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_<iarch 6.
Sports and Recreational Activities at Camp
GEO. R. FLEMING, Camp Physical Director.
112TH BASEBALL LEAGUE
Companies C and K played their
first scheduled game Wednesday, 27th.
Stitler driving a home run bringing in
Patterson in the 2nd ending off John
son’s pitching, and James and Hale
also scoring in the same ending was
the| result of winning the game.
Stuchell relieved Johnson in the 3rd
ending after which it was a pitcher’s
duel. Stuchell striking out 11 batters
and Hale Striking out 12.
Line Up.
Company C. Company K.
Steck. C. Campbell, C.
Bowers, C. Hinkleman, 38.
Knowlton, SS. Smith, LF.
Wilson. IB Kryder, 28.
Stratton, 28. James, KF.
Stuchell, F. Reese, RF.
Armstrong, LF. Vogal, 18.
Finistemaker, LF. Patterson, CF.
Cave, CF. Stitler, SS.
Forbes, RF. Hale, T.
McKay, RF.
Nellis, 38. )
Johnson, P.
R. 11. B.
Company C 1 4 4
Company K 77 1
A and M.
Companies A and M played their
first league game this week and both
teams fought hard to be winners. Each
team was well backed up from the
side lines. Patton’s pitching for Com
pany A was largely responsible for
the score, 11 to 5.
Line Up.
Company M. Company A.
Pender, SS. McLean, C.
Kifer," 38. . Burrough, 18.
Young, IB Gilson, 28.
■ Walters, C. Patton, P.
Walters, C. Henning, 38.
i Rodgers, CF. Brown, SS.
I Pickett, P. Platts, CF.
Ramsey, LF. Houghton, LF.
Ridic, 28. Goodlin, RF.
Klinger, RF.
R. H. E.
Company A H 9 3
Company M 5 5 5
112TH BASEBALL~TEAM.
The 112th regiment will have a base
ball team that will not be afraid to
play and team in the division or out of
the division as soon as the league is
over and the players selected from the
various teams.
Here are a list of games played this
Week besides the two regular league
games:
Companies B and C put up a good
game. Score, B 5 and C 2.
Companies G and Ea fast game.
Score, G 5 and E 0.
Companies B and L’s second team.
Score, L 19 and B 10.
Two teams in Co. M. Both fighting
to be first team. Score, second 6 and
first team 4.
Two teams in MG. Trying to get the
best playgrs for the league team.
STANDING 112TH BASE
BALL LEAGUE
Won. Lost. Pct.
Company A1 0 1000
Company B 0 1 0000
Company C 0 1 0000
Company D 0 0 1000
Company E . ..0 0 1000
Company F 0 0 1000
Company G 0 0 1000
Company H 0 0 1000
Conjpany 10 0 1000
Company K1 0 1000
Company L ..1 0 1000
Company M 0 1 0000
Company Sano 0 1000
Company MGO 0 1000
Company HDO 0 1000
Company Scoutso 0 1000
PUSH BALL
Push Ball has made good. It has
added more “pep” to our recreation
than any single addition to our equip
ment. It is more interesting to watch
than football and more amusingg in
cidents arise in five minutes than is
produced by clowns in a regular cir
cus of two hours. In the 107th Field
Artillery, one man clinging to the ball,
was rolled clear over it on to the bead
of the opposing players, much to their
discomfort, at the field hospital the
ball suddenly bounced out of the crowd
directly on to the neck of an Interested
spectator, who immediately lost in
terest in the proceedings. The first
thing he said was, “Get his number.”
Getting hit by the ball unawares is
like being hit by a Military Police
man. With the ball being pushed along
the ground one man conceived the idea
of laying down under it to get it start
ed up in the air. The scheme worked,
the ball rose in the air and about 40
men fell over the man on the man on
the ground.
If you want some real strenuous ex
rcise let us know the time that you can
use the ball and we will try and get it
to you. From fifty to one hundred men
on a team will get gopd results. Try
it. Ask the physical director at your
nearest Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation building about it.
PREVENT CRIME.
“Incarcerating offenders is the wrong
Idea. We ought to try to prevent crime.”
“Just so,” said the old-fashioned
judge. “And you can prevent lots of
crime by putting the right people in
4all.’*
TRENCH AND CAMP
' Report of Recreation Activities
REPORT OF WEEK ENDING March 3RD, 1918.
No. No. No.
games, participants, spectators.
Setting up drills 6 219 30
Baseball 137 2.019 2.895
Football ; 11 2,019 2.895
Basketball 168 1.958 1.118
Volleyball 422 4.454 614
Push Ball 442 4.445 614
Recreation , 32 37,500
Boxing 572 1,144 1,830
Soccer 23 893 190
Play-ground baseball' 27 454
Medicine ball \\ ’.. ..- 63 1,876 80
Mass athletics 69 11.399
Staff exercises ‘‘ ' ''' "" 7 43
Athletics and special \ 200 5,600 700
Tot «l .’.’.’.’1,580 70,381 8,797
Personal interviews 25; Match games 85; League organized, 1.
BASEBALL
WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
Games Games
Year. Winners. Won. Losers. Won
1885 Chicago (N. L.) 3 St. Louis (A. A.) 3 tie
1886 SSt. Louis (A. A.) 4 Chicago (N. L.) 2
1887 Detroit (N. L.) 10 St. Louis (A. A.) 5
1888 New York (N. L.) 6 St. Louis (A. A.) 4
1889 New York (N. L.) 6 Brooklyn (A. A.) 3
1890 Louisville (N. L.) 3 Brooklyn (A. A.) 3 tie
1892 Boston (N. L.) 5 Cleveland (N. L.) 0 tie
1894 New York (N. L.) 4 Baltimore (N. L.) 0
1895 Cleveland (N. 1,.) 4 Baltimore (N. L.) 1
1596 Baltimore (N. L.) 4 Cleveland (N. L.) 0
1897 Baltimore (N. L.) 4 Boston (N. L.) 1
1893 Boston (A. L.) 5 Pittsburg (N. L.) 3
1905 New York (N. L.) 4 Philadelphia (A. L) ”..... 1
1906 Chicago (A. L.) 4 Chicago (N. L.) 2
1907 Chicago (N. L.) 4 Detroit (A. L.) ... 0
1908 Chicago (N. L.) 4 Detroit (A. L.) 1
1909 Pittsburg (N. L.) 4 Detroit (A. L.) 3
1910 Philadelphia (A. L.) 4 Chicago (N. L.) 1
1911 Philadelphia (A. L.) 4 New York (N. L.) 2
1912 Boston (A. L.) 4 New York (N. L.) 3 tie
1913 Philadelphia (A. L.) 4 New York (N. L.) 1
J 914 Boston (N. L.) 4 Philadelphia (A. L.) 0
1915 Boston (A. L.) 4 Philadelphia (N. L.) 1
1916 Boston (A. L.) 4 Brooklyn (N. L.) 1
1917 Chicago (A, L.) 4 New York (N. L.) 2
FINAL STANDING OF THE CLUBS, 1917.
National League.
Nickmanes. SV. 1,. P.C.
New York . Giants 98 56 .636
Philadelphia. Phillies 87 65 .572
St. Louis ..Cardinals 82 70 .539
Cincinnati ..Reds 78 76 .506
Chicago .... Cubs 74 80 .481
Boston ... Braves 72 81 .471
Brooklyn ... Superbas 70. 81 .464
Pittsburg ...Pirates 51 103 .331
TRACK ATHLETICS AT
PENN STATE
Pennsylvania state has entered 21
field and track men in the Meadow
brook Club’s games to be held in Phil
adelphia, March 8 and 9. This is the
largest representation the Blue and
White has ever had in the Quaker
City’s big mid-winter sports carnival.
Despite the loss of 16 sterling cin
derpath athletes through enlistments,
Penn. State will send two relay teams
and a dozen individuals to compete in
the -special evenths.
Since early in December, Martin’s
track squad has been training indoors
for this meet. Meritorious perform
ances by the relay men and some of
the special-event entrants in the week
ly time trials have encouraged State's
followers to look for their men to
bring home their share of the honors.
AMATEUR BASEBALL
Amateur baseball as a national in
stitution is sure to take a great spurt
after~the war, according to officers of
the National Baseball Federation, one
of the organizations which now con
trols amateur baseball and whidh is
now working toward a Baseball As
sociation which includes the reconcil
liation with-the National Amateur or
ganizations in several csties.
Friends of amateur baseball see an
increased interest in the sport on the
part of returned soldiers who are being
keyed up to all sorts of athletic activ
ities in the training camps.
These soldiers will not give up their
sports when the war is over and will
turn to baseball, creating a big new
interest in the national pastime.
If the war continues long it is not
likely that many of the big leaguers in
the army will get back to their clubs.
Big league baseball is so fast that even
a year’s absence in any other line of
endeavor usually slows up a player so
much that he is unable to play up to
his former standard again.
Scores of these players will either
go back to the minors or enter some
business or profession. In the latter
case they will play amateur or semi
pro. ball.
The amalgamation of the two na
tional organizations would be a great
help to the amateur game. The two
organizations have been quarreling
for more than two years when the
National Federation grew oyt of a
rump convention Held during the con
vention of the national .association at
Louisville.
The result was that the territory
was divided between two central bod
ies when it could have been very well
managed by one. Many cities left both
organizations because of the miniature
war. These cities would undoubtedly
return to a central organization.
American League.
Nickmanes. W. L. P.C.
Chicago ....White Sox ....100 54 .649
Boston Red Sox 89 63 .586
Cleveland .. Indians 88 66 .571
Detroit Tigers 78 75 .510
Washington Senators' ....|.. 74 79 .484
New York . Yankees 71 82 .464
St. Louis .. Browns 57 97 .370
Philadelphia Athletics 55 98 .359
BASEBALL AT YALE >
The Athletic Association Board of
Control met recently and approved the
plan of having a formal baseball team.
Schedules will conform as nearly as
possible with those of former years,
excepting that games will be played
only on Saturdays, owing to military
work. Games are being arranged with
both Harvard and Princeton.
In accordance with the war-time
policy of the University, no profession
al coach will be secured and complte
charge of this department will be as
sumed by returning graduates.
Professor Robert N. Corwin, the
chairman of the Yale University Ath
letic Association, says:
"Our hope is to give every man who
so desires an opportunity to play base
ball, and we shall try to have them all
profit by It.”
WE FINDGODINTRENCHES
Private Peat, the famous soldier,
who after two years of the worst part
of the war has come back to this
country, says the March American
Magazine:
“If you had taken the biggest op
portunity life ever held out to a man,
wouldn’t you smile? If you had gone
down into hell for the sake of people
who were there already, wouldn’t you
come back—if you were lucky enough
to get back—with a smile? If you
had learned more in the past two
years about life and all that makes
it worth living than you had found out
in the previous twenty, wouldn’t you
be glad as yau had never before
dreamed of being glad?
“I’ve got a right arm that may never
be good even for hand-shake—though
I hope it will. Instead of a pair of
lungs,.l’ve got one and a fraction. But
what of that! I notice that people
care a lot more about gripping my left
hand now than they ever used to care
about getting hold of my right. I get
all the air with one lung that I seem
to need, and it isn’t hot air, either.
“And suppose I hadn’t come back
at all? I know I’d be smiling now—
and I wouldn't be doing it in hell,
either. That’s what you don’t realize,
you who are l.ei iat home. You don’t
know how things get clear and plain
to us in the trenches- Talk about
finding himself! We find more than
ourselves. We find God.”
Eddie Collins will play second base for
the Chicago White Sox again this year.
The $50,000 star has received word that
he will be placed in Class Four. Conse
quently Manager Rowland will have the
same infield that played in the World’s
series last fall —Gandil, Collins, Weaver
and McMullin. According to present in
dications the White Sox may lose only
one of their regulars. Pitcher Urban Fa
ber, whose strategy proved too much for
the Giants in October. Happy Felsch,
who was married last summer, will es
cape the draft under a recent ruling by
Secretary of War Baker.
RULES FOR QUOITS
Playing Rules: To start the game,
one player of each team shall take op
posite ends of the rink. The player to
take first pitch shall be determined by
the toss of a coin. Opponents of each
end shall alternate in pitching one
quoit until all four have been thrown,
when the judges will measure to de
termine the point winner. In pitching
the quoits, a player shall stand in line
with or back of the pin at his end, and
not more than three feet to either side
of the pin. He may assume any posi
tion while pitching, but may not touch
any part of tha ground in front of the
pin until after the quoit he has thrown
strikes the ground. And the four quoits
have been throwTi by the two oppon
ents at one end, the judges shall de
termine which quoit or quoits are
nearest the pin, and shall award
points as follows;
One point to the player Jiaving the
nearest quoit.
Two points to the player having the
nearest two quoits.
Three points to the player having a
quoit leaning against the pin.
Five points to the player whose quoit
encircles the pin.
The distance shall be measured with
a yard stick, and shall cover a direct
line between the nearest visible parts
of the quoit and pin.
Should a quoit be broken, it shall
be replaced by a perfect one.
A match shall consist of the best
two out of three games.
A game shall consist of 21 points,
and the team first securing this num
ber shall be declared the winner.
Players shall exchange ends at the
close of each game.
If in a match contest each team
wins one game, the teams shall ex
change ends when either side lias
scored ten points in the third game.
The score of a forfeited game shall
be 21 to 0. The referee shall declare a
game forfeited if a team is not ready
to start play within fifteen minutes
of the agreed beginning time or if any
member of a team refuses to abide by
an official decision and continue to
when requested to do so.
A substitute may take a player’s
place if in the judgment of the referee
a player has been injured or is suffi
ciently ill to seriously interfere with
his abilty to play.
SAFE AT HOME
The shades of evening are be
ginning to fall upon the diamond
of life, the game is almost ended.
Breathless the crowd sits awaiting
the end. The score is a tie. Every
thing is in the balance.
This day will decide not. the
world’s championship, but the
greater struggle of eternity.
One there is among the war-
scarred votetans upon whom all
eyes ate fastened. he has won
many a game before. He has heard
the plaudits of thousands, and re
ceived the applause of millions in
h's day.
The shadows descend, the crowd
is breathless. All depends on h.m.
Jt is no 1 me for a single. He
has made tljem before, and has wo 1
many a game with them.
A base or balla will co no good.
It is no time for a sacrlfiie.
There is but one thing that will
count in this closing moment—a
home run.
Can to do it?
Death hurls the ball toward the
batter.
Strike one! the umpire cries.
Again the sphere flies bv as the
l atter stands unmoved. There is
but one more chance.
He pulls himself together, his
frame like iron. His features are
immovable; the ball once more
speeds toward the plate.
With one supreme effort he
swings the stick and sends the ball
to a distant corner of the field,,
and the dauntless Ewing starts
upon his last circle of the bases.
One, two, three—the ball is be
ing rapidly returned.
Will he make it?
It is a close race. He takes the
one and only chance and throws
himself headlong upon the ground
for the last slide.
For a moment all is confusion.
Suddenly the dust clears away and
the great umpire of the universe
is heard to say: “Safe at Home.”
THEY LAUGH AS THEY LEARN.
The boys in all the barracks relieve the
tedium of learning to be soldiers by tell
ing of the mistakes made by the recruits
in the process of learning to b esoldiers.
Some of these may have been resurrect
ed from experiences, but they are al
ways new to some od the boys.
One of these stories concerns the of
ficer of the day. One night this officer
approached a guard and was duly chal
lenged.
“Halt! Who goes there?” cried the
guard.
“Officer of the day.”
“Say,” said the guard confidentially,
coming closer, “you'd better get to ’heli’
out of here. If the officer of the night
comes around and ketches you, he may
run you in.”
Another officer-of-the-day story is told
by the officer who was 1 one party to it.
He was challenged in the regular man
ner and as regularly replied that he was
the officer of the day. An extension of
the regular form would have been for
the guard to say: “Advance and be rec
ognized.” He would then salute the of
ficer.
Instead of that the guard said; “Step
up and salute!’’
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