Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-09
Copyright, 1881

Consequently it is not strange that IL
the list of military and naval heroes
Of the late war the names of many
men noted in the athletic and sporting
world are to be found 1t is not neces-
sary either to drag in the names OF
men who may technically be termed
athletic fighters because they have at
some time welded a gun, oar, racket,
bat or driver.
To begin at the top, Admiral Dewey
can claim high rank in the glorious
company of sportsmen and athletes, Tor
he is a daring horseman and hunter
of no mean repute. His splendid
nerve and GOODNESS amid the trying
situations that have lately beset him
are no doubt In a measure due to the
fact that he Is an all round athlete.
Admiral Sampson is recognized In
Washington as an exceedingly fine ten
mis- player, and he has certainly shown
that he knew how to smash the BALI
into the enemy's territory with great
skill in placing when 1t was his
serve"
Lieutenant Richmond p Hobson, the
hero of the Merrimac, is another all
round athlete to whom the war afford
ed the opportunity to prove his mettle.
He is noted as a swimmer, horseback
rider and oarsman. He is a member of
the Annapolis Golf Club and is regard
ed as one of the best wielders of the
brassie and driver in that organiza-
ton.
Probably no regiment contained so
many men we'll known in the athletic
world as the First volunteer United
States cavalry, commonly known as
the Rough Riders. Many of the finest
experts in all the we'll known sports
turned cut in recent years by the large
colleges and universities of the coun-
try joi~ ed that famous body of troops.
Theodore Roosevelt, the organizer of
the regiment. is himself a thorough
sportsman. Graduated from Harvard,
he was noted as an athlete in his col
1ege days, but his greatest fame in this
line was won as hunter of big game
in the Rockies. His books on the sub
ject of his adventures there are well
known to all lovers of such sport
Among the famous college students
who enlisted as Rough Riders were
Bob Wrenn, who twice saved America
from the humiliation of having the
chief trophy in the tennis world cap
tured by an Englishman, and Larned,
who is the second best player of the
game in this country; Goodrich, the
captain of Harvard's crew of 81; and
Bull, who also rowed In that boat.
Dudley Dean, the best quarter back
that ever donned the crimson, was also
a private in the regiment. He played
on the victorious team of go and was
captain of the eleven of 81. Another
well known man from the Cambridge
University was Guy Murchie, noted
coach. Lieutenant Woodbury. Kane
also played foot ball on Harvard's var
sity team and was one of the finest
specimens of young manhood that ever
graduated there. Another son Of the
famous institution was Stanley Hol-
lister, who was wounded in the charge
up San Juan hill. He was sent back
to this country, but died On August Is
at the hospital at Fort Monroe. Hol-
lister was a man of almost perfect
physical development. He was a noted
runner and rowed on the varsity crew
of '96.
Yale sent some famous athletes to
join the ranks Of Colonel Roosevelt S
regiment There were Greenway, the
best end that ever wore the light blue
on her foot ball tams: Waller, who is
che Of the finest high jumpers of the
day; E. e. Marbury, the best shot put
ter in the university: Herbert Weston,
Of ho l.
Chappell.s fast Splinter, and Ronaids.
a member of the victorious foot ball
team of sc.
Princeton's representatives were by
no means unimp0rtant in the athletic
arena There were Lieutenant Horace
Devereux. fer four years on her foot
ball eleven aud one of the famous team
of SO that beat Yale 10 to o. Hewitt.
81. son of ex-Mayor AbTam S. Hewitt,
of New York, a fine horseman and
fencer, and Claiming and Church, both
revered in foot ball annals at Old Mas
sau.
Conspicuous among the athletes from
Columbia was young Ham Fish. SER
geant of Troop L, who was the first
Rough Rider killed in Cuba. He was
captain of the varsity boat crew of SO.
Several well known young New York
ers famous in the athletic world Joined
the Rough Riders. There were Young
Willie Tiffany. a well-known golf er-
pert and polo player, who died soon af-
ter his return from Cuba from lack of
proper nourishment, and Stephens. Fer
guscn and Thrope. three members OF
Roosevelt's noted polo team at Oyster
Bay, on Long Island.
But other regiments also contained
famous athletes. Eugene W. Golf, the
we'll known ex-champion amateur all
round athlete. was member OF the
Seventy-first New York. Twice CoT
won the Individual all round honors
and was also one OF the most famous
hurdlers of his 63v. He succumbed.
however. to exhaustion. brought On By
hardships before Santiago and died at
Camp Wikotf on September g. joe
Beacham. the famous Cornell half back
and captain of the foot ball team, Is a
member Sf the Astor battery. now in
the Philippines.
Big George Burlingame. the old
trainer OF the Baltimore Athletic Club
and well known in foot ball circles. Is