Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
RANKS OF SPORT
HIT BY DEATH
Nearly One Hundred Answer
Call of Grim Reaper
During Year

Washington, Jan. 2.-The Grim
Reaper did much to thin the ranks
or sport during the year just clos
ing.
Nearly 100 men have answered the
call and taken the final count, and
included in this number have been
some of the best-known lights" in
one branch of sport or another.
The death of Frank Gotch at his
nome in Humboldt, Iowa. was the
latest score made against sports by
the Reaper, and through his passing
the wrestling world lost its great
est of all champions.
Early in the year, in January, to
be exact, William Chase Temple,
donor of the Temple Cup and for
mer president of the Pittsburgh ball
club, was taken down the trail over
which no man returns. Temple was
one of the grand daddys of present
day baseball and the first man to in
troduce a plan for deciding the world
championship. Harry Holtgrieve.
former world champion weight litter.
and Eddie Doheny, who used to pitch
for the Giants and Pirates, also died
in January.
February marked the passing of
L. II. Murnane, veteran baseball
scribe of Boston, q power in the
!
! try-wide fame for his sound sense
and fairness. Joe Lindley, former
world champion bike rider, T. II.
Struckney, former president of the
Louisville National League club, An
/ drew Welch, harness racing veteran
and owner, all died during the same
month.
From March until the close of
May the following deaths were re-
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! mis- champion of British Columbia,
killed in France; Jim Barry, heavy
weight boxer shot in Panama; Ar
thur Redfern, once famous jockey,
died in New York; Lester Darcy,
middle-weight champion of Austria
liza. died at Memphis; j. Arthur
James, famous racing horse owner,
died in London; William Sudhoff.
former major league pitcher, died
| in st. Louis.
In June, Phil Dwyer, veteran rae
! ing man, answered the last call at
his home in New York, and Joe
| Acton, formerly wrestling cham
| pion of America and England, died
| at Portland, Ore.
DIR. James Dwight, veteran tennis
! player and formerly president OF
| the United States Lawn Tennis As
| sociation, died in July. Al PalZer,
| lilS HtdN y WtlSnl DONST, WAS SIlOl anu
killed by his father the same month.
! A. C. Buckenberger, formerly man.
ager of the Pittsburgh club and lat
| er its president, also died in July.
! William A. C'Toney'D James, vet
| eran baseball catcher, took the long
| trail in August, and Cy Alberts, an
| other veteran of minor league fame
/ died the same month. Knap Nc
| Carthy, q veteran racing driver, ans
wered the call in September.
October and November saw twelve
football players pass along as a re-
suit of injuries received on the grid
iron. Bob Fitzsimmons was counted
out for the last time in Chicago
hospital on October % and Willie
Lucas. a lightweight boxer, also dice
in October.
Steve Brady, veteran ball player
| once captain of the famous Metro
politians of New York, died in No.
vember, as did Dick Roche, former
manager of Jack Dempsey and jack
( McAuliff.
Charles White, veteran referee
was called early in December, and
/ Robert McRoy, business manager OF
the Cleveland Americans, died In
! Milwaukee December 2.
William G. Weart, veteran base.
ball writer, also died this month
passing along after a short illness
due to pneumonia.