The Washington herald., 1917-02-14
PUBLICITY BLACKLIST
PROPOSED FOR WELSH
Travis Retirement Causes Regret.
Dartmouth Provides Visiting
Athletes Accommodations.

Freddie Welsh sometime back, an
nounced that on July he would retire
from the boxing game, and there Is every
reason to believe that IL he fulhlls his
avowed intention he will step from the
ring the undefeated lightweight cham
pion.
1t has not been an uncommon occur
renee for some fighter in the past to get
in bad with the boxing public of some
particular locality. as, for instance, Greb's
case in Pittsburgh. But 1t is doubtful as
to whether any other pugilist in the his
tory of the Marquis of Queensbury game
has fell into such disrepute nationally as
this same Freddie Welsh.
The English scrapper since winning the
title has repeatedly sidestepped matches
wherein his crown would have been at
stake, refusing to meet any battler over
a route that would go beyond ten rounds.
Benny Leonard, Joe yelling and Charley
White have dog$ed his trail for the past
several months endeavoring to get him
into a bout over a twenty or twenty-five
round span, but Welsh in each and every
instance has conceived some excuse for
turning them down.
Some sport writer's have suggested that
II would be better to have a three-cor-
nered tournament between Leonard. Well
ing and White, the winner to be recog-
world. BY refusing to recognize Welsh
as the lightweight champion through the
columns of the press, they believe that
In this manner they can force the
''dodger" into fight to defend his crown.
Speaking of the boxing game, reminds
US that Monte Cross has suggested that
more hitting would result in baseball
provided the pitchers were restricted In
winding up. Why not go a step farther
and improve the fight game by COM
pelling the promoters to do the same
thing?
The automatic retirement of Walter ].
Travis from the held of gold, through the
ruling of the United States Golf Associa-
ton relative to those who superintend the
laying out and construction of courses,
brings to a close the career of one OF the
most picturesque figures that ever graced
the field in any line of American sport.
He has been a pillar of the sport, as
we'll as q promoter. and has had more
to do toward advancing the game to the
high plane II now enjoys than perhaps
any other man in the world. From the
very day that Walter ]. Travis invaded
the field of golf and started in to master
the driver, the cleek, the putter ana
the nashie, golf started on an ascendency
was perceptibly noticeable.
In 1900, the second year of the metro
polition championships, Travers, won the
title and now after seventeen years ne
still commands champions game. just
four years later he journeyed to England
and not only electrified the home OF
golf, but the United States as well, by
winning the international title, the only
time in the history of the game that an
American has ever accomplished this feat.
His days as an amateur exponent OF
the game are over. but the untirins ef-
forts of the Grand Old Man Of Ameri-
can golf will long be revered by those
who have been able to appreciate his
worth and the number OF these Will
run into the thousands.
Dartmouth College proposes to fill a
long felt want in the shape OF well
equipped and strictly private hotel, to
be known as the Gable House." for the
use of visiting college athletic teams.
Visiting teams have heretofore been
obliged to utilize inconvenient hotel ac-
commodations in towns adjacent to Ham
over, since the only hotel in the village
large enough to care for visiting ath-
letes has declined to serve them. owing
to engagements of space for other pur-
poses.
The Gable House will be conducted
by the Dartmouth Athletic Council and
will be equipped for thirty men. with
single rooms and large living and assem-
bly, quarters. conference room for the
private use of visiting coaches is also
provided A nominal fee for lodging will
be charged and meals will be served at
the college Commons in a separate
dining room.