Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1918 — Page 2

BRITISUH AIRPLANE HOSPITAL BEHIND THE LINES

This British official photograph shows one of the repair stations for damaged airplanes behind the British Jlnea In France.

BRITISH NAVAL CHIEF LAUDS WORK OF AMERICAN SAILORS AND SHIPS

Keenness, Technical Skill and Organization of the Personnel Truly Remarkable—Ships and Equipment All of Highest Efficiency and Latest Design—Close Co-operation Between Allies Minimizes Menace of U-Boat.

By SIR ERIC GEDDES. First Lord of the British Admiralty. In speaking of the United States naval forces, I do so with the great advantage of having seen most of them personally in the course of the last 18 months, and I can assure the public that the morale and efficiency are absolutely on the top line. Not only is the keenness, technical skill and organization of the personnel truly remarkable, but, further, the material of all ships and their equipment are of the-highest efficiency and latest design. What applies to your fighting ships applies also to your depot and parent ships, and I think I may «ay, without giving offense to the great naval services of the twp countries, that the intermingling gnd co-operat-ive working Is giving opportunities, which both services are taking, of picking out examples of the best for adoption in and by the other service.

I am, of course, unable to disclose any details of the numbers of your vessels operating abroad, but with the permission of your navy department I may say that they comprise some of the largest capital ships as well as cruisers, destroyers, submarines, chasers, and many types of aircraft. Taking these various classes in turn, I would like first of all to show you that your battleships are working with our own grand fleet with the most perfect co-ordination and efficiency, and I had the very great pleasure of witnessing their arrival when they first joined up with our own grand fleet, and was able to make a signal of welcome to them on that occasion.

Convoy Balks Germany. As regards your cruisers, they are working with, us in the White sea, North sea, Atlantic and Mediterranean, and I have seen them and admired their efficiency in all these places. It (s to them, as well as to the gallant tittle destroyers, working with the corresponding forces of-all the allies, that (he success of the convoy system is due. It is the convoy system which balked Germany when she adopted avowedly the inhuman and ruthless method of submarine warfare, considered inconceivable and contrary to all noble traditions of the sea before the war, but which we now accept as one of the outward signs of the devil which has to be exorcised before Germany Is fit to take her place as an honorable member of the League of Nations, in whatever form that oftdiscussed organization may finally shape itself. Germany reckoned to end the war last year by cutting the sea communications of the alliance and by the reduction in tonnage; the dissatisfaction of the German nation with the result of their criminal effort Is due in very great measure to the convoy, system, but it is due also to the allied efforts to trap and hunt the submarine on passage and to harass it on elation, and those two functions in subimarine warfare must not be confused. Efficient Naval Protection.

The ocean convoy is primarily a defense organization, and secondarily only, an offensive organization. Ifs complement in this new form of naval warfare is the hunting flotilla and the mine field. These two measures must he carefully balanced and the relative urgency of the demands of one or the other must receive, and does receive, the most urgent consideration and ceaseless care and adjustment of the great naval officers who are charged with that resjfbnsibllity. At the present moment the United States and Great Britain have become the main bases of supply for the armies Jn Europe, and in order to insure these lines of communication being and kept open, every efficient naval protection is required. The large proportion of merchant shipping which brings these supplies must' necessarily be American and British, and consequently the Anglo-American gfiyfff of naval opera tious-—which may j

be considered to Include the Atlantic, North sea, and British coastal, waters —is the area with which we are most vitally concerned at the present moment, though of course the American and British forces are helping to police the trade routes»of the Mediterranean also, in conjunction with our French, Italian, Japanese and Greek allies, whose work and co-operation are altogether admirable. Work of Destroyer.

Turning now to your destroyers, I know that you all appreciate what demands the present conditions of sea warfare impose upon this type of craft. Day and night, winter" and summer, they scour the seas, either hunting the submarine, or keeping a careful watch over the valuable human lives, equipment and transports intrusted to their care to escort. I have both traveled in and been escorted by American destroyers, and I know their high standard. They are an essential phrt of the fighting strength of the fleet, and, together with the cruisers, they are the watchdogs of the allied trade and the terror of the U-boat. It will convey some Idea of the strain Imposed upon the vessels and their crews when. I tell you that each American destroyer in European waters steams between 4,000 and 5,000 miles a month. For hard work, constant vigilance, and perpetual discomfort this record is hard to beat even in this great war , of universal strain and hardship. > What I have said of the destroyers applies in no less degree to your submarines and your chasers. Their untiring and constant harassing of the enemy has helped to bring the enemy submarine to its present position in which we can confidently say that it is now held, though not yet mastered. I lay great stress on these words. A great renewed effort on Germany’s

TO KEEP FLYERS’ FEET WARM

' That woman is the lesser man, quoting from Tennyson, hardly seems probable in the caseof the allied women of today. In this, a British official photograph, Is seen a Woman engaged in another industry which has been mastered by women. She is wiring the connectors in the soles of electrically heated boots for use of airmen. Not only do they manufacture electrically heated boots, but gloves, headgear, coats and every wearable part of an aviator's' equipment, and all electrically heated so that his limbs may not become numbed by the cold while flying at high altitudes.

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part Is Impending. We know ft and of its extent. We face it with thai knowledge, and with the steadfast courage of our seamen it will be met Praise for Aircraft.

What your ships of all classes are doing on and under the surface your aircraft in no less degree are accomplishing in their own element, and, among all the instruments of war which are combining to make the life of the undersea pirates intolerable, there is nonewhich causes them greater anxiety and discomfiture than the constantly vigilant aircraft. So far I have given a very brief outline of what your various units are en gaged upon, but in order to gauge the fruits of their labors just bear this one fact in mind: During the last three months seven American soldiers and their equipment have arrived in Ed rope every minute of the day and night, and their maintenance on top of that! That is the formidable fact which the enemy has to face, and that is the result of the exercise of sea power by the alliance, to which the American naval forces are so ably contributing. It is a great tribute to American shipbuilding and to your enterprise that you are now able to carry more than half of these troops in your own vessels, built in your own country, and manned by your own men. Thanks to the mercantile marine of the allies, with their skill, unflinching courage and pertinacity which we cannot adequately extol, we have been able to maintain those sea communications without which our man power, our munitions and .our food supplies would have been disintegrated and paraiyzed^ TDFrecord of the seaborne traffic of the alliance is the clearest proof of the value of sea power about which your great naval historian, Rear Admiral Mahan, wrote so emphatically and prophetically, but this result has only been attained by the splendid heroism and endurance of the seafaring men, whether of the fighting forces or of the mercantile marine. To have had the opportunity of visiting your country in the great war is the very greatest honor and pleasure to Vice Admiral Duff and myself, as representing the British board of admiralty, and it is an added pleasure to us tliat we have eomg, at a time when the allied forces are winning all along the line, and when we are reaping the fruits of the sound naval strategy and the overwhelming power of the allied nations. - \ I cannot close this very brief appreciation of the magnificent work whicji is being undertaken by the United States naval forces operating in European waters without expressing on behalf of the board of admiralty and the royal navy our affection, in many cases personal,' and our admiration- for your officers and men who, side by side with us and the other allies. are keeping open the sea communications of the alliance; are Reducing the enemy’s fleets to impotence, and Save driven his commerce from the seas.. > U. S. Navy Plays B.'g Part.

None of the navies do much talking, but among themselves they talk the same language. They share the same dangers, they undertake indiscriminately the same responsibilities, according to the whole power behind the controlling chief of staff in- each country. Since the' beginning of the war the British navy has escorted overseas to and from all theaters of war some 16.000,000 men belonging to the armies of the British empire, and the loss has been one-thousandth part of a man per hundred carried from all causes —marine risks or enemy action —and it is our purpose and our pride to maintain and reduce that percentage In the great flow’ of young manhood across the Atlantic.

I venture the opinion that when the history of this war is written there will be no more glorious page in that history than the one which tells much that today cannot be told of the work done, the dangers faced, and the privations endured by your navy, in common with the navies of your co-bel-ligerents, and there Will he no greater manifestation of the. overwhelming importance of sea power in a fight such as this has been. In that manifestation the great Arscriean navy. —the third largest in the world —has played a honorable, an increasingly important, part, and It has been to myself and Admiral Duff a great honor to confer In person with thj great chiefs of your navy departmeor

FRED TENNEY TALKS OF WORLD SERIES

•routed by Play Made by Hdlocher in Boston Game. Former First Baseman Cannot See Why Runner Doesn't Try. for Second Base When Catcher Tries to Qet Him at First Fred Tenney, greatest of first basemen in his time, cannot see why base runners, when a catcher tries to pinch them off. first with a snap throw, do not immediately light oat for second base, like jCharlie Hollocher of the Cubs did In the second world sejries game in Boston. That contest was the first title game Tenney ever had seen. The play on Hollocher turned the complexion of the tussle and brought from Tenney the Information that there Isn’t a chance in a hundred for a first baseman to get the ball to second In time stop the runner If the runner goes ahead. “Players used to pull that play a lot,” says Tenney. "Why, one of the men who pulled it on me was Jim McGuire, who was able, I guess, to navigate the circuit in some 40 or 50 seconds. I got a perfect throw from the catcher to rtlp Jim off the bag, made a stab for him and hit the dirt, like Mclnnis’ did when he groped around for Hollocher. McGuire was on secmid by the time it dawned on me he wasn’t on first. “It is hard for a first baseman to stop this play, as he has to reverse

Fred Tenney.

himself ’Just as a base runner does who Is set to go one way and then ( has to go the other. It is not only hard, It Is almost Impossible. Strikes me that the players ought oftener to go on instead of back/* Fred is now living In Winthrop, Mass. He Is a grandparent at the age of forty-six. Since managing the ark Internationals in 1916 Tenney hasn’t • had any baseball connection, nor has he desired any. He’s a success in the business Johnny Evers was a flivver in—boots and shoes.

FINK STILL FULL OF FIGHT

Wounded Baseball Writer Has Fingers Enough to Pull a Trigger and Work Typewriter. Harry Pink, the first baseball writer to be wounded in the war, Is In New York, having Just returned from Prance, minus half -of one finger and with three others crushed. The ship on which he was going to Europe was stopped and torpedoed Jby a submarine. The “sub” captain ordered someone who spoke German to come to the “sub,” and Fink was unfortunate enough to be the one. He was compelled to Jump from a boat to the sub, and in Jumping his hand was caught between the two boats and crushed. He tried to talk the German captain out of his submarine, but finally Was ordered back into his boat, and for a long time the craft drifted, with Harry weakening from loss of blood, a tourniquet applied by the Gormans alone preventing him from bleeding to death. Then the boat wdfs picked up by a destroyer and Pink was given proper attention. He returned recently and now is in a naval hospital, but declares he has enough fingers left to hammefc; a typewriter and plenty to fight the Germans.

CUE STARS NOW IN SERVICE

Reiselt and Ellis Preparing to Fip’it for Uncle Sam—Both In South Carolina Camps, Otto Reiselt, young three cushion billiards phenom, who represented Philadelphia in the Interstate league last season, and formerly of Pittsburgh, is now at Camp Greene, South Carolina, undergoing military training for service in Germany, That is he will.be a representative of Uncle Sam on Hun soil. ' Reiselt and Charley Ellis are the first two Interstate league participants to enter the service with the fighters, Ellis at present is stationed at Paris Island, South Carolina.

Meehan Is Willing.

Willie Meehan, who defeated Jack Dempsey at Ran Francisco, is willing to meet Dempsey again in a longer bout, providing he can get permission from the naval station In California.

Umpire Qulgley Coaching

Umpire Ernest C. Quigley of the Nn« tional league, will coach St. Loot, university football squad.

FRENCHMEN THRING TO SEE AMERICAN SCRAPPERS IN SPECIAL TOURNAMENTS

BOXING BEHIND THE FIRING LINE IN FRANCE.

• * Special boxing tournaments among the American soldiers now in France,' many of whom had noted pugilistic records to their credit before Joining the colors, are fully as popular with the French as to the over§eas forces serving under the Stars and Stripes. * * At a-redent series of contests, the principal feature of which was a glove battle between Frankie Burns and Battling Mantell, -every available inch of space was occupied, and many were forced to gather outside to await the returns. Seats were at a premium two weeks before the show.

BEAT HIMSELF OUT OF TITLE

Eddie Roush of Cincinnati Loses Claim to Batting Championship by Making Great Catch. Eddie Roush of Cincinnati, s£ill uncertain of his official batting perage, has Just discovered that he is the only man in baseball history who knocked himself out of ja undisputed claim so the batting championship by making a great catch. Impossible, you say? Not at all. Usually, great catches knock the hostile batsman out of base bits, but Roush knocked himself out of the leading, honors. He made a desperate stumbling catch on a fly in a protested St. Louis game—and the game, in which he had made two hits, was thrown out of the records, entirely because of the doubt whether Roush’s catch constituted a “momentarily held” play, as he had Juggled the ball before he gripped It. Had he muffed it cold, he would have preserved his two hits and the unquestioned leadership of the league.

DOUGHBOYS IN FINE FETTLE

Physical Director Eller Bays Soldiers in France Are In Splendid Shape Physically. John Eller, the champion hurdler, has just returned from France, where he has for seven months been physical director with the Y. M. C. A. Eller -received a leave of absence from the New York police department, and having performed his services in France, is to return to the force immediately. Eller said the doughboys were In splendid shape physically and that a game of handball, followed by a hot and cold bath', was the best cure for shell, shock. The American soldiers sre a "great bunch of bidders, even when wounded,” Eller said.

GAMES AT STAMFORD BRIDGE

Remarkable Picture Shown of Au*. traiian, Lieutenant Pellew, as He Was Making Broad Jump. Here is a truly remarkable picture, taken during the athletic games at Stamford Bridge, England, In which

Lieutenant Pellew of Australia.

the foremost athletes of the allied armies took part Lieut. Cle. Pellew of Australia is the man shown here and he won the broad jump with a sensational leap. The photographer snapped him at the instant he was clear of tho,. gmrmri and flying through space.

FRENCH WILL PLAY BASEBALL

Ministry of War Orders Systematic Instruction in Army—French Instructors Training. Systematic training of men to play baseball will hp organized throughout the French army- by the Young Men’s Christian association, following the formal request of General Cottez of the ministry of war. Eight centers already have been established to train French instructors, and these center* are expected to. furnish enough teachers to cover the entire French army. . Baseball instruction ip the French array has been placed under P. It. Carpenter of Worcester, Mass. The rnles of.the game have been translated and will be distributed among the poilus. “I consider this game constitutes excellent exercise, develops precision and quickness of eye and is an attractive

General Vidal, One of Pupils of Johnny Evers, Throwing the Ball.

pastime,” said General Cottez In his request that the game be adopted. Johnny Evers, the former National league second baseman, recently visited General Vidal’s headquarters at Besanon, where he demonstrated the game to the officers’ school. After nine days of Instruction the young cadets played a five-inning game. “They were particularly impressed with our manner of throwing a baseball, for It is more efficient than the present French method of throwing grenades, which is done straight arm,” said Evers.

“DRIVE” IN BASEBALL LINGO

Bayonet, Camp Paper, Telle Soldiers All About Big Battle—Went in Standing Up. The Bayonet, the pnblication issued by the soldier boys at Camp Lee, takes the following view of the first American drive, describing it entirely in baseball lingo. “The first American drive was like going to first base. Didn’t have to hit the dirt; Just went Into the bag standing up. The delivery waS’fbd fast for the Hons, and there was promiscuous use of the bean ball. Although it was like trying out new pitchers, they shewed promise and are hacked by pny number of veterans to take up the work If any wavering symptoms should show. Only the fop of the batting order was used, and there will be some slugging before the game gets much From the way the batteries are going it looks as if the Hon side wIU be retired on strikes.”

Membership of New York Club.

New York A. 0., which recently celebrated the golden jubileb of Its organization, has a membership of over 6,000. ' ■