The sun., 1919-09-21
CRIPPLED MEN PLAY
Big LEAGUE BALL
Armless and Legless Institute
Club Members Slide Bases
With the Best.
HOLD BOXING MATCHES
Boy, without Hands Puts
Punch Into Contest With
Opponent Minus a Leg.

It reflects great credit on Sam Lozof-
sky. president of the Red Cross Institute
Club, that he did such good work in the
baseball match and potato race and box
ing contests and basketball and other
features of the clubs field day at 311
Fourth avenue yesterday afternoon. Not
for the reason that Sam has only one
leg. He can make a home run quicker
on his crutch than most men can with
two good legs, and for that matter none
of the club boys, all of whom had lost
arms or legs or were paralyzed or other
wise disabled, seemed to feel that they
were handicapped. But Sam has just
become the proud parent OF a daughter,
and such is his excitement over her ad-
vent that his fellows in the printing de-
partment Of the institute where sam
works have been terribly afraid that he
wouldn't be able to lead yesterdays
game with his usual dash. But he did.
Field day was held in the big vacant
lot behind the institute, and the bleach
ers were filed with an enthusiastic
crowd of the crippled mems sweethearts
and wives and sisters and friends. There
were three innings in the baseball game,
Capt. Sam Lozofsky leading the Red
nine and Capt. Joseph Recktenwald the
"Yellows." None of the players had
their full assortment Of limbs and some
were minus two or three. Felix Petrow-
sky. at the bat with the Reds, walked or
ran on two artificial legs and played
with one good hand, the other arm be-
ing gone. shorty" Collizan did some
fine work at bat, too, but the star of the
game was "The Human Stork," Joseph
Muliken, catcher for the Yellows. Null
liken used to be vaudeville performer
before he lost his right leg, but 1t Is sate
to say that he never performed more
startling stunts than when he balanced
himself on his one leg all through the
three innings yesterday. his crutch quite
discarded, hopping about with agility and
never losing a trick.
One Legged Man Is Good.
Capt. Sans team won the basketball
contest, though he had some good play
ers opposite him, notably Benjamin Katz
one legged man and a dogged oppo-
nent. Katz became a draughtsman after
he lost his leg and is now employed by
the New York Central Railroad.
After the basketball came potato
race between four one legged men and
four one armed. Thomas oliver won,
getting over the ground on his one leg
and getting his potatoes in the basket
in a miraculously short time.
Then came the boxing, led of by
George Layne, middleweight one legged
negro champion, and Louis Dorman, a
white boy with more punch In the mem
bers he has left than most lads with
their full assortment There were seven
events in this part of the programme
and between bouts the boxers were as
siduously famed and sponged' by their
seconds though no blood was drawn.
But there was some lively sparring,
especially when Lou Young, who has
lost both arms, one at the shoulder and
one at the wrist, put on the naitts and
went at Sam LoZotsky. Lou in spite Of
his handicap runs a newsstand and
shaves himself and performs all the or
binary acts of life without difficulty.
Institute Teaches Pupils.
The institute, which teaches typewriter
repairing and printing and the jewelers.
trade and various other crafts, has about
forty-five pupils as a rule, but the club
has eighty-one members Some of them
are graduates of the institute who have
gone out to fend for themselves. The
club is branching out in all sorts of
ways. Recently it set one Of its cripple
members up in business and 1t does
welfare work among cripples and their
dependents. Soon some of the members
will form a dramatic club and stage
little plays written by some OF the boys
Few of the pupils at the Red Cross
Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men
are discharged soldiers, for these are
| mainly in hospital yet or are studying
elsewhere under the Government. But
| the Red Cross is ready for them when
they come and meantime 1t finds plenty
to do in helping those crippled in indus
trial pursuits to make an honorable place
| in the world for themselves.
The club band enlivened proceedings
yesterday and Miss Florence Sullivan.
who is in charge OF the field work, served
lemonade.