The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-03-15
(BY +. $. ANDREws.)

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Naples, Italy, March THE voyage of
the American boxers. Jimmy Clabby OF
Milwaukee and Ray Bronson and train
err Walter Owens of Indianapolis, from
Sydney, Australia. to Colombo. Ceylon.
thence through the Red Sea, was q
pleasant and amusing one. The party
had planned for series Of boxing
bouts en- route. but were able to show
only at Melbourne. where Clabby dis
posed of w. Sanderson in two rounds
and Bronson stopped Jim Armstrong in
five rounds.
At Adelaide the stop was only six
hours and no opponents could be dis
covered for them. the boys put In
their time sightseeing and being en-
tertained by a few Americans. They
were all prepared for a rough passage
over the great Australian blight. a dis
lance of over 1000 miles to Perth and
Fremantle, but they were favored with
good weather all the way over. The
blight has the reputation of being the
toughest part around the 5000 miles
of shore line. When leaving Adelaide
they were notified that the promoter
at Fremantle wanted expense wired
ahead to conduct his show. The an
swer to this man was short and very
much American. simply reading Moth
| ing doing"
| After a halliday in Perth with some
more Americans the boys were ready
for the voyage to continue. Walter c
Kelly the Virginia Judge, sent wire
| less from the Runic at Melbourne say
ing: Sorry cannot be with you to Lon
don. but have provisions stored in cab
| in to last until South Africa is reach
ed. Best wishes to all and old Broad
way"
After leaving Colombo the Americans
began a systematic course of training
for their London and Paris engage
| ments, doing considerable running ev-
cry morning skipping the rope, work
| ing the exercisers and boxing with two
! officers of the Osterley, who are very
| clever amateur sparrers. The boys also
entertained the sports and before reach
ing Naples added another half dozen
prizes to their list Clabby gained
weight at first, but plenty of work kept
him around the same mark that he
boxed Smith at in Australia.
Boxers Work Stokers.
Playing the part of stoker on ar
ocean linr may be a fine form Of train
ing for an athlete. but both Clabby and
Bronson are not anxious to adopt Il
as part of their regular routine Of
When in the Arabian Sea, during a rur
of fine cool weather, the Indiana ant
, Milwaukee representatives went below
|, and had two nights of real labor a.
firemen or stokers. They took thei
turn at shoveling coal into the immense
furnaces. and for two hours each nigh
worked like Turks. much to the deligh
t of the regular stokers who rested am
i enjoyed the novelty greatly. After tw'
days of this kind of training the boy
. found their hands well blistered an
gave ii up Bronson's hands were quit
/ sore and he found 1t quite difficult t.
, close them for two days following
!, CIabby was more fortunate and hi
hands were not badly blistered
Gee. but they can have all such jobs.
! said Bronson afterward- They onl.
have Sour hour shifts and you t;
have four hour shifts, but it is h
| while you are down there and you can
Il not stop. Hereafter l will take my ha
off to a stoker. 1t is a terrible life t
t follow and ] want no more of it. Blu
l 1 enjoyed the experience and reall,
l benefited by the exercise"
The run from Fremantle to Colomb
is considerably over 5000 miles an
= games We're numerous, as Capt. Jenk
| of the r. NJ. s. "Osterley'' is great be
/ lever in plenty of sports to break tn
f monotony of the voyage. All kinds O
e deck games were played and Clabb
4 entered ALL even to cricket. Bronso
e preferred the sprints and deck auoit'
n | Clabby had hard time winning in tn
s potato race, having to cover the tris
in 30h seconds. beating such crac