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The Omaha Sunday Bee
OMAHJ, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1918.
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NORTHWESTERN
HOLDSNAVY TO
SCORELESS TIE
Great Lakes' Eleven Excels
University, but Misses
Only Two Chances to
Reach Goal.
Japs Play Football
' Great Lakes, 111., Oct. 26. The
" Northwestern university foot ball
team held the Great Lakes Naval
Training station eleven to a score
less tie in a game played on a slip
pery, soggy field at the station to-
day. The contest was witnessed
by thousands of bluejackets.
" Although the ball was deep in
.Northwestern territory during the
" game the Navy had only two
chances to score. "Paddy" Dris
coll, a former star at Northwest-
em. attempted to register two fiell
goals for the bluejackets. He fum-
bled the ball on his first chance in
' the second quaver and Northwest
' em kicked out of danger. Again
In the third period he attempted an
other goal but his shot was low
f-and his bankrolled over the line.
The slippery field ruined all
chances for long runs, the players
losing their footing before being
tacKiea. ine playing of Backman
at tackle and Gleat at halfback was
the feature of the game.
Play in Snowstorm,
St. Paul, Oct. 26. The University
, of Minnesota triumphed over St.
J Thomas college here today, 25 to 7,
"in a foot ball game played in a
j snowstrom and on a muddy field.
The slippery field proved a big
handicap for the heavier St. Thomas
eleven.
Today's game was transferred
' from Minneapolis and it was the
tfrst time in 21 years a Minnesota
eleven had played in St. Paul.
V Camn firan Wino
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Madison, Wis., Oct. 25. Camp
Grant defeated Mhe University of
Wisconsin at football today, 7 to 0.
Mansfield, right end for Camp
'Grant, made the lone touchdown,
when he intercepted a poorly shot
pass and dashed .40 yards without
interference across the line in the
fourth quarter.
Seesaw Ends in Draw.
;? Sedar Rapids, Oct. 26. Coe col
lege and Cornell eleven played a
'seesaw garne, to a scoreless tie here
. today before a crowd limited to S.
" A. T. C. members.
:V v ' Sailors Defeat Students.
It; Urbana, 111., Oct. 26. The auxil
iary naval reserve team from Mu
nicipal Pier, Chicago, defeated the
University of Illinois football team
today, 7 to 0, in a hard-fought game.
The' navy football team scored
shortly after the opening of the sec-
. ond half on a pass from Koester to
Fromke, who ran 20 yards for a
touchdown. Klein kicked goal.
, Although beaten, Illinois fought
hard throughout the game and in
some instances outplayed the sail-
"jrs.
. Boy Who Had Given Up Won
Game in World's Series
J'One hot day in August, 1910, I
strolled out on the government
pier. I had no business out there,
put I thought that the lake breeze
would relieve me from the heat,"
"says Tom Farley of Milwaukee.
"I saw an idle boy holding a fish
ing pole and waiting for a bite. I
had seen him elsewhere and I knew
him wdll.
"As president of a base ball
league in Wisconsin I had often
sn the boy in uniform. He im
pressed me then as a 'future great.'
Although he was only i6 years old
- when 1 first saw him, something
told me that he was a 'comer.'
"I was puzzled at not seeing his
name in the box scores that sum
mer and when I saw him on the
'pier I asked:
"Why are you not playing ball?"
"He looked at me and said: 'I
can't hit; I can't catch a fly ball; I
can't throw straight if I stop &
grounder.'
"A season before that he was
playing shortstop and his work was
marvelous.
. "I said to him: "This may be
only a slump. If you stick to the
game you will get back to form.'
v "To this he replied: 'I have been,
playing such ball that I quit the
club. I don't want to go near the
ball park and 1 am so disgusted
with myself that I don't want to
see another game of ball. That's
why I afn fishing.'
; "Thirty-two thousand people
packed the South ''Side ball park in
October, 1917, to see the first game
of the World's Series between the
Chicago White Sox and the New
ilYork Giants. v
i "When the score stood 1 to 1, a
young man in a White Sox uniform
drove the all over the fence for a
home run. It was a whale of a
wallop and it won the game for the
- White Sox.
"While 32,000 people went wild
! with joy, I murmured to myself,
j ' 'On what a slender thread does
i vdestiny depend?"
.. "The young man who hit the ball
I ' lor a home run and turned 32,000
'fans into a wild and cheering mob
was "Happy" Felsch, center fielder
. of the Chicago White Sox, world's
champions of 1917, and he was the
same idle boy that I talked to out
on the government pier at Mil
waukee in August. 1910."
' Snores Will Be Heard in
. University Grandstand
Chicago, HI., Oct 26. Peaceful
snores insteaa of whining winds
; will vibrate through the huge con
crete grandstands at the University
of Chicago athletic field this fall
and winter. " '
The stands have been taken over
by the "government and converted
into barracks for the student offi
cer in training at the university.
) Temporary stairs were constructed
along the front of the stands to per
mit football fans to gain their seats;
as all entrances from beneath have
beea boarded up.
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South High Team Given
Banquet by W. E. Reed
In Fontenelle Hotel
The South High foot ball team
was given a banquet by Mr. W. E.
Reed Friday evening, October 25,
at the Fontenelle hotel. The ban
quet was promised last year by Mr.
Reed if the South High team would
defeat Central High in foot ball.
Short, but interesting talks about
the past and future games were
given by each of the persons pres
ent. Twenty persons were present
with Mr.' Reed presiding as toast
master. Those who attended are
as follows:
James Etter.
Mr. and Mrs. Pat
ton. Everett Chambers.
Joe Sharnholtz.
Howard Dennis.
James Webber.
Robert McNeil.
Wallace Banner.
Mr. Reed.
Mr. and Mm. Main.
Mathlas Volz. .
Clarence Anderson.
Charles tJvlck.
Arthur Peterson.
Jack Higglns.
Georga Morris.
Fay Card.
Absarokee Gun Club to
Hold Liberty Bond Shoot
The Absarokee Gun Club wilu
hold a $1,000 Liberty Bond shoot
that will be a "shoot for shooters"
orr November 3 and 4, with Saturday
November 2d, as practice day.
Ihe program consists of 100 birds
on practice day, optional sweeps,
and 10 twenty bird events on the
3d and 4th. There will be a $50.00-
Libertv bond as first monev for the
twenty regular events, purse to' be
divided Rose system, 4, 3, 2, 1 for
other qualifying scores. Average
money on the two regular days will
run between $200 and $600, accord
ing to the number of entrants. In,
addition there will be eleven cash
and , merchandise prizes for high
three day and daily averages, low
average and long runs. ,
The Absarokee Gun Club have ad
mittedly the finest shooting grounds
in the West, with nothing but the
sky as a background. Custer Bat
tlefield can plainly be seen from the
shooting grounds.
Nebraska Fullback to
Be Called in Draft Soon
Lincoln, Oct. 26. Ernest Hubka,
fiillharlf nn the I Tnivereirv nfM.
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braska foot ball eleven during the
season ot m and member ot the
squad this fall, probably .soon will
be lost to the Cornhusker team.
Hubka has been claimed by, the
draft and may go into the army
with a November call, as a result of
being placed in Class 1-A by his
local board. '
He was anxious to enlist in the
Students' Army Training corps unit
at the university and hoped to qual
ity for a chance at a commission,
but the rules are such that no man
of military age may be inducted
into the S. A. T. C. if he is listed
as an A-l man in the draft.
Foot Ball Results.
At Annapolis: Navy 47; Newport Train
ing School 7.
At Syracuse: Syracuse 13; Army Trans
port Corps 0.
At Carlisle: Dickinson 27; Harrlsburs;
Academy 0.
At Middletown: Wesley an 5; Amherst 0.
At Boston: Boston College 12; Camp
Devens 0.
At Urbana: Mlnoia 0: Naval Reserve T.
At Dn Moines: Drake University 35;
Des Moines 7.
At Cedar Rapids: Cos College 0; Cor
nell College 0.
At Great Lakes. Ill: Great Lakes 0;
Northwestern 0.
At St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota 25; 8t
Thomas 7. .
At Alliance, O. : Mount Union 19; Case T.
At Oberlln, O. : Western Reserve ; Ober
Uni. '
At Camp Randall, Madison Wis. : Camp
Grant 7; University ot Wisconsin 0.
At New Brunswick. N. J.: Rutgers IS;
Leigh 0.
At Philadelphia: U. 8. Marines. Phila
delphia Navy Yard, 7; University ot Penn
sylvania O.i
At Easton, Pa.: Muhlenberg 7; Lafay
ette t.
At 8warthmore, Pa.; Swarthmore tl;
Crslnus 1.
At Urbana. 111.: lTHnols 0; Naval Re
serve 7.
At New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers 3;
Lehigh .
At Lafayette, Ind. DePauw, I; Camp
Purdue, 7.
At Crawfordavllle. Ind. Wabash Col
lege, 21; Fort Harrison Engineers, 20.
At New York Columbia, 7; Camp Mer-
Htt. a.
Aviator Makes New
Record in Flight to
Statue of Liberty
Belmont Park, N. Y., Oct. 26.
Sergeant Coombs, of Hazelhurst
Field, Long Island, won the airplane
flight to the Statute of Liberty, and
return at the army aviation carnival
here today. Driving a Haviland plane
with Liberty motors, he covered the
36 miles in 15 minutes, 30 seconds,
which is said to establish a nev
record.
Seven machines, all of the De
Haviland type, made the flight and
finished with only 30 seconds time
between the first and last competi
tors. Club Owners Disapprove
Semi-Professional Ball
Chicago, Oct. -26. Several Ameri
can League club owners do not ap
prove of the proposed semi-professional
week-end base ball league
planned for next season, B. B. John
son, president of the league, stated
today. In communicating this to
Johnson, they said they would not
permit the use of their plants for
such an organization.
PARSON WEDGE
FOOLS DOCTORS
VVH0GAVEH1MUP
Given Up by Physicians, He
Stages Comeback; to Fight
for Welterweight Title
of Border.
Many Omaha people will remem
ber Rev. Frederick Wedge, who was
formerly known as Kid Wedge,
welterweight pugilist who quit the
fighting game to enter the ministry.
Wedge appeared here several times
in the past and preached in 'a num
ber of Nebraska churches after he
quit the fight game. An interest
ing story of how he was given up by
the doctors as having tuberculosis
and how he beat the Grim Reaper
by a big margin is told in a letter
written by him from El Paso, Texas,
where he is in an army camp.
Fools Jlje Doctors.
When the war broke out he joined
the colors and was sent to Camp
Grant. While there he was taken
sick and the physicians in the base
hospital diagnosed his case as tuber
culosis of tjie most malignant form,
or what is known as quick con
sumption. Today Wedge is again well and
strong and just to prove that he is
in first class condition he is going
to take on Tommy Murphy, star of
the welterweights at Fort Bliss, in
the near future.
Tells of Comback.
Parson Wedge, in a letter written
to a friend not long ago, tells of
his fight with disease and how he
won in the. following words:
"El Paso, Tex. When I left Camp
Grant 'base hospital in March, the
army physicians gave me trom two
to three months to live, pronounc
ing my case tuberculosis. I didn't
consider this any time to die, in
fact I wouldn't do such a thing when
men are needed to knock out the
kaiser.
"Through a system of physical cul
ture and vitality building exercises I
am now very -much alive. I am to
fight for the welterweight cham
pionship of the border at Fort Bliss
and my opponent' will be Tommy
Murphy.
"W'thin the last two months I
have fought two of the best men in
the border army corps. Conuder
ing the fact that I am 39 years old,
with one cylinder out of order and
booked by competent medical au
thorities for the final count, I think
I have staged a comeback.
"I expect to get back my old job.1
as Doxing instructor at one oi untie
Sam's army camps and eventually
go 'over there' to do my bit.
"If you know of any unfortunate
cuss who thinks the tuberculosis bug
is about to make him take the final
count tell him to cheer up and write
to me and I will gladly tell him
freely how I cured myself in six
months. Yours for a long life,
"PARSON WEDGE."
Working on Railroad.
At the present time Parson Wedge
is breaking out of El Paso on a
freight train. His hours of work
keep him irom taking the usual leg
work each morning, so when the
freight is going up the heavy grades,
he calls for a timekeeper, drops off
the train and runs for half a mile
along the track. He runs a half
and at the call of time, rests for
tnree minutes and then runs another
half.
"Omaha Is Dead," Say
Business Men; Opening
Of Club Offers Hope
CHANGES GOOD
FOR SIOUX CITY
OMAHA GAME
i
Officials Do Not Think That
Quarantine Will Affect the
Game to Be Played
November 2.
"Marley was dead," were the
words with which Dickens prefaced
his great story the "Christmas Car-1 Alter a month of inactivity be
ol," but notwithstanding the ap- cause of the "flu," Central High's
parent contradictions between the grid warriors will again hit the war
opening words and the real theme, path and v ill journey . to Sioux City
Dickens told a wonderful story of after the scalp of the Iowa eleven,
life f locals expect to triumph over
Tf n,VWr, ..r- Om'a. u,c OIUUN ull,t. sce tnc latter are
ha at the present time he would
doubtless say "Omaha is dead, dead
as a door nail" for that is all one
hears on every hand. The mer
chant tries to be optimistic, put on
a smile, but admits that
"business is dead." Go into the
hotel and a sort of melancholy
smile is to be seen hovering about
the face of the manager in a vain
effort to conceal a forlorn hope and
he replies "business is dead."
The real estate man says "busi
ness is dead," and when the doctor
attempts to cheer you up by saying
that business is "just fine" theAin
dertakcr shuts him off with a flat
denial and says business is 'Dead."
Last of all the social world is
wondering what is to be done to re
lieve the monotony of the "quiet
hour." The theatres are all closed,
parties are called off, the Ak-sar-ben
ball was omitted this year and the
common wail is "no where to go.'
But there is one little ray of hope
in the not distant future, the grand
opening of the Athletic clubhand
the ladies carmot be made to believe
but that the ban on all social
ga herings will be lifted by that
time. The work of the mechanics
just about all done and the decora
tors proceeding as rapidly as they
can to get the building in readiness.
It is a little difficult to say just
wheal the decorators will complete
their' work, but it will not be long.
There are still a few membership
to be had, but the supply is limited.
If you want one, get it now.
Drake Wins From Des Moines
In Sea of Mud, 35 to 7 Score
Des Moines, Oct. 26.--Playing in
a sea of mud and a cpld drizzling
rain, Drake university easily
downed the Des Moines college
eleven here today, 35 to 7. The
losers did not make first down once,
their touchdown coming when end
Buchanan intercepted a Drake, for
ward pass and ran 75 yards to the
goal line. Drake was light but fast
and used every variety of play.
Only members of the S. A. T. C.
saw the game.
Chicago Furnishes Season's
'First Foot Ball Fatality
Chicago, Oct. '26. The first foot
ball fatality of the season in Chi
cago was reported today when Wil
liam P. -Ryan, 21 years old, died of
injuries suffered in a game played
October 6.
reported as rather weak.
Afniouph the game is scheduled
for November 2, the date the state
guarantee will expire, local of
ficials are confident that tlyc team
will be .allowed to leave the state
and Sioux- City chiejj are also con
fident that no opposition will be
raised to the contest.
Sioux City has been forced to
cancel part of its schedule because
of the epidemic, Sioux Falls, Oma
ha's next opponent, was on Sioux
City's schedule for yesterday. Mc
Pherson of Sioux City is the only
player of either squad who was on
the sick list.
Won Both Games.
Sioux City has played two games
this season and won them both.
The Lemars eleven was disposed of
with a 14-0 score and the Ha warden,
la., aggregation with a .field goal.
Only two vets tue on the Iowa
lineup, but it is strengthened by
Bert E. Fenega, the new coach, who
has a brilliant athletic record behind
him. He was a stellar member of
the Yankton college team while at
tending that school, and his coach
ing shows 21 victorieis and only two
defeats. Under his leadership the
state normal school at Aberdeen
won the state, championships of
both Dakotas, scoring 190 points
and allowing only 9.
"We are not planning on clean
ing up the world this year. In fact,
we will feel mighty lucky to break
even," stated the Siotrx City mentor
in a letter to The Bee. "We hope
to give Omaha an interesting ses
sion, though."
Spencer, end, and Barnett, center,
are the Sioux City vets. Younger,
Day', Sawyer, Taber and Foster of
last season's second string are now
regulars. The team is the lightest
in years, averaging 145 pounds.
The Purple and White squad dis
continued practice Monday, but will
renew it tomorrow. A week ago
Saturday a good showing was made
against the Creighto squad in a
practice game. Shafer is still both
ered by an injured shoulder, and
Pollard is hampered by a lame leg.
Lyton Avers will fill the hole if
either of these men should be forced
to stay under their blankets Satur
day. ,
Coach Mulligan's faith in Camp
bell, the new quarter, seems to be
justified, as his choice for the pilot
position has been guiding the team
like a veteran. Peters and Konec
ky at ends are gaining perfection
at the passing game and Shafer con
tinues to rip holes in the opposing
line.
Vivid Pen Pictures of Fighting by the
American Boys in Foch's Big Drive
Washington, Oct. 26. To ad
vance seven miles against a hurri
cane of German fire, machine gun
bullets and big shells, is not all
glory and exhilaration even for a
United States marine. This is dis
closed in a series of vivid pen pic
tures of the tremendous fighting in
which these American boys partici
Bated on the Marne salient, written
by Maj. Robert L. Denig og the
marines to his wife in Philadelphia.
Major Denig and his battalion
t4ok part in the great allied counter-attack
on the Marne saliegt, July
18,' that started the Hun brocward
toward Germany and began the dis
integration of the German western
front. In that fight the marines
covered themselves with glory but
at a terrible cost in killed and
wounded. The major's letter af
fords an opportunity tovsee the fight
thtough the eyes of a man who took
part in it.
"To picture a fight," he' writes,
"mix up a lot of hungry, dirty, t'ired
and bloody men with dusv noise
and smoke. Forget the clean
swords, prancing horses and flap
ping flags. At night, a gas-filled
woods, falling trees and bright,
blinding flashes you can't see your
neighbor that is war. In the rear
it is all confusion. The general told
me, "Hurry to such a place, all goes
well, we are advancing!" His staff
miles away, all clean one was
shaving, another eating hot cakes
we had not had a hot bite for two
days. As I reached my jumping
off place wounded men, killed men,
horses blown to bits the contrastl"
Sleep in Pouring Rain.
After describing the beginning of
the advance of the marines to the
fighting line, Major Denig con
tinues: "We were finally, after twelve
hours' ride, dumped in a big field
and after a few hours' rest, started
our marqh. It was hot as hades and
we had had nothing to eat since the
day before. We at last entered a
forest; troops seemed to converge
on it from all points. We marched
some six miles in the forest, a finer
one I have never seen. Deer would
scamper ahead. We could have eaten
one raw. At ten that night, without
food, we lay down in a pouring rain
to sleep. Troops of all kinds passed
us in the night a shadowy stream,
ver 500,000 men. Some French of
ficers told us they had never seen
such concentration since Verdun if
then.
"The next day. the 18th of July,
At Phllaitplnhla TTnlfuf St VT.
tine, tj universitr ot fenwivania, . Jwe marched ahead through a jam of
troops, trucks, .etc., and came at last
to a ration camp where we fell to
and ate our heads off for the first
time in nearly two days. When we
left there, the men had bread stuck
to their bayonet. I lugged a ham.
All were loaded down.
Great Drive Was 6n.
"Here I passed one of Wass'
lieutenants with his hand wounded.
He was pleased as punch and told
us the drive was on, the first we
knew of it. J then passed 'a few
men of Hunt's (Capt. Leroy T.
Hunt, Gilrdy, Cal.) company bring
ing prisoners to the rear. They had
a cojonel and his staff. They were
well dressed, clean and polished, but
mighty glum looking.
We finally stopped at the far
end of the forest near a dressing
station where Holcomb (Lieutenant
Colonel Thomas Holcomb, of Wash
ington) again took command. This
station had been, a big, fine stone
farm house but was now a complete
ruin wounded and dead lay all
about. The lines had gone on ahead.
Had a fine aero battle right over us.
Late in the afternoon we advanced
again. Our route lay over ari open
field covered with dead.
..."We lay, down on a hillside for the
night near some captured German
guns, and until dark I watched the
cavalry some 4,000, come up and
take positions.
"At 3:30 the next morning Sitz
(Captain Walter H. Sitz of Daven
part, la.) woke me up and said we
were to attack. The regiment was
soon undr way .and we picked our
way under cover of a gas infested
valley to a town where we got our
final instructions and left our packs.
I wished Sumner (Allen M. Sumner
of Washington) good luck and
parted.
"We formed up in a sunken road
on two sides of a valley that was
perperdicular to the enemy's front;
Hughes (Lt. CoI.'John A. .Hughes,
of Piiilactelphfa), right, Holcomb
left, Sfbley (Lt. Col. Burton W.
Sibley of Essex Junction, Vt.), sup
port. We now began to get a few
wounded; one nTan with ashen face
came charging to the rear with fchell
shock. He shook all over, foamed
at the mouth, could not speak. I
put him under a tent and he acted
as if he had a fit.
Picture Never to Be Forgotten.
"At 8:30 . we jumped off with a
line of tanks in the lead. ,For two
"kilos" the fow. lines of marines
were as straight as a die. and their
advance over, the open plain irf the
bright sunlight was a picture I
shall never forget. The fire got
h6tter and hotter, men fell, bullets
sung, shells whizzed-banged and
the dust of battle got thick. Over
ton (Lt. John W. Overton of Nash
ville), was hit by a big piece of
shell and fell. I heard he was hit
in the heart, so his death was with
out pain. He was buried that night.
"A man near me was cut in two.
Others when hit would stand, it
seemed, an hour, then fall in a
heap. I yelled to Wilmer (Capt.
Pere Wilmer of Centerville, Md:),
that each gun in the barrage work
ed from right to left, then a rabbit
ran ahead and I watched him won
dering if he would get hit. Good
rabbit it took 'my mind off the
carnage. You think of all kinds of
tilings. f
"About 60 Germans jumped up
out of a trench and tried to sur
render, but their machine guns
opened up, we fired back; they ran
and our left company after them.
That made a gap that had UVbe
filled, so Sibley advance one of his
to do the job. Then a shell hit in
a machine un crew of ours and
cleaned it out completely.
Lieutenant's Trousers Blown Off.1
"At 10:30 we dug in the attack
just died out. I found a hole or old
trench and when I was flat on -my
back I got some protection. Hol
comb was next to me; Wilmer some
way off. We then tried to get re
ports. Two companies we never
could get in touch with. Lloyd
(Major Egbert T. Lloyd of Phila
delphia), came in and reported he
was holding some ' trenches near a
mill with six men. Cate?'Lt. Clif
ton B. Cates o Tiptonville, Tentt.),
with his trousers blown off, said he
had 16 men of various companies.
Another officer on the right report
ed he had and could see some 40
men, all told. That, with the head
quarters, was all we could find out
about the battalion of nearly 800.
Of the 20 company officers who
Went inr three came out, and one,
Cates, was slightly wounded.
"From then on to -about 8 p. m.,
life was a chance and mighty un
comfortable. It was hot as a fur
nace, no water, and they had our
range to a "T." Three men lying
in a shallow trench near me were
blown to bits.
"I went to the left of the line and
found eight wounded men in a shell
hole. We thought they were killed,
but. they were not hit. You could
hear men calling for help in the
wheat fields, Jheir cries would
" ' V-
get weaker and weaker and die out.
The German planes were thick in
the air; they were in groups of from
three to 20. They would look us
over and then we would get a
pounding. One of our planes got
shot down; he fell about 1,000 feet,
like an arrow, and hit in the field
back of us. The tank exploded and
nothing was left.
"We had a. machine gun officer
with us and at 6 a runner came up
and . reported that Sumner was
killed. He commanded the machine
gun company with us. Hughes'
headquarters were all shot up.
Turner (Capt. Arthur II. Turner of
Wilkesbarre, Pa.) lost a leg.
Gathering Up the Wounded.
"Well, we just lay there all
through the hot afternoon. It was
great a shell would land near by
and you would bounce in your hole.
As twilight came, we sent out water
parties for the relief of the wound
ed. Then, we wondered if we would
get relieved. -At 9 o'clock we gdt a
mesge congratulating us, and say
ingthe Algerians would take over
at midnight. We then began to col
lect our wounded. A man who had
been blinded wanted me to hold his
hand. Another, wounded in the
back, wanted his head patted, and
so it went; one man got up on his
hands and knees; I asked him what
he wanted. He said, "look at the
full moon," then fell dead. I had
him buried, and all the rest I could
find. All the time bullets sung and
we prayed that shelling would not
start again while we had our
wounded on top.
"The Algerians came up at mid
night and we pushed out. They
went .over at daybreak and got all
shot up. We made the relief un
der German flares and the light
from a burning town.
"We are now back in a town for
some rest and to lick our wounds
As I rode down the battalion where
once companies 250 strong used to
march, now you see 50 men with a
kid second lieutenant in command;
onecompany commander is not yet
21.
"In the first fight 103 of the men
in the c6mp"any that I brought over
were killed or wounded. The sec
ond fight must have about cleaned
ou-the old crowd.
"We advanced 10 kilometers,
with prisoners and guns, and the
bells rang in New York for the vic
tory, while well-dressed girls and
white-shirted men, no doubt, drank
our health in many a lobster
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JOE STECHER ASPIRES TO
BECOME BOXER.
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JOE STECHEP.
Joe Stecher, the wrestler of "scis
sors hold" ffatfie, who is stationed
at the Great Lakes naval training
station, has designs on the heavy
weight crown held by Jess Willard.
For some time Stecher has been
watching the work of Ritchie Mit
chell, the western lightweight who
is boxing instructor at the naval sta
tion, and he likes Mitchell's style
so much that he wants to take up
the sport. Wrestlers, as a rule,
make pcior boxers. Many fans will
remember the attempt of the late
Frank Gotch to become a champion
boxer. ' Gotch, although of the
ideal build for a fighter was knocked
out in a few rounds of his first and
only fight.
OUTH DAKOTA
A N H GREIOHTON
WILL PLAY N0V.2
Five Veterans on Coyote
Squad Will Make Creigh
ton Hustle to Beat the
Dakota Team.
Vermillion, S. D., Oct. 26. (Spe
cial) The football season at the
University of South Dakota opens
November 2, when the Coyotes play
Crefghton University of Omaha. As
a part of the military schedule by
which members of the Stutfents'
Army Training corps are being
trained for the service, football
games have been played oij, the
Coyote campus since October I,
when the S. A. T. 'C. arrived. The
intercollegiate games scheduled earl
ier in the season were canclled when
the War department ruled that S.
A. T. C. members would not be ex
cused from drill for over-night
athletic trips. The University was
forced to abandon its games with
Notre Dame, Minnesota and other
old-time rivals.
Captain Lee Heck, '20, who is
serving his third year on the varsity,
has five veterans on his team. The
other members of the 1917 squad are
in military service. The five are:
Harold Collins, '21, Ward Ellis, '19,
Edwin Livingston, '20, Carl Hey,
'19, Cyrus Lynch, '21. Fifty men
who signed up for football when
they were inducted have been out
for practice. These men are excused
from special detail duties.
The new coach is John W. Stew
art who has trained championship
teams for Sioux City (Iowa) High
school. He takes the place of
Blaine McKusick, new athletic di
rector at Missouri Military school,
Mexico, Mo. Coach Stewart is a
graduate of Geneva College, and was
on the varsity at the University o.'
Pittsburgh. He attended the train
ing camp at Fort Sheridan, Illinois,
this summer and is directing ath
letics for all the 250 men drilling at
the University. "The fact tha- our
football men are the first to be rec
ommended for officers' training,"
said Coach Stewart, "indicates the
value of the sport but has reduced
football material to the high school
order. Every school in South Da
kota is suffering in the same way."
Will Not Play eNbraska
Northwestern Game Here
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 26. The pro
posed transfer of the Nebraska
Northwestern football game, dated
for November 23, from Lincoln to
Omaha, where it wasoffered to the
Red Cross authorities," provided that
organization would assume the
$4,000 guarantee to Northwestern
and transportation expenses of the
Nebra'sk.a team, has been abandoned
because of the refusal of the Red
Cross to deal with the Northwest
ern management on any financial
basis other than a guarantee of
traveling expenses.
Following this action of the Red
Cross, Prof. R. D. Scott, director of
athletics at Nebraska, wrote the
Northwestern authorities suggest
ing that the $4,000 guarantee for a
game in Lincoln be cut at least in
half. According to Prof. Scott, the
game may be cancelled, if the
Evanston school does not agree to
those terms, as the War department
has now practically taken hold of
the game and has put a ban on ex
pensive trips and big financial re
wards, ,
NAVAL RESERVE
MAY GOME HERE
IN AEROPLANES
Arrangements Under Way to
Bring Chicago Team to
Omaha in Two Caproni
Airplanes.
If the arrangements now tinder
way are completed the Chicago
Naval Reserve football team, which
is scheduled to play the Fort Oma
ha team here on November 2, will
make the trip from the Windy City
in two Caproni airplanes, each of
which will carry 15 passengers.'
There are two of these plane
available in Chicago engaged in
carrying tests, and it is thought that
the trip will furnish valuable exper
ience for the pilots as well as add
ing much interest to the game here.
Officials in charge say the 500-mile
flight can be made in less than 1C
hours.
C. of C. in Charge.
The Chamber of Commerce civil
ian committee, in charge of the
game and of the others in the series,
is composed of E. Buckingham, J.
T. Wachob. Arthur Guiou, Wallace
l.vman. Harvev Milliken. H. A.
Tukey, C. C. George, Joe right,
Jr., J. W. Welch, H. W. Tierpont,
Howard Goukling, C. E. Black,
Dean Smith, Charles L. Sykes, H.
O. Wilhelm, W. B. Cheek, W. A."
Fraser, George Brandeis, L. C.
Nash, Charles Garvey, John W.
Gamble, Wr. A. Roucke, Gould Dietz,
Roy ,T. Byrne and Charles R.
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Fort Omaha Have Five Games.
The Fort Omaha team have a
stiff schedule of five games ahead
of them of which the Naval Reserve
game here on November 2 will be
the first. The other four games
will be with the St. Paul Aviation
Mechanics in St. Paul, November
10; Camp Grant in Omaha, Novem
ber 16; Medical Officers Training
Corps of Fort Riley in Kansas
City, November 23, and Camp
Dodge in Omaha, November 30.
The Fort Omaha boys are plan
ning a big parade and exhibition of
military maneuvers later in the
week, the program of which will be
announced in a day or so. Between
halves of the November 2 game
with Chicago the aviators stationed
here will give exhibition flights over
the ball park, and on Friday of this
week two planes will fly over Oma
ha, and drop advertising matter.
The lineup of the Fort Omaha
team for Saturday's game at Rourke
Park is as follows:
Left end Faulh
Left tackle Froellpb
Left guard Andersnn
Center Doyli
Right guard Phllpott
Rrljfht tackle , Whistler
RlRhtNend Beck
Quarterback Littleton
Left half Andt
Right half ,...Deedi
Fullback King
The subs are Koheler of North
western, an all-western half-back,
and Johnson of Morningside, who
played under Paw Paw.
The Chicago team is an excep
tionally strong one. It defeated
Chicago university two weeks ago,
played Notre Dame Saturday, Octo
ber 19, and Urbana yesterday.
Martin Delaney Has a New
Style of Javelin to Submit
Chicago, Oct. 26. Revision of the
present style of construction of the
standard javelin, used in all champ
ion games, will be proposed at the
annual meeting of the National A.
A. U. at Philadelphia on November
18 by Martin A. Delaney, physical
director of the Chicago Athletic
association, an authority on the sub-
idct- r i ...
The steel nose on the javelin as
now constructed is easily broken,
and Mr. Delaney will submit a
design of his own for adoption. His
plan is to extend the steel covering
a few inches up the pole from the
metal tip. This brace, he believes,
will prevent the loss of many jave
lins, the woota for which is ihore
difficult to obtain as the better grade
of wood is in sharp demand for air
plane building.
"The present javelin is entirely too
frail and too easily broken," Mr.
A-ri-iaiiijr oaiu, kjuiuciiuica as many
as three or four are broken in prac
tice trials. I am convfweed my de
sign will stop this waste."
Brains and Nerve First ,
Requisites for an Officer
Cleveland, Oct. 26. Brains and
nerves are the chief perquisites of
an officer in the American army, ac
cording to William Wambsganss, a
former Cleveland infielder. now at
tending a training camp at Camp
Gordon, Georgia.
"I am glad Uncle Sam grabbed me
when he did," said Wamby, who
came here on a 10-day furlough to
see'hrs new baby daughter. "Train
ing at Camp Gordon for a commis
sion is harder work than playing
base ball, but it' is worth it and I
have been promissd a chance with
a regiment goitir to France soon
if I win my c-irms$ior.
"One of out officers who has been
in France saj that to be a success
ful officer a wan must have 5 per
cent brains and 95 per cent nerve.
I am sure I can qualify as far at
the nerve is concerned."
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American League Umpire
To Work in Shipyards
Chicago, 111., Oct. 26. "Brick"
Owens, the American league um
pire, who is going to work in an
eastern shipyard, advised President
Ban Johnson that he accepted the
position for patriotic reasons and
not for an opportunity to be mixed
up in base ball.
"I am going to work in a ship
yard that hasn't a base ball league,"
Owens wrote. "I am seeking an:
essential occupation and do not
care for any more base ball until the
war is over."
Owens was one f the umpires is -the
world's series. His hom jfcfe
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