SPORTING NEWS. - by 1st. Lieutenant W.R’.Bfelfester, 7th.Inf.
.BASEBALL*. THAT Bloody YANKEE GAME, (from Seattle star).' % dear1. Would'
you listen to this1. "A nan, his left hand encased in a great leather glove that
looked like the seat of a motorcycle, Suddenly threw a very hard ball with all his
might at an unoffensive colleague. The man thus attacked was a great„hefty fellow
of very considerable courage and in a flash he hit that nasty looking ball with a
©hairleg." The next line should be, of course, something about the police having
no clues, but scouring the city for the fiend* Only itrs not. What the line really
is, is: "At the moment the big game had started between the Chicago White Sox and
the New York Giants." That’s the vay the London Evening Standard reports a ball
game, according'to a clipping received in Seattle today . Six thousand people we it
to see the game, and according to the'Standa-rd1 s' reporter, they thought it was some* ift
hting to do with a rodeo "and waited for a batsman to be lassoed or the referee
(umpire, he means) thrown like a wild steer." The players got a rap, too. "All of
then," says the reporter, "jabbered' sarcastically from the start to the finish.
It seemed something like a political meeting#" All we can say is, that British
politics must be very different. Hughey Jennings, however, won a plaudit from the
, reporter. He made the Duchess of York nearly die laughing. "Pie-can1.", roared
Hughey, says the report, "and the Duchess laughed heartily." The Duke was along
too, but seems to have maintained his true British stoicism while the "Giants1
strikers" were- "swinging their long club-like bats" and Americans in the crowd wer*
"^acting like dervishes On the war-path". Another London paper, evidently associ
ating Chicago with the packing industry, referred to the Mj.d-Westi§Team as "the Whi
Ox".
NOTES FROM POST QUARTERMASTER
CHILKOOT BARRACKS, (Formally Wiliiam H.Seward) was established in 1904.
The reservation proper consists of 4410 acres with Water and Clay Reserves of
approximately 1280 acres and 5;74 acres, respectively. Two double barracks, eleven
•officers quarters, five N.C.O quarters and other buildings were constructed under
contract’and completed V&rch 1st*, 1905. Officers quarters 49, 50, 51, 52 and 53,
NCS.quarters-54, 55, 56, and 57 were completed in 1907. Building 45 originally
built for a garage and now used both as a garage and Electric Light Plant was con
structed in 1918, the original building Ho.45 was destroyed in 1916. This building
was only a small shack left by the contractor and was destroyed upon approval of
The Secretary Of War. The original cost of all buildings on the Post is estimated
at over $450,000,00. Capacity of Post is: Two field officers, twelve officers, tw
Warrant officers or Field clerks, nine N.C.O., six Sergeants or Civilian quarters,
Post Hospital with a capacity of 12 beds, four Infantry Companies and Detachments ■
All officers quarters, Hospital, guard House, Post Exchange, Quartermaster
Office and Company Barracks, are steam heated, all others heated by stoves.
Electric Lighting Plant installed and wired in October, 1923 . Post Wharf
was completed in 1904, at a cost of #13,685,00.
NOTES FROM THE POST SURGEON.
Below is the outstanding gem of the World War, so considered by many.
It was written by Colonel John McCrae, Medical Corps, resident of Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore.
In Flanders Field the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,'
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Field
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith
with us who die
We shall not sleep,
though poppies gi
In Flanders Field .