The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-08
THE HISTORY OF RED.

Without a doubt Frank Aloysius McDermott is the most fragile
piece of baseball bric-a-brac that ever played the game, A short his
tory Of his spectacular career will back up the statement: -,
when he went to the Tigers and had appendicitis, He then took on a
he he s spra in an nam ankle sDi injured r%'i his side and q damaged mag d his hand nd mott %a' to
mention sustaining several cuts from rival spikes that failed to drive
In l I!5 Under Rrts Lord he repeated the same stunts Of the year
broke a leg. First of all, his foot was spiked, and in Mobile he was
practice Red was preparing to open the hitting for the chicks when
Red Zee on 't the ankle tIHs That ~a'i night he hS1 was s sent no. home % sitS a D Sed s MI so1H'N
From Memphis he went to Richmond, but failed to shake his luck;
he way. when Bily Smith left virginia for Shreveport Red went with
mott IT. $ is 6r 1G s,rS naSen thing rgG. to pick ok Ro a o paper and and I read wi where MeDeT-
his neck he Toud, save himself great pain and trouble. But it it seems seems
that the best he can do is crack a leg or sprain an ankle.
RACING IN MEMPHIS.
played Friday at the Fairgrounds, means that the Tr-state Driyin s' club I1,
So e, Great sL was the crowd that attended the annual feature bill that
when the sport Of kings was in its prime and glory.
forming MR1 The the Tsis sa1sip prif fioti0 osb' m tGe com ssyss5l t, TsSks $, ago s1}, thereby
cations was thrown together, assuring healthy fields for the entire sum
More than that, the clean atmosphere surrounding these weekly
their following, Sport and money have been so closely 'T linked q of of late te
suit, sport has lost a part Of its slimmer and its tG power to H1 tn the a bug bug
has faded The answer, of course, lies in the fact that too much finance
At the fairgrounds the driving club stages a weekly matinee for
gate and that il for the Fourth Of July card. Every other " week 'a a a bin BIZ
open. The owners and drivers are prominent business men Of the city
What more could be said of st clean an industry? with a clean
slate for 10 years, there is no reason why the eleventh season should not
If you think that harsh things have been printed in these columns
concerning Jack Dempsey and his failure to enlist, you may inspect the
following from Granland Rice in the New York Tribune:
And so, as Willard at 80 passes ont, Dempsey at "a be-
comes champion of the world. The champion boXer-nOt the
champion fighter. For it would be an insult to every dough
boy that took his heavy pack through the mules train to front
line trenches to go over the top at dawn to refer to Dempsey as
a fighting man. If he had beer a fighting man he would have
been in khaki when at 20 he had no other responsibility in the
world except to protect his own hide.
Marvel of the Ring.
SO let US have no illusions about our new heavyweight
champion. He is a marvel in the ring. the greatest boxing IF
the greatest hitting machine even the old-imers have we seen
But he isn't the worlds champion fighter. Not by a mar
gin of 10000, 600 men who either stood IT we're ready In stand
the test of cid steel and exploding shell for anything from sly
cents to a dollar a day.
1T would be an insult to every young American who sleeps
today from Flanders TO Lorraine. from the Somme to tho Ar
come, to crown Dempsey with any laurels built of fighting
courage.
HE missed the big chance of his life to prove his own
manhood before his own soul-but beyond that he stand +,
day Is the ring marvel of tho century. a puncher who will he
unbeatable Is long as he deNres to stay off the primrose
system"