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Show ATHLETES SCARCE A iilKA A 111 IfUUIIlilLIii Three Hundred Swimming Club Members Now in Trenches Many Other Athletes Join Ranks. Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 4. The war is cutting deep into the ranks of Australia's athletes Frank Beauro palre or Victoria, who in 1914 won all tho Englibh championships fiom 100 yards to a mile, is now a member of the expeditionary forces, while news has also been received here that Ernest Ern-est Bairy, champion sculler of the world, recently enlibted in England for actho service Some Idea of the way in which tho call for more men "for the trenches" has appealed to the athletes of Australia Aus-tralia may be gathered fiom the fact that 300 members of swimlng clubs in Sydney have enlisted. As the swimming swim-ming population of clubs, outside school clubs. In that city numbers at most 1.200 tho proportion of volun-teeis volun-teeis for active service Js thus 25 per cent. Rugby Union football players in New South Wales alone who have gone to the front already number over 1,000. The Union's list of killed in action is climbing up. being at present about forty The number of cricketers cricket-ers who hae enlisted from that state is also over 1,000 Since the war began there has been considerable severe comment over seeming lncunerence by tho followers of boxing to patriotic sentiment, but Baker says that he believes a high percentage of boxeis and boxing patrons pat-rons have gone to the liont and more will follow. At all events this class is to bo persistently reminded of its duty to tho country. Every stadium in Australia is soon to ring with speeches for recruits. At a contest to take place in the stadium at Brisbane Bris-bane an appeal is to be made to the onlookers to join the colors by a number num-ber of public men, one ot whom will be Cannon Garland of tho Church of England |