The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-07-23

Since aTr:ivipg at ahe station the ship
has been hn all kinds of sports. One
of the greatest hits made in the naval
circle here was the defeating of the
Italian cruisers race boat crew in a
2-mile pull at the Shanghai rowing club,
at the summer resort HenlL The
Italians have claimed the undisputed
championship of the Asiatic station for
the past nine years. But when the
good ship Gaaveston,s race boat crew
lined up with every other ship In the
bay including about four nationalities,
with her Drawn and muscle in the boat,
she looked as IL there was nothing ever
could beat her. but the men in the boat
were as soft az could be. some of them
were old men-ofwarsmen. who
had not had an oar in their hands for
six or eight years. and they going out
and defeating the Italian Marco Polo s
race boat about three boat lengths
which was the cause of great surprise
and later caused several minor rackets
ashore which, however. did not result
in anything very serious. They stabbed
a fellow off the Cincinatti one night
and cut the jumper off another man
but that is all there was to it, rhe
American btuejacket is always looked
up to more than any other nationality
on account of them being SO well train
ed and disciplined and their ability to
get along. They never start any fights
but If they are implicated in anything
Of the sort they make short work of it
and then they go off as II there was
nothing at all ever happened.
The Galveston has never made fail
ure OF anything she has attempted
since leaving the states. When we get
our minds on anything you can depend
on II going through. We have all the
material for any kind of sports going
on this ship and the other ships In our
fleet have found il out. When the lit
tie complement of the ship put their
heads together and said we were going
to give the German ships a little smo-
ker. in 4S hours the hall was secured
for the blowout and the men were
busy decorating 1t. The next evening
shortly after nine the thousand sailors
off the u. s. S. Saratoga and Rainbow,
and the German cruisers Scharnhorst
Gneiseneau, Planet and Tiger and the
Russian cruiser Askold began to come
in and the evening was spent with the
good MINISTRIES of the Noble ship Gin
cinatti' which volunteered to do their
best to entertain the Ditchers off OF
the German ships. The evening was
spent with the minstrel troop of the Gin
cinatti and bands from the u. S. army
and Saratoga's band and a shore band,
so there was plenty of amusement and
plenty of refreshments OF all kinds for
everybody. The entertainment was kept
going until the wee sma hours of the
morning when the bands played the
German, Russian and American nation
al airs Then three hearty cheers came
from the Germans and was answered
by the American sailors and then the
Russians came in and were answered
with three hearty cheers which ended
an all night session which will never
be forgotten by the Germans as long as
they live. have met several of them
up here and the ones that could talk
English at all said they wished they
could give an entertainment which was
as great success We did. Since
arriving here in Shanghai we have wal
Ioped the Shanghai baseball team a