The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-11
SPORTS

Grant 0.
AT Evanston: Northwestern a.;
Knox Z.
| At Notre Dame: Great Lakes Z:
Notre Dame T.
At Syracuse; Syracuse So: Brown 0.
AT State College: Rutgers rs; Penn
| State 3.
At New Haven: New London Navy
"a; New Haven Navy 8.
At New York: Fordham I: New
York University 0.
At Cambridge: Harvard Z: Tufts 0.
AT Columbia 80; Union 0.
At Philadelphia: Pennsylvania "a:
Lafayette 0.
At Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh "a:
Washington and Jefferson o.
ADD FOOTBALL RESULTS =. -.
At Ithaca: Cornell Air Service, 8:
Cornell S. a. r. c.. 0.
Al Annapolis: Naval Academy, 81;
Naval Operating Base, s. l....
AT Atlanta. Georgia Tech, 1913;
North Carolina A and f. 0.
Silent Mike Herman. who played in
the outfield for the Giants a doaen
years. died Thursday night At Belle
vue hospital. in New York after a
long illness. In the early days OF the
Giants the name of Mike Herman was
WI Lie LIPS VI eNFfy DhSepAll IAN, ana
TO this day the old timers talk about
/ the long drives which Silent Mike
used to make In Harlem.
Leslie Eunnamaker, former catcher
of Bostons. New York and st. Louis
American league teams, has Joined
the aviation section OF tho United
States navy and has been assigned to
the naval aviation station at the
Massachusetts, Institute for TechnoI-
oEv
Jimmy Wilde. the great fiy-weiEht
boxer OF England, is through until at
ter the war. Then he plans to visit.
this country and Australia
| Sam Langford will box ten rounds
against Jer Clark in Atlanta Novem-
| Der Is.
The opening game OF the football
eason. which was played Saturday BY
Richmond college and Randolph
Macon, proved somewhat OF a failure
to the fans. who hoped to witness a
cham pionship game, the score being
ito o.
The rrapple- to-the-finish match be-
+ II.
which is TO take place Thursday at
George Herberts establishment. is
awaited with interest by local mat
bugs" who have not been able to fol-
| low their favorite sport because OF the
Flu" ban.
| George StaNngs has been keeping
the baseball fires burning in Boston,
but has not been able to find pur-
chaser for the Braves. but he sayy that
he tust refused $4,000 offer for
Catcher Hank Gowdy. He did not say
who made the offer.
According TO a report received here
recently. Jem Driscoll the former
English lightweight champion, has re-
covered from wounds received at the
front and is contemplating coming to
this country to participate in bouts
for the benefit of the war charities.
The first gold star In basebalrs serv-
: lee flag is for Captain Eddie Grant,
cinnati and the Giants. who was killed
In the lighting around Argonne.
Jim Blake, former sporting scribe
OF this sheet. who enliste In the navy
quite little while ago. has been as
signed to duty in the Great Lakes ma
val training station.
! Battling I-evensky, who has long
held sway over the middieweights, has
got all that was coming to him and
apparently a little hit more Incident
ally he experienced for the first time
a trip to sleep street when Jack
Dempsey came along the other night
and put him on the curb
Hackenschmidt. former worl DIS
wrestling champion, is starving in the
! Ruhlebcn internment camp
Lieutenant Nerk. former star foot
ball player for the Georgetown uni
versity. is now the gridiron star Of the
Atlantic fleet.
Champion Jess has announced that
he has severed all diplomatic relations
with boxing managers whatsoever. and
has demanded the abdication OF Tom
Jones and Jack Curley, his former
managers. He says that he is to con-
duct two bouts in Texas for the benefit
OF the war work fund. but will have
nothing to do with any bouts ar
ranged for him by promoters
NO FOOD BUT BREAD
IN PARTS OF FRANCE
| Boston. Nov. 1o.-Henry p. Endi-
colt. state food administrator. In urE-
! ing the need OF continued conserva-
ton plans, said that Herbert Hoover,
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