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Nov. 14, 1917.
Sports and Recreational Activities at Camp
GEO. R. FLEMING, ASSOCIATE DIVISIONAL ATHLETIC DIRECTOR.
CHARLESTON NAVY AT
HANCOCK SATURDAY
Augusta Baseball Park Scene
of Fine Gridiron Contest. The
Navy Yard Has Fine Itecord.
Tickets at Camp.
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Football at Camp Hancock was started
on the basis of company teams, with the
idea of working cut a championship
team. This schedule is progressing as
originally planned but a divisional team
is now being organized to play nearby
camps. This team will consist of picked
men front the entire division.
The first game yill be played next
Saturday, November 17th, at the Augusta
baseball park. The opponents will be the
Charleston navyyard team, and it ought
to be a great battle. Camp Hancock will
be in its first game but is expected to
give a good Wiccount of itself. The navy
team has been going since September.
Below are their scores to date
Navy Yard 0. Citadel 19 (college team).
Navy Yard 24, U. S. S. Cleveland 0.
Navy Yard 19, Hospital Apprentices 0.
Navy Yard 10, Naval Training Camp 0
(local service championship).
Navy Yard will line up as follows:
Tackles—McCarrey, Butler, Francke.
Guards —Mildrum. Knight, Goss.
Ends—Bird. Hale, Henneberry, Mc-
Carty.
Quarter —Barber.
Halves—Kaiser. O’Neill,
Full—Wallen (captain).
The first named in each position will
start the game. The best known men
on the team are: Bird, a former team
mate of Jim Thorpe at Carlisle, and
Kaiser, one of the best backs in the navy.
Barber, the quarter, played half for How
ard College of Birmingham.
The game will be called at 2:30 p. m.
Admission for civilians, SI.OO. Admission
for soldiers who secure tickets at camp.
25 cents. Admission for soldiers at ball
park, 50 cents.
We are indebted to Major Butler of
the Richmond Academy for the use of
the field. Daily football practice for the
divisional team is being held at head
quarters every afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Arrangements for the game have been
made by Walter Camp, Jr.
The team will be in charge of Major
Joseph Thompson and Walter Camp, Jr.
All profits from the game will be ex
pended by the divisional athletic directors
to secure additional athletic equipment
for the men of the Twenty-eighth Di
vision.
OFFICERS FORM UNIQUE
DUTCH LUNCH LEAGUE
107th Macine Gun Battalion in
Spotlight with Playground
Baseball,
The officers of the 107th Machine Gun
Battalion have formed a. Playground Base
ball league of four teams, headed by Cap
tain Loy, Captain SehwaMn. Captain
Smith and Lieutenant Marshall. The
league is called the Dutch Lunch League.
The rules and penalties are as follows:
Rules of the Dutch Lunch League.
1. One strike is out.
2. Three fouls is out.
3. One base on an overthrow (first and
third ba.se only).
4. Runner is not allowed to leave base
until ball is hit.
5. Only one umpire—he to be a base
Umpire.
6. Pitcher must use an underhand de
livery.
7. A fly ball caught before touching
the ground is out.
8. Being hit by a batted ball is out.
9. No dead balls.
10. Foul tip caught by catcher is out.
All foul flies caught are out.
11. No bunting allowed.
12. Games to be started at 4:30 p. tn.,
except on Wednesdays and Saturdays,
when starting hour will be 1 p m.
13. Nine innings constitute a full game
but five innings will be counted a game
if time forbids continuing to the finish.
14. No team is allowed more than two
substitutes and must start the game at
time scheduled as long as thev hate five
of their regular men on hand.
Penalties.
1. The lowest team at the end of each
two weeks nays for and furnishes Dutch
lunch for the league.
2. The three men missing the most fly
balls during the two weeks must fur
nish the entertainment for the dinner.
3. The man from each team who
strikes out the most, must be one of a
quartette to sing a few selections at the
dinner. The manager of each team must
designate this man.
4. The man making the most home
runs must give a recitation at the din
ner.
By order of Rules Committee.
CAPT. H. W. SCHWALM.
LIEUT. W. A. KAUFMAN,
LIEUT. M. F, DEVINE.
BRITISHOFFICER
HEADS GYMNASTICS
The divisional schools in bayonet and
physical training were reorganized
November 12th. Capt. R. J. Ryan of
the British army gymnastic staff was
made supervisor of bayonet and phys
ical training; Captain Hugh R. Doane,
TJ. S. R„ instructor in physical train
ing; Lieut. Paul R. Umberger, One
Hundred'and Ninth Machine Gun Bat
talion, instructor in bayonet, and Sergt.
Maj. Kelley, British army gymnastic
staff, assistant instructor.
GET TICKETS FOR GAME.
Are you planning to attend the big
football game between the Charleston Na
val Training Station and Camp Hancock
on Saturday? Men of the 56th Brigade
may purchase tickets from B. C. Curry at
Y. M. C. A. building No. 76 for 25c. The
game will be held at the Augusta Athletic
field at 3:00 p. mil, Saturday, November
17th.
TRENCH AND CAMP
13,000 MEN IN Y. M.
C. A. A THLETICS
Report For Week, Ending November 4th
No. Men. Spectators.
Setting-up Drills n 4330 1.000
Baseball 2 fi 320 1,150
bootball 18 443 3.900
Basket Ball 32 447 809
Volley Ball 219 3,015 2,200
Quoits ~ 95 2°o
Soccer ....... is 439 GOO
P.ayground Baseball g 227 500
Medicine Ball 40 1,070 300
Mass Athletics 5 5 222 100
Morning Staff Exercise 9 *39
Totals 425 13.257 11,515
Number of match games, 187; number of leagues organized. 1; number
®L. me P enrolled 200; personal interviews, 12; talks or lectures. 3; subject,
Physical Training:” number men, 24.
Tlie completion of the reorganization of the ,28th Division seriously
hampered the progress which was being made in supervised recreation, and
the totals reported for the week closing November 4th, were largely from
regiments not in the reorganization program. Complete basket ball equip
ment has been supplied to the U)3rd Ammunition Train, 109th Field Ar
tillery, 10,th Machine Gun Battalion and Military Police, and Headquar
ters Signal Corps.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE R. FLEMING,
Associate Divisional Athletic Director.
REPORT OF ASSOCIATE DIVISIONAL DIRECTOR
FLEMING FOR WEEK ENBN6 HW. 11TH
No. of . No. of
r . Men, Spectators.
Setting up drills 43 1,970 1,260
Baseball games u 29 1 SRO
Football games . 19 499 3,995
Basket ball games 70 590 §3O
Volley ball games 121 1,676 960
Quoits 26 71 90
Boxing ■_« 20 40
Soccer games 10 220 660
Play ground baseball 26 509
Medicine ball 12 745
Mass athletics 70 5,789 200
Staff exercises n 35
Match games 21 I’o
Miscellaneous 14 449
Total 450 12,607 8,365
Estimated number of games by units supplied with Army Y. M.
C. A, equipment hi charge of the athletic officer:
■No. of No. of No. of
Games. Men. Spectators.
62 1,155 350
Add totals ab0ve..................... 12,607 8,365
Grand total 502 13 762 8 715
COLLEGE RIVALS
BANQUET TOGETHER
Pitt and W. and J. Men Enjoy
Returns of Game at the
Albion Hotel.
The University of Pittsburg and Wash
ington and Jefferson men who are in the
service at Camp Hancock gathered at the
Albion Hotel Saturday afternoon to hear
the returns of the football game between
the two schools.
Much interest was manifested in the
reading of the various plays. Cheering
and the yelling for the schools and for
the athletes resounded through the build
ing. A banquet of both the schools was
held in the hotel this evening.
This was probably the first occasion
where Pitt, and W. & J. men fraternized,
especially on the day of the annual foot
ball contest.
Even during the announcement of the
game, there was the most friendly feel
ing but in rivalry. The W. & J,. men
particularly cheered the work of “Scrub
by” McCreigh, while the Pitt, men divid
ed their honors with McClaren. Basterday
and Cougler, though McClaren received
by far the lion's share o fthe glory. When
the first field goal for W. & J. was an
nounced, there appeared to be gloom; con
fidence was later restored.
The scoring of two touchdown followed,
and which finally gave Pitt, the victory
made the Pitt men confident that the old
Warner machine had struck its stride and
that their favorites would make another
series of memorable marches down the
field. But those expectations were out
rooted when the touchdown- for W. & J.
was scored. As the plays were called
through a megaphone, men of both sides
would compete with each other in trying
to anticipate the play. Both sides appear
satisfied in the outcome, Pitt men that
their team was able to register a win,
and W. & J. men that their team was
able to hold Pitt so closely.
SATURDAY’S SCORES
Pittsburg 13, W. & J 10.
Pennsylvania 7, Dartmouth 0.
Army 28, Indians 0.
Navy 28, Georgetown 0.
Lehigh 9. Penn State 0.
Harvard 0, Camp D. Evans 0.
Camp Jackson 10, Camp Gordon 0.
Dickerson 28, F. & M. 0.
Swarthmore 56, Lafayette 0.
Yale 33, Naval Base 0.
Michigan 42, Cornell 0.
Georgia Tech 48, Tulane 0.
BASE BALL SATURDAY
AT WARREN PARK
An echo of the world’s series will be
heard at Warren Park Saturday af
ternoon, when two of the fastest com
pany terns in the Twenty-eighth Di
vision will cross bats, to decide the
supremacy between Philadelphia and
Scranton players. Came called at 3
o'clock.
Ever since the merger of the Scran
ton boys with the Philadelphia con
tingent, there has been fr iendly rivalry
as to the merits of the football and
baseball teams. Company B, of the
old Thirteenth, is still Company B, but
belongs to the One Hundred and
Ninth now, and the fast team repre
senting the old Thirteenth will battle
for honors with Company M, of the
One Hundred and Ninth.
The Red Cross will benefit by the
game. The One Hundred and Ninth
boys will wear the old Philly uniforms.
Company-M lost but one game out of
eight on the border and is considered
the best team in the One Hundred and
Ninth. Three Philadelphia boxers art
included in the line-up: Tommy My
ers, who has issued a 128-pound chal
lenge to the division, will play second
base; Sheridan will play right field,
and Blair will pitch. Blair is consid
ered one of the speediest pitchers
among the many amateurs of Phila
delphia.
SOLDI ERS~DEFEATY. M. C. A.
No. 3 Hospital Corps basket ball
team defeated the strong Augusta Y.
M. C. A. team last week by a score of
31 to 22. Metzger, W. Strong and
Dippie featured for the soldiers. Fol
lowing was the line-ups:
Y. M. C. A. Ambulance Co.
Position.
Hester (14) Metzger (B)
Right Forward.
Bredenberg Race (6)
Left Forward.
Claussen (6) W. Strange (2)
Center.
White H. Strange (2)
Right Guard.
Rhodes Dippie (2)
Left Guard.
Substitutions: Robertson for White.
Muller for Rhodes. Referee, Moran.
More than 50,C0S build'ngs have been
demolished in France and more than 100,-
000 more or less damaged by bombard
ments and incendiary fires during the
war Only 229 out of 4,521 buildings re
main intact.
BRITISH TOMMIES
TROGEIIITHINF.
Visiting Non-Coms From the
Trenches Show How to
Flay Soccer.
Although not having played the game
for almost three years—not since they
entered the trenches on the western front
—an aggregation of British Tommies who
are at Camp Hancock to give instruction
in the art of handling death-dealing de
vices against the Germans, gave a classy
exhibition of soccer football on Saturday
afternoon against the 111th Infantry team
on the grounds near Y. M. C. A. Building
No. 78. The score ended 7-0 in favor of
the Tommies.
There were exactly six Britishers from
the trenches disporting themselves in the
■sands of Georgia and the hot afternoon
sun made the work rather strenuous. The
non-coms and orderlies aroused great in
terest as they appeared on the scence,
their heavy drab uniforms and round caps
making the inconspicuous among the sol
diers from Pennsylvania.
Groups of Sammies soon gathered about
the Tommies and before and after the
game, some interesting information was
imparted by the men—one of whom has
been in the trenches for three years and
three months, and who came through it
without a scratch. Some of the men had
received wounds from the Germans, but
they played soccer as if nothing had ever
happened to them.
The Tommies formed part of the team
from the old Third Infantry, now the
110th. Most of the players hailed from
England and it was a contest of English
men against Englishmen. The team from
the 111th (the old Sixth) was a trifle
more cosmopolitan than the 110th, the
line-up including Americans, Englishmen,
Italians and Irish. Two 35-niinute halves
were played and by the time the game
was ended, both sides had had enough.
For the Tommies, Sergeant Kelly, Serg
eant Pope, Sergeant Dyball, Okley and
Horn displayed great cleverness. ‘Okley
gave the finest exhibition of the after
noon, his blocking, dribbling and passing
being of unusually high order.
It is expected the two teams will play
again this afternoon.
Following was the line-up:
Tommies. Position. 111th.
Goal
Marville Jackson
Right Back •
Bope Panchella
Left Back
Bastable Townsend
Right Half
Pemberton Taylor
Center Half
Horn J. Lyons
Left Half
Robertson Buck
Outside Left
By ball McCoy
Inside Left
Mann e. Lyons
Center Forward
Lcgerton Donahue
Inside Right
Kelly Ford
Outside Right
Okley Farlev
Goa’s—Horn, 2; Dyball, 2; Okley, Kelly,
Lcgerton.
112TH FIGHTING
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP
CO. M DEFEATS CO. I.
By defeating Co. I last Saturday after
noon by the score of 13-6, Co. M won for
itself the Third Battalion championship.
Under the leadership of Lieutenant
Welch, Co. M has developed into a fine
football machine. Welch was a former
University of Pennsylvania fullback, and
knows the game through and through.
He has a variety of plays which are good
ground gainers.
At the beginning of the game it looked
like a walk-away for Co. M, but Co. I
came back in the last half and scored a
touchdown on a long forward pass.
CO. F LOSES~TO CO. I.
Sunday afternoon Co. E won from Co.
F by the score of 9-0. Co. E has not lost
a game this fall and incidentally, has
cinched the Second Battalion champion
ship. Line-up of the game:
Co. F. Position. Co. E.
Full Back
Steel Mclntyre
Left Half
Fleming Merook
Right Half
Sullivan Kern
Center
Ewing Adams
Left End
Richie Nicholas
Left Tackle
Ricalton Frieband
Left Guard
Mayer Baroney
Right End
Adams Broderick
Right Tackle
Howser Kully
Right Guard
Shaffer Lewis
Quarter Back
Creswell Houses
Merook played a heady game for Co. E,
throughout the entire game, and has been
chosen to represent Co. E as a candidate
for the Division football team.
FIELD DAY’TODAY.
This afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, the
One Hundred and Seventh Machine
Gun Battalion will have a field day,
including all kinds of sports, and fol
lowing the events, a singing contest
will be held between the different com
panies. The old Fourth Regiment
band will furnish music. Walter
Camp, Jr., will supervise the games.
Henry Fielding Dickens, sixth son of
Charles Dickens, the novelist, has just
been appointed to a $15,000 post in Lon
don, as chief justice of the London City
courts. His son, Major Charles Dickens,
was killed in action.
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