Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 230, 8 August 1918 — Page 2

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SOLDIERS KEEN TO PLAY BALL INWAR.GAMPS Former Pall Reporter Describes Athletic Sports of U. S. Fighters. Editor's Note: Hal Podhaski, formerly, of the Palladium staff, now a private at Camp Gordon, has written the following interesting articles on the value of sports In the training camps. BY HAL POD. One of the greatest aids to the morale of the men with the national army, both In America and abroad, Is baseball, according to Lieutenant Colcnel Dilligham. commander of the Fourth Replacement regiment at Camp Gordon. Georgia. In fact, athletics of any clean kind, properly systematized among the soldiers of Uncle Sam, is a great aid to the morale of the camps. Camp Gordon has the baseball "hug" badly, even the officers from the ton down being seriously afflicted with this national disease. Baseball is the one big sport here and at any pane of consequence each competitor appears with a military band and sevleatber lunged rooters, as the case may be. Batta'liona are Rivals. Rivalry is especially heated among the various battalions, and about the only thing lacking seems to be pop bottle" ammunition for the umpire. A lieutenant, captain or sergeant generally umpires the gameB and the private who would cast pop bottles would be In serious trouble indeed. One pleasing feature of the games lies in the fact that there is no wrangling whatever over the umpire's decisions what he says goes. There are about 2,000 men in the tenth battalion, of which I am a member, and I was fortunate enough to make the battalion team at third base. In our team we have a former member of the Chicago White Sox behind the bat. a former Southern League pitcher, an Iowa State League second baseman and an old Federal League player in center field. The rest of the team's personnel Is made up of former college players and semi-pros, while most of the teams here have old leaguers in their lineups who have been caught in the draft. This will give one some idea of the kind of baseball that is plnved at Camp Gordon. We had a game Saturday with the Fifth Battalion, winning by 8 to 1, and only one error was made in the game. This was by the Fifth Battalion shortstop. In the box for the Fifth was a man named Hoffman, formerly of the Paciffb Coast League, and two other former league players were in the llueup. The Camp Gordon team itself is made up entirely of league players who have been caught In the draft. Plenty of Material. There are about 40,000 men In camp here now and, of course, from among so large a number a very excellent n nrtiMftn nr true of all the larger training camps and a review of j the personnel or men playing oaseoaii on tne various camp ii-ams in iue country will show many names familiar to major league fans. In fact, a rational army nine would be able to give an account of themselves against any team selected from the two major lea cues. , Here at Camp Gordon two baseball leagues have been formed and two more are in the process of formation. The two best leagues are the National and American and these are known as the major leagues. The two now being formed will be known as the International and Eastern leagues. Form Leagues. The various regiments three batalltons comprising one regiment make up the malor leagues, each the American and National having fine teams. The various batallions will make up the other leagues and there will be about eight teams In each league. Then each company also has a team an dthe battalion teams are the pick of the best players from the four companies which comprise one batallion. Games are played every day on the various diamonds on the drilling grounds, each league team having three games weekly. One of the principal reasons why the commandment here favors basetall, and ,1 presume the same is true of other camps as well, is the fact that it is vastly beneficial In close lighting with hand grenades. It teaches accuracy, for one thing, .and helps keep the muscles of the arms and body in perfect trim. Enjoy Other Sports. . While baseball is the leading sport here and in most other camps of the country, other sports should not be overlooked, and a few words might also be said of the athletic training all of the men are compelled to take. Almost every day. both morning and afternoon, under the leadership of experienced sergeants or lieutenants acting as athletic instructors the various platoons .of each company go through systematic physical exercises. These exercises are done with the arms, legs, body, and also consist of deep breath ing. They are splendid for keeping all of the men in perfect physical condition, and I firmly believe that a man coming into the army a weakling, will go out of it strong and healthy. Boxing is another sport in which we frequently participate, and we are frequently taken out to see the former professionals perform in the ring. There, are former champions of the various classes acting as instructors here and in other training camps in America and abroad. A compilation of figures relative to the interest shown in baseball at Camp Gordan might prove of interest, and I presume the same average will prevail at other camps as well. During a single month here, according to the camp physical director's figures, 198,500 khaki clad boys witnessed 61,960 of their fellows take part in 7,369 games, bouts, athletic meets, etc., under the Y. M. C. A. auspices. In these figures Camp Gordon ranked second, the war department report e. 1

French Aces Are Given Highest Honor Government Pays Great Heroes of War

Lieutenants Roland G. Garros and Fonck. PARIS, Aug. 8. The French government has bestowed upon Lieutenants Roland Garros and Fonck the premier fliers of their country, the highest tribute the government can pay to its war heroes. This is the Legion of Honor. France calls these men the "aces among aces." Lieutenant Fonck was a friend of Lieutenant Guynemer who was shot down by a German airman last year. Fonck avenged his death a few days later by bringing down a Hun flier. Fonck has shot down fifty-eight German planes. Lieutenant Garros was held prisoner in. Germany for a time but finally

escaped to England and then returned to one ofthe pioneer fliers in France he was again, so great had been the revolution his absence. Garros, before the war,

and from Madrid to Rome. He also made a 533-mile flight across the Mediterranean. Garros has been seen in America, having flown at Belmont park.

Huns Wanted "Rough Stuff" and They're Getting It From U. S. Fighters

(By Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 8 Col. Roosevelt's advice of not to hit soft is hardly needed by the American troops between Soissons and Rheims, says Reuter'8 correspondent on the American front. There has been no soft hitting on the part of the Americans thus far, nor any inclination in that direction. "The Germans asked for a rough war, and by Heaven, we are here to see that they get it" is the remark of one American soldier reported by the correspondent, who says the Germans who fought in the Marne salient doubtlessly realize that fact. If, however," the correspondent continues, "German officers instead ofi telling their men lies about 'American barbarians' would refrain from acts which produce a white heat of American hostility, it would be more to their advantage. The vast bulk of soldiers! are home men. Gentle and kindly things recalling their own homes in the west appeal to them as nothing else does and the awful ruin of the French homes past which they have i been marching mile after mile has! seemed more distressing to many of them than their own losses. "They accept the ruin as inevitable, however, giving the Germans the benHARRY LONG IS IN GAS ATTACK Mr. and Mrs. Frank Long, 218 North Eighteenth street, have received a letter from their son, Private Harry J. Long, stating that he is recovering from a gas attack in a base hospital at Tours, France. He says: "We were gassed on Monday morning, July 16. I was in the trenches at Chateau-Thierry, where the worst fighting was going on. They were sending bombs over so fast that we had to leave' the trenches and go to the woods, about every other shell was a gas shell. We went to the woods at five o'clock in the morning. Two other fellows and myself ran into a dug out. After a while I left the dugout and told the fellows I smelt something like sulphur match es. The first thing I knew they yel led, 'Gas, on with the masks.' "I put on my mask but I began to get dizzy and sick. When I came to I was in a field hospital." The Longs have another son in service. Private Frank M. Long, who is in France with a machine gun com pany. PREBLE COUNTY BOY KILLED IN ACTION Word reached College Corner, Ohio, Wednesday evening that Paul B. Wolfe, of that place, had been killed in action. Wolfe was 19 years old and is the first Preble County boy to be killed in action in France. He enlisted in the regular army on August 31, 1917. A letter received late in July said that he was well, happy and well cared for. Wolfe leaves his parents, four brothers and five sisters. He was the son fit Mr. and Mrs. L. W. "Long. Germany is trying to induce Spain to call a peace conference. Give 'em some more rounds of War Savings Stamps.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1918.

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France. Despite the fact that he Is forced to learn the aerial game over in flying planes and engines during had made flights from Paris to Madrid, efit of the daubt, but when in clearing up these ruins they come upon indisputable evidence of Teutonic savagery it has a very different effect. An American showed me a dol! house which had been stamped flat under a German boot with the dolls laid; around it each with its face ground into the floor by a nailed German heel. "There were much more horrible things in the house things beyond description but the American rightly picked that out as most characteris tic and most dastardly. With a look on his face that would have warned any opponent to keep his distance, the American said: "The next damned German that tries to murder me had better make sure that he makes no mistake about it." ENGLISH SCENES STRANGE TO U. S. FIGHTING MEN English customs seem very- strange to the American soldiers who arrive overseas, says Eugene Gaylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Gaylor, 120 North Eleventh street, in a letter to his parents. Following is part of the letter, dated July 18 Arrived safely at an English port! and am feeling fine. Things are a great aeai auierent in tms country than in dear old U. S. A. All the resi dences are built alike, are low and antiquated in comparison to American homes. Street cars are very peculiar. They come up on the left side of the street when there are two tracks on the same street. They are very much shorter than ours and are double j decked like a cattle or hog car. First class passengers ride below and second class ride above. The decks are painted different colors, which certainly looks odd to me. The streets are very narrow, about like some of the narrowest in Cincinnati, paved with cobble stones. The houses I spoke of have the same number of chimneys, are built of brick, roof of red tile and very low. If you look up a street of these houses ! it looks like a factorv of ereat length rltllt rrt n f 1 H Anrn II- TV.- nt,. ' The only way you know that they are houses is by tne floors and line of chimneys. English girls run the street cars. Some are pretty but I think the U. S. girls will do for me. To hear the expression "thousands of foreign soldiers arrived today", mp"n!;g Americans, sounds so odd as I am not used to being called a forThe. English moneyls easy to count but is peculiar in size and form. The following are some of the pieces we use: English lc, American, 2 cents; 3 pence 6 cents. 6 pence 12 cents. 1 shilling, 24 cents. 1 florence, 48 cents. Half crown, 60 cents. 1 pound, $4.80. I imagine that it is possible we will move soon. In England the sun sets at 9:30 p. m. and there is only about five hours of darkness. On the bakery windows you Bee the sign, "Fresh bread, Not for Sale." Newspapers in this country are about the size of an American Sunday school paper. Small English boys run out to the American boys and shout. "Give me a cent." They want a penny.

WILL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, WRITES RICHMOND SOLDIER

"Have a nice Christmas dinner ready, for ve will be home to enjoy It,"' writes Charles Mulholland, former Richmond boy who enlisted from this city and is now in a base hospital in France. Mulholland has matoy friends in Richmond, as he was well known and a member of the First English Lutheran church. The following Is a recent letter to his mother who is living in Indianapolis: "Just a few lines to let you know that I arrived safe and sound at the Base, as I told you I was going In my last letter. Now mother. I don't want you to be alarmed at my being at a hospital for we have real honest-to-goodness American ladies for nurses. As I told you In my last letter there is nothing seriously wrong with me, and no need whatever for you to be worried about me, for I am on my feet now, and sometime will undergo a minor operation. Instead of worrying, you should feel al lthe better at knowing I am safe. You ought to have the feeling I did when I arrived here and saw a real American woman. I wanted to jump right at her and give her a real good hug. Then my thought was carried back to you and sisters and brothers who are doing so much to help us. It is the real thing like this that wakes some of us up. There Is not an hour that passes that I do not think of you and all the ones back at home. Have nice Christmas dinner ready for we will be home to enjoy It. Charles M. Mulholland. Co. F. 24 Engineers, American Ex. Forces, A. P. O. 713. ARIZONA TOWN TO HONOR MEN IN CAMP A large reception is being planned by the Nogales Chamber of Commerce for the boys of the fighting 35th, who are stationed at Nogales, Arizona, according to a newspaper clipping sent to Mrs. Clyde McDaniel, 2305 North E street by Albert Dadisman, a Richmond boy, and a .member of this company. It will be in the form of a farewell as the boys are scheduled to leave soon for overseas duty. WITH THOSE IN ARMY AND NAVY This column, containing news of Richmond and Wayne county soldiers and sailors, will appear daily In the Palladium. Contributions will be welcomed. Mrs. Mary Beck has received word from her son, Corporal Marshall Jack, ithat he has arrived safely overseas. Jack was formerly a Richmond boy and was employed at the American Seeding Machine company. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stemple, who reside near Richmond have received word from their son, Private H. W. Stemple, that he has arrived safely in France. When the letter was written on July 5, he had not yet gone to the front. John C. Crampton, son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Crampton, Rural Route B, has arrived in France with the 317th Aero Squadron. He enlisted last fall. Corporal John Randall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Randall of South Third street has written his parents that he has arrived In France with the 148th infantry. Mrs. John Tunsford, 16 South Sev enth street has received ..word from her neDhew. Corooral Ross H. Miller. stating that h has arrived safely in France. T. E. Sprouse has received word of the arrival overseas of his son, Leslie Sprouse. Private Don Franklin Sutton, of the radio division, U. S. S. C, who is sta tioned at Ft. Wood, N. Y., came Sun day to spend a few days at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Sutton, in Dublin. Sutton expects to go to France soon. Word has been received by friends ' in this city of the safe arrival of Carl ! Young in France. Edwin D. Wicks, whose home is near Chester, writes from France that he and Harold Skinner also of near Chester are the only ones of their old ! company now together. YIcks said in Ws letter that he was learning more in a week now that he had ever expect ed to learn. Carl Lindstrom, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lindstrom, has received the commission of second lieutenant at Camp Lee, Virginia, where he is in training. Stanley Lindstrom, another son, is in the naval service at Great Lakes I Training station. Both brothers are .7 Jtfg" ,V , successrui acn"ecif niTcfgo tenant Lindstrom Is a graduate of Purdue university, and Stanley completed the course in architecture at the University of Illinois. Corporal William A. Mercurio has returned to his camp at Plattsburg, N. Y., after a few days' visit with relatives and friends in this city. He was called home because of the illness of his mother. Mercurio is stationed at the Post Hospital. BEEDE LEAVES FOR GUILFORD B. Willis Beede, of the Friends Foreign Mission Board, has gone to Guilford, N. C, to attend the yearly meeting and preside over a class. He will go from Guilford to the Wilmington Yearly Meeting. ' . j

Open Training Camp hr Quartermaster Officers WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 To provide officers for the conservation and reclamation division of the quartermaster corps, a special training camp will be established at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla., accord

ing to announcement by the war department Civilians over the draft age will be eligible and 100 candidates will be sent to camp August 15 and 400 on September 1. CANADIAN TO SPEAK AT WASHINGTON Private R. E. Beckwith of the 19th Canadians, known as the Mad Battalion of the Canadian army, will speak at the Washington theatre on Monday and Tuesday evenings, August 12 and 13, on "The War as it Really is." Beckwith has been four times wounded by shrapnel, twice gassed and once wounded by bayonet. He was once captured by the Germans but after many hardships he escaped to his own lines again. He fought in the great battles at Vimy Ridge, at Eloi, at Hill 60 and at Ypres. He was born in New York state but joined the Canadian army shortly after the war broke out. He was in the trenches twenty months. The speaking will be In connection with the regular program at the Washington. FOUNTAIN CITY BOY AT FRENCH SEAPORT The following letter was received by a friend at Fountain City from Harvey Ritchie, former Fountain City boy, who has been in France for several months. The letter in part reads as follows: I am at Bordeaux, a seaport town town in southern France. It is about the third largest town in France. I have been here ever since I came over, excepting a few days as we landed about 200 miles north of here and then came down by rail. We are about 500 miles from the lines, so you can see I am not in any danger, until I move ' up a little bit closer to the front anyway. I am not in the fighting branch, so am very well satisfied here at present, although am willing to go any time they get ready to send me. Have a nice place to live here and plenty to eat, weighed 125 when I came and weigh 147 now, so if I keep on no one will know me when I get back if that time ever comes and I sure am hoping It will before long. Have been driving a car for my officer, but they took the car away yesterday and so it left me without a job, but am going to work In the office four days a week and the other three will work in the sales commissionary a sort of a grocery store where they sell different things to the soldiers. Was at a show last night at the Y. M. C. A., the Bradley Comedy Co., from the states. Have lots of entertainments over here from the states, also have a movie about twice a week. Well, I have about run out of any more news and . I expect you have heard enough for me to stop anyway, so will close for this time, hoping to hear from you again, I remain. AMY HORTON TO ENTERTAIN SOLDIERS Miss Amy Horton, daughter of Mrs. Belle Horton of this city, will leave August 12 for France with the "Over There Theatre League" to entertain SALE OF PAINTINGS by Frank J. Girardin McGuire Bldg. 1024 Main St. Every picture must be sold this week, leaving city. PURE LINSEED OIL $2.02 Per GaL With paint only spot cash No delivery 100 Pure Paint, $2.81 per gal. Old Reliable Paint Co. 10 and 12 So. 7th St

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the American soldiers In France. George M. Cohan is president of the league which was organized last May after E. H. Sothern and WInthrop Ames returned from France. A number of players go over each month. The party with which Miss Horton will go Includes Margaret Mayo, the playwright, Irene Franklin, Elizabeth Brico and WU1 M. Cressy. The party has been divided into five units, each of which In addition to its Individual offerings has prepared a number of short plays. The players will wear the uniform of Y. M. C. A. workers and will play in the huts of the Y. M. C. A. and the K. of C. and the Red Cross hospitals or wherever the soldiers gather. This contingent includes many vaudeville players and concert artists among whom Miss Horton is numbered, being an accomplished musician. Miss Agnes Hoiton, a sister of Miss Amy Horton, who is with the Stuart Walker Players and who created a sensation in "Seventeen" last season, is expected to go over soon.

124TH REGIMENT TO HOLD REUNION HERE SEPT. 18-19 Members of thel24th Indiana Volunter Infantry, wil hold their annual reunion in Richmond, September 18 and 19. The first session wil be held in the G. A. R. hall, and in the evening there wil be a camp fire. There will be a session Thursday morning and at noon there will be a banquet in the hall. ' The members living in Richmond and surrounding towns are: Richmond : Charles Essenmacker, Moris Pitman, John Stevenson, Milton C. Stakebrake, John P. Lancaster, Moses Brown, Daniel Parshall. John H. Ruby, H. Clark, John W. Cox, Robert Fisher, Hugh V. Poyner, B. M. Stine, Jefferson Bush, Olynthus Cox, George Coats, E. P. Fulghum, Elbridge G. Hall, Ed Ashwill and Isaiah P. Watts. Centerville William Mathews, Joseph Endsley and Jacob Tibbetts. Lynn Isaac Clements, James M. Hamilton and Benjamin P. Green. Fountain City James Garrett Union City Albert Harris, George M. Haas, Rufus G. Mote. Eaton, Ohio Ezra C. Tingle. New Paris, Ohio Zeek Newton, Thoma3 S. Samuels, T. L. Porterfield and Alonzo Scott. New Castle Cornelius Richardson and John Q. Roberts.

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