Franklin's paper the statesman., 1912-06-15
Chevenne and
Fort Russell
Happenings

Inc f1rSt group that VIII be noticed
on the troop list of athletes will be
| the strong football eleven. The gen.
tlemen' who compose the team are
| these: Wilson. full back. Captain
Bird, right half; Hall. center: Waters.
left half; Diekerson. quarter back
Coleman. left tackle: Branch. left
! guard: ..ichols. right tackle: Staten.
right guard: Jackson. left end: Tay-
| lor. right end; substitutes, Harrison.
Salter and Mayer.
.he fastest men at packing their
/ saddles and saddling their horses are
Cary Lewis. +. Mahan and Branch.
The champion pool players. who is
sue n challenge to any one in the post
are. Titanic Rochell and Tpasico
Corporal Waters and Private Taylor
will challenge any team in the regi-
ment for billiard tournament.
The outfit has a very fast relay
team. The names of the gentlemen
who compose 1t are: Coleman. Boyd.
Dickcrson, Thompson.
The following named orderly buck
ers challenge anybody in the regiment
at any old guard mount; Staten.
Wilson. Geo Coleman ad Joe Hollo-
mon. Geo. Coleman will challenge
any ybody with the saber for either a
mounted or dismounted fencing duel,
The champion 1O0-yard swimmers
are Tapsico. Rochell and Ducasten.
Geo. Houston. the champion bronco
buster got thrown out of a heavy
packed saddle.
Captain Bird OF the football team.
who has been cooking for the past
ten years. is trying straight duty for
awhile.
Q. NJ. Sergt Roundtree. better
known as Weary Willie. will be dis
charged on the 18th OF June.
Scott Washington. who recently
/ transferred from Troop NJ. is now a
corporal and doing we'll.
Alonzo Wilson's best girl came to
the troop n few days ago and caught
him standing on stool washing
dishes. Poor little thing" she said.
too bad you didn't grow tall enough
| to reach the tub"
The following gentlemen are the
crack marksmen OF the troop: Black
smith Washigton, Corporal johnson.
Waters, Geo. Coleman. Mayer, Bird
and Lewis. But that fellow A. Will
liams makes them all take notice
when it comes to using six-shooter.
He fired 90 shots at is yards and
made a total score Of eight.
Dyer. who claimed himself the
champion bronco buster. WAS thrown
SO high the other day, In the riding
hall. that he took cramps before he
struck the ground.
Man. the dog. is champion fighter
at 81 pounds. At this weight the
troop will cover all the coin that can
be placed against him. Slugger, the
pet, IL the greatest dog in the post.
Mckoy. the troops champion prize
fighter, a 17N FOUNDER. desires to
know where Battling Thompson is.
This is all for Troop I. We will
visit Troop X Next Week.
Mr.. Greg Taylor, of Troop E. is
agent for books. Anyone desiring n
book Of any description may purchase
1t from him at very reasonable rates.
As was expected. the Ninth Cavalry
! Sluggers won the post pennant by
snatching the last game from the
Eleventh Infantry bunch. In this
game 1t was hard to tell who was 60
ing to win until the ninth inning The
foot soldiers had great deal OF good
luck up until the sixth inning. Dur
ing this part Of the game the white
boys playing infield got some balls
that would have been difficult for
Hans Wagner or any other of the
big leaguers to got. But even with
all this luck they lost. AS the Ninth
Horse had 10 many sluggers with It.
nearly every one making good. too. Il
was almost impossible for the Dough