Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 4, 1918, Page 3

FOR EVERYTHING X t.nu‘sfunlmu kBI.E. Ak wmmmge Team This Coming Sm—:lm Collins and 8 Shetucket Strest. Nerwich, Conn, ‘Murphy Were in Conference Here Sunday—John L. Sullivan, Formu: Heavyweight Clumplon. Dead. and before the season was dver he had been bought by Ncw York. He was returned to Norwich in = the spring of 1902 and in July of the same yeaz Connie bought him for the Athletics. He played second base regularly until 1910, when he was as- signed to the outfield to make room for Eddie Collins. In the outfield )Lu'- prhy shone even better than in the in- fleld. During the 1913 season he was the acting captain -of the team, al- though unable to play much.\ After leaving the Athletics Murphy went to the Brookfeds where he stayed for two years and then in 1916 went to New Haven where he built up a win- ning team that copped the Eastern e penmant in 1917, Collins at present has about a doz- en men on the reserve list and the talk of Saturday had a lot to do with the herding &ot a collection of pitch- ers to ba on® par with~the bunck of stars who landed the Eastern pen- nant at the Rock last summer. For pitchers Collins has only Harry Our Companies are the kind that are REAL safeguards against fire d asters. INSURE HERE and you're "™ ISAACS. JONES' tnsurance and Real Estate Agent $1 Main St 'LAST YEAR 250 million doliars worth of property was burned in this country; about 21 million a month, about 700 thousand a day, about 29 thousand an hour. 500 dbllars worth is burning while yon read this advértisement. Issyour property insured? B. P. LEARNED & CO. Agency Established May, 1846. DANNY MURPHY. At a conference in this city between James Collins, owner of the New Ha- ven baseball club and Danny Murphy, who managed the champions of the Eastern League last season, Murphy sighed a contract to manage the New Haven team during the season of 1918. Danny Murphy first played profes- || sionally with Worcestre, Mass.,, when T only 18 years o He was not Brown & Perkins, = timep-al-law quite fast enough, however, and At- tleboro, Mass., secured him _in 1899. Over Uncas Nat. Bank, Shetucket St En stairway near to Thames One year-later he went to Norwich, trance National Bank. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Donovan left and he is liable to be hook«s! off in the draft. Micky Flaher- out of the draft. Russell, the catcher who worked in one game for Collins last season and then returned to his lege “is still available but he, too, is On first, Moose Miller is still on the reserve list and although he is eligible employe of Winchester’s. Neal Ball is| Hal Riconda at short is eligible for Everett Nutter in right field is mar- Shannon in center field, for he is only 20 and not of age to be taken in the Leagu ey is on hand for a backstop and he is studies at Kingston Agricultural col- liable for the draft. for the draft he is married and also an on second yet and is out of the draft. the draft and so is Bradshaw at third. ried and out of the draft and so is Joe Telephone 38-3 200 M>. Poc pr SATURDAY’S MARKET 300 Momt Power: Acmo ) Representative Stocks Advanced One _to Almost Five Points, New York, Feb. 2.—Representativ stocks were not especially responsive teday to ‘the prospects of a su: sion of' fuelless Mondavs after week, but various other issues, espec ially - shippings, oils, motors, leathers and papers, advanced 1 to almost 5 points, mainly at the expense of the bears. =) l TRAPSHOOTING STATISTICS MAKES FOOD FOR DOPESTERS Those Who Have a Penchant For Figures Can Find Lots of Intergsting Data in the Averages of the Scatter- gun Artist. By 'PETER P. CARNEY Press Representative of the Interstate shooting on., Statistics are great to wade through, especnlly statistics that pertain to actlvities in the line of sports. There much more to them than mere fig- res. There are thousands of persons who #o through all the published averag- #s and who in this way become walk- Ing enclopedia’s on the ability of those who are of pational importance in the world of sports, Those Who have a penchant for fig- ures will find vast amusement in the 1917 trapshooting averages, now being Issued by the Interstate Trapiiooting Aseociation As has already been an- nounced in these columns, Lester German, of Aberdeen, Md, led the professionals in the averages and William. H. Heer, of Gurthrie, Okla., 106 65 8% “108% % 700 Ontarlo _ Silrer 100 Pacific Mail 300 Pac Tel & T 300 Pan Am Pet pr 300 Peon B R 30 Peple's G & C Pierce Arrow Piere Arrow pr Rails moveg within a narrow area, and industrials, notably steels and coppers, were disposed to react, thouzh making_up lost ground before the close. United States steel was under stea but fimshed at a nominal adv: Haif 4 dozen stocks, United tatSes steel, Marine pfd., Distiller securi- ties, Industrial Alcohol, Reading and Central Leather, contributed o 5 per cent to the day’s total of shares. General, news wa: “{more & * Ohi advas statement bf December earnings being cfiset by thé annual report of the 'Goodrich com- pany, which showed a material in- crease 'in met profits. Trade reports as 'a whole, however, showed the f: rable weather conditions and seri- ous freight congestion. The chief feature bank statement was 1 100 ki 2110 5100 Lica ,000 variaktle. Dalti- " Tuh Prod pr Tnien Pacif of the weekly a further actual topped the amateurs. expansion of loans by over $111,000 - ’i-y., statistics s‘l:‘;:w that 152 ama- | 00, making an aggregate of $190,000,- 2 d ters a'sraged 90 per cent. or better on | 000 for the past fortnight. Excess re- Wi United Ry Inv serves . decreased almost $25,000 000, In Ry Inv pr reducing the actual total to little more than $62.000,000 Bonds were irregular, Liberty 3 1-2s seliing at 43.30 to 98.14, fi at 9 60 to 96.50 and second 95.92. Bond sales (par V: gated $2,950,000. Old T 2000 or more targets, against 81 pro- fessipnals; 17 amateurs and 16 pro- fessionals. Four amateurs bettered 97 per cent. against three professionals; 7 dmaturs and 16 professionals aver- azed better than 96 per cent., and 31 amateurs and 25 professionals’ averag- ed’ more than 95 per cent. Theae fig- Thah ures indicate that the amateurs have |48 were 5-8 to 3-4 per cent. higher on} i :\";b:sh(hlm tive bulze on the professionals. call during the week. 500 Wabssh pr & — ) Wabash_pr Shot at 9920 Targets. STOCKS. €0 :\;: l;-gm; Charles W. Hymer, of Davenport,| S, . ... gl it Westinghouse fo, shot at more targets than any | 0o Almks Juncau 1600 Willys Overtand other shooter. He hlazed away at 80| 3200 Allis Chamers 300 Willys Qver pr less than 10,000. His average was| 1% &lls A‘;‘r"“‘é";r »r 100 Woolwort) .9206. The only other shooter, and a| 1o Am Bect Sugar Total sales 536,150 ‘sh professional, too, who shot at more than 9000 targets, was Jay R. Graham, COTTON. of Ingleside, Tll. He shot at 9115 and| 300 4m Car & ¥ New York, Feb. 2.—More optimistic averaged .9471. Graham won the trap- W0 Am Cot Oil pr views of domestic mill consumption shooting championship in the Olympic| 180 Ab H & L .. and diminishing apprehensions of sames in Stockholm in 1912 e % ngme flxgg seemedu‘reSDOHSlbr for a Three amateurs shot at more than| 500 Am Linseed sharp nce in the cotton market 6000 targets with Al Koyen. of Free- 200 Am Linseed pr this morning. After the first rush of mont, Neb.. leading with 6400. His| 300 Am Locomo buying orders had been supplied, how- average was .9343. Linn Beauchaump,| 1% A‘:E"’;E‘I":"W cver, trading became less active and of Harrington, Del., fired at 6350, and| 400 Am Mait pr part of the improvement was lost, averazad .9502, and O. N. Ford, of San| 2900 Am Smelting with the close barely steady at a net Jose, Cal, fired at 6025 ané averaged m:: Bteel Fdry gain of 26 to 36 points. "a':{s(;mer Clark, the professional| 1opam T & Ta MONEY. champion, was quite a ways down in "‘w‘:r‘m ’1;:*@ New York, Feb. 2.—Mercantile pa- the averages, shooting at 3100 _tar- | %% 4= n per 5 1-2 @ 5 3-4. Sterling 60 day zets for a percentage of .9609. Mark Am bills 4.72; commercial 60 day bills on the amateur champion, didnt 2000 targets, and therefore isn’t listed in the averages. Neither s Mrs. Ad. Topperwein, the champion woman professional shot. One Armed Shot Always Good, George Maxweli, the one-armed pro- fesslonal, continued his remarkable #hooting. He fired at 4360 targets and gveraged .9356. Year after year Max- well fires at 4000 or more targets and has always avernged better than 93 per cent. H. W. Caldwalader, of Decatur, Ili, who lost right eye while fixing a trap.a coy le of vears pgo, finished the seass: with an average of .9186 on 8685 targets. Cadwalader put an axtrg i“b on his zun and now sight; wit', the left eve but shoots from the d'fl( shoulder as he did before the ac- cident. Shooters 'Who Made Long Runs. With trophies being, awarded for iong runs—50 straight or better—it is Interesting to note that 833 amateurs and 24 professionals had at least one rup of 50: ?82 amateurs and 17 pro- fegsionals had two runs of 50; 210 amateurs and 20 professionais, three rune: 128 amatenrs and 12 profession- als, four runs: 77 amateurs and 6 pro- fessionals, five runs; 59 amateurs and 5 professionals, six runs; 43 amateurs and 8 professionals, seven runs;- 30 amateurs and 7 professionals, eight ruhs: 25 amatenrs and 11 profession- als, nine runs; 26 amateurs and 6 pro- fessionals, 10 runs; -21 amateurs and 7 professionals, 11 runs; 16 amateurs #nd 6 professionals, 12 runs; 20 ama- tetirs and 2 professionals, 13 runs; 16 amateurs ahd 4 professionals, 1 4runs; £2 amateurs and 4 professionals, 15 runs. From this point the pro fes- slonals had it thair own way, one-or moer having 16 or more runs up to 25, at which mark four men are listed. It is worth mentioning again that Lester German had 41 runs of 50 or befter. The highest run of the ‘year was 284, MEFrank Troeh, an amateur, of Van- hanks 471 1-2; commercial 60 day bills 4.71 1-4; demand 4.75 1-4: cables 4.76° 1-2. Francs, demand 5.71 1-2; cables 5.69 1-2. Guilders, demand 43 1-2; cables 44. Lires, demand §.52; cables 8. Rubles, demand 13; ca- bles 13 1-2. Bar silver 86 5-8. Mexi can dollars 69, Goverament bonds steady. ‘Railroad bonds firm. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Chicago, Feb. 1. — Hogs, receipts 34,000 head. Markets slow and 10 to 15_cents lower. Mixed and butchers, $15.90@16.50; good and heavy, $15.35@ $16. heavy, $15.50@16. light, 315, 16.40; pigs, $12.00@15. bulk, $16. "0@16 45. Cattle. ~Receipt: 14,000 head. Mar- kets weak and 15 cents lower. Beeves, $8.65@14.15; cows and heifers, $6.50@ $11.9¢ stockers and feeders, $7.45@ $10.60: calves, $9.50@16.00. Sheep.—Receipts 12,600 head. Mar- kets steady to weak. Native and ;vestern, $10.00@13.50; lambs, $14.75@ 7.75. M0 Chino Con Cop 206 Col Fyel & Tron 600 Col Gas & Elec Pittsburgh, Feb. 1—‘C&M‘O light. Market steady. prime, $12. 75@1375 0@10.50; common, $9. 00@10 fair, $9.50@10.50; common, $9.50@ 10.50; common, $9.: 50; common to good fat bulls, $7.25@12.60; common to good fat'cows, $9.00@10.50; heifers, $10.00@11.25; fresh cows and spring- ers, $60.00@110.00; veal calves $17.00. Sheep and lambs.—Supply light. Market steady. Prime wethers $14, mixed $11.60@12.50, fair mixed $3.50@ 11, culls and common $6@8, spring lambs $18.50. Hogs.—Receipts 40 double decks. Market 25 to 30 cents lower. Prime edi;l;ns myplv heavy hogs $16.50@16.60, light yorkers $16.50@16.75, pigs §15.75@16.25, roughs $13.50@15.50, stags $13.50@15.50. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET, Tow. CORN— Mar. Close. 106 Mazwell M 1 pr 160 Mamwell M 2 pr jyer, Wash. The highest run for a| S0t Mex ehtol essional was 261, by Hugh Poston | i Miswele ool P A ofiBap Francisco, Calif. 100 M. & St L new % | of social and financial distinction in Farl Stimson is alxo married and out out of the draft. Snyder, a . plvcher whom Coilins» picked up a couple of seasons ago is stiil under suspension for not report- ing. He is working in the Yonkers, N. Y., post office and Erwin, the short- stop who Collins got from Baltimore to take the place of Shannon when he skipped the Murlin 6utfit a year ago last summer, is also under suspension for not reporting. Both of the phyeu named are eligible for the draft. Collins _says that he believes th: reople will support him in good shape this summer and he is going to make every effort to put a crackajack team in the field. He belieces this will be easier this summer than ever due to the number of players that will be available through other leagues “sus- rending during the year. New Haven fans generally are hope- tul that Collins will see his way clear to staxting the season for at the pres- ent time with so much doubt in evi- dence at Yale regarding how far Eli will participate in sports this spring, the sposting bill looms none too large in variety. An effort was made Sunday even- ing fo get in touch with Murphy but ke could' not be located. JOHN L. SULLIVAN DIES AT HOME IN ABINGTON ‘Former Champion Passes Away as He. Wished, With -His Boots On. John L. Sullivan, formerly the 's “heavyweight champion, died home in Abington, Mass., Sat- Y. Sullivan, who was 59 years old, had lived on a farm thére for the last 10 years. He was ill’ with heart trouble three weeks ago, but his health quick- ly improved and he went to Boston Friday. Saturday morning he arose as usual and planned another visit to the city, but during the forenoon had an attack of the old trouble from which he failed ot rally.’ He died at noon. Mrs. Sullivan died some months ago. John Laurence Sullivan was one of the most picturesqiy> characters in the history of prize fighting. For more than 10 years, from the time he defeated Paddy Ryan in 1382, in & bare knuckle fight under the London prize ring rules, until he was defeated by James J. Corbett, in 1892, his person- |2lity and methods of fighting com- ; pletely dominated sporting circles: in the ted States. In the annals of pugilism in this ountry two notable distinctions wers his; he was the last champion to fight under the London prize ring rules. It was largely through his achievements that the championship title was made a prize of great monetary value. In the early davs of his career, $1,000 side was looked on as a great sum. He received only $53 for the fight that made him a national character in fis- ticuffs and won him the right to chal- lehnge Paddy Ryan for the champion- ship. His friends raneed ‘all the way from the ordinary “fight fan” to many men the Uniteq States, and it is said he was on chumming terms with the late King Edward VIL of England. As was his wish John L. Sullivan died with his shoes on. Although stricken with heart irouble three weeks, ago he had quickly improved and was in ng sense an invalid. He ‘was about to leave his house in Abing- ten, Mass., Saturday to see his old friend, Captain James P. Sullivan, of the Boston police department, when he received his final knockout. His friefd and companion, Ceorge Bush, rushed to his side as the old gladiator sank to the floor uncon: us and revived him with cold water ap- plications to the head. ‘“John L.” re- ponding quickly to this treatment as in his palmy days in the prize ring, struggled to his feet and refysed to take the decision of Time. He re- luctantly consented to have a physi- clan called, but after receiving medical treatment, announced that he would have a bath and keep his appointment. Even as he expressed his determina- tion, he became unconscious and died apparently without further pain. The body will be taken to the home of his sister in the Roxbury district of Boston where funeral services will be_held Wednesday morning. Hardly had the news of the passing of one of America’s greatest fistic champions heen flashed broadcast than messages of sympathy began pouring into town from men In all walks of life. Sullivan. in his prime, was a popular idol and he never en- tirely lost his hold on the public. This was due not only to the success of his prize-fighting days but to his rugged battle against his old easy-going hab- its. “John L” always attributed his loss of the American championship to James J. Corbett by a knockout in| New Orleans, Sept. 7, 1892, to liauor. He had made a fortune in_ the pnze‘ ving and had spent it when his friends | tendered him a benefit concert in Bos- ton to put him on his feet again. The money obtained from this \enture‘ went also according to his ruling hab- it, and then Sullivan’s oid fighting spirit reasserted itself and he an- rounced that he had entered the list: against John Barleycorn for a fight to_the finish. Knowing the open-handed, easy go- ing methods of the man, the public re- gorded this challenge with interest, but. John L. battled with John Bar- leycorn as he had with all his oppo. nents. He forced the fighting, as it were. He proclaimed his defiance of drink from platforms throvghout the country and held himself up to th# youth as a horrible example of what drink would do. True to his word he never let up in his aggressive fight against liquor, and frequently left his farm here for long temperance speak- ing_tours. He was 59 years of age when he was counted out. He had often expressed regret that he was too old to go with the boys overseas, but he was not too old to do his bit. He never daclined an invitation to speak at a flag rais- ing or recruiting rally or in behalf of the Liberty Loan. Sullivan was never taught how to box. He took to fighting naturally. His first appearance in the ring was at a variety performance in Boston when he was in his 'teens, 2 magnifi- cently built young man weighing nearly 200 pounds. A husky boxer who was one of the performers, chal- lenged anyone in the audience to en- ter the ring with him. It was a sum- mons Sullivan could not refuse, al- though he had bad no ring experience, Peeling off his coat, he-leaped upon the stage, took a blow to the head and knocked out his opponent with one clean punch straight fram the shoul- der. It was a method of fighting he never dropped. ATHLETIC NOTES. By Sol Metzger. i i At the Washirgton and Jefferson- Camp Sherman football game at To- Jedo last fall several thousand enlisted men sat in one of the corner grand- stands. Around the corner from them, S0 to speak, and placed in the boxes at the front of their stand, were sev- eral score of Red Cross nurses, As the teams entered the field be- tween these two stands a very pretty nurse asked the soldier's cheer leader if Private Murphy, of such and such 2 company and regiment, was with Learning that he very pretty nurse said that gince she had nursed him she would like to see him again and requested CHAPTER VIII—Continued. ‘We had gotten half way through the communication trench; Fete in-my im- mediate rear, He had his hand on my shoulder, as men in a communication trench have to keep in touch with each other. We had just climbed over 2 bashed-in part of the trench when in our rear a man-tripped over a loose signal wire, and let out an oath. As usual, Pete rushed to. his heip. To reach the fallen man, he had to cross this bashed-in part. A bullet cracked in the air and 1 ducked. Then a moan from the rear. My heart stood still. T went back and Pete was lying on the ground; by the aid of my flashlight T saw hls d pressed to his right breast. e fingers . were covered ‘with blood. I flashed the light on his face, and in its glow a grayish-blue color was stealing over his counten- ance. Pete looked up at me and said: “Well, Yank, they've done me in. I can feel myself going West.” His voice ‘was getting fainter and I had to kneel down to get the words. Then he gave me a message to write home to 'his mother and his sweetheart, and, 1 like a great big boob, cried like a baby. 1 was los{ng my first friend of the trenches. Word was passed to the rear for a stretcher. He died before it arrived. Two of us put the body ou the stretch- er and carried it to the glefll’ast first- aid post, where the doctor took an of- ficial record of, Pete’s name, number, rank and regiment from his identity disk, this to be used in the casualty lists and notification to. his family. We left Pete there, but it broke our hearts to do so. The doctor informed us that we could bury him the next morning. - That afternoon, five of the boys of our section, myself included, went to the little ruined village in the rear and from the deserted gardens of the French chateaux gathered grass and flowers. From these we made a wreath. ‘While the boys were making this wreath, I sat under a shot-scarred apple tree and carved out the follow- ing verses on a little wooden shield which we nailed on Pete’s cross: True to his God;-true to Britain, Doing his duty to the last, Just' one more name to be written On. the Roll of Honor of heroes passed— Passed to their God enshrined in glory, Entering life of eternal rest, One more chapter in England’s story Of her sons doing their best. Rest, you soldier, ma,te se true, Never forgotten by us ‘below; Know -that we are thinking of you, Ere to our rest we are bidden to go. Next. morning = the whole section went over to say good-bye to Pete, and laid him away to rest. After each one had a look at the face of the dead, a corporal of the R. A. M. C. sewed up the remains in 2 blanket. Then placing two heavy ropes across the stretcher (to be used in. lowering the body into the grave), we lifted Pete onto the stretcher, and reverently covered him with a large Union Jack, the flag he had died for. The chaplain led the way, then came the officers of the section. followed by two of the men. carrying .a wreath. Immediately after came poor Pete on the flag-draped stretcher, carried by four soldiers. I was one of the four. Behind the stretcher, .in columns of {;mrs came the remainder of the sec- on. To get to the cemetery, we had to pass through the little shell-destroyed village, where troops were hurrying to and fro. As the funeral procession passed these troops came to the “attention,” and smartly saluted the dead. Poor Pete was . receiving the only salute a private is entitled to “some- where in France.” Now and in a shell from the German lines would go whistling over the village to burst in our artillery lines in the rear. ‘When we reached the cemetery, we halted in front of an open grave and laid the stretcher besides it. Form- ng a hollow square around the open- ing of the grave the chaplam read the burial service. German machine gun bullets were “cracking” in the air above us, but Pete didn’t mind and neither did we. When the body was lowered into the grave, ‘the flag having been re- moved, we clicked our heels together and came’ to the salute. 1 left before the grave was filled in. I could not brave to see the dirt thrown on the blanket-covered face of my comrade. On the Western front GUNNER IN Copyright by ARTHUR GUY -EMPEY other ‘to his sweetheart. While doing this I -cursed. the Prussian war-god with all my heart, and I think that St. Peter noted same. -The machine gunners in the dugout wera laughing. and joking., To them, Pete was unknown. Pretty soon, _in the warmth of their merriment, my blues disappearcd. One soon forgets on the Western front. CHAPTER IX. - Suicide - Annex. I was in my first dugout and looked around curiously. Over the door was a little sign reading “Suicide Annex.” One of the boys told me-*that this particular. front - trench was called “Suicide .Ditch.” Later on- learned that machine gunners and bombers are known as the “Suicide Club.” That dugout was muddy. The men slept in mud, washed in mud, ate mud and dreamed mud. I had nevér before realized that so much discomfort and misery could be contained in ' those three little letters, M U D. The floor of the dugout was.an inch deep. in water. Outside .it was raining cats and dogs, and.thin rivulets were trick- ling down. the steps.. From the air- |3 ARTHUR GUY EMPEY ® AN AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO SERVED AS A MACHINE FRANCE AND WENT. these timbers. - On each nail hung a miscellaneous assortment of p- ment. The lighting arrangements were superb—one candie in a reflector made from an ammunition tin. My teeth were chattering from the cold, and ‘the drip from the airshaft did not help matters much. While I was sit- ting bemoaning my fate, and wishing for the fireside at home, the fellow next to me, who was writing a letter, looked up and innocently asked “Say, Yank, how do you spell ‘conflagra- tion?" T looked at him in contempt, and answered that T did not 'know. From the darkness in one of the corners came a thin, piping voice sing- inm of ‘the popular trench ditties ent ‘Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile.” Bvery now and then the singer would stop to cough, cough, cough, but it was a good illustration of Tommy’s cheerfulness under such conditions. A machine gun officer entered the dugout and gave me a hard look. I sneaked past him, sliding and slipping and reached my section of the front shaft immediately above me came a drip, ‘drip, drip. Suicide Annex was a hole eight feet wide, ten feet long, and six feet high. ty feet below the fire trench; at least It was about twen- | line trench where I was greeted by the sergeant, who asked me, “Where in £'ll ’ave you been?” " I made no answer, but sat on the muddy fire step, shivering with the there were twenty steps leading down |cold and with the rain beating in my to it. These steps were cut into the face. About half an hour later I earth, but at that time were muddy | teamed up with another fellow and and slippery. A man had to be very careful or else he would “shoot the chutes.” The air was foul, and you could cut the smoke from Tommy's fags with a knife. It was cold. The walls and roof were supported with heavy square-cut timbers, while the entrance was strengthened with sand- bags. Nails had. been driven into went on guard with my héad sticking over the top. At ten o’clock I was re- leved and resumed my sitting position on the fire step. The rain suddenly stopped and we all breathed a sigh of relief. We prayed for the morning and the rum issue. To Be Continued Tomorrow. “TOMMY’S DlCl'lONARY OF THE IRENCHES B. “Blck o’ the Line.” Any place behind the firing line out of range of enemy guns. Baler. A scoop affair for baling out ‘water from the trenches and dug- outs. As the trenches - generally drain the surrounding landscape, the sun has to be appealed to'before the job is completed. Bantams. Men under the standard armyy height of 5. feet 3 inches. They are in a separate organization called “The Bantam Battalion,” and aithough undersized have, the opin- ion that they can lick the whole German -Army. Barbed Wire. A lot- of prickly wire entwined around stakes driven in _front of - the trenches. This ob- struction is supposed to prevent the Germans from _taking lodging in your-dugouts. It also affords the enemy artillery rare sport trying to blow it up. “Barndook.” his rifle. He uses it because it is harder to say and spell than ‘rifle.” Barrage. Concentrated shell fire on a sector of the German line. In the early days of the war, when am- munition was defective, it often landed on Tommy himself. Barricade. bags to impede the enemy's traffic into your trench. You build. it up and he promptly knocks it down, so ‘what's the use? “Bashed In.” Smashed by a shell Génerally applied to a trench or dugout. Batman. A man who volunteers to clean a non-commissioned officer's buttons, but who never volunteers a trench raid. He ranks next to a worm, Bayonet. -A sort of knife-like contriv- ance which fits on the end of your rifie. The Government issues it to stab Germans with. Tommy uses it to toast bread. “Big Boys.” Large eight inch or above. “Big Push.” “The Battle of the Somme,” He often calls it “The First of July,” the date on which it started. “Big Stuff.” over. “Big Willie.” Tommy’'s term for his personal friend, the Kaiser. Billet. Sometimes a regular house, but generally a stable where Tommy sleeps while behind the lines. It is generally located near a large man- ure . pile. Most billets have numer- ous entrances—one for Tommy and the rest for rain, rats, wind and shells. Billet Guard. Three men and a cor- guns, generally Large shells eight inch or there are no coffins, and you are lucky to get'a blanket to protect you from the wet and the ‘worms. Several of the section stayed and decorated the grave with white stones. That night in the light of a lonely candle in the machine gunner’s dug- out of the front line trench, I wrote two letters. One to Pete’s mother, the poral who are posted to guard the billets of soldiers. They do this un- til the orderly officer has made his rounds at night, then they go to sleep. Biscuit. A concoction of flour and baked until very hard. Its original use was for building pur- poses, but Tommy is supposed to eat Tommy's nickname for | An obstruction of sand-| it. Tommy is no coward, but he ‘“balks” at this. Biscuits make ex- cellent fuel, and give no smoke. Bivouac. ‘A term given by Tommy to a sort of tent made out of water- proof sheets. Blastine. A high explosive which pro- motes Kultur in the German lines. Blighty. An East Indian term mean- ing ‘“over the seas.” Tommy has adopted it as a synonym for home. He tries numerous ways of reach- ing Blighty, but the “powers that be” are wise to all of his attempts, so he generally fails. “Blighty One.” A wound _ serious enough to send Tommy to England. B. G .M. .C. Brigade Machine Gun Company, composed of Vickers ma- chine gunners. They always put their packs on a limber or small wagon while route marching, which fact arouses the jealousy of Tom- my. “Body Snatcher.” a sniper. Bomb. An infernal device filled with high explosive which you throw at the Germans. Its chief delight is to explode before it leaves your hand. Bomb Store. A place where bombs are kept, built so the enemy cannot locate them with his fire. For that matter, Tommy can't either when he needs. them. Bombing Post. 'A sort of trench or sap running from your front line to within a few yards of the enemyy's trench. It is occupied by bomb throwers who would like to sign an agreement with the Germans for neither: side to throw bombs. Brag. A card game similar to poker at which every player. quits a loser and no one wins, that is, according to the statements of the several players. Brazier. A sheet iron pot punched full of holes in which a fire is built. It is used to keep Tommy warm in his dugout, until he becomes un- conscious from its smoke and fumes. He calls it a “fire bucket.” Brigade Guard. Several men who are detailed to guard Brigade Headquar- ters. They don’t go to sleep. B. S. M. Battalion Sergeant Major. The highest ranking non-commis- sioned officer in the battalion. A constant dread to Tommy when he has forgotten to polish his buttons or dubbin his boots. Bully Beef. A kind of corned beef with tin round it. The unipened cans make excellent walls for dug- outs. Burm. A narrow ledge cut along the walls of a trench to prevent earth from caving in. “Burm” to Tommy is a cuss word, because he has to “go over the top” at night to con- struct it. “Busted.” Term applied when a non- commissioned officer is reduced by court-martial. Button Stick. A contrivance made of brass ten inches long which slides over the buttons and protects the tunic in cleaning. Tommyy’s term for | | | o the cheer leader to ask him to stand up. Training his megaphone upon the soldiers the cheer leader yelled at hem “Will Private Murphy, of such and such a company and regiment, piease tand up as your nurse here would like to see vou?’ With one accord the several thous- and soldiers arose, each yeiling to the nurse: “Here I am?” This story well illustraies the pres- ent collegiate athletic situation—if not the entire amateur athletic ome—in this country. Nearly everyone wants sport for all just as nearly evervone of those soldiers wanted to be Private Murphy—after they bhad seem the nurse. But to date no college has been able to provide a plan substitating sport for all for intercollegiate athlet- ics that will camse all college men to arise and proclajm it with ‘the same gusto and enthusiasm that they have proclaimed intercollegiate athletics. The stimulus is as yet wanting. It may be there is no such stimulus. Only time will tell. Football sceuting is now having its bad innings at the hands ef the fac- vlty reformers cvery time they get together for a comference on athletie ills. Somebody once swiped the op- posing team's signals and, the oppos- ing team being righteously indignant, scouting got the blame. As a matter of fact football scout- ing isn’t harmful. Those who so pro- claim it know as-little about it as the Chicago “player of ‘some years back who was sent to Minnesota to get the dope on Harry Williams' eleven. He came back with the sort of a report that anyone could write. His “inside” stuff was as near “inside” as the over- coat he wore. It was not even a good newspaper account of the detail of the game. It ran about-like-this: “On the first play Minnesota made eight vards around the right end and had ‘fine interference. A few line bucks and another énd run resulted in udtouchdown and the goal was. kick- e Scouting is very much misunder- stood even by football players. Tn fact there are few good‘scouts. Their game is something like that of the small boy at a circus. But all the small boy has to watch is three rings and the clown, whereas a scout has to watch and mote down what eleven men do in each play on both offense and defense, and in addition what down and in what posi- tion of the field each play is made from. Scouting is not getting the oth- er team’s signals or buying off oppos- ing players, as some would. thihk. As far as getting another team’s: signals is concerned, the modern coach has his troubles in getting his own sig- nals into the brains of his own pro- teges, even if they are honor men in the classroom. Scouting is not frowned upon by football men. On the. contrary they will exténd every courtesy of the field to the scouts of their biggest rivals. The whole game is played openly, un- like summer baseball, and has hone of the real or imagined ills of that hot weather sport. Scouting does make - the - game more “scientific. Right now a committee. of the Na- tional Collegiate Athletic Association is considering the udvisabifity of com- piling and publishing rules to govern intercollegiate boxing, wrestling, fenc- ing, gymnastics and tennis, same to contain: on first inside page half-tome portraits of the said rule makers. In_these:days of print paper scar- ¢ily ‘anq sport for all agitation, it geems a pity that a committee should be at work trying to waste paper and injure the cause of sport for all. We call its attention to the fact that good and' sufficient volumes on these same sports compiled by various and effi- cient athletic bodies are already in existence and that the spol playing the various aforesaid games are well satisfied with the codes as writ. To be sure the creating of new rules might improve various sports. Again it might not. It seems.to us mest reasonabie to suppose thaf, let us say, the U.'S. T. A. has now a per- fectly satisfactory rule book on tennis for both college and amateur players. In fact the imtercollegiate tennis as- sociations of the east and west get along fairly well with these rules. And college players also find them satis- factory after they graduate . ér are forcibly ejected from their hallowed halls of learnin. They are not com- pelled to play under other rules than ihey learned at college. . But the National Collegiate A. A’s committee on these various sports may ask just that, else what is it driving for? It cannot be that they want their pictures on the first inside page, jhigh- browed as they are? Perish the thought. Sport is best promoted by standard- izing the rules. There have bpeen times in the past when even the college boys could not agree on one code for a col- lege game like football. *Way back in the 90’s Yale and Princeton played the gridiron game under different rules than Harvard and Pennsylvania, but it is still doubtful if they shed any more blood, Bill Edwards to the con- trary notwitbstanding. Basketball has gone through much the same prooss. But the tendency to standardize the rules of sport has had the right of way. (Copyright, 1918, by Sal Metzger.) From the Commerce Reports. Clothing workers in Paris wish to e the “English week,” with Sazn.rhy afternoon free. They take two hours at noon now and it is be- lieved that for this reason the intro- duction of the English week would greatly reduce the output. Americans in the far east are great- 1y pleased over the imcrease in the number of American vessels visiting ports there. 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