Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1918 — CARTER AT THE FRONT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CARTER AT THE FRONT

Sensational New York Golfer Doing His Bit inFrance. Driver of Red Ambulance Telle Which ? He Has Forsaken Links— Under Fire Many Time*. Phil Carter, the sensational young New York golfer. Is doing his bit with the American Red Cross in France, where he drives an ambulance close to the firing lines, day after day. In a recent letter to friends on this side of the pond Carter told something of the great war game for which he has forsaken the links., He has been.. nnder fire rhany times, and the night drives he has been forced to make, J along rough and treacherous roads, without lights, have convinced him that war is a terribly serious game. “We have often been within two or three miles of the front,” wrote Carter, “and It is impossible to describe, the sensation that comes over one when be comes within range of the big guns. “The roar of the heavy artillery is something terrific, and on one occasion we hadn’t been in camp more than fifteen minutes when the Germans commenced shelling the whole countryside. You can bear the report when the big guns are fired and then the whistle of the shell as it comes screening overhead. Then follows a thunderous report, and a lot of earth, a house or whatever the sheli hits is thrown high into the alp If you can hear the shell whistle you are all right, but if you can’t you have to watch your step, for it i» very likely to hit close by. “The night raids of the German airplane impressed me as the most treacherous and dangerous thing I have en-

countered, and there la nothing one can do but crawl Into a dug-out and wait till the raid comes to an end." Carter also wrote that the ambulance drivers get furloughs at inter* vals, which permit them to rest up as they see fit He takes his recreation on the golf links In Paris, and in' this way is keeping on his game.

Phil Carter.