Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 1, 1918, Page 3

Atchison Was the Star of the Game—High Scores Rolled ‘in Palace League, ( o _R o e syl The famous Joktnson Girl's ‘bowling five of Willimantic suffered bitter de- feat at the hands of the undefeated Fearless Five of this city at the Aet- na Bowling alleys Thursday evening. FOR EVERYTHING INSURABLE ¢ L. LATHROP & SONS 8 Shetucket Street = Norwich, Conn. Palace ‘League. In the Palace League Team 7 won two games from Team 3, thus tieing up with Team 2 for first place. Dunn took high single with 130 and Leopold re all dolled up as if they took high total with 356. The scores: were goinz te a wedding, but they had Team. No. 3, no heart and - took three straight |Kengan 105 87 81—-278 games from thcir fair opponents. It {Connelly 114 92 . 95— 801 seems as if the most gentlemanly thing | yarrish . 94 118 89— 301 to have dong, would have been to let|1jepoid . 121 119 116— 356 the youns ladies at least won one|Dunn ... 108 94 130— 332 Compa are i i t | Rame. e e e b e I ind ey The young ladies certainly hav: & 542 510 511—1563 safeg ainst fire dis- |star team and deserve a great deal o e b - of credit for their good sportsmanship. Team No. 7. asters. INSURE HERE and youw're|Miss Atchison was the star of the |Woodmansee ... 100 96 99— 295 game, capturing high single and high |Clouthier . 126— 337 total. Miss Atchison should have had |Furns ..... 105— 311" ISMCS_JONES a much better score only in the|Connell ... 119— 334 pinches she gave way to nervousness |Callahan . 93— 299 and lost many spares. For the young men, Beau Brummel, alias Pete McKelvey, was the shining light, taking: high total with 328 and Barry was also in the limelight with his high single of 133. Little Georgie Bolton and Big Mack were out of form, whether it was an attack of bashfulness or not cannot be deter- mined, but they blushed rather often. Capt. Hoyt rolled in good form in the first two istrings but his third looked as if he favored the, fair sex pretty strongly. The scores: 5421576 insurance and Real Estate Agent Richerds’ Building $1 Main 8t LAST YEAR | 250 million dollars worth of property was burned in this country; about 21 million a month, about 700 thousand a day, about 29 thousand an hour. 500 dollars worth is burning while you read this advertisement. MURRAY SIGNED BY BOSTON NATIONAL CLUB He is a Pitcher From Georgetown Uni- versity and Has a Good Record. Boston, Jan. 31—John E. Mutray, gl Everett, pitcher on the Georgetown Iniversity - nine for three years, was signed by the Boston National League 5 - i " club today. Murray has been playing s your property insured? . i (‘m“‘r”'"“"":;" G's";" R e semi-é)rogeqnlonl.l buaha,lét and has a B. P. LEARNED & CO. |aiss Atchison .. 88 103 35— 3o oL Al ey Vicorie 2 IR DeTE 2— ST - Agency Established May, 1846, |}ilss Broderick . 22 78 92— 202 Soutar Enlists in Serdice. Miss Johnson .. 84 Lid 93— 254 Pl;;lawphi:.“ :x"};.l 31—Jock Soutar, —- —- =—= —lworld’s prof on: racquets and ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW 459 433 4441336 |squash racquets champion, yesterday 5 enlisted in the United States field ar- Brown & Perkins, Mimsp-aiav| Foarless. o os s | (e He expecis to be assigned to Ko caians, 208 k uty next week. Over Umufxlm Sh;tnckn! St 105 132 gl_. ‘:gg hfgn:?r came to this ciq}v_]from Enfi- Eatrunce s 'y near Thames | y; 95 93 T— eleven years ago. e won the National Bank. Telephone 38-3 81 105 89— 275 [racquets title from Charles Williems, 99 7 103 80— 282 jof ?mfiw‘schu;)l,sin 1913, a;fl defeat- =— =— -— —=led Joe Banley of Boston in 1916 for the’ BIG GAME IS DISAPPEARING. I 513 622 459—1434 /squash racquets championship. Extermination of Buffalo, Elk and Antelope Has Been Partly Stayed By the Enactment of Protective Laws. Although the wild life of North America ig more abundant than that of the other continents of the northern hemisphere and has only Africa as MARKET WAS BROAD world rival, yet our present-day rich- 1::‘:_;3 1'?:‘, Securities ness in this A;:]lpecl is ‘geflded]y poog LB T compared wi t undance an . . n 100 Erie 2d et mammalian ifa that roam. |Inauiry for Rails Overshadowed Al e % e 100 Fisher Body pr 600 Gastoin Wms. 200 Gen Chemical 21700 Gen Electric 1000 Gen Elec ris 16500 Gen Mot Corp ed our plains before the advent of the Other Features. white man, while the vast number of species which disappeared even Sefore the Indians came to inhabit the land is even more astonieting. New York, Jan. 31.—Well defined |causes contributed to the unusual ac- s ty, breadth and strengti O}E‘ tgdny's Lt in a!Stock market, chief among which was c.z“;fin?;u‘:: z.cl-:h:roflu::‘jonfit Geo- [the stirring message of President Wil- graphic Society by E. W. Neison, chief !80n to the western farmers confer- tates Biological ience, S NS Whith ae e m,,l,::,:‘ Other patent devélopments included Greene 400 Guif S Steel i 3 the cumulative signs of serious dis-| - g Gt B Jted B orid e merican wiid 1¥ 12t tursances. within -the Central Empires| 1o sl & 5o i & i .:and an advance in inter-mountain| 506 Hiinois Central : |freight rates, cowpled with the report- e “The original buffalo herds have;d decision of ihe semate's railroad | 1001t 4 y }committee to recommerd restoration iof .the railroads to shareholders a year iafter the war. Stocks were strong at the opening, but the market did not get into its stride until midday, when the inquiry for rails overshadowed all other fea- {tures. Industrials next came forward, {Uniteq States Steel leading with al- ed equipments, including the favor- been estimated to have contained from 30,000,000 to 66,000,040 sznimals (the latier figure is 6,0009%0 greater; than the total number of cattie in the! United States, according to the cen-| sus of 1%1), and in 1¥:@ it was estis | mated that about 5,550,000 still sur- vived—exceeding by 1,406,000 the num- h:r'ot mules in the United Siates ine. 1200 Interboro_Con 2400 Interm Con p .. 700 Int Bar of N J 600 Int Mar Corp 6800 Int. Mcr Mar 32400 Int M Mar pr 4300 Tnt Paper 3800 Tt Nivekel 200 Jowel Tea pr 300 Kan, City So 200 Kelly S Tire 4700 Kennecott .. i ite war issues. 100 Kross Co AT s eaen oW NYINg were! Prices were at hizhest levels in the| 'lplack Swl Boras of the West betors ther Seene ifevarishly active final hour, operations| 100 Lee b Tirc ; i ‘somsational ad-| 100 Loose Wiles . being _enlivencd by “sonsational ad-| 100 Lo - 3 A ... . Yances in several high priced special- led Mo T Cmorgs Divy Crlonen wwlied: |ties, netably General Motors. which| leo iapt oot train that was stooped for thres hours | FeCOrded an exirame gain of 15 points |. 1500 Muxwen M co 15388 & hard of brial ee BOUTS ¢ 139 1-2, General Blectric. which | 70 Maxwell M 1 pr A a0 pasa. Ve SUD-lrose 9 3-8 points to 140 and Texac| 50 Mawwell ¥ 2 pr posed ther would suon pass by, but o 17900 Mex Petrol they kept on coming. On a number of Company at a gross advance .of 5 1-2| 1900 Miami - Copper occanions in earlier Gays the Doints. 5600 Midrale Steel i engineers | ” initeq States Steel was confidently | 2003 & st % thought that they could run through the herds and that, seeing the loco- motive, the buffalo would stop to turn aside, but after a few locomotives had been ditched by the animals the en- absorbed in single lots of 1,000 to 4,- 000 shares, closing at 97 8, the slightest fraction under its best and a net gain of 4 5-8. Pacifics, coalers and minor western and southwestern issues featured the rails at gross gains of 2 to 5 points. ‘Sales aggresated 965,000 shares. Bonds were active but irregular. i ternationals perceptib Mo, 700 Mo Pac pr Acme . it Biscuit 700-Nat Cond & C 2300 1300 100 1200 1700 ‘Astonishing as was the number of buffalo which roamed the plains of old, even more numerous wers the ante- lope, though thte latter did not attract as much attention as the larger mam- mals. Besides these, the chroniclers of the colonial days give many inter- esting accounts of the incredible num-. ber of other wild animals, including bears, wapiti, white-tailed deer and turkeys, on which the wolves made flerce war. One writer narrates that during the winter of 1670-71 fully 2,400 100 North Amer mum_at 97.20, likewise the second s Sl ) at 9576, both rallying substantially later. The first 4's sold between 96.60 and 96.50. Total bond sales, par value, amounted ‘to $6,375,000. Old United States issues were 1-3 to 3-4 per cent. higher on call. i3 g moose were snared on the Great Man- . Plerce itoulin Island, at the head of Lake| St 1% Pl Ar e Hauron. m! m I 3700 Pitts Coal “The wealth of animal life a - 0 Fite & Wy o by our forbears was one of the srea| L AT 300 Prem St o natural resources of the new world. . Although freely drawn upon from the | 139 Alls o first, the stock was but little depleted | 1200 Am t’a‘% up to within a century. During the| 6820 Am 5860 last 100 years, however, the rapidly| 290 Am . increasing occupation of the continent m fl o~ o and other causes, together with a 200 Am Cot. ?.‘53 &teadier increasing commercial de-| 4Am m 100 mand for animal products, have had| % Am H o an appalling effect. The buffalo, elk | ug A" 1% oo :nd l.melo'pe :;e reduced to a pitiful| 3500 Am o raction of i 200 Am - X eir former countless .a Am “Practically all other far m ) Nas y & M?lt?x “m : Malt pr 16200 Studebaker termination has been partly stayed| 2100 Am Steel Fory only by the recent enforcement of pro- | ‘79 A% SUEF tective laws. 1100 Am Sumstra 200 Am Tol & Te HORSE SENSE. 100 Am Tobece — BELE The horse breeder is in with its fu-| 90 Am W tarity again. Dntries close Aprl 1. | 2% 4n =-: N 100 mited Drug Sore i % > 1 3 A new driving club has been formed | 3000 Arminc® e 1 m“““" st Fitchburg and expects, to start win- | - s o s e B e ter matinees soon. oAt Bim & 2" 0% & RE R : Tine 200 U, 5. b % Harry Brusie has bought a half t- | T B Lomo S e & i lnug in the trotting mare, Alberta,| 500 Bamett Co. L e % 5 2.1471-4, by Directum Kelly, 2.08 1-4. 500 Barett Co. 500 Cish” Comver - . 300 Beth Stool S0 Tiah Serorp Grand Circuit stewards are to meet | “Tay fi-i";‘, s AL in New York the last week of Feb-| 1t Brookiyn & T ruary to decide on' the uniform three-| . ik, Ca, beat every-heat-a-race plan. ,m'm""“, Butte & 400 Cal Pack 400 Cal Bowling- THE AETNA- Billiards | o & 7°ALLEYS Phone Conn. 6 TABLES| 1% ont Majestic Building, Shetucket St | 12009 Cemt Norwich, Conn. e Bowl and play Billiards for -exercise 200 Chic and recreation - MONEY. 20 G Nsw Korfih‘ m]m ?&—&nl»mem . { steady; high 4: low -4; ruling rate hdles’ ‘Vho Wish ::g B1 3 3-4: closing bid § 3-4; offered at 4; 2400 Ghirg last loan 4, 3 a Toilet Cream| #&5.3% S e S o' o o e, TSl cenoy et that will keep their complexion in al- | 100 Smout Tab e . 23:"‘:; ycm 3 most perfect condition are invited to| 1t mi cun M e et try the kind we are offering today | 'tos e meaTor Spot quiet: middling uplands 3185, which contains enough peroxide in it 109 Grocible Steel AIN . MARKET. to make it the Ideal Cream. 00.Cutba A Sugar CORN— Tigs low. ~ Closs. 1000 Cuba Cane Suger ; 12 1% 1% ) 1100 Del & Hudson 15% 1 125% Dunn’s Pharmacy | ' 5.5 ' 120 Do & o & v i e ome o B¢ RY .. 0 MAIN STREET X% Dome Mines May sE SN i mn 3% | ers. MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS MAY HINDER TRAINING TRIPS — Ball Players Are Instructed To Do Light Gym Work in Case Trips Are Omiitted. 2 i Word is being passed to ball’play- ers to do light gymnasium work in case spring training trips are aban- doned this year. The south is expect: ing a late spring. Bad southern weath- er is. worse for a ball club than not going south at all. Unfavorable railroad -~ conditions, too, may force the big league clubs to abandon their spring training . trips. The warning w9 the players to get into physical condition at home is the firsi one ever sounded. & ‘Baseball men have received private advices that by the middle of March when the players are planning to go south, the movement of troops and supplies will be so great the regular passenger traffic will be in much ‘Wworse shape. than it is now. ‘Ball players as a rule take it easy during the winter months and when they report at the spring training camps the trainer has to spend much of his time in working off all the ex- cess poundage which has been ‘ac- cumulated during the winter. ‘While many ball players take ex- ercise during the winter by playing basketball, this practice has been frowned upon by the managers be- cause of the . risk of injury. What the manager suggests now is 'handball, daily jaunts over the roads, dumbbell and Indian club exercises and general gymnasium work wherever it is pos- sible. Many ball ‘players spend most of their off time. hunting and they are usually in good shape when spring -comes around. It is the players who spend the winter months in the city that the managers are | advising to start training as soon as possible. The southern states have never known such cold weather as they have had during the last few weeks and there is no more indication of a letup than there is here in the north. In every part of the south where basehall clubs have training camps the weather this winter has already approached the zero mark. Few clubs cover their expenses on the spring training trips. Of late years it has been necessary to arrange barn- storming trips of exhibition games be- tween clubs of the two leagues to furnish an attraction in a southern city. Many club cwners would wel- come a chance to save the early training expense during the war at least. {WEEGHMAN HAS OTHER BIG DEALS IN VIEW i Is Opinion of Friends Who Think He May Be in St Louis. " President Weeghman of the Cubs 5 |may be in St. Louis, although the re- port is that he has gone to Omaha, Neb., to talk to Grover Alexander about the bonus money he demands, and also to ascertain what the chances ‘|are of his being taken in the draft % |this year. He may have gone there, but friends have their doubts . They say he is planning another trade coup. For the last three weeks the Cubs have been quiet , unusually 50, about getting new players. Presi- dent Weeghman and his secretary, Walter Craighead, have been busy. The Hornsby deal was allowed to drop out of sight after Branch Rickey was supposed to have turned down Weegh- man’s offer, but an opening still re- mained, and it' would not be at all surprising if the Cub executive was found in St. Louis. If Weeghman desired to learn about Alexander’'s status in the draft and how he felt about the bonus.due him, it is believed he would have had the pitcher come to Chicago instead of leaving his business in Chicago to go west. ey e e TRAPSHOOTING NOW IS A The Success of the Pinehurst Tourna- «ment Has Been the Means of Get- ting Other Resorts to Take Up the Sport. BY PETER P. CARNEY Editor National Sports Syndicate How to keep each day alive with some item of interest, recreation or sport is a question of the greatest concern at all resorts and resting | places. No time or effort has been spared in making preparations, for golf, yachting and sightseeing, and now at- tention is directed toward establish- ing other forms of recreation on a permanent basis. There is no beiter index to the ever-increasing popularity and im- portance of trapshcoting as a resort pastime of national interest than is shown by the growth of the Midwin- ter Handicap, held at Pinehurst (N. C.) each January. Fleven years ago, when C. W. Bill- 4 1ings took the first trophy from under the guns of George C. McCarty and George L. Lyon, the Pinehurst Gun Club was a diminutive organization with a little shanty for a club house. This was considered ample for a1l possible needs, even though it provid- ed for the wants of but thirty shoot- One string of traps was all any- one supposed wowld ever be required. Time Has Told the Story. A small corner subjacent to the sta- tion and farm no longer holds this leading sport of the famous resort. | The game has graduated from the in- fant class and taken its place in the schedule of events in the same class with the enormous golfing activity. and the jockey club. The shooting club has become an institution, with acres of ground for parking epace; roadways; arena; in- structors in shotgun, rifie and pistol shooting and a house built to acom- % | modate not thirty but 200 shooters. The club house is a picturesque rus- tic cabin 110 feet long and 45 feet wide, built of native logs, with three great fireplaces, gun and lounging rooms, lavatories and office. A most important innovatiog is quarters for ladies. An éntire wing is devoted exclusively to Annie Oakley’s rupils, and to the increasing numbers of women entering the ‘annual hoots or parti . shoof or th oceasionally in e sport. The club house is furnished with all the luxury of other clubs—easy chairs, divans, rugs and curtains—and decor- ated with the records of past shoots, and with photographs of the famous shots of America who have had their turns at the Pinehurst traps. Five Traps in Use. The ont set of traps has given place to five. And even this number is like- 1y to be found inadequate before many years are past. Last yvear 176 of the leading guns in 'America toed the mark at the firing .line. With club and grounds all finished, and the Sport now come into its own, there is no telling how many will be there shooting in the tournaments in the years to come. - S He The Pinehurst shoot is the o;pen- PCPULAR SPORT AT RESORTS VR !ing out into No Man's Land. the |3y ARTHUR GUY EMPEY @® AN AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO SERVED AS A MACHINE What Has Gone Before: The author, an American boy who ‘won his title of “Sergeant” in atotal of 13 years in United States military service aroused to action by the sink- ing of the Lusitania, went to England Cofiyrisht by ARTHUR GUY EMPLY try and he confided to me that since being “crucified” he had never failed te pass the word down the trench when 'so ordered. In view of the of- fense, the above punishment was very light in that failing to pass the word and enlisted in the - British army,|dOWn a trench may mean the loss of finally arriving “somewhere - in|many lives, and the spoiling of some France.” He has his first experience under gun-fire from the Germans and finally takes his place in a front-line trench. Occasionally a bullet” would parapet. At each crack I would d and shield my face with my arm. .0 of the older men noticed this action of’ mine and whispered: “Don’t duck at the crack of a bul- the danger has passed— the one that wings that if you are going to get it, you'll get it, so! let, Yank; you never you. hear Always remember never worry.” This made a great impression on me at the time, and from then on, adopted his motto. “If you're going to get it, you'll get it.” After an hour's hard work, all my! nervousness feft me and I was laugh- | ing and joking with the rest. At 1 o’clock dinner came up in the| form of a dixie of hot stew. I looked for my canteen. ' It had fal- len off the fire step, and was half bur- ied in the mud. The man on.my left corporal, to put my share in his mess tin. Then he whis- “Always take care of noticed 'this, and told the dishing out the rations, pered to me, your mess tin, mate.” I had learned another maxim of the trenches. That stew tasted hungry as a bear. or another heiping, the men had fine. ‘We had ‘“seconds,” “gone west,” mortar, crack overhead, and a machine gun would kick up the mud on the bashed-in I was ' as hecause three of killed by the explosion of the German trench ! and we ate their share but important 'entefprise in No Man's Land. VL “Back of ‘the Line.” lasted 4 days. and then we were re- lieved by the — brigade. Going down the communication trench we were in'a_merry mood. al- ‘though we" were cold and wet, and évery “bone in our bodies ached. It makes a lot of difference whether you are “going in” or “going out.” At the end of the communication trench, limbers were awaiting on the road for us. I thought we were going to ride back to rest billets, but soon found out that the only time an in- fantry man rides is when he is wound- ed and is bound for the bhase or Blighty. These limbers carried our reserve ammunition and rations. Our march . fo rest billets was thoroughly enjoved by me. It seemed as if 1 were on furlough. and was lea\\"\ng behind everything that was disagreeable and horrible. Every recruit feels this after being relieved from the trenches. ‘We marched eight kilos and then t halted in front’of a I'rench estaminet. The captain gave the order to turn out on each side of the road and wait his return. Pretty soon he came back and told B Company to oceupy billets 117, 118 and 119. Billet 117 w and old stable which had previously heen. occupied by cows. - About four feet in front of the entrance was a hugé manure pile, and the odor from it' was anything but pleasant. Using my flashlight'1 stumbied through the door. Just before,entering 1 observed L still T was hungry. so I filled in with{a white sign reading: “Sitting 30, bully beef and * biscuits. Then 1[lying 20, ‘but, at the time, its sig- drained my water bottle. -Later on|nificance did not strike me. I learned another maxim’ of the front line—"Go sparingly with vour water.” The bully beef made me thirsty, and by tea time I was dying for a drink! but my pride would not allow me to ask my mates for water. I was fas learning the ethics of the trenches. That night I was put on guard with ‘We stood on the fire an older man. step with our heads aver the top, peer nervous work for me, but the othei fellow seemed to take is as part o the night’s routine. Then something shot past my face. My heart stopped beating, and I duck- A soft ed my head below the parapet. chuckle from my mate brought me t my senses and I feebly asked, “For God’s sake, what was that?” He answered; “Only a rat taking a| promenade along the sand-bags.” felt very sheepish. About in the next traverse would fire a sta shell from his flare pistol. The “plop would give me a start of fright. never got used to this noise during} my service in the trenches. the star shell, and then' stare into N Mans’ Land waiting for it to burst. In its lurid light the barbed wire and | to stakes would be silhoutted against its | light like a latticed window. darkness. . Once, out in' front of our. wire, heard a noise and saw dark forms moving. my mate grasped my arm. and whis pered, “Don’t fire.” a low voice. The reply came back in stantly from the dark forms: “Shut your blinkin’ mouth. yo bloomin’- idiot; do you want us t click it from the Boches?” Later we learned that the out in front” had been given to th sentry on our right, but he had failed to pass it down the trench. An offices had overheard our challenge and th reply, and immediately put the offend: ing sentry under arrest. This consists of being spread-eagled on the wheel of a limber two hours day for 21 days, regardless of the weather. During this period your ra. tions consist of bully beef, biscuits and water. 7S A few months later I met this sen Tt was| ery 20 minutes the sentry ! He challenged in word, “No challenging or firing, wiring party The sentry clicked 21 days on the wheel, that is, { what it mednt. He nonchalantly an- swered: it take. notice, or 20 stretcher cases.” It was not long after was one of the “20 lying." "i I soon hit the hay f i failed to disturb me. of our stction 0 hand. 1 helped him make the fire, r ,,)section and told . the corporal in. contempt, and then “Breakfast up, come and get shouted, h7 { 0| “Breakfast was served.” answer this call. ned up with their canteens and Then | dished out the tea. Bach Tommy car- | Tied in his hand a thick slice of bread had’ been issued with the ra- Then I had the My rifle was lying across!pleasure of seeing them dig into the the sandbdgged parapet. I reached for | hacon . with their dirty fingers. The it. and was taking aim to fire, when I i which i tions the night hefore. late omes received very small slices. - | mediately disappeared into the billet. Pretty soon about fifteen of u o slices . they dipped into the fire. The last man invariably e |out. 1 was the last man. T e he received 21 days’ field punishment | who was unshaven or had mud on his INo. 1, or “crucifixion” as Tommy |uniform. Cleaniiness is next to God- | terms it liness in the British army, and Old a e quainted with St. Pster. formation, which lasted until noon Our tour in the front-line trench | morning I asked the sergeant-major | “That's some of the work of the R. A.'M. C. (Royal Army Medical Corps). {It simply means that in case of an| attack, this billet will accommodate 50 wounded who are able to sit up and this that I and was fast ! asleep, even my friends the ‘‘cooties” The next morning at about 6 o'clock 1 was awakened by the lance-corporal informing me that 1 had_been detailed as mess orderly, and | to report to the cook to give him aj carry water from an old well. and fry the bacon. " Lids of dixies are used {to cook the bacon in. After breakfast was' cooked, I carried a_dixie of hot tea and the lid full of bacon to our that | breakfast was ready. He looked at me; I ). |'immedfately of wise to the trench par- 1 would watch the arc described by |lance, and never again informed that It didn't take long for the Tommies | Half dressed, they allowance was one slice per man. The As each Tommy got his share, he im- them made a rush to the cookhouse, each carrying a huge slice of bread. These ‘bacon grease which was stewing over the lost After breakfast. our section carried their equipment into a field adjoining the billet and got busy removing the «trench mud therefrom, bicause at $.45 a. m. they had to fall in for inspection and parade.and woe betide the man | Pepper must havt been personally ac- Our drill consisted of close order Durin this time we had two ten-min- ute breaks for rest, and no 'sooner the word, “Fall out for ten minutts,” was given, than each Tommy got out a fag and lighted it. Fags are issued every Sunday morning, and you generally get be- tween twenty und forty. The brand generally used is the “Woodbine.” Sometimes we are lucky and get “Goldflakes” “Piayers” or “Red Hus- sars.” Occasionally an issue of “Life Rays” comes along. Then the older Tommies immediately get busy on' the recruits, and trade these for Wood- bines or Goldflakes. A recruit only has to be stuck once in this manner, and- then he ceases to be a recruit. There is a reason. Tommy is a great cigarette smoker. He smokes under all conditions except when unconscious or when he is reconmnoitring in No Man’s Land at night. Then, for obvi- ous reasons, he does not care to have a lighted cigareétte in his mouth. S -bearers carry fags for wounded Tommies. When a stretcher- bearer afrives alongside of a Tommy who has been hit, the following con- versation -usually takes place: Stretcher-bearer — “Want a fag? ‘Where are you hit?” Tommy looks jup and answers, “Yes. In the leg.” After dismissal from parade, we re- turped to our billets, and I had te get busy immediately with the dinner issue. Dinner conmsisted of stew made { from fresh beef. a couple of spuds, bully beef, Maconchie rations and water—plenty of water. There is great competition among the men to spear Iwith their forks the two lonely pota- | er dinner 1 tried to wash out the je with cold water and a rag, and learned another maxim of the trenches —"It can’t be dome.” I slyly watched one of the older men from another | section. and was horrified to see him { throw into his dixie four or five double { handfuls of mud. Then he poured in | some water, and his hanas scoured the dixie inside and out. I | thought he was taking an awful risk. | Supposing the gook should have seen jhim! After half an hour of umsuc- cessful efforts, I returned my dixie to the cook shack, being careful to put on the cover, and returned 'to the billet. Pretty soon the: cook poked his head in the door and shouted: “Hey, Yank, come out here and clean your dixie!” I protested that I had wasted a half-hour on it already, and had used up my only remaining shirt |in the attempt. With a look of disdain he exclaimed: “Blow me, your shirt! Why in 'ell didn’t you use mud?” ‘Without a word in reply I got busy with the mud, and soon my dixie was right and shining. Most of the afterncon was spent by tht men writing letters home. 1 used my spare time to chop wood for the cook, and go with the quartermaster to draw coal. 1 got back just in time »|to issue our third meal, which con- sisted of hot tea. I rinsed out my dixie and returned it to the cook- house, and went back to the bilitt with an exhiliarated feeling that my day’s labor was done. I had fallen asleep on the straw when once again the cook appeared in the door of the > | billet with: “Blime me, you Yanks are lazy. Who in ’ell’s a’goin’ to draw the water for the mornin’ tea? Do you think I'm a’goin’ 'to? ~Well, ’'m not.” And he left. 1 filled the dixie with water from an old squeaking well, and once again lay down in the straw. VIL Rations. Just before dozing off, Mr. Lance- Corporal butted in. In Tommy's eyes, a lance-corporal is one degree below a private. In the corporal’s eye, he is one degree above a general. He ordered me to go with him and help him draw the next day’s rations, also told me to take my waterproof. Every evening, from each platoon or machine gun section, a lance-cor- poral and private to go to the quarter- master-sergeant -at the company stores and draws rations for the fol- I lowing day. The “quarter,” as the quarter- master-sergeant is called, receives daily from the orderly room (captain’s office) a slip showing the mumber of men enlisted to rations, so there is no chance of putting anything over on him. Many arguments take place be- tween the “guarter” .and the platoon non-com, but the former aiways wins. out. Tommy says the “quarter” got his job because he was a burglar in civil life. Continued ‘Tomorrow. ing event of the 1918 resort shoots, notable of which might be' mentioned the tournaments aiready planne2 for Lakewood. N, J.: Maplewood, N. H. Del Monte, Cal, and Cedar Point, O. Plans are being perfected for shoots at many other of the popular Ameri can resorts, and all signs point to series of enjoyable events at the trap: that will add a new item of interest, t the resort life in all parts of the coun try. !‘rfhe military idea is fast invadia the resort shoots and adding a spic to the sport. Many ‘Plan to Clip Giants. Western papers say that a little in formal and casual understanding ha been reached among the managers of three National League teams intend ed to clip the wings of the Giants the coming season. The plan as set ouw is for the best pitchers of each club to be used against MecGraw's outfit Here is the just as often as possible. plot as set forth: “Alexander and Vaughn of Cubs; Ames and Meadows of h Cards; Cooper and Miller of the Pi th the sent in again. “Second string pitchers can be held a|three aremas they are to be 2 o forward.” The story - further is to the g {so informally) suggested io e coming vyear. s f declared ineligible for the Pitt t|the coal region. The offense an assumed name. He not with himseif akso. e just dues. SRR ) & NN NN rates, are to be sent into action against McGraw’s men as often as they can be used, rubbed down, freshened and back and used against other teams but whenever the Giants appear on these » handed the hottest opposition that can be put offect that.the managers .involved have (al- Christy Mathewson the fine possibilities or get- ting, in on a deal of the kind in the interest of his team's prospects for %he Red Pearlman of the university of Pittsburgh basketball team has b;pn ve because he played with a pro team in 3 was made worge because he played undTr only broke faith with his colleze team but The two togeth- er are bad;-and it looks as though “Red” wae getting no more than his SPORTING NOTES d The National Baseball commisSsion doesn't expect many of the thinor league to go through. next season. Not even the Kastern league. What with the draft and the many deals that have taken place, it takes a reguiar Sherlock Holmes to = keap track of all the players. Holdouts among the ball players will be mighty scarce this vear. Times are hard, and the .d ond artists will have to be satisfied with what they are offered. The latest statement regarding the next draft call, that only singie men will be called, gives baseball clubs a fixed basis from which to figure and as a result a lot of uneasiness in fe- gard to the future has been allayed.. Bppa Rixey, who took a technical examination for admission to speci: work in the army, has been commi: sioned a first leutenant in the sanitary corps. Rixey is an expert in chemis- ‘iry- and will be assigned to handling problems having to do with the use of gas. Dr. J. H. McCurdy, former director of physical training at Springfield col- lege is directing Young Men's Chris- uan association athletics in France: They use 175 players: on a soccer team over there and call it a varia- tion. Quite well do we agree that it is a variation. What would Jack McKinstrie of the Red Tops eleven say if he had fo play in a game like that? “Sam” ‘White, football hero at Princeton in 1911, has enlisted as ground aviator and is due for a com- mission. He has gome to Kelly field, San Antomio, Texas. 'White’s exploits as a Tiger need no reteRing. His long runs beat’ both Yale and Harvard in 1911 and hig scooping up of the’ leather was not a mere accident in either case. At last Derrill Pratt, the Braves “welcomed for lie is far from o . - %