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March 27.
Sports and Recreational Activities at Camp
GEO. R. FLEMING, Camp Physical Director.
NATIONALS WIN OVER
NINE OF 108TH F. A.
BY SCORE OF 9 TO 2
Two thousand soldiers and quite a
number of civilians saw the Washing
ton American League team, now train
ing here .oppose the nine of the 108th
Field Artillery in the game at Warren
Park Saturday afternoon and win by
the score of 9 to 2.
From the start it was seen that the
Nationals had the best of the soldiers,
but this did not retard the khaki-col
ored spectators from cheering lustily
in an effort to turn the tide.
Johnson’s Form.
Walter Johnson pitched two innings
for the Nationals and while he didn’t
work his real speed ball he showed the
soldiers more about baseball artillery
than they ever thought was in the
books. He pitched only 14 balls to re
tire the artillerymen in order. Only
one ball was hit out of the infield on
the star pitcher and the Camp Han
cock boys were glad to see him go to
the club house.
Young Mollie Craft succeeded John
son on the mound and he himself was
responsible for them scoring their two
runs. He made a wild heave to get a
runner with two on the sacks and both
men scored. The youngster allowed
the soldiers only four hits and pitched
a creditable game. Outside the artil
lerymen’s scoring inning—the fifth—•
he wasn’t in danger of being counted
on. He fanned four batsmen.
The Nationals had the range of the
artillerymen’s two pitching pieces and
had them pretty well silenced eaisy in
the game. They put the first one the
soldiers wheeled into position out of
action after seven innings, having reg
istered seven circuit counts for their
target practice bit- Tn their last turn
at bat they counted up two more.
It was the first nine-inning game of
the season for the Griffmen and the
showing the ymade was particularly
gratifying to Manager Griffith, who
sees a first division berth for his club
if neither Rice nor Lavan is called to
the colors before the end of the cam
paign. These two players were the
best hitters of the day for the Griff
men. Rice gathered three blows and
Lavan two.
The soldiers played good, snappy
ball and their opponents had more than
an ordinary practice game.
Engineers’ Baseball;
Company F vs. Company C
On Saturday and Sunday Companies
F and C, Engineers, played two games
of as good baseball as one could wish
tosee. Company F defeated Company
C Saturday, 11 to 3 and Company C
reversed the result Sunday by the
score of 9 to 7. The games were wit
nessed by nearly the whole of the En
gineer regiment and there was some
thing doing every minute. Hutnick
pitched good ball for Company C but
his support was ragged in the first
game. Robley pitched a steady game
for Company F and was backed up by
the finest kind of support. In the
second game with the score 3 to 1 in
favor of Company F, McManomon
weakened and hits by Hutnick, Mills
and Hartranft in the fifth inning scor
ed four runs. Kreamer’s three-bag
ger in the seventh inning was a fea
ture of the second game. But four
hits were made off Kreamer, Company
C, in Sunday’s game and he had 12
strike outs to his credit.
Line-up in Saturday’s game.
Company F. Company C.
Sloan, cf. Lankart, If.
Woll, 3b. Starr, rs.
O’Donnell, c. Kraemer, cf.
Fink, ss. Seidel, lb.
Norton, rs. Babish, 2b-
DeShong, ss Mill, R., ss.
Woolridge, If. Mill, W., 3b.
Cranston, lb. Ross, c.
Robley, p. Hutnick, p.
Score: R.
Company Fll
Company C 3
Line-up in Sunday’s game.
Company F. Company C.
Sloan, cf. Mill, W„ 3b.
Woll, 3b. Stofflet, lb.
O'Donnell, c. Hartranft, If.
Fink, ss. Mill, R., ss.
Norton, rs. Kraemer, p.
DeShong, 3b Starr, cf.
Woolridge, rs. Babish, 2b.
Cranston, lb. Reese, c.
McManomon, p. Hutnick, p.
Robley, p.
Quick, p
Dale, rs.
Score: R.
Company C 9
Company F 7
SPORTSIfHUr76
Thursday evening our boxing stand
was surrounded with spectatirs watch
ing the boxing, wrestling and tumb
ling.
A battle royal between Silar. Bru
baker and Hughes.
Wrestling Kefford, Silar.
The men are more- pleased with the
tumbling each day. There were fif
teen or more Thursday and since then
have been many inquiries as to how
they might help.
We have tiie mat twice a week and
the dates will be posted.
TRENCH AND CAMP
Report of Week Ending March 24,1918
No. No. No.
games, participants, spectators.
Setting up drills 9 103
Baseball 228 4622 9997
Football 13 1621 225
Basketball 238 3488 733
Volley oall 550 6133 1361
Push Ball 27 3735 500
Recreation 50 50000
Boxing 282 642 3249
Soccer 32 1084 299
Play-ground baseball 38 1700 8 15
Medicine ball 54 1179 270
Mass athletics ...: 37 2433 90
Miscellaneous 45 19 g r
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Total ..’1665 83028 18192
111TH
The only game that proved to be a real
battle was the one between Company E
and Company K and this was a contest
between pitchers. The hurling part of
the game was by far the most outstand
ing feature and probably the only reason
that Company E won was because of the
support given the twirler by the rest of
the team. The winning team has put up
some very clever and interesting games
in the league and so far has won every
game they have played. This last game
they took away from Company K after
a real battle which ended with Company
E on the long end of the score of 3-1.
Line-ups follow:
Co. E. Co. K.
Waugmann I-lenvenstene
Shortstop.
Burns Seaman
Right, field.
Clealand Monk
First base.
McKenny Livingston
Third base.
Eiffler Street
Second base.
Bayne Fife
Left field.
Denneen Cheskey
Center field.
Hill . McKenny
Pitcher.
Casey Mendanhall
Catcher.
109TH MACHINE GUN
LEAGUE
A double header was played off Sunday
between Companies A.-C. and Companies
A-D and resulted in a double defeat to
Company A. Up to the present time
Company A has been playing excellent
ball but for some reason unstated they
had a slump this last week. The first
game of the double-header was in their
hands up to the last inning when the bal
loon went up. and Company A tossed
the game away by letting two runs come
in in the last few minutes of the last
inning.
(FIRST GAME.)
Company A—6
Company C:—7
Umpire, Klump.
(SECOND GAME.
The second game was not as exciting
but was of the one-sided affair as Com
pany D took it to the tune of 8-5. The
spirit of A Company was lost in the
second, inning when they allowed eight
runs to come in in quick succession. Um
pire Patrick handled the game exceed
ingly well and his decisions were sharp
and clear.
BASEBALL BATSFOR
U. S. SOLDIERS IN FRANCE
Shipment of 144,000 baseball bats, the
largest in baseball history, has been
started from Louisville, Ky., for the
Lorraine section of the western fight
ing front in Europe.
The bats now going forward are part
of an order placed in January when
hundreds of thousands of baseballs,
mitts, fielders’ gloves, chest protectors,
masks and shin guards were called for
by the Y. M. C. A. for use in camps
and cantonments of the United Staes
and in France with the expeditionary
forces.
For weeks the Y. M. C. A. has been
forwarding equipment, having placed
at the disposal of the government, at
the government’s request, its compre
hensive system of the distribution of
everything required by the men in
the trenches and training for service
at the front that is not handled by the
quartermaster's department.
Since the government made the Y.
M. C. A. the official clearing house the
association has been gradually absorb
ing the activities of numerous volun
teer organizations working to the same
end without the knowledge of condi
tions of the efficient organization de
veloped by the Y. M. C. A.
Every one of the 144,000 bats soon
to reach France is stamped with the
red triangle of the Y. M. C. A., and
will reach the troops through the sec
retaries overseas, whdse huts are the
general stores of the trenches.
There are twelve models of bats,
each named for such hard hitters as
Ty Cobb, Tris Speager, Benny Kauff,
Eddie Collins, Home Run Baker, and
others. They will be used in a pinch
to drive the Germans home.
LONG RANGE WIRELESS
Government officials in Peru recently
opened a wireless station in that country
at a point approximately 2,000 miles
south of Panama. The new station can
receive and send messages to Argentina,
Chile, and most parts of Brazil, and has
even caught signals from the United
States.
OFFICERS’ VOLLEY BALL
IN 112TH INFANTRY
The officers of the second and third
battalions had lots of fun in a volley
ball game yesterday on company
street.
Since this volley net was placed on
officer street it has been in use most
all the time. Officers that have paid
little attention to sports of this kind
are jumping into the game and getting
loads of fun out of it. This game
was won by the second battalion. The
second battalion winning 4 out of 5
games.
Hughes of the Y. M. C. A. will gladly
furnish more nets and balls if they
are needed.
Twilight League.
Not knowing the military schedule
after the clock has been set up one
hour, Lieut. Schme.zer will be unable
to make definite plan as to how he
will organize th.’ ; league. It is his
intention to have three games in an
afternoon.
GOOD PRELIMINARY BOUTS
AT WARREN PARK
At the Gorman-Murphy boxing con
test at Warren Park last Saturday
evening three good preliminary bouts
were staged.
The preliminary bouts were between
George Lewellyn, Company C, 112th
Infantry, and J. Smith, Company D,
111th Infantry; Harry Kilburn, Com
pany D, 110th Infantry, and Jack Vic
tor of the Field Hospital Jimmie O’Day
of Battery F, of the 108th->Field Artil
lery ,and Eilly Lamison, Battery E, of
the same organization. The crowd
numbered close to 2,000 persons.
STATE~COLLEGE BASKET
BALL
With a record of twelve victories out
of thirteen games played, Penn State’s
basketball five this season stands out
as one of the best teams that has ever
represented the blue and white in the
cage game. No state college basket
ball quintet has made a better record
in the last ten years.
Only Blakeslee and Wilson, center
and guard respectively, were carried
over from the previous season.
State registered two victories over
Pittsburg, Carnegie Tech, Lehigh and
Juniata. Other teams defeated were
Colgate, West Virginia University,
Carlisle Indians, and the Usaacs. The
champion Syracuse University team
was the only opponent to take State’s
measure.
112TH INFANTRY TO PLAY
NATIONALS
A game has been scheduled with Clark
Griffith's team on Saturday, April 30th,
at Warren Park.
OH! YOuIIILITARY POLICE!
With the American Army In France. —
Military Police now travel on ail the
trains running between Paris and various
points of the zone of the American army.
Their sole duty is to see to it that mem
bers of the American expeditionary force
do not travel without authorization.
This policing of railroads by Ameriman
military authorities was made necessary
by so many soldiers slipping away to
“see Paris’’ without permission. There
was nobody to stop them so they simply
boarded Paris-bound trains. Later on, of
course, they were reported absent without
leave and when they returned to their
commands were punished.
There were many men sent to some
lonely French village direct from the
port of debarkation, wno were quite will
ing to take some punishment in exchange
for a few days in the capital.
Now the Military Police have put an
end to it and incidentally they are the
envy of many other men in the army, for
they do get into Paris at least once every
thirty-six hours. They usually have
four or five hours of freedom in the city
and then return to the army zone on
another train, asking every American who
happens to be aboard for his authoriza
tion to travel.
ANOTHER WAR-TIME REVOLUTION.
Perhaps the most startling of all war
time revolutions Is the suddenly acquired
prominence of the bridegroom, who
threatens to displace the bride as the cen
ter of attraction when the wedding guests
assemble. —Chicago Daily News.
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112TH BASEBALL.
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Headquarters Company and Company F.
The league game between Headquarters
Company F was not bad for the specta
tors. It was interesting the whole way
through.
Score: R. H. E.
Company F 9 13 1
Company Headquarters 3 11 0
Mulholland of Company F had ten
strikeouts to his credit, while Sundy of
Headquarters Company had nine. Base
on balls off Sundy, four; off Mulholland,
none.
Company G.
The first and third platoons of Com
pany G had a practice game. Company
G has a good baseball team and these
practice games are responsible for It.
Company G will challenge any team in
the division. They are trying to get a
game with the Washington Americans
who are here for their spring practice.
Sanitary 112th and Supply 112th.
The lodir.e “Jobbers” and the mule
"skinners” might have peculiar names,
but that doesn’t hinder a good baseball
game. Although the Supply Company
used the willow more freely than the San
itary Company, the Supply lost by one
run. The game kept the spectators as
well as the players excited the whole
way through.
Some: R. H. E.
Sanitary 5 6 6
Supply 4 10 6
Company G Versus Company K.
One of the best and most interesting
games was witnessed by three hundred
soldier boys at Company C, 112th ground
this afternoon. Owing to the Washing
ton Americans playing the 108th artillery
at Warren Park, the boys had to play on
the camp ground. This game was for the
112th championship between K and G. It
resulted in a final score of 2 to 0 for Com
pany G. „
Hart of G and Strickler of K were the
twirlers of the horsehide and they were
the features of the game. The game was
a pitchers’ battle. Hart had 18 strike
cuts and Strickler 16. Patterson of K
| starred in right field with a sensational
| catch with one hand arfter chasing back
to the road for it. Ruddy oGK also played
a goad home at short. Bretz of G helped
to win the game by his home run over the
center fielder’s head. Pitcher Hart of G
had a tryout with the Athletics and he
has the curve and steam. This was the
best, interested game that has been played
this season.
Score: R. h. E.
Company G 2 5 0
Company K o 3 2
Base on balls, off Hart, 1; off Strick
ler, 3.
Stolen bases! Foust 1; Kryder. 1.
Umpire, Lieut. Schmelzer.
BRAVES AND YANKEES
PLAYJIERE APRIL 3
The Boston Braves and New York
Yankees meet in Augusta at Warren
Park April 3rd. Both teams will play
their first line men and this will be a
real big league game. This will be
the only game where two major league
teams playing their first string line
up in Augusta this year. Augusta is
certainly fortunate to be able to secure
these two teams as it will give the
fans an opportunity to see big league
stuff without traveling six or seven
hundred miles to see same.
George Stallings manager of the
Braves, as we all know, is an old Au
gusta boy and started his baseball ca
reer in Augusta.
Miller Huggins manager of the Yan
kees is a great player and plays the
keystone sack for his team. This is
going to be a great game and some
of the greatest stars of the game will
be in the line-up.
This game is being scheduled under
the auspices of the Rotary Club for the
benefit of their charity fund and war
wo At-
112TH INR BASEBALL
Sanitary Company vs. Company M.
Score: R. H. E.
Company M—4 11 2
Sanitary—3 4 2
The Sanitary Company won Wed
nesday’s game and lost Saturday’s.
Both games were either won or lost
by one run.
Pitcher Hovis for Company M, al
lowed 4 hits and it was his pitching
that won the game. Pitcher Vantine
of Sanitary, had a sore arm from last
Wednesday’s game and could not get
the steam behind the ball as he did in
Wednesday’s game.
Company M knocked the horsehide
freely but only managed to make one
run more than the Sanitary Company.
Supply Company vs. Company E.
Supply Company lost to Sanitary
Wednesday by one run but they were
easy for Company E Saturday, losing
13 to 1.
Company E’s pitcher was too much
for the Supply Company. The Supply
Company realizes their weak points
and they have begun to mend them.
Their next game will not be as easy.
First Platoon vs. Third Platoon.
Company G.
Companj r G is to play Company K
In the morning and the 110th Infantry
Company I In the afternoon.
The Third Platooon won 10 to 8 in
Saturday’s practice game.
Company G wants to get a game
with Chaplain McFetridge’s team of
the field artillery.
One can't help wondering what the pro-
Germans will be after this war.
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