Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-03
REALSPORT FROM
RAILROAD MEN
Motive Power Athletes Enter
tain Members With Boxing
and Other Events

Real live boxing matches and not
the kind that are frequently seen at
the present day boxing shows, featured
the athletic tournament held last
night under the auspices of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Motive Power Athle-
lie Association. The event was staged
in the new gymnasium in Seventh
street and was attended by more than
500 members of the association. Wrest-
ling, tug-of-war, volleyball and bas-
ketball were other numbers on the pro-
gram.
The tournament opened with two
four-round boxing bouts and there was
not a second of stalling in either.
Neither bout went the limit. c. c..
Sellers, who was the promoter, match
ed Montgomery, of Enola and koche-
nour, the latter a blacksmith in the
Harrisburg shops. Both men went at
each other with a vengeance and the
bout was about even until the third
round, when Montgomery, shifted INTO
high and the big blacksmith found
himself lying on the floor outside the
ropes. He clamored back into the
ring. but was given the same treat
ment and the referee stopped the bout
Merle Lehmer and Claude Gerdes,
both of this city, were matched aginst
each other in the second bout and 1t
was as lively as the first. Both lads
Gerdes had a shade on Lehmer in
speed the latters strength told in the
end. In the second round Lehmer
found his way TO Gerdes' jaw with a
hefty right jab and the latter hit the
floor. He was so dazed when he got
TO his feet that the bout was stopped.
Two wrestling bouts followed and
both were of real championship cali
Der. In the first bout n. E. Jones, an
experienced wrestler threw Herbert
Rupp, local apprentice boy in seven
minutes and fifteen seconds.
Jones appeared in the second bout
with Merle Lehmer, and til bout was
the best of the two. II Sout was for
the best out of three fms. Jones took
the first and third falls and Lehmer
the second. Jones won the first in
seven minutes and fifteen seconds
while the second went to Lehmer in
nine minutes and sixteen seconds. The
last fall was a hard struggle, Jones
winning out in six minutes and forty
seconds.
In the tug-of-war between the
Boiler Shop and the Enginehouse No.
teams the former carried off the
honors after a bitter struggle. The
first trial was won bv three inches and
the second by one-quarter of an inch,
both trials were of three minutes dura-
tion. The teams lineup as follows:
Boiler shop, Weaver, Hoffman. Ben
nett and Devlne anchor man; Engine
house No. =, Workman, Murphy
Bartch. Fellows and Hemperley, an
Chor man.
The Harrisburg Shop volleyball
team lost to the Enola Shop team by
the narrow margin of 3 TO 13 and l5
to IA. The teams lined up as follows:
Enola: Waltz. Woodward, c. Shelly,
Nissner, Rockey and Sebourn; Harris
burg: Fellows, Knoble. Rupp, Kulp,
Boyles and Diehl. Referee, Stull.
The program was brought to a con-
Eclusion with basketball game be-
tween the Harrisburg Shop five and
the Lucknow Shop five, the latter be-
ing the victor by the score of 10 to
10. The first half ended, after a Bit
ter battle. by the score of Z to ) in
favor of Harrisburg. The summary:
HARRISBURG