Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-10-01
news OF CAMP SEWER
Rain Interferes With Proposed Box
Ing Match.
BASE HOSPITAL HAS A NEWSPAPER
youno Boxer With National Reputa-
ton Spelling for Fight; But Una
BILE to Find q Match Among All the
Many Men In the Division.

Correrponeepce The Yorkvils Enquirer
Camp Sewer, Greenville. :. T., sep
t.mber 2T-Rain broke up the weekly
boxine bout staged at the Knights OF
Columbus arena Thursday night by
Tommy harrington, X. c. athletic di-
rector and Carey I'h"lan. his assistant
and a thousand or so soldiers gamer
.d from all sections OF Camp Sewer 10
see Danny Whalen and Billy Name
fight four rounds for the coveted H. l.
bantam weight trophy cup. went away
very much disappointed. IL simply
couldn't he helped and that was all
there was TO II. Those in charge OF
the boxing exhibition even went so iar
as TO turn the canvass mat and make
arrangements TO proceed WIN the
show ANYHOW: but when that was done
another downpUur Of rain began ana
there was simply nothing 10 do except
10 tell the big soldier crowd that there
was great sorrow because II was I'M
pr;,cticahlc to hold the show. II was
probably the largest crowd that has
vet attended any OF the many boxing
exhibitions that have been held In the
X G. arena and both men who were
killed to scrap for the beautiful cup had
many friends and hackers in the
crowd. When the championship con-
test will come off. now that there was
a postpOnemcnt last night. cannot he
stated with certainty by Director Far
rington, who will make announcement
concerning the matter little later.
Esprit de Corps" is the name of
bright little four page paper that Is
now being published by the enlisted
personncl of the base hospital. The
little paper. the third issue of which
has recently made its appearance, is
filed with live local happenings and
editorial matter regarding the base
hospital personnel and the various ac-
tivitics OF the employees there. Private
First Class Diliwyn Parrish Is editor.
Corporal Frank \. Young Is business
manager and Sergeant First Glass II.
B. Pottcrfleld and Private First Class
Fred A. Minnigh are associate editors.
At the masthead OF the attractive little
rapcr appears the following: Esprit
dc Corps is published each Friday by
and for the benefit of the enlisted men
Of Medical Department. L. s. A., on
duty at the Base Hospital. Camp Sc
vicr. South Carolina. Distributed to
officers. nurses and enlisted men on
duty at the base hospital: the patients
therein and their visitors. Subscrip-
tion free"
Great newspapers all over the coun-
try have contributed to the enlisted
personnel of Camp Sewer. Scores of
fellows who formerly with pad and
pencil in hand and some with only
pencil and cuff for pad, have dis
carded these weapons for others that
are necessary just now to make the
deepest impression upon the Huns.
Among the well known newspaper men
now at Camp Sewer who has recent
Iy been discovered. is Private Eddie
Finneran. He was formerly with the
we'll known Pittsburgh. Pa, Sun.
where nc used to cover police and
other important assignments. Eddie
knows all the lights of his city who
are in the public eye. has more than n
speaking acquaintance with most Of
the people over Pennsylvania state who
make copy" for the papers and Is n
and a ming
man. who has already made many
friends among his fellow soldiers since
coming to Camp Sewer. He likes the
camp likes the army and Is really just
Il little glad because of this war. since
it gave him chance to get away from
the daily grind OF the newspaper town
in the City of Smoke and into a place
where he finds n sufficiency Of the
open air and the open sky.
Page another boxer. the real big ring
kind who is now soldering at Camp
Sewer:
The latest find Is Private Harry
Martonc, who is with Company c, Of
tho fighting Forty eighth. Though on
~ - NtstiS VI tSt. iiNtuS
Il most remarkable record as n light
weight boxer and he has a brilliant
future before him. because he has not
Vet found himself entirely. He start
IL years of age. Scrapping all kinds
of fighters in his home town Of New
York. He loafed around the big guns
in boxing, used to watch them in
sparring contests. studied them. al
most worshippcd them. learned the lit
tie tricks of the game. learned that the
key to the success of any boxer Is In
his keeping always in fine physical
trim by plenty Of wholesome exercise
and clean living. He has done that.
He wears the scalps of a number of
noted fighters on his belt. He fought
the great Johnny Duffy and won the
decision. and Charlie Brown. Eddie
McEntire. and Barney Adair. all old
fighters with an Al rating, have gone
down before his hard fists. He fought
no-dccision bout with Benny Leon
dTu, NOIlu
some time ago and also no-decision
bouts with Johnny Dundee and Patsy
Cline. He issued n challenge to Fred
dy Welsh. one of the greatest light
weights the old fstic game over pro-
duced; but for some reason or other
the great Freddie refused to take him
on. Martone was hardly II when he
had his first real fight. It was with
the great Ted Lewis. who now holds |
the title of welterweight champion Of
the world. The bout was n draw.
Harry's complaint is that he cannot |
get a fight among any of the soldiers |
at Camp Sewer. Though his weight Is |
only about 1873. he has offered to take
on Mr.. Anybody, so long as he doesn't |
weigh over 145. Thus far his chal- |