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Nov. 28, 1917.
Sports and Recreational Activities at Camp
GEO. R. FLEMING, ASSOCIATE DIVISIONAL ATHLETIC DIRECTOR.
HANCOCK AND NAVY
PLAY TO A TIE
Neither Side Able to Score.
Wilson Makes 80 Yard Run
With Forward Pass.
Cam]) Hancack divisional footba’l
team went to Charleston last Satur
day to engage the Navy Yard team and
the battle ended in a draw. Neither
side scored.
The Hancock boys made splendid
trains during the first quarter, but the
Navy defense stiffened when near the
goal line and the local boys failed in
their efforts to put the ball over.
Navy was unable to penetrate the de
fense of the Hancock team and only
In the last quarter was any substan
tial showing made.
In the last quarter, Wilson, of Han
rock, caught a forward pass and ran
10 yards to the 10-yard line before be
ing downed. Although so near' the
goal line, the Hancock boys were held
firmly by the sailors.
Deutschen, of Hancock, played a
great game at quarter, while Wicker
sham, at end, and Webster, tackle,
made a formidable combination. For
ward passes were tried frequently, but
unsuccessfully. Withering, Prestiss
end Oroda saved the day for the Navy.
Che line up:
Camp Hancock. Navy.
Position.
Gold Johnson
Fullback.
Wilson Witherington
Right Halfback.
Harper Anderson
Left Halfback.
Deutschen McKinnon
Quarterback.
Wiekersham Prestiss
Left End.
Moore Williams
Right End.
Webster Warner
flight Tackle.
Humes Wilnota
Left Tackle.
Wolfe Hill
■ Right Guard.
Riley Miller
Left Guard.
Alpern Pronchnos
Center.
Substitutes: Camp Hancock, Eagen,
Hill, Herndon, McAleen, Mereck, Ben
nett, Thorn, Schaefknoclcer.
Training Camp substitutes: Groda,
Scoot. Referee, Pregnall (Charleston
College); umpire, Blanchard (Colgate).
Head linesman Raines (Citadel). Quar
ters, 15 minutes.
BRITISH TOMMIES
DEFEAT 110TH INF.
Fast Soccer Game Last Week
Proves Visitors Invincible.
Game Thanksgiving Morning.
(By A. H. MarviH.
Playing a fast game from beginning to
end, the British Tommies from across
the big pond, assisted by a couple of the
local contingent, proved to be too much
for their American cousins of the 110th
Infantry in a soccer game played at
Building 78 last Wednesday and finished
on the long end of a 4 to 1 score.
The contest was replete with sensa
tional plays from the kickoff to the final
blow of the whistle. Scrimmages were
numerous throughout the game and the
up t ators were given many a hearty
laugh over the tumbles. In the center
of the field was a large muddy surface
and most of the players, not being
equipped with non-skid feet, had a merry
time slipping on it. On one occasion
Kelly and Crompton rushed toward the
leather sphere with malice aforethought
and got it—-right at the edge of the mud.
Kelly skidded —so did Crompton—-Kelly
on his stomach and Crompton on his back
•—Kelly’s back. With express train speed
they neared the other side, neither swerv
ing to the right or to the left; neither
did they speak or utter a sound. Kelly’s
nose acted as rudder. When they got
to the other side, they stopped. Then
Kelly said, “Well, old an, you’ll have to
get off here, this is as far as I go.”
The first half ended 3 to 0 for the
Tommies, but the 110th came back strong
in the second half and each side was
able to register but one tally.
Thanksgiving morning at 10:30, the
camp will be given an opportunity to see
the team in action. Keep your weather
eye pealed for the line-up:
Tomies. Position. 110th.
Marvill ~ Moss
Goal.
Pope Jacovelli
Right Forward.
. Failes O’Malley
Left Forward.
Pemberton Beaumont
Right Half.
Kelly Crompton
Center Half.
Robertson Massory
Left Half.
Bastable Smith
Outside Right.
Horn Gregory
Inside Right.
Legerton Steele
Ce.nter.
Callum Fulton'
Inside Left.
W T ard Hudsputb
Outside Left.
Score: British Tommies 4, 110th Infan
try 1.
Referee: Captain Colahan, Troop A,
101st Cavalrv.
TRENCH AND CAMP
16,000 MEN IN Y. M. C. A
ATHLETICS
No.
No. No. Spec-
Games. Men. tators.
Setting up drills 14 2301 470
Baseball 11 175 ISS
Football 14 333 1 775
Basketball 61 655 925
Volley ball 276 3656 350
Quoits 21 4S
Boxing 7 31 18
Soccer 14 284 1290
Playground baseball. 4 80 50
Medicine ball 24 653 50
Mass athletics 17 14110 45
Morning staff exercises 4 14 18
No. match games .... 26
GO. B, 108TH M. G. B„
GARRIES OFF HONORS
Defeats Company C in Football.
Grady Doe 3 100 Yards in 11
Seconds. Moll Makes 70 Yard
Run.
Honors in the field day exercises con
ducted Wednesday at Camp Hancock by
cjmpanies in the 108th Machine Gun Bat
talion went to Co. B, after a bitter strug
gle in a football game which decided the
winner. Previous to the football game
the points in the general field events
stood 28-29 in favor of Co. C. Up until the
last minute of play in the game the score
stood zero for both sides, when Moll, right
end for Co. P., intercepted a forward pass
and made a 70 yard run for a touchdown.
The goal was kicked.
Both companies had large representa
tions on the field as did Co. A, though the
latter did not compete. The band former
ly of the 4th Pa. Inf. provided music
during the Intervals and headed the pro
cession of the gladiators on the field.
Co. C took all the points in the 100-
yard dash, Grady breaking the tape in 11
I seconds flat. The runner up was Loose
I and the third to finish was Whitehead.
In the broad jump Company B came
back strong, Spiskler setting a cam-’ re
cord of 18 feet arid one inch. Grady, Co.
C, made 17 ft., 11 inches, and Lutz, f Co.
B, was third with 16 feet and 7 inches.
The three-legged race’ was won by
Spickler and Reber, of Co. B. with Frank
Goodman and Harter, of the same com
pany, second and Hoch and Betz, Co. C,
third.
Loose, of Co. C, won the high jump,
crossing the bar at five feet; Mol) sec
ond, 4 feet 11 inches, and Miller, Co. B,
4 feet 10 inches. Eisenhauer and Miller,
Co. B, made first and second places re
spectively in the base ball throw, and M.
Nogle, Co. C, third.
The range finding created considerable
interest and Sergeant Goldman, Co. B,
won, with Sergeant Bolster, Co. C, second
and Sergeants Shafer, Co. O, and Schill
ing and Haggerty, Co. B, tied for third.
Co. C won the tug of war in two min
utes.
Whitehead, Grady, Buchmiller and
Roth, Co. C, defeated Moll, Spickler,
Reinert and Miller, Co. B, in the 880 yard
relay race.
The lineups in the football gam2 which
was won 7-0 by Co. B, follow:
Co. C. Position. Co. B.
Hock Full Back Allison
Roth Right Half Bush
Loose .. Left Half .. Schweimler
Grady Quarter .... Eisenbrown
Nogle Quarter
McDade Center Schuker
Malloy Left Guard .. .. ..Snyder
Courtright. .. Right Guard .. .. Johnson
Sante Left Tackle .. .. A. Miller
Betz Right Taeltle Price
Whitehead .... Right End Spickler
Frederick .. .. Left End Moll
Referee— Kone; Umpire—Lt. Boss.
Judges—Lt. Hamme and Lt. Ballou.
PROFESSIONAL BOXERS
IN TRAINING CAMPS
Professional boxers who have been ap
pointed by the United States government
to act as boxing instructors in the army
training camps are:
Armstrong, William P., Camp Han
cock.
Gibons, Mike, Camp Dodge, Des
Moiries, la.
Kilblane, Johnny, Camp Sherman, Chil
icothe, Ohio.
Leonard, Benny, Camp Upton, Yap
hank, L. I.
Levinsky, Battling, Camp Devens,
Ayer, Mass.
McAllister, Bob, Camp Funston, Fort
Riley, Kansas.*
McFarland, Packey, Camp McArthur,
Waco, Texas.
Mandot, Joe, Camp Sheridan, Mont
gomery Ala.
Russell, Frankie, Camp Pike, Little
Rock, Ark.
Mitchell, Ritchie, Camp Doniphan, Fort
Sill, Okla.
Smith, Jeff. Camp Dix, Wrightstown,
N. J.
White, Charlie .Camp Grant, Rock
ford, 111.
Dunn, Jimmy, Camp Taylor, Louis
ville, Ky.
Ritchie, Willie, Camp Lewis, American
Lake, Wash.
footballTscores
Army 13, Boston 7.
Camp Deweens 7, Camp Upton fl.
Dartsmouth 0, Brown 13.
W. & J. 0, Notre Dame 3.
Penn. 26, Carlisle 0.
Lehigh 78,
Swarthmore 57. Hartford 7.
Wisconsin 18, Chicago 0.
N. Y. Univ. 9, Columbia 7.
Syracuse 21, Mich. Aggies 7.
Hancock 0. Charleston Navy 0.
Camp Gordon 35, Field Artillery, Ogle
thorpe 0.
Talks or lectures .... 3 650
Reported by athletic
officers 257 6100 550
Total 743 16383 5726
Mr. F. D. Sherwood, of Wausau, Wis.,
has reported and has been assigned work
with the 109th Field Artillery, 103rd Am
munition Train, and the Base Hospital.
Mr. E. B. Petterman, from Youngstown,
0., has taken Mr. George R. Tyson’s place
at Building No. 79.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. It. FLEMING, I
Associate Divisional Athletic Director.
SMALLER UNITS DEEPLY
INTERESTED IN ATHLETICS
Considerable interest has developed
in volley ball among the officers and
men of the truck train, hospital com
panies and ambulance companies. The
hospital officers have been furnished
with a ball and net, No. 6 Truck Co.
with a hall, the truck company’s offi
cers and ambulance company’s officers
each with a net. Other equipment will
be supplied as it is received from the
army Y. M. C. A. headquarters.
The companies of truck train have
formed a basket ball league which plays
every Wednesday and Saturday until
three rounds have been completed. A
basket ball court has been constructed
and equipped.
The officers and men of the hospital
companies have been getting much fun
out of playground baseball and interest
in the game is spreading. The Y. M. C.
A. furnished the equipment and has
more to loan.
Football and soccer are coming strong
m the truck trains, hospital and ambit
lance companies. Teams desiring garnet
with any teams from this section will
find the Physical Director of Y. M. C.
A. Building No. 75 ready to co-operate
in bringing about evenly matched games.
Four Physical
Directors Enlist
(By George R. Fleming.)
Four physical directors of* the Army
Y. M. C. A. have enlisted in the ser
vice of the United States army. George
R. Tyson, of Building 79, has gone to
the University of Pennsylvania Ord
nance school. A. H. Marvill, of Build
ing 78, and Blaine C. Curry, of Building
76, passed the examination for the avia
tion corps at Atlanta last week.
Emerson H. Landis, of Building 77
took the examination for the aviation
corps y Atlanta and passed in every
thing „ut height. He was 3-4 inches
over the limit of 6 ft. 2 inches. Fie liar
been accepted by the military police at
Camp Hancock and hereafter will keep
his eye on offenders of the law.
We are proud of these men. Their
work with the army Y. M. C. A. at
Camp Hancock has been of the highest
type. Each of them has given his time
unselfishly in promoting recreative
games and clean sports among the men.
They will be missed by the men with
whom they have worked, but in their
broader sphere so activity, we wish them
God-speed.
Co. I, 110th, Has
Fast Baseball Team
Co. I, 110th Infantry, has some fast
base ball team, not having lost one game
to date. The team has played gilt-edgerl
ball all season, and defeated Co. D, 17
to 1; Machine Gun Co., 20 to 4; Co
L, 13 to 0 and Co. H. 12 to 10. Dixon
Bennett, Carson and McElwee all played
in the Tri-State League, and Alpern
and Baughman were in the West Penn
sylvania league this season. Co I claims
the championship of the camp apd any
disputing their claim can have a game
any old time. The company also has a
fast basketball team. See Sergeant Don
aldson if you want a game.
COMPANY G, 110TH,
DEFEATED BY THE'
AUGUSTA Y. M. C. A.
Co. G. 110th Infantry, went down to
defeat before the Augusta Y. M. C. A.
basket ball team Friday night, the score
being rather conclusive—49 to 10. Hein
bough, Monteith and Showers starred
for the soldiers, while Hester, White
and Bredenberg made baskets almost at
will. Although one sided, the game was
interesting and hard fought.
theTaiserTlanted
With all the ceremonies due a de
parted favorite, the Kaiser was buried
Sunday.
Impressive to the last detail was the
funeral, and the eulogy pronounced by
Corporal Ormond, of Company M, was
wholly expressive of the occasion.
Scores of the 112th regiment boys at
tended the brief services, held at 9
o’clock; the body, borne on a litter
carried by Wilbur Troutman and Fred
Dunkerley, was taken to its last rest
ing place, escorted by Corporals Colla
han, Bender, Ivlingler and Private Wal
ter O’Donnell. Each detail was carried
out with exactness and simplicity, even
the headstone was erected to mark the
last resting place of—
Kaiser, for Kaiser was the pet'dog
of Company M, and he had fallen vic
tim to a hospital motor ambulance two
hours before.
TOMMIES WILL PLAY
SOCCER TOMORROW
Fast Britishers Will Stack Up
Against Pick of Division. Au
gustans Invited.
One of the most interesting events at
Camp Hancock tomorrow will bs the soc
cer football game at 10:30 a. m. on the
cavalry drill field, just beyound division
headquarters.
The British non-coms and privates who
are here, assisting in the training of the
2Sth Division, have made a reputation
for themselves as clever spccerites and
team after team has gone down to de
feat before them. Tomorrow morning
they will meet a worthy aggregation in
the 110th Ambulance team. This is the
only team in the division that humbled
the Tommies, the trick being turned last
Saturday, to the tune of 3 to 1.
A special invitation is given the people
of Augusta to witnes the game, which is
'-full of action from start to finish. Fol
lowing is the line-up:
Tommies. Position. 110th Amb.
Jones Goal. Gunn
Pope R. F. B. West
Bastable L. F. B. Wingard
Pemberton R. H. B. - Oxley
Kelly C. H. B. * Hiller
Robertson L. H. B. Boyd
Horn O. R. Matzehak
Oxley 1. It. Deacon
Legerton C. Rooney
Mann I. L. Toomey
Dyball O. L. Mason
ATHLETIC PROGRAM
FOR THAI SEWING
General Stillwell Issues Order
for Field Day Events in Each
Regiment Tomorrow, Every
Man to Participate in at
Least Two Events.
The following memorandum, relative to
field events on Thanksgiving Day, was
issued by General Stillwell on Monday,
and in consequence, the drill grounds of
the various units will be alive with ath
letes striving for the mastery. No defi
nite programs can be announced, but if
the following suggestions are carried out,
there will be some interesting sport shown
•in ail parts of the camp. Particularly at
tractive will be the soccer game at 10:30
a. m. at the cavalry drill f‘s!d between
the English team and a picked team. Fol
lowing is the memorandum:
Headquarters Twenty-Eighth Division,
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia.
November 26, 1917.
Memorandum No. 2.
1. The following suggestions, from the
Division Athletic Director to the Athletic
Officers of the Division, are approved and
should be followed out in the organiza
tions of this Division:
1. It is planned to hold Field Day Events
in each Regiment and Detached Organiza
tion on Thanksgiving morning. These
should be held in Company Streets or on
Regimental Drill Grounds. Athletic Offi
cers will make efforts to have every man
participate in at least two events.
2. Below Is given a list of suggested
events. These are for the information of
Athletic Officres and need no be followed
exacly.
Team Games.
Man allowed to play in only one game.
Base Ball, Basket Ball. Volley Ball,
Quoits, Playground Base Ball, Foot Ball.
Races.
100 Yd. Dash.
Sack Race—so yds. Arms enclosed in
sack.
Squad Jump—Standing Broad. 2nd man
to heel mark of first man etc. Take total
distance.
Comedy Shoe Race—Shoes marked and
placed in pile 50 yds. away.
Knapsack Race —50 yds. and return
carrying man.
3 Legged Race —50 yds.
Special.
Boxing.
Tug of War—Facing away from center.
Cane Relay Race.
Misc. Relay Races.
Soccer Game—English Team vs. Picked
Team. Cavalry Drill Field 10:30 a. m.
Walter Camp, Jr., Div. Athletic Direc
tor.
George R. Fleming, Associate Div. Ath
letic Director.
By command of Brigadier General Still
well.
STEPHEN O. FUQUA,
Major, Acting Chief of Staff.
Official:
DAVID J. DAVIS,
Lieut. Col.-Adjutant.
BRAVE LIEUTENANT
The American army in France was
thrilled by the heroic action of a young
lieutenant in saving the life of a soldier.
A private, a memer of a patrol, lost his
way and went to sleep In a shell crater
in No Man’s Land. The patrol returned
and it was found he was missing.
At daylight the Germans saw the sol
dier nea» 4Kie line and opened fire with
rifles and grenades. He remained in
the crater.
A lieutenant, whose home is In *-
Wyoming, saw the man was in danger
of immediate death and went out over
No Man’s Land through a hail of en
emy machine gun bullets several hun
dred yards, got the soldier and led him
back to the American lines amid cheers.
The soldier said that he did not know
in what direction his qwn lines were,
otherwise he would have tried to get
to them himself.
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