The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-08

Few of the boxers now in the army
have enlisted And Of those that have
enlisted there are even fewer OF the
sort that are paid huge sums for one
bout: Most of those who have gone
OF their own free will We're prelim
boys although Pete Herman, the ban
tam champ, and Joe yelling, the
lightweight star, are two enlisted
men. The rest of the stars now serv-
ing as boxing instructors in the army
have not enlisted but were merely APP
pointed for the work and are not,
strictly speaking, in the army. How
ever, they are giving up quite a bit
of their time when they might be TAX
ing in large change in easy bouts and
so let us give them all credit. That's
quite a bit more than lots of ball
players have done.
1t is pointed out that Bonnie Leon
ard is one of the few real light
weights the ring game has known for
some while. At different times Leon
ard has been charged with weighing
at least 140 pounds and with having
little regard for the real lightweight
limit OF 1873. But the truth is that
Leonard has never weighed above 1@S,
and can weigh 1913 with ease. Ad VOL
CAST was the smallest of the light
weight champs, and he weighed 1873
when right, and never more than that.
Bat Nelson found that he had an adj
vantage over his adversaries when
the weight was 1873 but he had more
trouble in making the poundage that
Leonard has. Joe Cans. who was q
bigger man in every way than Leon
pounds and often fought his less inn
portant fights at 140 and even more.
Nelson made Cans do 1873 when they
met and the effort was so hard on
Cans that many declare Ii brought on
his death. Welsh was always heavier
than Leonard and 1t took hard train
ing for Freddy to get down to 1a5
pounds. Anyone who has seen Leon
ard knows that he is at his best az
1873 pounds and he makes 1t without
the least trouble.
New football teams can never hope
to have the record of the crack team
representing Pine Village, Ind. In the
past eighteen years the Pine Village
team has been defeated only once. Re-
Gently the team was held to 90
score by the crack Cincinnati Celts.
The Pine Village team of course is
not made up altogether Of the natives
of Pine Village, but the team has al
ways gathered the class to comprise
1t and every season finds 1t with
very strong lineup. Van AIKEN, King,
Keith. Hooker. rStonebraker, Bacon
and Bantam are all players of national
prominence who are playing with Pine
Village this season,
When the Cincinnati Reds let Clar-
ence Mitchell go. to the Brooklyn
Dodgers via the waiver route there
was considerable fretfulness among
the fans of Cincinnati. Mitchell was
something of a hit with Redland fans
not only because he can pitch nifty
game. but because he plays the out
field with more class than lots Of out
fielders. However. Manager Matty
didn't seem to think that Mitchell was
such a treasure and he let him go. But
the fans continue to grumble-
. The dope shows that the humble
NJ X Yanks made at least one record
last season. They came up from be-
hind and Wonsmore games IN the ninth
inning than any other team In the
American league. Twenty-nine OF the
Yanlks victories were won IN their
last turn at bat.
New York fans and writer's who
have PANIED the White Sox for using
better pluck the beam out Of their
own eye, 1t is true that White Sox
fans gave Heine Zimmerman a lot OF
riding in Chicago, but the So1 them
selves didn't behave 50 tnconsiderate-
~ as did Fletcher Of the Giants Tor
example Fletcher ano one or Two
other Of the Giants are the sort OF
payers that run aInuck whenever
anyone kids them a bit and old ANTS
Rowland OF the White Sox gave them
a little gam between games that kept
them right up in the air. Rowland
was wise enough 70 see the advantage
In the hothea 1e1ness Of these and he
stirred them enough to make them
fretful But there Is no reasonable
defense for some OF the rough slid
ing and such Hike OF which the one or
two Giants were guilty