Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-01-03

iege athletes not only in football but in wrestling
rowing. boxing or any other sport
So to further this speciality there is in the
navy regularly organized feet athletic commit
tee composed OF five officers. Lieut.. s. c. Hooper
of the flagship Connecticut is at the head of it.
This committee exercises a general oversight
over all sports and arranges dates for regattas
and sporting events Outside the daily participa-
ton in sports there are four distinct seasons
when Jack is put his mettle so far as athletics
go. They are when the games are pulled off at
Guantanamo, Newport Bar Harbor and Boston,
when the feet is together. At such times interest
ashore is quite great as aboard ship.
II rooters for college games think themselves
the acme of infectious enthusiasm 1t is because
they haven't seen navy contest. 1t takes a
bunch of jackies, efferyeseing with the excite
ment of an intership contest, to give the former
cards and spades in emotional pyrotechnics, for
the games are always vigorously contested the
various ships crews being represented on the
side lines, bowling encouragement in their own
peculiar fashion.
AS a rule competition in the events is emina-
tive. the ships first contesting by divisions in
championships playing each other for feet cham
pionship.
For the last two years the Connecticut team has
won the football trophy-a wooden football,
| gilded.
1t is when the fleet is in southern waters for
aerial target practice that baseball is particularly
enjoyed
Then" says Lieutenant Hooper. baseball par
ties landed each day and the games as
| holly contested those of the major leagues.
| The men rabid fans those ashore and
keep as sharp tabs the Official as any
landsman Each evening about o'clock the
scores of the various games in the National and
American leagues are sent from the flagship by
| radio
when it to the boat races" says the
| chief athletic officer, 1.-The sailor is naturally in
| his element and the races are highly spectacular
The course is usually between the line of ships
and as the boats skim over the waters all the
men man the rails and cheer their favorite team
| to the echo"
For this competition the regular twelveoared
service cutter of the navy Is used that is unless
as sometimes happens. the men of a special ship
get together and buy of their own, Such
craft is generally termed "tailor-made" boat
because OF its superior style and finish. The
Battenberg cup. presented by Prince Louis for
the crew races. Is most desired and all efforts
are bent at winning 1t. large number of other
cups have at various times been put up for COM
petition, among them by August Belmont
Money prizes sometimes offered too and a
ship will sometimes win much as SIS, 900 in
purses One year the Indiana won that sum and
the Maine $4,000 In special es ent, threemile
race, which pulled of In 26 minutes On
the same occasion the marines on the Indiana
won purse of $4,000 besides the Dutch challenge
cup.
In Guantanamo also occurs the final bouts to
For this the men train as ndustriously as though
they We're really the white hopes" of the pro-
fessonal class, and in spite of the fact that their