The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-23
CHUM BOB'S SPORTING TALK.

New York, May 23-(By Union AS
sociated Press)-When Freddie Walsh
the worlds lightweight champion,
meets Benny Leonard, the American
lightweight holder, at Manhattan Cas-
inc next Monday evening, it will be
the third time that the two have tried
conclusions. The first contest at Mad
ison Square Garden, was won by
Leonard. Last summer they met at
Washington Park, and Welsh won the
newspaper verdict. Leonard has won
his last four fights with knockouts,
and has many supporters who believe
that he will stop Welsh after tomor-
row they will begin to take things
more easily.
Howard Berry, Pennsylvania star
all around athlete, is not going to fly.
Certain conditions surrounding en-
trance into the army aviation school
at San Diego, Cal. did not suit Berry,
and instead he has Joined the Pennsyl-
vania hospital unit. Bert Bell, the
quarterback, also is among the 15e
Penn students and alumni who COM
pose the unit. More than 100 appli-
cants for that service had to be turn
ed down.
Girl golf prodigies are developing
in all sections Of the country. The
largest is Miss Katherine Wright, q
seventeen-year-old maiden of Los An
geles, and sister of Carlton Wright.
former champion of southern Califor-
MIA. In a recent invitation tourna-
ment she surprised everybody by
winning the chief prize with an 81,
45 out Of AZ in, with a par 4 on the
eighteenth hole. That in the face of
a big gallery which included papa and
mamma.
Personal efficiency, our esprit de
corps, finance, even recruiting, all
have felt the baneful influence of the
let-down in sport. Those who argue
that this is the natural result of war
AN interest in things higher than
personal activity and the willingness
to sit by and be entertained by others
are only 10 per cent. right. A condi-
ton approaching the normal in all
sport would have been maintained had
it not been for the disseminators of
historical doctrine-overzealous pa
triots whose patriotism failed miser-
ably of the mark and pussy foot off,
Gals of sport associations who declin-
ed the responsibility of continuing
sport when calamity howlers were
shouting about the drag it might
prove on the efforts Of the military
authorities.
First in the National League to take
up seriously military drills within
their ranks, the Boston Braves have
set another precedent in a patriotic
move. Members Of the club have pool
ed $4,000 to be employed in the purch.
ase Of Liberty bonds"
Carl Weilman, one Of the best
southpaws in baseball, is lost to the
Browns for the season. He is soon
to undergo an operation for the re-
moval Of a kidney. He has taken part
in some games this spring, but he
turned in his uniform the other day
and left for home.
Whatever tennis we have had this
spring has served to indicate that
while the game because of the war,
may suffer among men, 1t is going to
have the greatest season in its history
among women. The fair racquet
wielders have made their sctivity oil
the more c~omsnendable by their will
ingness to make It stand for some-
thing more than spot. The donation
Of entrance and admission fees to the
Red Cross is . step In the right d.
rection.
Ty Cobb recognizes one league in
which batting efficiency is Of no par
ticular Importance. Tyrus opines that
Uncle Sam needs cooks for the army
considerably worse than he does ball
players. He says one cook \ worth
. huRdrsd CobbS 10 my syany.