The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-28
ARTHUR PELKBY, 30 TO-DAY,
 IS ANOTHER BLASTED HOP

On the lengthy roll of members of the Order Of Blasted Hopes now appears the name of Arthur Pelkey, who once claimed the white heavy weight championship of the world. As an aspirant to the vacant throne of Jehfries, Palzer was even more of a joke than those other cheese cham pions. Carl Morris of Oklahoma and Al Palzer of Iowa. He had the length and, the bulk. standing over six feet one in his tootsies and weighing over 200, but that that let him out.
 PeFkey was born 30 years ago today, Oct. 27. 1884, at Chatham. Ontario. His real name was Peltier, and he is of blood. That combination has pro duced several great fighters, but it didn't do much for the Canadian. Ar thur began fighting in Boston, and in 1910 and the two succeeding years he took on a number of second-raters in various New England cities. In 1911 he knocked out Jim Barry in 8 bout pulled off in PeIlzey's native town, and the following year he defeated Sol- dier .eKarns in New York and opt pointed a few other fairly good s'hopes."
 Pelkey got into the limel1ght last year when he was matched to fight
 
 white heavyweight championship. 2 Tommy Burns, the ex-c1ampton, took Arthur under his wing, and groomed him for the battle. All boxing fans remember the resu1t-the tragic death of Luther in the ring before the battle had fairly commenced.
 It may be that the fatality took the starch out of Pelkey, and. in any event, he failed utterly to live up to his championship claims. On the first of this year he was knocked. out by l Gunboat Smith at Daly City, Cal, and 9 little later he was put to sleep bH Kid Kenneth. After those defeats Ar thur took 8 steamboat and sailed away, but he had no more of hit abroad than he did at home. He lacked. the fighting spirit and the iron aW of the bruiSer, and his mental pro- cesses required too long a time to pass a given point to enable him to shine 1 as 8 boxer.
 Charley Ledeaux, the clever little French bantam boxer. was born at i Nfevre, France, twenty-two years l ago today, October 27, 1892. Charley began displaying his eistfc prowess before the Parihians in 1909. He I fought twenty bouts during his first year in the ring, and lost but one or l them. and that to Georges Carpen- tier, then a lightweight, but now a l light heavyweight Of the score of l triumphs scored by Ladeau, eighteen were by the knockout route and eleven Of them were scored in the first round. The little Frenchmau 1 firsa visited America in 1912, when aa | fought six rounds with Kid Williama in Philadelphia. He crossed the pond l again last year. and after losing a 1 twenty-round decision to Eddie Camp. at Vernon he was knocked out by 1 Kid Williams in the fifteenth round LedeaI1x claimed the bantam cham pionship of Europe by reason of his defeat of Bill Benyon. the British ti- tie holder, at Cardiff, Wales, Iast February
 s'vean'' Gregg, the star southpaw oi the Boston Red Sox, will receive con gratulations today on his twenty seventh birthday. Vean, who wa: christened SyIvanus, was born Octo l Der 27, 1887, at Cheha1is, Wash. Int lofty Lefty got his baseball start ol an independent club in Lewiston, Ida ho, and in 1909 he pitched for Spo kane in the Northwestern league Cleveland had a hankering for thu left-hander and gave Spokane $4, ,56 for him, but the profered contrac was not satisfactory to Vean and h. refused to sign, thus proving himsel a true temperamenta1 southpaw. Th' Maps turned him over to Portland, il the Pacific Coast league, in 1910, bu recalled him in 1911. During his ca reer with Cleveland, which terminates when he was traded to the Red So, this year, Gregg won 72 and lost 3 twelve games and lost seven con fF2eYf