A LETTER FROM CAPTAIII JOHN F. MONAHAN.
Fort Williams, Maine,
February 25th., 1926.
Dear Mac:
Your peremtory instructions topping the copy of the
"Post” that I received this morning have stirred me to action.
You are doing a fine job with the old sheet, and it is
sure a home town paper to me. Itfs a treat to get it, always,
even tho r very few of the old gang are left up there with you.
You wonder what has become of the "Write-AboutIt
turned up it’s toes about six months ago, and died of financial
starvation. It appears as tho1 this crowd we have in the Fifth
either don’t care what is happening, or else can’t read. Anyhow,
after struggling along for about half a year, with me stalling off
the paper manufacturers, printers, etc., we passed the venture as
a bad job. It’s a shame, but I got to the point where I couldn’t
pay the bills myself. That explains why you don’t get the ”Write
About" anymore. But don’t cut me personally off your list, if I
owe you any subscription money on the "Bost” let me know so I
won * t miss an is sue.
Looks like oil tines to read that the Chilkooties are
going to Juneau to tangle witn the Capitalists and Douglas in
basketball. Here's wishing them the very best luck. But I know
they'll need it, especially in Douglas. That town was always some
basketball haven. You should equip the Kooties with bicycles, how
ever, to play in that louglas Yatatorium. It would help them to
get up and down the floor. I note that you are confident the sol
diers will cop out two of the three games. (We guessed wrong again).
If you do, I'll concede freely that you have SOLE team.
Do you remember the days when we had Laxwell and "Bee”
Brewick at forwards, old Andruskiewicz at center, and hat hews and
Bruce Wilson at the guards, and couldn't hang up a single win over
the down-channel teams. If your present combination is better than
that team that we had, then I’ll take off my hat to it.
You folks have sure fallen down in baseball prowess, up
there, however. What do you mean by losig to Juneau 4th of July
series, or a White.norse tournament? We never used to do that.
You remember that Douglas, led by Bobby Coughlin, was
the only team that had a look in with us, and they had that very
seldom. Come on now, let’s see the Kooties cop some baseball games
this coming' vear.
Your boiling scores up there, kac, are terrible. I see
that poor old '’Judge” Harry can’t hit over 490 nowadays. Tell him
to cut out that hook ball of his, and he’ll do a lot better. Why, *
Lac, down here, if a lad averages less than 160 pins per game we
pull him off the alleys. Even I used to roll an average of 136 up 4
there and have been hitting 170 or better here for the last three
years. And as for team totals, that 2180 score of Co.”?'' looks
pitiful alongside the 2800 scores that our Headquarters Co. here
rolls, with a five man team, as you have. Ho team in our league
could roll less than 7 50 in a single game and stay in the running
for a minute. We have teams that hit 925 in a single game. Sure I
have rolled 627 in three frames, and there are ten in the outfit
that would make me look sick. Tell "JudgeM to get his men out and
make ’em practice.’ .*
Service here in Laine is very pleasant. With me it’s a
continual round of sports from one year’s end to the other, base
ball, football, basketball and bowling in turn. We always have very
good football and basketball teams, -baseball would be good if I
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