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' ' . - t- < yyitiio iij PJlfTJlY Ir^siiSii I Wins the Prtze._ Corporal V. *' nogaii, ot Company I" M, tu?iu liiliuiu y, luu DoOU ??? > ma' toe uie. UO*L yuoui in Uy i ..Cuiuiiouc.vu ot. poeuy vf?mu?.op?? r; jip!.*. to e?o?y ootuiur ?t OuUip ? MS*.', 'luciB wei? * * euuiwi tmU loUr afo :: byocioi uieuuuii IOI' meni, ui | [w-. auuiuuu 10 uio u?wi cuoicu 01 use : iuose* 'iitoy we.? "Uni (Julry." 0/ ivffv Ax*, out A. v-ooa, mtuery li, ru'at Uir | l > Uuiuy, "'-Co *uun>, oy co?po?M ?io" 1 V wo?.L J. b.out>, Company ,o? *aiy? I v tituui itu-ouiuy; "A imvedUiwn," ny j * j uuii ivaoocii^ Jr?i H-m "iue odyf oil Cauip oivcue," oy oobCyn u*. woo, Cuwyduy .a, osiuwai o. o. iny*nuy. me viiH wiuca n? ? Koiu-iu;ea . 'er-:' tnoa-U, Was OilOltsU Iv. 11. It. ' i\cw>.uiue, puyeiu** Uuector ?C,I. ! J. .' C. A- nut 10-?.' Aj*cOI AXOWCOUiO I S pmpoatid uneju-t to U? WlI '?*.?(- WHO OlAWa ?iitt Oeol CUitOOfl OH j ' national or inuJi'iumouai auojocia. - lue ynza-wummtf poein la: fNow as In u??j maer ages,. Vv na, uie cioitoa ?cuuigc of bate. Once &?<uu a. tyrant luges. Ana nn> crimes wiu not aoate "a.u uemoctacy wiui uiuuaer i.t. \>axes net uiUuiig speiiuouud horde, " [jsT "lin uie uuuuc oe ciuit aauuuec ? ~ By uie UguuiMlg Of her sword. \V In no dream of bloouy glory, ' [ >- . Bid we diaw uie naming made, bur no wnu eauiung auiry. Are our vngm troops arrayed; 'X?ive ua peace:" our near la were cryiSB&.vr. >?k "When we beard another cry, . I."rieeuoaiJ liberty i is dying!" Could ner cuiiuren let ber uie? , Ooiporal tf'. now AN, Company at, * ourtn infantry. - 1 J- G Colu-dnl, yoin JU*1) ANXKY. | The men 01 u company extend tneir hearty uiuJikb to oiees beigeant fiiiar lor tne uumer ne arrangeu lor us on '?V '"J.'Iii?.nK!>giv.ug. we hii enjuyea trie tu?'Keyd aim pies very rnucn, to bay W.?t~j homing of tne other lutings. I our company mechanic, Roy, has built a cage lor our ouicial mascot, 1 Geeko, the squirrel. The cage is outBide of the last squad's teui and the Iitue fellow draws a Dig audience with i - his cutting up. You can bet he will r T never be hungry while he Is In tho first squad. He loves nuts. ; Private Church returned las.t week from one week's stay in the base hos y. pnal. He is feeling fine and healthy v now and is welcomed back to the old - homestead by his many friends. J[. . ;Tbe men in the company are feel; lng gloomy because of the loss of their leader, Captain Fuller. He was a 1 firm friend of all the men and he will kbe 'sadly missed. The men who are 'transferring to the machine gun briP; gade with him are considered lucky [<? By their friends l^ere. Privates Umbenhouser and Gage have been sent to the tronshing school for a two heeks' course In trench digffiSSing. Private Yates has been promoted ~ In Utohon nnlipft V Don't be hard on the fellows, Yates. .'. ' Remember you were a private once. The men of G company wish to thank the Y. M. C. A. men for the supply of writing paper they brought to lis while we were -under quarantine NeWs item?Private Burke admitted if to signal corps. He ought to be good . sending messages over a mountain. |. Mike Rozak, the "Rumbling Ruma| ' nion," continues to "knock them !. dead." Doggone, Mike, thot's pooty good. Private O'Connell will be a big help ' to his- mother when he gets out of the ' kitchen. This lad surely Is a wonder i ; when it comes to peeling "Bpuds." jC!^ Will someone please let us know ; " Where we can hire a Ford to carry bver the boxes that Corporal Logan |fe gets every day? Coming down to i"-' facts, that old girl back in "Old Frls, - co" must work In a grocery store. How P.about it, Logan, old boy? . Sights you seldom see: "Slim" Def. W^-Wlck without a ''plug" in his mouth. ^TSurns-entering the canteen. Murphy jpc' "cajTying the can." Pooley with a igf sad face. Chaplain on the far end of IBS mess uuo. _ NOTES FROM COMPANY B, FIFTYEIGHTH INFANTRY. jtfl If they don't move "The Whip" from ji.- Liberty park Supply Sergeant John . Heenan will never save any money. ; The boys certalhly had plenty of /good eats Thanksgiving, due mostly to the splendid work of Mess Sergeant j>;McIntyre. Sergeants Hess, Hlnton, Smith, Wlllard and Furness have returned to Qie company as privates from Camp JjfS&iton, N. Y. The boys all hope they jijWill soon be promoted again. Sergeant Thompson is having it pretty soft these days as he is taking jfiOMninrii on automatic rifles under a I-French officer and doesn't do duty . With- the company at all.. Corporal Blll'g is real anxious to get ^' "over there" so he can make a raid ' ' on one of those German breweries. ^ Corporal Billig is strictly "up the / pole." Company Thirty-threo Wins, 15 to 6, a Game That Became Harder' Fought as Periods Passed. A brilliant game of football ' was staged at the fair ground Wednesday afternoon between ambulance companies 31 and 28, and the enthusiasm nnd Interest started with the first rush and lasted until tb4 last half minute of play, thirty-three winning 15' to 6. It seemed at first as.if the gotne was within easy grasp of twenty-eight but as the game prooeedcd It became a harder and more even battle. TwAntv-alnrht was in uniform, but It was reported that the team had not previously played together. Thirty-three had no uniforms and had but two days' practice. The first quarter _gave twenty-eight the lead after a long forward pam and a "peppy" end run. The second quarter^resulted in a touchback scoring two points for thirty-three. The beginning of the second half was marked by the change of the pbrsonnel-of the team of thirty-three. Ward took the j>lac^ of G&rlock. I Ward was a few years ago second choice for the all-American team. Wordsworth also known in the minor football circles took the place of Hopwood and the game began in earnest The ball advanced steadily toward thirty-three's-goal line and a forward pass by Nelson to Cheney resulted in a touchdown. The last quarter was closely, contested, so closely that the ball never passed more than 15 yards back of thirty-three's goal. The majority of the plays were Inside of the five yard line and after a marked struggle, Elsenberg carried the ball across for the touch-down. The goal kick was successful In the third quarter Remig took the place of Reeve, Wade of Prout During the Interview with Manager Lawrence of thirty-three, he said "The men played a good, clean. straightforward game. I am proud of them and hope that we may have many games in which our men "handle themselves as they did today." |l. 1. II. TO HOLD HHP CHJMPIGNSHIP5 FOR 1RC0P Great Athletic Organization Planning Elimination Programs. - The officers of the Amateur Athletic Unlbn of the United States are at work on the preliminary plans for a program 01 atnieuc cnampiunamij competitions to be held at each ol the national army camps, national guard mobilisation encampments and the larger training camps of the naval sjrvice, throughout the United States. The final announcement of the plan* under way will be made as soon as Charles A. Dean, president of the A. A. U., announces the appointment ol the new national chantp.onship committee, which will look after this work. The resolution adopted at the recent annual convention of the A. A. U., held at St. Louis calls for the appropriation of $5,000. and such adel uonal amount as the national championship committee may deem necessary for the purpose of encouraging athletic' activities at the various cantonments, and especially In the' giving pf Amateur Athletic union, came championship medals for boxing, wrestling, cross-country, and other athletic activities. These sports are selected merely because they are the ones now in season and it is likelj that as the seasons come in, championships In swimming, handball, tugof-war and outdoor track and field will be conducted. The tentative plans mapped out are to have a series of company, battalion regiment and brigade championships with the final competitions for the camp title being among the wlnnen of the brigade tourneys. , By this plan It is believed that every man wili have an opportunity to engage in a ! tournament. In moxing there will be the usual classes, oaring me ius anc 11, which will probably be eliminated from the program because It Is nol believed there are many men undei 120 men In any of the camps. Th< competitions will be confined to the 126, 136, 146, 168, 176 and unlimited heavyweight classes. It is planned to have a tournament In each company to decide the company champions, who will meet the winners from the other companies in their battalion to decide the battalion champions. The victors in these battalion tournaments will meet to decid< the regiment championship, and th< victor In these bouts will go into tht round for the brigade championships Then will come the tournament between the brigade champions to deIcide the division or camp championrships. The A. A. U. officials believe that there will be little difficulty jin arousing interest among the sol.diers for the company bouts, and they jthink by the time the brigade . and division tournaments are reached enfi miasm will be at few heat Championship bars will" be given to the winners in each of the classes In the company, battalion, regiment and brigade tournaments, and -the vinner of the divisional championship ! neach of the classes will receive the championship medal attached to the raiir bars. ' . Civilian Athletic Aides and the Y. |M. C. A. physical directors now at t.ie camps will be acquainted with, t ie rules .and plans of the events and of the tests. Algiers interested in bible class of "y" 106 Redpath Entertainers at "Home Hour" Attract 1,000 Soldiers From Pleasant Outdoors. Sunday is a busy day with us. The Chaplains occupy the morning hours from 8 Ull 11 o'clock. The afternoon and evening are under the direction of the Y. M. C. A. men. Sunday before last at 2:20 p. m., an open forum bible class was held, the spfeaker being Chaplain Hall, of the 60th regiment. Three hundred, and fifty men were in attendance. The, Chaplain's subject was: "The Value of' the Study of the Bible." The matter i of ofrmlng classes for a more inten-1 a.vp ntiidv of the bible was put up to; thin group which was met with an excellent response. Sixty-two signed, up for membership in The Enlisted 1 Men's Bible and Prayer League. We( are to use the regulation booklet pre-. pared by the International Committee j for this league. A mess hall has been' secured as a meeting place for the. league each Thursday evening. It is. our purpose to continue the Open | Forum Bible Class on Sunday after-1 noons. Last Sunday's subject was: j /."What the Bible May Mean to Enlisted Men." The league met last Tuesiday evening and formed a permanent organization. Chaplain Hall is to be I the permanent teacher. I The afternoon was warm and sunny Sunday before last. Just the kind of day to keep men out of doors, but In spite of that one thousand men were in the building during the Home Hour. Eleven Redpath Chautauqua entertainers put on the program. We are quite certain that not a man was nomesica anting i..ic uv?, .... ? t being occupied with the performance on the stage. We greatly appreciate the co-operation of the Chautauqua folks. Come again. On Tuesday evening Miss Nel Dixon ! of Charlotte, was again enthusiasticalj ly encored when she rendered a solo at our religious service. After the service Miss Dixon led a large group of men in an Informal "sing" around the piano. The Chaplains In this section are ; strong for the "Y" and are co-operating in every way. Now that the campaign for funds is i over and our campaigners are back things are again becoming normal. I The men are Rignlng the War Roll. asking for Testaments, and personal j interviews are frequent. We like our Job! | 4 QUARANTINE TROUBLES ? COMPANY K, FIFTIETH ' Though here a little over a month ' this company has by no means come ! into the light of Camp Greene. But today almost every soldier in camp knows -that, this company exists and ; that it will never be' forgotten on ac ders for .ten days and much to the pleasure of all men In this company ' the quarantine was lifted on Thanks giving day. Hardly had the men finished their > hearty Thanksgiving dinner, when one ' of the men who Is now in the hospital ' was playing football and complained of being nick. His squad leader ad vised him to go to the doctor. He did. I and no one has seen him since, but they all know what is the matter with t him. He was the cause of having this , company quarantined again the same , day-that the quarantine was lifted for i some other reason. As soon as the doci tors saw him they ordered Company i K, fiftieth, lassoed and roped in with I sentries all around to keep anyone i from going into the company or going , out I Such Is just a little Incident which [ helped the men of this company to . enjoy themselves Thanksgiving day. 1 All the men are waiting for thle man's . return so they can be freed once , more. 4 1 *r cnirpiw torrri tnviktrv ' Cook Randall Is froze up with a severe cold he got You've got to hand it to the chef for the big eats he gets. Corporal Blair was the receiver of two large boxes of eats. There was quite a large spread in Blair's tent Monday night. Private Mattasozza is showing up to be some wind-jammer. Matty is right at home on the bugle. Private Gaquin i? thankful to the employes of the Ruddock Shoe company for the big package he received from them. It certainly was some assortment I wonder if First Class Private Eddie McLaughlin has got any clues in r Charlotte yet Wonder if Eddie can't I find a school teache- here? P^'W^!page 3 MEDICOS OF FIFTIETH " TELL OF JOYS AND WORK H First Practice Hike With Full yflB8 Equipment and Drilled Well Until Torrents of Rain Fell. |||| ||| ffl|| A very Interesting game of baseball H III ] was played between the Medics of the Thirty-ninth and the Fiftieth Medics. I | R I The Interesting part was the score, 21 to 20. Surely we would never have U I I ID mentioned this game had not the Fiftieth won it; nothing to be proud of, I am sure. The stars in this game aSScsSS were Corporal Karchner, Privates, h| i?iV| first class Miller, Coughlan, Fife, and S*Sl Privates McDermott, Harper, Sullivan, Ifd^Vlhvu and slim Louisgnitki. In fact the , nf/tlVM whole team sarred in this game. Huff 1 Wr> Truly Private McDermott played a Jm [ \ 11| wonderful game. During the heat of fm I 1 l| 11 excitement this wonderful ball play- IDLA 111 I er drove the ball so far that it took flfTlLlJUl a man with field glasses to see it. U III' VI This drive won the game, sending In S jjU JBII About three weeks ago, a number of it games were played on the field near yJtJBJrSI the infirmary. I should mention that H MP the game played wis football. Com- H MUWfJ upany G was the only company B/mwM who hud iio adversary. Naturally IBrwl |flJR they picked on the corps men. We HlJBJpw picked up a team and with the assist- K^ffTMrn ance of a few of the regimental play- ffmQ ID ers we played aginst G compny. There PJ should be no doubt in the mind of PQ anyone who came out victorious. But pSjl 1 it must be said, that with men on the n RI1kS| team who had never played and men BAlll l[B^g who had had no prctice for a number f of years the team on the whole made ? I a fair showing. Some tried to put the H k blame on uorporai uwin-cpoa-in, , ? for having lost tho game. But the 4-t ft, fTl. corporal had an excuse for not play- 111 I HH Ing as he should. He claimed that ^BTTTB^ he had a man weighing 212 pounds playing against him. And as he weighs only 163 pounds he could not ^ see how he could buck up against a f Y? man so big, veritably a mountain of I I flesh. _ I The members of the detachment / Y have been complaining of the injus- X J A tlce done them when they were in- Sjf oculated. All we can say to them is that the typhoid germ cares not whether they be Medics or not. They get them all the same. So take your u _ shot and suffer with the rest. fflTTC Thanksgiving* day was a dismal one, UT but no one would have believed it had fl W they seen our boys at dinner time. v*Tj Nover was there more Joy displayed WW In camp than on that day. One could D|yBi[J| never believe that a small thing as D dinner could bring forth so much joy BLB as it did in our boys. But it was not JM^SfXk the dinner, but the fact that the otfl- y-jB IB "'* i? "" ? fhnnsrhtfiil enouKh to pro- M H H Ull vide such a dinner for us. At dinner SJ1 H Li everything went smoothly, all enjoy- ^?5=5 ( i ing their meal, when suddenly all BfiMi eyes were turned to Private Downie. 'wJB Jx i There he was eating everything In I M*J/| sight. For the benefit of those who H H Hi have never seen a man eat. truly eat. U IV , let us mention some or the things he 1 ate. Some of the things, we say. " fl^ll ' Nine pieces of pie, six apples, five n Jn/^Q . oranges, one pound of candy, a whole JTU II j cake, a bowl of nuts, a load of grass, *wjj ^ | namely celery, a Jar or Jelly, eight > to JB j Murphys, commonly known as pota'toes, and one plug of tobacco. This pgya I was not all. .All this was on the side. UtjUHh | The main meal was a whole turkey. !a good part of a pig, and some chick' en. Do not think that he was satis'fled. The fact of the matter is that he went for seconds. -Give him credit boys, give him credit for getting away . with it. No, he did not take salts. V How did he do it? ^ ^ "l'ueauuj nna > all of us. With the exception of three men of the detachment, we went on a practice hike, such a one as we had ? never had before. We were equipped completely as we would be on the \ ; battle Held. In front were the olll- \fOKb- " cer on horse back accompanied by VvjWjj the sergeant Behind the olflcers was \ l# A a pack mule, led by our Honorable 1 .* Private John Nlch on one side and u a Private Berkeley on the other. Pri- L fl vate Berkeley seemed to be scored of "i fl nK. the good natured mule, who proba- J li Wj bly had never tried to kick anyone. I Private Nich says that he had never jdjB leading the mule. One would have BJI\ I thought that they were brothers. Behind the mule came the members of f J I . the detachment with full equipment f LT on their backs. Looking at the entire L M company, one would not have known B jH_ which to pity most, the mule or the Kg men. We marched a short distance and halted to pitch our tents. We went hrough the entire drill and for 'a* r^-3 , the first time doing this drill we did I It admirably. But to our ill luck, the lei5*3 I rain began to come down in torrents before we had repacked our eqip- ?SB7YgE2 ment We came bac* tired out But 15*^3 1 with more practice we will be able to do our share in this to overthrow the i German rut of militarism or the so | called "German Kultur." laBstaEa, WANTS HER MUSIC RETURNED. || | ill Some Soldiers Are Forgetful. Jfl | I jl Not long ago some soldier in Camp l | I Greene borrowed "several copies 'of I I II music from a young lady at-the Char- | I nl lotte Y. W. C. A., promising to return I H Hill H it So far he has failed to do so. I jl u|J| H ! If anyone knows where it Is will lUll Kill II they please return It to Miss Grace >. Hawkins, Charlotte Y. W. C. A.
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