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Dec. 19,1917.
Sports and Recreational Activities at Camp
GEO. R. FLEMING, ASSOCIATE DIVISIONAL ATHLETIC DIRECTOR.
SOCCER LEAGUE
ORGANIZED SATURDAY
Another Meeting at ‘Y’ Admin
istration Building Thursday
Night. All Soccer Players In
vited.
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A meeting for the promotion of a 28th
division soccer league was held Saturday
evening at the Y. M. C. A. Administration
building.
Organizations were represented as fol
lows: 108th Field Artillery by E. Paget
of Battalion C, and H. Gillin; Ambulance
Co. 110th by H. Huber and H. Casey?
Field Hospital 110th by F. Rodgers and
E. Gray.
Other organizations who have first
class teams failed to send representa
tives and it is believed that they re
ceived the notice of the meeting too late
or perhaps did not see the notice at all.
However the meeting was called to or
der by association division athletic direc
tor, Geo. R. Fleming.
It was decided to have the opening
games of the league played on Saturday,
December 22. Games to begin at 2:30
p. m. sharp. Length of halves to be 40
minutes. Time between halves, 5 minutes.
Games postponed because of one of the
other teams having to attend to some
military duty at such a time as would'
interfere with a team being represented
by its plays, will be played post-season
or at a time agreeable to the team af
fected by the postponement.
A team desiring to have a game post
poned because of guard duty or some
other military obligation must notify the
opponents before 12 noon of the day on
which the game is to be played.
The referee will have invested in him
the power to determine whether or not
th grounds are fit for a game.
Every team will play every other team
in the league.
Thursday evening at 7 o’clock at the Y.
M. C. A. Administration building, corner
of Wrightsboro and Wheless roads, a
second meeting for the further promotion
and organization of the 28th division soc
cer league will be held. Other organiza
tions who did not send representatives to
the first meeting, and who desire to have
a team in the league will send represen
tatives to the meeting or forfeit the right
to participate.
A cordial invitation is extended to every
organization which has a soccer team to
send two representatives to the meeting
Thursday evening.
Men who consider their soccer playing
days as “over” but who have not lost
their zeal and love for the game and who
are willing to act as officials of the lea
gue games will please attend this meet
ing and kindly offer then- services. Good,
efficient, well-versed officials make the
game all that it should be,
GAMESSOGGESTED for
ATHLETIC OFFICERS
Several Recreative Games
Which Have Proven Very
Successful.
1. SWEDE GAME~
Any number of players on a side.
Two goal lines sixty to eighty feet
apart.
A safety goal about eighteen feet to
right of batter's position on goal line.
Team No. 1 takes any position on
field between goal lines.
Team No. 2 lines up behind batter’s
goal line with batter in position.
Team No. 1 tosses ball to batter from
the side who upon hitting the ball has
choice or running to safety goal or to
further goal line. If, in running to, or
from goal lines, (which can be done at
any time after batting), a man is hit
with ball, the whole team on the field
runs to either goal line while those
batting run on the field. If, however
a member of the team hit can recover
the ball and hit a member of the team
that hit them they have to again take
the field.
A fly ball caught puts the team
batting out and ball is to be dropped
on ground when fly is caught. -
2. HAT BALL:
One team —-Odd numbers. The other
team —even number.
To begin—Odd men stand behind
hats. Even men stand three paces in
front of line of hats. Ball in possession
of even men. Game starts by one of
even men tossing ball into hat of one
of the odd men, w'ho tries to hit an
even number with .the balL He does
not have to throw the ball at an oppon
ent but may pass it to another of his
side, who might be nearer an oppon
ent. When an opponent is hit (an even
numbered man) he tries to hit one of
the odd numbered men.
When a miss is made, the man who
missed lays a stick or stone in his hat
to indicate a miss. (Three misses
a penalty) and the members of his
team line up behind their own hats,
and the game proceeds as before.
A penalty may be anything.
3. WAR:
Indoor Base balls, Basket Balls, Foot
Balls or Medicine Balls.
Teams lined up opposite each other
thirty paces apart. A line drawn be
tween —no team can pass center line.
When a man is hit he at once goes to
the side that hit him. To start the
game, each side is lined up on his goal
line, balls are on the center line. At
the word go, they rush to balls w’hich
are in the center, get a ball if they can
IRENCH AND CAMP
RECREATION PROGRAM
FOR CHRISTMAS
HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-EIGHTH DIVISION
CAMP HANCOCK, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
MEMORANDUM
NO. 1. December 18, 1917.
1. The following suggestions from the Division Athletic Directors to the Ath
letic Officers of the Division, are approved and should be followed out in the
organizations of this Division:
From: Division Athletic Directors.
To: Athletic Officers.
Subject: Christmas Day Program.
1. It is planned to hold Field Day Events in each regiment and detached
organization on Christmas mdrning. These should be held in company streets or
on regimental drill grounds. Athletic officers 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 officers and need not be followed exactly:
TEAM GAMES..Man allowed to play in only one game.
Baseball, basket ball, volley ball, quoits,
playground baseball, football.
GAMES Policeman’s Billy.
Dodge ball, pull-a-way.
3 Deep.
Sock ball
SPECIAL Boxing.
Tug of war—Facing away from center,
Cane relay race
Miscellaneous relay races.
Football throw for distance.
Football punt for distance.
Medicine ball throw for distance.
BOMBING 1. 10 throws for accuracy at 30 yards
standing; 9 with form; 1 using baseball
throw.
2. Three throws for distance using cor
rect bombing position.
NOTE: Three feet wide trenches—thirty yards apart.
Walter Camp, Jr.. DTW Athletic. Director.
George R. Fleming. Associate Div. Athletic Director.
BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL MUIR:
Edw. L. King.
Lt. Col., General Staff,
Chief of Staff.
OFFICIAL:
David J .Davis.
Lieut.-Colonel, Adjutant.
and return to their goal line before !
throwing.
4. THREE DEEP:
Players—Any number; twenty to
forty makes the best game. They form
a double circle, the number ones stand
ing directly in front of the number
twos. One player is “it” and the other
is the runner. They must keep on the
outside of the circle and are not al
lowed to run through it.
OBJECT:
The runner tries to get in front of
any number one in the circle before he
is tagged. Should he do this, then be
cannot be tagged, and the last man in
the row becomes number three, and a
runner. When the chases or “it” tags*
a runner, the latter becomes “it” and
chases the runner. The chaser should
always hit the runner hard.
5. BALL HUSTLE:”
Players lined up in even lines, feet
apart, ball passed between legs to the
last man in the line who carries it to
the first man in the line and stays in
front —race is won by team finishing
first. Use any ball—preferably a Med
icine Ball, Basket Ball or Soccer.
Suggestions Fc( Infantry
Military Competition
(1) From position of attention, com
pany breaking ranks and assembling
again, to attention in full heavy
marching order, the required time to
be reported by 12:00 noon.
(2) From position of attention on the
drill field pitch tents and equipment
for inspection; after inspection re
assemble equipment to heavy march
ing order, length of time required to
be reported by 12:00 noon.
(3) Guns taken apart on Ponchos. On
starting signal guns to be re-assemb
ed. Time required to be reported by
12:00 noon.
(4) Blank Cartridge Race: One man
from each squad having placed in
front fifty yards away his gun; fifty
yards beyond that the bolt; fifty yards
beyond that the firing pin; fifty yards
beyond that a clip with five blank car
tridges. Each man starting on signal,
assembling his gun, firing from prone
position five blanks, returning the
empty clip to starting point. Time re
quired to be reported before 12:00
noon.
Suggestions For Artillery
Military Competition
(1) From position of attention bat
tery breaking ranks and assembling
again in full heavy ma. ching order.
The time required to be reported by
12:00 noon.
(2) From position of attention at
corrals, assemble guns and caissons in
marching order. Length of time requir
ed to be reported by 12:00 noon.
(3) On the drill field from marching
order go into firing position with guns
loaded and range or five thousand
yards. Time required to be reported by
12:00 noon.
(4) From firing position shift range
and position of juns one nundred
yards. Time required to be reported by
12:00 noon.
Visited Old
Comrades
Among the many Pennsylvanians
visiting Camp Hancock last week were
two former members of the old Eighth
Pennsylvania Infantry—Messrs. Wil
iam A. Adams and John C. Claudy, of
Carlisle, Pa.
Mr. Adams had the distinction of
presiding over the destinies of the
tummies of the men in Company G,
when the troops were on the border,
and as cook, made quite a hit Like
many cooks, Mr. Adams looked the
part with his round and jolly appear
ance. Mr. Claudy wr.» battalon serg
eant major of the old Eighth on the
border and enjoys the honor of having
been at Camp McKenzie, where the
Lenwood Hotel is stuated, away back
in 1898. Mr. Claudy' compared the
camp here in Spanish-American war
days and now, and marvelled at the
extent and plan of the present encamp
ment.
When they left home a week ago,
there was a foot of snow in Carlisle
and throughout Pennsylvania, and
upon arriving here and finding the
ground covered with sleet, they lost
confidence n the “Sunny South.” They
returned home last Saturday, after
spending a delightful visit among their
old comrades.
Buy Red
Cross Stamps
Under the direction of the Augusta
Rotary Club, all Y. M. C. A. buildings
in Camp Hancock have been given a
supply of Red Cross stamps, which
will be sold for one cent each. Theo.
F. Balk, a prominent member of the
Augusta Y. M. C. A. and a Rotarian, is
chairman of the commttee, and appeals
to the men at Camp Hancock to re
member this form of philanthropy in
sending parcels home.
By the sale of these stamps, the So
ciety for- the Prevention of Tuberculo
sis is enabled to fight the white
plague successfully and thousands of
lives have been saved through proper
nursing and nutritious food supplied
from the sale of Red Cross stamps.
Last year, $1,000,000 was raised by the
sale of stamps at Christmas time.
Eighty per cent, of the money raised in
Augusta is kept here for the welfare of
local consumptves; ten per cent, goes
to the state society, and ten per cent,
to the national society. In addition to
the Y. M. C. A. buildings, the stamps
may also be had, at the K. of C. build
ing.
JAPANESE GENERAL A CHRIS
TIAN.
Major General 11. Hibiki, said to be
the only Christian general in the Jap
anese army, is on his way to New
York. He is the official representa
tice of the Japanese Y. M. C. A., and
his mission has the sanction of the
government. He will be met in New-
York by a large body of Japanese, who
will accompany him to France to aid
in relief work.
NEW PHYSICAL
DIRECTORS ARRIVE
Personnel of Camp Physical
Department Complete.
We are glad to report the addition, of
two new men to the physical department:
Theo. G. Keller, of Toledo, Ohio., who
has been supervisor of public school
physical training at Toledo, is now as
signed to Building No. 76.
H. E. Batchelder, who will be attached
to the new building No. 81, is from Min
neapolis, where he has been director of
athletics at the Minneapolis High school.
The personnel of the physical depart
ment is complete and consists of the fol
lowing men:
F. W. Prechtel, Lancaster. Pa., Build
ing No. 75.
T. S. Hughes, Elizabethtown, N. C.,
Building No. 76.
T. G. Keller, Toledo, Ohio, Building'
No. 76.
G. M. Colby, Camp Taylor, Louisville,
Ky„ Building No. 77.
T. L. Whitney, Akron, Ohio, Building
No. 78.
E. B. Peterman, Youngstown, Ohio,
Building No. 79.
F. D. Sherwood, Wausau, Wis., Building
No. 80.
H. E. Batchelder, Minneapolis, Building
No. 81.
Geo. R. Fleming, Williamsport, Pa.,
Ad min istr at ion Bu■ld in g.
Y. M. C. A. HOTEL IN ALPS.
The Y. M. C. A. has added the “last
word” to the comfort of the men in
France- Hereafter when the Ameri
can troops are given a leave for a few
days or weeks they can be guests of
the Y. M. C. A. at the resort in the
French Alps. An entire French village
has been leased and is being put into
shape for use by American soldiers.
There will be everything that will min
ister to the wants of the men.
It has been found that men need a
place to go where there is complete
quiet and where they can get away
from the noise of the battle.
SAMMIES V.’EAR SHORTER COATS.
The uniform of the American soldier
in France is undergoing a further
change. A large number of troops
have turned in their long overcoats to
receive in exchange coats of the same
material but much shorter in length,
Because of the perpetual mud it was
found the long coats soon became
caked and heavy. They flopped about
the legs of the soldier hiiuKring the
free movement of the wearers.
MOTION PICTURE EXPERT HERE.
Ralph R. Mooney, of Atlanta, inspector
for the Community Motion Picture Bu
reau. which supplies film., and equipment
to the Army Y. M. C. A. buildings in all
the camps and cantonmepts in the Unit
ed States, was in Camp' Hancock this
week and found all in excellent condi
tion. As a result of his visit, it is high
ly probable that instead of two lengthy
films each week, the program will be
varied by introducing current events,
comedies and short feature films. This
char ge was suggested by some of the sec
retaries. Mr. Mooney is now attached
to the southeastern department, but has
visited many of the camps throughout
the country.
COPY FOR
CHRISTMAS
EDITION
Must be in Hand by
Saturday After
noon.
The Christmas Edition
of Trench and Camp will
be distributed Monday
afternoon.
All copy must be in the
hands of the editor by
Saturday afternoon. This
is imperative!
If you have a Christmas
poem or a message of any
kind to offer, get it to the
editor at once—the sooner
the better.
A Merry Christmas to
every soldier in Camp
Hancock, especially those
who have assisted in mak
ing Trench and Camp the
best camp paper publish
ed in the United States.
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