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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. s 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. Page 5 i H ml Ml]/ I n jjflk \||ir Jml II ww Ilsl US It i L' v CI X \ ’• ii Ilih