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22 GAS ATTACK COLLEGIANS STILL HAVE EDGE ON SOLDIERS. Wofford College scored another baseball victory at the expense of Camp W adsworth last Wednesday w hen they trounced the offi cers of the 51st Pioneers. The score was 8 to 5, For a while the officers, with a 3 run lead, seemed to have things cinched, but seven tallies in the eighth by the student players turned the tide. Schwarz did the twirling for the Pioneers and displayed a gilt edge delivery. Errors behind him spoiled all his work late in the game. W right of Wofford connected safely four times in five trips to the bat. Score by innings: Officers . ............ 1 Off 3 0 0 0 0 1—8 Wofford ..............1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0—5 - Batteries—Schwarz and Cobb; Martin and Rivers. Umpire, DevriL It was visiting day at the hospital. The visitors were mostly old ladies, and one of them stopped at the bed of a Tommy and asked him a question he had been asked a score of times before, thus: “How did you come to be wounded, my brave fellow?” “By a shell, mum,” replied the hero. “Did it explode?” queried the lady. “No,” answered Tommy, rather bored; “it crept up and bit me-!”—-Tit-Bits. CLASSIFIED. (By Norman M. Moss, Co. 115, U. S. M. C., Santo Domingo.) A sentry on post was being questioned by the Officer of the Day. “Do you know your General Orders?” “No sir.” “W hat’s your name, sentry?” “H. B. Haber ling, sir.” “W hat rank?” “Rear rank, sir.” “Captain, the compass needle is most er ratic. We cannot tell w here we are.” “Devil take it! That’s the result of all the crew getting the Iron Cross.”—Passing Show. ' AUTO RACES HERE. We are contemplating having a series of auto races at the S partanburg F air Grounds, during the second or third week of April. Entries are open to soldier and civilian drivers or owners, whose car and driving ex perience can come up to the standard of re quirements. There are to be both professional and amateur races of varied distances for money prizes and trophies. Drop us a card Ye Dare Devils and watch for announcements. Motor cycle racing also. Address all communications to Racing Committee in care of Company D, 2nd Anti- Aircraft M. G. B attalion, Camp Wadsworth, S. C. K. OF C. NEWS WORK OF THE ASSISTANTS ON THE HILL TOP. The No. 2 Hall down on B lackstock Road has been opened and each night it is filled with the men from the Artillery Regiments and the Remount Station down across the Trunk Line. It is probable that Mr. Timo thy Kearney will be the old secretary to take up new quarters and fly from the par ent roof, but his associates are still unde termined. Several new men are on the way and the appointments depend on what Gen eral Secretary Sexton calls a multitude of conflicting circumstances. Another man is coming to take the place of Shriver who has been handling the pub licity work and who will leave for France during this month, who left for overseas April 3. Athletics are waking up as it was hoped they would under the direction of Jimmy Carter. Last week he held a big meeting in the new offices which was attended by the Athletic loving officers of the 27th and Pio neer divisions. Quite a number of plans were suggested and several schemes for awakening inter-organization rivalry were discussed, and it will not he long until there will be real doings in the athletic world at Wadsworth. When the big leagues start we start. But we hope to finish first and begin again on the other side. Come what may the Main Hall is on the way to be the center of Camp Athletic activity and those inter ested in sports of every kind will do well to keep in touch w ith Mr. C arter and the offi cers and men associated with him in foster ing his plans. Private Tom Cody is hard at work on the stage sets on the indoor theater, and even now a very definite idea can be had of the grandeur and splendor that is near at hand. The night that Morey put his show on our foots blazed out in glory for the first time, and when the main and side lights were turned out the gasp of admiration and aston ishment that broke from the audience was soul satisfying in the extreme. work in Paris. They are Miss Rosemary Kernan, of Utica; Miss Elizabeth Cole, of Baltimore, and Miss Tessie Romayne, of Washington. These women have undertaken the task that confronts them in the same spirit as have the men, that they may serve God and country and help in winning the war. Other women are to go abroad from time to time on the same mission and from, now on a continual stream of K. of C. w ork ers of all kinds will be kept moving to France. K.-C. SECRETARIES IN FRANCE. The first contingent of the overseas Sec retaries has arrived in France to take up their work under the direction of Mr. Wal ter N. Kernan of Utica, The party includ ed Joseph F. K ernan of U tica; John C. Daw son, John W. Scully, of South Norwalk, Conn.; Arthur W. Frenier, J. Bennet Nolan, T. J. Me Andrews, of U tica; John T. Sparks, of Dracut, Mass.; and W. W. Oneill. All these men have been in the service of the K. of C. W'ar A ctivities in A m erica for sev eral months, and all are thoroughly trained and ready to establish recreational facilities where ever they may be needed. Included in Mr. Kernan’s force are three women who will devote themselves to office EASTER SUNDAY FIELD MASS. The Rev. William J. Stephenson, now chaplain of the 5th Pioneer Infantry, said the half past ten o’clock m ass at the hall on the new outdoor stage on Easter Sunday. The little white altar had been carried out to the south side of the building and set against the walls. These had been previ ously hung with white bunting and draped with flags, and all around was festooned slender springlike boughs of dogwood gath ered from the woods down along Snake road, and on the hills above the little stream. The flags, the hunting, the white and yel low of the blooms and the fresh young green of the leaves made a wonderful setting for the service, and there under the pines and oaks more than twenty-five hundred soldiers gathered for the Divine Sacrifice. There is no place in camp, perhaps, b etter suited to such a purpose as the wooded slope rising from the Hall to the main road, forming as it does a natural amphitheater and it w as an inspiring and ennobling sight to see the hundreds of khaki clad men kneeling, bare headed under the blue sky. The sermon was preached by Father Stephenson, who took for his text the gospel of the day. OUR OWN GAY WHITE WAY. Private Morey and Jack Tresize with his 53rd Pioneer Orchestra put on another big show at the Knights of Columbus Hall that outclassed all those that have gone before. True it is that Morey’s company was made up of old time favorites hut it is a trite say ing that old friends are best and it surely proves so in these cases. There was Van- sant of the 107th with songs, and stories, Jim and Oakley Morey in a comedy sketch, Rube Layton of the Ambulance Companies, with his droll and laughable stuff, Kennedy of You Know Me, A1 fame and his castanets, Frank Mulhern who sang a number of songs, Chris Dunn who performed on the violin, Martin Joyce also of the 107th Ambulance who told a number of clever stories in a most amusing way and finally Oakley Morey, Jim’s brother, assistant and general Fidus Achates, who sang a song or so to fill out and round out the bill. (Continued on page 23)
