Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-05
WAR HAlISPL...A L !
HAVOC WITH ALL
SPORTS | IN EUROPE | | |
by Latest MALL

W." IOhA. ~ Will pTODdQly
take another genefation before Eu.
rope will again enjoy the great boom
that she has had IN all branches OF
sport during the past few years" This
is the opinion expressed by Dan Nc,
ketrick, the noted boxing promoter,
who has Just returned home after hav.
ing spent year IN France and Eng.
land 49, - q Sc: i" 1853 ~'~e-s =.
McKetriek came back with Young
Ahearn, the latest and greatest sensa-
ton in Europeans boxing circles.
Ahearn when he left these shores a
year ago was good lightweight.
Since then he has developed into a
big middleweight and has the scalps
Of many Of the best boxers in Eng
land and France. He now holds the
middleweight championship of Europe,
France and England have sent to
the front their leading lights in every
branch of amateur athletics and pro-
fessional sports Said McKetrick..
Many of these famous athletes and
sportsmen have run1lheir last race or
paid their final bet, for every day you
will find in the casualty lists and
among the missing the names of men
who have achieved prominence in
their speciality. / -*'-.'-> -. 8.
Take, for instance, the boxing
game. Little Ledoux, who has as
good a claim as any man to the BAN
tsmweight championship of the world,
has been severely injured. Adrien
Hogan, middleweight, who lost the,
European title to AlIearn, has had his
leg shot of. Stubef has been killed,
az have Baray, Bandsman Blake and
Bandsman Rice. .st.r.-.
Il could also name any number of
sporting Journalists. Alec Carter, the
great steepleehase jockey, has been
killed. In England II has been the
same thing. Many members OF the
National Sporting Club, including men
of international reputation on the polo
field, have been lost There also has
been a tremendous loss of men fa-
nous in French and English football.
Cricketers in England by the score
have given their lives to this great
war of liberty .s /. r.. IT {.
Z Peggy Bettinson. manager of the
National Sporting Club, had one of
his sons in the battle at Mons. When
left. Bettinson told me he feared
for the worst, as his boy was among
the missing.
1t viii take years and years to I'LL
these gaps in the sporting world. 1t
would be mighty pity for Carpen-I
tier to meet his death. He represents
a new order in France He is of the
athletic generation that France has,
iong wanted. France can ill afford to
lose him. AS yet he has not been
sent to the front. He is at the milf
tary school at st. Cyr. His manager,
Francis Descamps, is at the front, and
no word has been heard from him.
Lueien Cert, partner of Theodore
Fienne, a famous boxing promoter in
Europe. has been severely injured.
The report circulated that Walter
de Mum Of the famous wine house
had been killed is not true. He gave
nlnlself up as a prisoner of war and
is now at his country place, guarded
by. Winnie O'Connor, the American
jockey, who is a civil guard. O'Con-I
nor rode for de Num-
: While racing is going on in Eng
land, it has been called OF In France,
1t was the wish OF King George that
it continue Many famous horses be-
longing to Englishmen were seized
when war broke out. Horatio Bot
who vas backing Ahearn, had
2s thoroughbEeds taken from him at
Ostend He later recovered them. &