Show SPORT DEATHS TOTAL HIGH SINCE LAST YEAR As one gazes back over the tile last twelve months by far the most fatal to men closely connected with sport it Is Impossible to refrain from trying to break the tho veil and contemplate the ravages ra of the coming year with thousands thousands thou thou- sands of our athletes at war Since last Memorial day some of the most prominent figures in sport have gone west Pugilism saw the passing of a a. number of ot its old time idols The first was waa Bob Fitzsimmons Fitasimmons conqueror of ot Jim Corbett who nho was knocked out in his bis final battle In October SIn S In February John L L. Sullivan greatest of the great heard the beU bell toll ten and a few days later Terry McGovern ern the greatest little fighter lighter of ot the age took the count Late in March Mike MUe Donovan Civil war hero and former middleweight champion heard the call and the tile same month saw the passing of ot Dick Burge former lightweight champion of ot England April marked the death of Charley Mitchell one of at the greatest of ot English English En En- glish heavyweights and in IIi May George o I Ii la Blanche the marine inventor of the pivot punch died Billy Madden famous old time manager and Charley White the great referee died during the year i j Baseball will mourn Oliver Patsey who died recently Steve Brady second baseman of the old Metropolitans and Cliff CUff Markle a former for tor- mer Yankee pitcher the first ball player killed in Uncle Sams Sam's service In France Robert McRoy MeRcy vice president of the Cleveland cl club b and Billy Weart secretary and treasurer of at the Baseball Writers Writers' association both died durIng during during dur dur- ing the year ear Frank Gotch undefeated wrestling champion died during the winter and athletics lost a remarkable figure n the death of Martin Sheridan The list is a long one one but but with our thousands of pf athletes in France what will vill Memorial day of ot 1919 recall to lover of sport |