Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02

ence breathless and wondering how it
hall happened. We hope the next man
that Frank meets will have enough to
stand up in front of that first rush.
Danny Murphy, the dminutive ban
tamweight champion of Camp Hancock
and his sparrng partner, Jimmie
Ward, both of the 33d Company, gave
a pretty exhibition bout, which showed
our Danny at his best, and gave Willie
Erdy a sight at what he will ha to
meet next Thursdays Murphy told
the correspondent after the bout that
he was confident of beating Erdy, and
was advising all his friends to- spend
their months pay on him. If he feels
that good about it. and Erdy is as
sure as he tells, we'll it ought to be a
fight worth seeing.
Cummings and Provonga, the former
of the 3dth Company, and the latter
from the 30th Company, put up a
splendid fight, and had the audience
out of their seats for the entire three
rounds Neither of these boys had
fought much befoe and it was Cum
mings' first time in a ring. But he
was game all the way through With
his nose and mouth bleeding in the
first round, he fought back all the way
and had his man staggering in the
last round. Another round and it
He earned a draw and the judges de-
cision seemed to gain great favor with
the crowd. We should like to see
these boys hook up again.
Real Knock out.
Frank Brady scored the first real
knock out of the evening in the sixth
bout. putting Joe Delaney, of the Goth
Company out for the count in the sec
ond round of his three round bout The
man from the 31st Company seems to
be rather a wild boxer and it would
do him lot of good to get in with
man who really would be a match for
him. Delaney seemed to have some
good punches, but laid down rather
easily, considering what some of the
other men took in the way of punish
ment
Larry English" the best boxer above
middleweight in the camp. fought Il
splendid exhibition with Hoffman, of
the Headquarters Company, He is a
wonderful boxer, and it was a pleasure
and an education to see one of the old
masters working out here at camp. He
has fought both Mike Gibbons and Jack
Dillon, the well known filters.
The last fight was between Young
Welman and Huggerty both of the
29th Company. Both boys weighed in
1T ItV I]builNS anu the idtLtI boy teillic
in willing and anxious to get every
thing that was coming, He got it,
and in less than 20 seconds after the
gong, he was counted out. Welman
has a very convincing left jab, and it
is a good one to avoid, for it has now
knocked out two good men and true,
and viii do the same for others who do
not learn to duck when they como n.
The bouts and rounds were nter-
| spersed with some good music by the
| Third Group Band. Sheperd Klein,
| Deane Berlin, Weinstein and Bolger
gave n splendid singing and jazz en-
tertainment between bouts, and Sic
gel one time dancer on Keith's cir
cult, gave his inimitable dancing in
| Expectations.
Credit is due to Lieut. A. w. Kill
gore, who managed and got together
| the talent for the exhibition. and a
! large measure of credit is due to the
boys who so cheerfully got up and box.
sing. dance and play that their fellow
soldiers and officers may spend an
] enjoyable evening