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Newspaper Page TextMarch 13. Sports and Recreational Activities at Camp GEO. R. FLEMING, Camp Physical Director. REPORT OF RECREATION Week Epdlng March 10, 1918. No Partic- Spec- Games. ipants. tators. Setting up Drills 5 99 Base Ball .... 186 4,057 9,354 Foot Ball .... 11 1,293 405 Bask. Ball.. .. 159 3,093 1,174 Vol. Bail .. .. 451 5,310 603 Push Ball.. .. 25 2,500 1,500 Recreation .... 46 49,000 Boxing 248 1,207 3,180 Soccor<. 36 1,618 405 Playground Baseball . .. 45 1,053 225 Medicine Ball . 69 3,112 780 Mass Athletics 134 4,835 Staff Exercises 4 5 Games 51 4,660 Special 6 1,450 Quirts 14 52 Wrestling.. ..16 48 500- T0ta11,506 83,392 18,126 Personal interviews2B BASEBALL AT 112TH Pitcher Hart had 222 strike outs and two clean hits made off him. Pitcher Clow had 13 strike outs. G company made 10 clean hits. Up to the 7th ending it was a tight battle, but the lucky 7th was the un doing of the Machine Gun Company. Saturday's games— R. Company.. MG2 Company C 5 Company D ll Company G l3 Company 2 Companyl Headquarters Co. and Co. B showed up Saturday. Score: R. Headquarters Companyß Company B 4 BASEBALL LEAGUE, 112TH. Won. Lost. Pct. Company A 1 0 1000 Company B 0 1 000 Company C 0 1 000 Company D 0 0 000 Company E 0 0 000 Company F 0 0 ' 000 Company G1 0 1000 Company H 1 0 1000 Company I 0 0 000 Company K 1 0 1000 Company L 1 0 1000 Company M 0 1 000 Company San 0 1 000 Company M. G 0 1 000 Company Scouts .... 0 0 000 Standing of Teams Truck Train, Sanitary Train and Quartermaster's Corps League: Played. Won- Lost. Pct. Field Hospital, 111 ..5 4 1000 Field Hospital 110 ..7 6 1 857 Ordnances 4 1 800 Field Hospital 112 ..5 4 1 800 Ambulance, No. 1...5 4 1 800 Ambuiance, N 0.3 ...3 2 1 666 Field Hospital, 109 ..6 3 3 500 M. S. T. 103, Co. E ..2 11 500 Truck Co. 3322 11 500 Q. M. C. 3 1 2 333 M. S. T. 103, Co. C. ..3 1 2 333 Field Bakerys 1 4 200 Ambulance, No. 2 ...3 0 3 0 M. S. T. 103, Co. F. . .3 0 3 0 M. S. T. 103, Co. B ..4 0 4 0 M. S. T. 103, Co. D.. 2 0 2 0 CORNELL MAT MEN WIN FROM PENN Cornell’s wrestlers took a fall out of the University of Pennsylvania matmen, 2 2to 10, when these friendly rivals met in Weightman Hall last night. The Quak ers secured only one fall in the five bouts. While Cornell won the meet they only had one clean-cut victory, the other bouts going to their credit on decision. The sensation of the contests was fur nished in the heivyweight tussle when Schultner, the Red and Blue grappler, threw Porter, of Cornell, with a half- Nelson and body hold in the fast time of three minutes. Too much credit cannot be given to the plucky Quaker, who came through with flying colors against a man that outweighed him by more than 30 pounds. Whes the men faced each other the difference in size was so marked that no one thought that the Penn man could possibly win, but he quickly con vinced the crowd he was the better man. The most stubborn bout of the meet was between Captain. Ketterer, of Penn, and Bullard, the Ithacan. These men tussled for the full nine minutes and at the end of that time the referee could not give a decision so that it was nec essary to hold two extra three-minute periods. In the latter the Cornell man obtained a slight advantage and was given th decision. Results follow: 115-pound event—Penn forefeited to Cornell, McDermott being sick. 125-pound event—Ackerly, Cornell, won from Rhodes, Pennsylvania, on decision. Time. 9:00. 135-po‘und event—Bullard, Cornell, won from Ketterer, Pennsylvania, on decis- I ion. Time, 9:00 and two extra 3:00 pe riods. 145-pound event —Tuttle, Cornell, won from Douty, Pennsylvania, on decision. Time. 9.00. 158-pound event—Cornell forfeited to Pennsylvania. j 175-pound event—Huntingdon, Cornell, won from Wolfe, Pennsylvania, on a fall > with a bar chancery hold. Time, 4:04. Heavyweight event—Schultner, Penn sylvania, won from Porter, Cornell, on a fall with a half-Nelson and body hold. Jime, 3:00. '.. . TR E N.C H AND CAMP Senators’ Advance Guard Here For Spring Training The advance guard of the Washington American League squad is here. Train er Mike Martin, First Baseman Joe Judge, and Pitcher Harry Harper ar rived last week and are at the Hampton Terrace Annex where the Senators will be housed during their stay here. The remainder of the battery men, with the exception of Walter Johnson, reported Sunday. The second squad, headed by- Manager Clark Griffith and including the great Walter, is scheduled to arrive next Friday. The men here express themselves an delighted with being back in Augusta and afforded the opportunity to renew the many pleasant friendships they formed -while here last spring. The Sen ators are extremely pleased with Augus ta as a training camp in view of the re- Texas and Florida Are Favorite Big Leagues Training Stations There will be few changes in the loca tion of the major league baseball club training camps tills spring as compared with 1917. Os the sixteen clubs compos ing the National and American Leagues, all but three will return to the camps where they prepared for the flag cam paign o,f last season. In the senior or ganization Cincinnati will train at Mont gomery, Ala., instead of Shreveport, La., and Pittsburgh will prepare at Jackson ville, Fla., whereas a year ago the Pi rates were quartered at Columbus, Ga. The St. Louis club of the American League will workout at Shreveport, La., in place of Palestine, Tex. In every oth er case the teams will start spring train ing this season at the camps-where they were located twelve months ago. As was the case in 1917, Texas and Florida are the favorite states for base ball work preliminary to the battles for the two major league pennants. Between them they drew fifty per cent of the big circuit clubs. Each state will have font clubs, with Arkansas, Georgia and Lou isiana next in order with two clubs. California and Alabama are last in the list with one club apiece. The complete NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB DISCARDS SPORT No club in the world has made so much sporting history as the New York A. C. The Mercury Foot emblem has embla zoned the breasts of countless champions. On the tracks and field, in boxing, wrest ling, shooting, rowing, fencing, swim ming, tennis, golf, hockey, skating, in every known branch of amateur sport the Red and White athletes have harvest ed many laurels, writes George B. Un derwood in the New York Sun. Its champions have carried the Mercury foot all over the globe. Whether at home or for foreign fields wherever the Mercury Foot is seen the emblem is rec ognized as the trademark of merit and efficiency, the tocsin of champions tri umphant. Back of all the brilliant athletic suc cesses have been a wonderful clan and a whole souled patriotism. An athlete was expected to do much for his club, but more for his country. Whenever a Mer cury Footer entered the lists in Olympic or International campetition he knew he must outdo himself. Ringing in his ears was the final instruction: “You are_..competing for your country as well as your club now. Much as you have done for the Mercury Foot, more you must do for Old Glory. You have given unstintingly of strength, skill, grit and courage for the club. You may have thought you were giving your all. But you. haven’t. Reach down In your very soul, tap the last vein for the winning ‘punch.’ It's in you. Out with it for the honor of Old Glory and Uncle Sam.” When this country was driven into the terrible European holocaust the New York A. C., true to Its high motives, discarded sports for sport’s sake, and bent all efforts to making sports to do its bit for Uncle Sam. The Mercury Footers dropped the mak ing of champions and set to work making good soldiers. All the resources and energies of the club were directed to ward providing training and entertain ment for the boys in army khaki and navy blue. During the last year the New York A. C. has expended approximately $4,000 In supplying boxing gloves and athletic equipment to various army posts. It do nated about S,OOO to various patriotic en terprises, such as The Sun tobacco fund, camp library fund, etc. It held six sets of athletic tournaments for the men of the army and navy at Travers Island. It promoted various boxing shows for the service men at the city clubhouse. Fort Slocum, Fort Jay, Travers Island, the Ninth regiment armory. It organled a football league among the men of Forts locum, Totten, Jay and Wadsworth, the United tales aviation training station at Mineola and the United tates naval train ing station at Pelham Bay. The games provided entertainment for 25,000 enlist ed men and. one of the gridiron contests at the Polo Grounds netted S4OO for the two teams, which was used for the pur chase of athletic supplies. The New York A. G.’s patriotic ac tivities will be even greater this year than last. Among the things the Mer cury Footers have cut out for themselves to do is to provide every transport sail ing from the port of New York with box ing gloves, medicine balls and other ath letic equipment and also to continue fur nishing army cantonments and naval sta tions with the same. The club will stage athletic competi tions for enlisted men oncq, a month at markably fine weather that they had throughout their stay here last year. Griffith had a number of flattering of fers to go elsewhere this spripg and he wap unable, for a time, to secure assur ances of hotel accommodations here, but he did not rest satisfied until he had completed arrangements to return to Au gusta. The Augusta trip this spring will be an especially pleasant one for Harry Har per, as he is on his honeymoon. A week ago Harry was married to Miss Brew ster of Hackensack, N. J. His charming bride will make a host of friends while here. The Senators will remain here until about the first of April. While here they will in all probability play a number of exhibition games with teams from Camp Hancock. list of 1918 training camps, with the ap proximate dates when the majority of the players will report for their first workout is as follows: National League. New York—Marlin, Tex.. March 11. Brooklyn—Hot Springs,' Ark.. March 18. St. Louis—San Antonio, Tex., March 16. Cincinnati—Montgomery, Ala., March 11. Boston—Miami, Fla., March 14. Chicago—Pasadena, Cal., March 15. Pittsburgh—Jacksonville, Fla., March 18. Philadelphia—St. Petersburg, Fla. March 15. American League. New York—Macon, Ga., March 12. Detroit —Waxahachie, Tex., March 20. Chicago—Mineral Wells, Tex.. March 18. St. Louis —Shreveport, La., March 7. Cleveland—New Orleans. La.. March 16. Philadelphia—Jacksonville, Fla., March 14. Boston —Hot Springs, Ark., March 18. Washington—Augusta, Ga., March 20 Camp Upton. Camp Merritt and Pelham Bay naval station, and also at least one athletic tournament at each of the other army and navy posts round New York. In ddition, the club will stage open air boxing shows during tho spring, summer and fall at the different posts. It will nut two baseball teams on the diamond for the express purpose of playing teams from the various posts and will provide ail expenses for the soldier and sailor boys. All this will Incur a tremendous out lay. To help provide the necessary funds the New York A. C. has obtained the Hippodrome for the Sunday evening. March 10, and will give one of the great est theatrical and vaudeville concerts ever staged in New York. Most of the prominent theatrical men in New York are members of the New York A. C. All of them will donate tal ent and each is working hard to make the affair a brilliant success. A wonder ful program is being arranged. When it is announced New Yorkers will bo astounded. There never has been any thing Ilka it. BILL DONOVAN’S TASK IS NOT AN EASY ONE. Bill Donovan’s friends, and they are legion, were glad to hear that Smiling William has landed back with the De troit Tigers as coach and general ad viser to pitchers. Returning to Detroit is like going baci" home to Wild Bill. Though Philadelphia claims Donovan as one of Its sons, Bill put in the greater part of .his career with Detroit. He pitched for the Tigers from 1902 to 1912, inclusive. Donovan always has been a warm fa vorite in Detroit. The fans there have the same affection for him that the New York fans hold for Matty and the Chi cago fans for Ed Walsh. Donovan’s task is no easy one. In fact, he is called upon to tackle one of the toughest tasks In the big league, namely, help Hugh Jennings develop a pitching staff. A peculiar jinx has fol lowed the Detroit pitchers since the passing of Donovan, Mullen and Sum mers. The club has tried more than a hundred pitchers, but has been unable to get a first-class pitching staff. Dubuc was # good for a while, so were Dauso and Covaleskie. but never since the old championship days in Detroit has Jen nings had what might be called a first class pitching staff. In 1915 and 1916 Detroit would have won hands down with one more reliable pitcher. DELL LEARNING TO HANDLE BIG TANKS. Pitcher John Deli, “late of the Louis ville Association club, is now in Uncle Sam’s army and is taking a special course of instruction at Camp Herring, at Peo ria, in the handling of “tanks.” These land battleships are being built for the army by a Peoria concern, and Dell Is to get first-hand information on how they work. BASEBALL. J. Barry, captain of the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard baseball team, is to have his battery candidates out for their first practice next Monday. He will ahve the use of the Harvard University base ball cage until outdoor work is possible. With Shore and Pennock, the two Boston American pitchers, and Arthur Rico, th* Boston National catcher, as candidates, the sailors ought to have a pretty strong nine this summer. FLASHES FROM SPORT WORLD Louisville, Ky.—Ferdinand Schupp. of Louisville, again will be a member of the New York Nationals’ pitching staff, it was announced here. He will receive SIO,OOO for the season, it is said unoffi cially. The Minneapolis team of the American Association will forsake its usual spring training trip to the South this year and instead will get its workouts in the Min neapolis park. The national baseball commission has handed down a ruling awarding Player Harry Lake to the Chicago Americans. Lake was a member of the Newport News club of the Virginia league, which dis banded during 1917 on account of war conditions. Lake was carried as a re serve player .by this club, but the com mission declared the signing of Lake by the Chicago team was legal. Terry Turner, veteran Indian out fielder ,is the newest holdout. Terry objects to the proposed cut in his salary. Should be and President Dunn fail to come tb terms Ty Cobb will become the dean of big leaguers, having joined major ball in 1905, one year after Turner. Larry Lajoie expects to return to his job as manager of the Toronto Inter nationals. No less than four big league clubs bid for Larry’s cervices. A call to battery candidates for the Boston navy yard baseball team to re port for indoor practice at Harvard Mon day has been issued by Manager Jack Barry, former leader of the Boston Am erican League club. Among the players now stationed in the naval reserve and expected to be available for the team are Pitchers Shore and Pennock, former Red Sox. Bryan Downey, Chicago middleweight, has been suspended for sixty days by the Wisconsin Athletic commission on a charge of having violated the rules of the commission by "wrestling and stalling” and refusing to heed the warning of the referee during his bout with Joe Eagan, of Boston, h’ebruary 7th. Some of the Cubs are to feel the axe. Joe Tinker, president and manager of the Columbus club, is in Chicago and has been told that he could have some of the undesirables for the north side. Infielder Richard Conway, of the Wor cester club of the Easteern League, lead er of the league in hitting last season, has been purchased by the Boston Na tionals. Harry C. Harper .star left-handed pitcher of the Washington American Lea gue baseball club, was married at Hack ensack, N. J., Wednesday to Miss Bes sie Brewster, of Hackensack. Frank Snyder, the star backstop of the Cardinals, is a bit excited over the pos sibilities of his being trade to Pittsburg. If he is he will quit the game. Albert Mamaux, erstwhile pitcher of the Pirates, recently traded to Brooklyn, ' may not pitch for the Dodgers next sea ison. He has been placed in class A-l of the selective draft. baseball 1 The 112th baseball games are still hold ing out with their “pep." Company C, 112th, 13 runs; Company lid.. 112th, 4 runs. Struck out by Knowlton 10. Reed 1, Walkonis 1, Sunday 9, Zimmerman 2. Bases on balls, off Knowlton 3, Sunday 6. Time of game, 1:15. Umpires, Nellis and Clow. Knowlton’s steadiness and good team work were partly responsible for the defeat. M. Swartz and McKay pulled Co. C out of many tight pinches. Carl son's work at second would be hard to beat. Some other games that were played with equally as much Interest: Companies F and B had a hot one. Sccro F, 8; B. 2. Companies K and Hd. of 111th. Hd. of 111th were never beaten before. It takes the 112th to take the starch out of them. No. the score” was only -a small one: K of 112th, 16; Hd. of 111th, 4. Companies H and San. played their scheduled game Wednesday. Pitcher Hart was too much for them. They played good for their first game, having had no practice. Company H, 5 runs; Company San, 3 runs. Companies M and L had a nice close game. The game was as good as any this season. Had it not been for the last inning, Co. M making 4 runs in that Inning, tho score would have been close. The final score: M. 6; L, 1. Field Hospital. 109, 2 runs; Q. M. C.. 3 runs. “ Amb. Co.. 109. 12 runs; M. S. T. Co. D. 3 runs FIRST U. sTaTHLETIC STAR TO BE KILLED IN BATTLE. Lieut. Harold F. Eaaie, of Tilton, N. H., is the first of the ‘United States athletic stars to be killed on the battlefields of France. He met his death during the German raid north of Toul last Friday. Eadie gained fame while playing base ball and football at Dartmouth. He was a star quarterback. Eadie was the only junior at Dartmouth chosen for the Reserve Officers' Training School at Plattsburg, all the other se lections being from the senior class in ac cordance with a War Department ruling. He was awarded a commission as second lieutenant and went to France with the New England Division. O O FATHER AND SONS IN ACTIVE SERVIE. Boston. —There are not . many cases of both fathers and sons who were prominent in sports in active service for the United States in this war, but Harvard has two of them. Col. Robert Bacon, ’BO, foot ball player, oarsman and boxer, and his three sons, R. L., E. C., and G. G., are all in the army, while C. P. Curtis, ’B3, and his two sons, C. P., Jr., and R. C., are in the navy. Page 3 d I t R J w II I I il C i