Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-07-26
OLD MILDLY ATHLETE
A1.im Oi The Great White
Way" In New York
uil CAUSE OF DISGRACE
Bacon Captain OF 1905 Baseball
I.sm Dismissed From Service --
l'a mate, Report Hfainy'

Mia hipmau Allen Bacon, u.
.r ID ton. who captained the
.. .bal team in 1903 and for
s.eeutivc years played second
thr nine. has been court
Initiated ana III missed from the ma
t4tr.
"a convicted on the charges of
...rre.s aud lying, and, what
i ease still more unusual,
... Iis own classmates who were
l.t.ou the same ship with him,
4. sew Hampshire, were the men
... .-ported him They were Mid
..,.4l Douglas, president of the
af 1908, and one of the best
th4.I players the Naval Academy
.a eyer turned out, if not the best.
. Mid hipman JabeZ Lowell
Liza. ympathy is expressed for
-.. dismissed midshipman, because
r.ua. guilty of a sin which the navy
. ler. unforgivable lying. Yet
former classmates feel that the
...l. I'M many respects, pathetic as
.aI a. tragic, for il is the story of
uuar miIshipman Of great promi-
a,ncu ending his career less than two
wears aftrr his graduation, in disgrace.
Graiuy was the nickname he
..nt by at Che Naval Academy, where
te was considered one of the "sav-
. r. men in his class 10 employ
u. ug of the midshipmen. At
u. ral of bis plebc year, by averag-
..,uyel A.. . out of possible 4 on
every subject he won the right to
Nrar thr star ON his collar, an honor
which an soyct but few midshipmen
obtain
Beginning his youngster" year,
4. ela mates noticed a change.
uelI not study as hard, and got
muc drmcrlts One night he and a
liza matte were reported for drinking,
aua. moreover. had to stand at atten-
,.a while the officer in charge emp
trI heir two quarts of champagne
Hto Hop jar. Still, such things hap
.eu at the Naval Academy, and moth
ar much was thought of it. Then
Hl,ou developed into a star baseball
player lie played fast game at
-roud base and made the Navy nine
ulih ease. Ills ability to get on bases
put him az the head of the batting
.l,r
Eut Tie econd year at the Academy
marked the turning point of his ca
r.tr 81 the service. During his third
fstr De was in poor physical condi .
nI al of
badly ia his academic work that at
umr. there was talk of his bilg
#e which is a word the midshipmen
u. when one OF their number is dis
missed from the Academy for being
satisfactory in his studies. But
Bacon. with his natural ability,
aA.rl mp worked hard before eXami-
aruH passed and went on his first
e.4 cruise.
was on this cruise. his class
Hl. ~ that the young man show
.....H- Of real dissipation. Had he
l '.s fortunate, they say, he
ee.. would have pulled through
H4t u-e without getting court
martial HIS friends urged him to
.l4g ap, and warned him that unless
heat. sooner or later, dismissal from
A.rgice awaited him Upon his
.e,-, rom leave Bacon found the
et CLASS year far from easy, but he
a4..e was graduated. although his
class landing was far from that of
i. err man.
After graduation he was assigned
+. q. New Hampshire. Unfortu-
a...y tr him his ship was in port q
considerable part of the time, either
+. N~ York or AZ Boston or at Ports
His tendency 70 dissipation
8. and il was not long before
te -e.en song of the Great White
Way began to draw him with irri-
.a force. The young officer be-
drink heavily He became
intimate with some Of the habitates
'.. lobster palaces. That kind
e got q stronger and stronger
o- him.
-aly the day came when an Off
aagat him intoxicated on duty
officer decided 10 give him an
.er chance He told him he would
report him if he would pledge his
".s- n9; Us drink again. Bacon gave
l". .Hcrr his word not to Go so. But
'ea days after that be violated