probably probably ably to General fondness for the game pf pt course polo officers is a game and only cers participate Altogether there are eight polo teams practising for the forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming tournament this summer BOXING POPULAR With their fighting activities Interrupted interrupted interrupted inter Inter- by the armistice the army has turned its attention to pasting one another another another an an- other In the roped square In the bouts staged in the past month there were 2133 13 including seconds and over spectators witnessed the bouts In the elimination bouts Private Kid Murray entered on the arm army records as Morris Abrams of ot Philadelphia Philadel phia hla has shown head and shoulders above all aU competitors Out of ot fourteen bouts Murray has won sa by the KO and lost but one fight tight Among Amon his vic vic- times limes have been Dusty Miller the pride of ot the British army on the Rhine Janot of ot the French arm army whom he knocked out in tow rounds and Marius of ot the French army and Hurrell of ot tho the British DRESS UP ORDER The only Incident to mar an otherwise otherwise other other- wise V. completely successful athletic season season season sea sea- son so far Car has been a solemn pronouncement pronouncement pronouncement pronounce pronounce- ment in the guise of ot a general order from Crom headquarters strictly forbidding soldiers from playing tennis Improperly improperly improperly erly dressed in tn undershirts without without without with with- I out puttees or leggings The Proper thing for tennis this season in the A A. ot of O. O will be negligee shirts with long trousers according t to the dictates of ot general headquarters