Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-13
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Chicago, April 13.-Earl Caddock
won a wrestling match with John
/ Olin in two straight falls at Des
/ Moines.
Billy Miske was given a deci-
! sion over Gunboat Smith in a 10
round fight at Atlanta.
| Eddie McGoorty and Hugh Walk
er fought a 12-round draw at Jop-
lin, Mo.
/ Kid Harmon of Pekin. Ill. out
4 pointed Zulu Kid in a 10gound
/ bout at Peoria.
Because frankie Brown weighed
four and a half pounds over the
mark called for Joe Burman re-
I fused to box and the 10-round bout
was called off at Milwaukee.
Miss Claire Galligan of New Ro-
chelle, y. Y, wOman's middle dis
{ Ie1ASC iiAbAOIcAl . W CAGiAl-
ming champion. added another ma
tional title to her list by winning
the 220-yard swim in the central
Y NJ. c. A. at Brooklyn, in min
utes and 3 As seconds. Clark
Leach of the Hamilton club, Chi
cage, won the 1O0-yard national
championship for men.
Promoters of the new Interna-
tional league announced that or
ganization had been COMPLETED and
franchises awarded to Toronto,
Buffalo, Rochester. Syracuse, Bling
hamton, Jersey City, Newark and
Baltimore. Sunday baseball for
New York state was killed at AL
bany by action of the rules COM
mittee.
Ames defeated the University Of
Missouri to in a Missouri val
ley conference baseball game at
Columbia.
The defeat of Metropoulos of the
Gary Y M c. A, national 1885,
pound champion. by Spyros worries
of the Greek Olympic CLUB of Chi
cago in the 1876 and las pound
classes, was the feature of the pre-
liminary rounds of the National A.
A. L. wrestling championships at
Chicago.
The status OF Grover Alexander.
star pitcher of the Chicago Ma
tiOnalS. has not been definitely de-
termined as regards to the army
services. Alexander had not been
notified that he must enter the ser
vice, but he was subject t" an early
call.
The Jack Johnny Griffith
act, booked in Fort Sheridan next
/ Thursday night, has been post
poned indefinitely The agents"
didn't want to run in opposition TO
! the Ringing circus, figuring a
three-ring burlesque would be a
better attraction than one-Ioop
affair.
Although governors of two states
have announced that Jess Willard
and Fred Fulton cannot 'foX-trot"
within their jurisdiction, with the
chances that other executives will
fall in line, Jess Willard resumed
! his training yesterday. Colonel
Miller was on hand to see that the
champ didn't overdo himself, but
Jess spent most of the afternoon
toying with the weights and skip
ping rope.
Phil Harrison, the jungman-
fighter, knocked out Nate Lewis
with verbal uppercut yesterday
Phil battles Eddie McGoorty in RIA
cine April &c, and since the Osh-
kosh mauler scored an easy kayo
yoer frankie Brennan, PhiPs
friends have been anxious as to
whether the junkman intended go
ing through with the Racine COM
bat. Yesterday Phil bumped into
Nate and requested that he pur-
chase 10 tickets for the fight.
Il want to present my customers
with ringside seats" he explained.
Hadn't you better wait until you
pick something softer than Nc
Goorty to give your party?" asked
Nate.
Not so you can notice it," came
back Harrison. Il want these peo-
pie 10 see how easily l can wallop
the star of the division" However,
Phillip is training seriously for the
first time In his career.
THE squawk of the trimmed
sucker. etc" Harry Pollock, man
ager OF Patsy Cline, has polished
up his star and Is flooding the
country with literature protesting
against FIRST 20 the wire manag-
ers." Lew Tenders manager beat
Harry to the telegraph Office when
Low and Patsy clashed in Phila-