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THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK a n d RIO GRANDE RATTLER CAMP SPORTS EDITED BY R J. ASHLEY WHAT ABOUT CAMP WADS WORTH? For the past m o n th or so, the sporting sheets of the New York dailies have been filled w ith accounts of athletic funds, the purpose of w hich was to supply the physical needs of the men in khaki. W e have read of thousands of dollars contributed, and hundreds of boxes distributed, to fu r th e r ing healthy recreations in northern camps and cantonm ents. How about Camp W a d s w o rth? To date The Evening W orld, through Bob Edgren, its sporting editor, is the only publication w h ich has even m e n tioned the boys here. D u ring th e last few days, H a rvey Cohn, Division Physical D irector, received six teen boxes of athletic m a terial from the Fosdick Commission on T raining Camp Ac tivities. A t the sam e tim e the Y. M. C. A. and the K n ights of Columbus aided as far as they w ere able. But the entire supply is inadequate. Most of the thirty thousand m en here are interested in some sport. Y et there are not enough supplies for one-tenth of th a t num b er. W h ile some of the units have been able to buy w h a t was w anted from their own athletic funds, th e r e are others, especially those recently reorganized, which have a treasury in nam e only. It is to aid these th a t we m a k e our plea. The athletic authorities announce th a t until more supplies are received thousands of men who are anxious to get out and harden up by healthy work, will have to rem a in disappointed. The soldiers them selves w a n t to supply th e ir own needs, but, w ith the average m o n thly pay check sadly reduced after dependency and insurance al lowances are deducted, th e r e is little chance of success. W ill F a ther K n ickerbocker aid his sons who are eight hundred miles away in the m o u n tains of South Carolina? MORAN-FULTON MATCH POSTPONED. The tw enty-round boxing m a tch w hich had been arranged betw een F rank Moran, the fistic instructor of the 27th Division, and Fred Ftilton, one of the m o st prom inent contenders for the heavyw e ight title, has been postponed. O riginally it had been scheduled for January 26th at New Or leans, but it has been put off until W a sh ington’s B irthday at M oran’s request. The big blonde from P ittsburgh, who has already m ade him self popular w ith every soldier in the camp, has found his work as a teacher of Uncle Sam ’s battlers too strenuous to allow sufficient tim e for proper training. Next ‘ month, w ith enlisted in structors selected from his classes for each company here, M oran will have a little m o re tim e at his disposal. T h e n “Good-bye, Mr. Fulton.” CAMP WADSWORTH BASKETBALL TEAM TROUNCES CHARLESTON NAVY YARD. Soldiers Too Fast for Tars and Win 37 to 16. BASEBALL AND VICTORY. PUSH BALL GAINS* IN FAVOR. Push ball, a sport form e rly associated w ith inter-class activities at the larger colleges, has come into its own here. At first it was tried out at some of the Y. M. C. A. units. It was eagerly adopted by the men and the camp athletic authorities are now endeavoring to get m o re of the big spheres to fill the popular demand. The balls used are big pneum atic affairs, eight feet in diam eter. The object of the gam e is to push the ball into the enem ies’ territory. As each side usually num b ers about fifteen men there is no lack of in ter est. Inter-com p any and regim e n tal sched ules in the new activity are now being p re pared. We believe in baseball. I t is a national American game, and we believe in national ism. We believe in everything th a t will keep vital and distinctive the American spirit. We believe in having things of which we can be proud as a people, and we be lieve baseball, the cleanest and finest of pop ular sports, is a game of which we can be proud. I t is one of the things th a t hold Americans together. More than that, we believe in organized baseball, or professional baseball. The in terest in the great league contests keeps alive the interest in the non-professional sport. It also gives us open air we would not get otherwise, and a form of entertain ment that hasn ’t a harm ful thrill in it. B u t we cannot see any logic in the claim for the exemption of professional baseball and just the kind of men the Army can make the best use of at the present. We shall miss them from the teams in whose uni forms they are fam iliar to our sight but we shall not miss them more than we do others who voluntarily, or by conscription, have put on a better and braver uniform than that of the baseball diamond. Commercial baseball will have to find others to fill the places of those upon whom the lot falls. In this it is no worse off than other commercial enterprises. There is no reason why it should be better off. Contracts will have to be adjusted and the strength of selected nines may be affected for good or bad, but victory is more im p o rt ant even than baseball, and for the sake of American victory there are corresponding disarrangem ents in industries more im p o rt ant even than the provision of good sport. —Brooklyn Citizen. The basket-ball team selected from the stars of the 105th and 51st Pioneer Infantry Regim ents had a w alkaw ay in their game a t the C h arleston Navy Yard Gymnasium last Saturday. The quintette of Camp W a d s w o rth basket-ball m a s ters lead from the very start and aided by an im p e n e trable defense, were never in danger. They won 37 to 16. It was the first gam e aw ay from home for the representatives of the 27th Division. M orris, who has been burning up things in the Inter-com p any League, was the star of the evening, caging seven field goals and proving the m a in link in the m achine-like play of the locals. He was aided by the clever guard w o rk of Dooley, who accounted for eleven tallies, and Tom O’Neill, captain of the W a d sw o rth five. A return game will be played at the Spartanburg Y. M. 0. A. a week from to night. The sailors are out for revenge and as they have every facility for proper training at Charleston, it is expected th a t the second contest betw e e n the two team s will be more exciting. Coach O rtner is now booking dates w ith several of the canton m e n ts and camps in the neighboring States, on a home and away arrangem e n t. The line-up: Camp C h a rleston’ W adsw o rth (37) Navy Y ard (16) M orris ............ R. F. ........... K e rn F ritz .............. L. F. ........ Popham Duval ........... .. .......... .. .. C. . K etchum , Johnson O’Neill ............ R. G. ........L u m sden Dooley ............ L. G. .......... Hoey Field G o a ls: M orris, 7; Dooley, 4; Duval, 3; Fritz, 2; O’Neill, 1; Popham , 3; Hoey, 2 ; Kern, 1; and K etchum , 1. Foul G o als: Dooley, 3; K ern, 2. R e feree: Mr. Bosly, Navy Yard Y. M. C. A.. BIG LEAGUE GAME HERE. W a lter E. Hapgood, business m a n a g e r o f the Boston N ationals, who was here recently to perfect arrangem e n ts for a gam e be tw e e n th a t team and the New York A m eri cans, in this city this spring, announced last night th a t the local comm ission on training camp activities had • taken up the proposition, and th a t the game would be played here on Monday, April 8, w hen the two team s are returning from th e ir respec tive training camps fu r ther south.
