Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-27

! CAMP MEADE. ADMIRAL, Nd, octo-
Der 27-No sooner does this division of
the National Army unearth a real
celebrity than it loses him. Col. Dan T.
Moore, 310th Field Artillery. who has
| leaped into the limelight as the only
man who ever put out the eye of a
President of the United States. is sched-
uled for transfer from Camp Meade to
| be in command of a negro artillery
regiment to be organized at Camp Dix.
| Col. Moore's new command is to be a
unit of a new National Army division
| to be composed wholly of negro drafted
| men. The new divisin is to be known
| as the 92d Division of the National
| Army. This information was given out
this morning at division headquarters
| here.
| The Blow That Put Out an Eye.
| Col Moore isn't boasting of the deed
wicked right cross that put Col Roose-
velts eye out.
| He didn't know about 1t until a few
| days ago, when the colonel informed
group of newspaper men that he
| hadn't been able to see with one of his
| eyes since "a husky young artillery
captain" landed on it during a bout
Colonel Gave Away Secret.
II never knew the colonel had lost
| the sight of one eye in a glove bout
| until ] read that interview the other
| day. Col. Moore said. and I certainly
| do hate to think l was responsible for
| it.
ct was ono IF .ha ,,,il;.,r, ,;ds NJ
the White House in 1904 and 1905, and
the colonel and 1 boxed four or five
times week, l guess. They were
lively bouts. too. 1 want to tell you.
The colonel never asked his boxing
opponents to slow up or to send 'em
over little more gently, and you want
to be sure he didn't soft-pedal any of
his own wallops. 1t was slam, bang.
/, from start to finish when a fellow had
| the gloves on with him.
| The colonel and young Teddy and
were the box fighters A few times
Granville Fortecue, who lieu
1 tenant and an aid at the White House.
boxed with the colonel, but l don't
! think more than half a dozen times al
! together, at the outside. Fortescue is
| a major now, down at Camp Lee, at
| Petersburg, Va.
Didn't Box With Colonel.
Young Phil Sheridan was another
aid at that time. but he never had the
| gloves on with the colonel that I know
| of. OF course, the colonels boxing in
| structor might have done it, except
| that the colonel specified an artillery
captain, and that seems to pin it on
me- was the only man filing the
specifications who was attached to the
White House at that time
Il don't know just when it happened.
AS l say, we boxed four or five times
a week, ! suppose; and it was fast
! hard boxing, too. l landed many a
hard one on him, and you want to be-
ieve me when l say he wasn't a bit
baShful or reluctant about handing the
same kind right back. lie never backed
up, and he hadn't any use for an OPP
ponent who did, either So l can't say
just when or how l happened to land
the right cross that made him blind
in one eye"
Col Moore sat with one leg across
the corner of the table in his quarters
as he talked. Several years have piled
on him since the days in 1905 when he
was one of the White House aides, but
he's still a mighty husky individual.
Col. Moore Looks Fit.
His height is about five feet eleven
inches and his weight probably close
to 200 pounds. Col Moore looks as fit
and moves as actively and alertly as a
youngster He wears a closeclipped
btack muStache, ana has one of those
heavy boards that show blue-black
through the skin an hour after he
shaves. He is one of those thiek-chest-
ed, round-bodied men who give the
impression of strength and solidity
even to the most casual observer
His regiment is composed of Mary
landers from the tidewater counties
The officers and men in the regiment
think mighty highly of their colonel
as it is, and his personal popularity
will not be lessened when they learn
he was expert enough to hand Col.
Roosevelt that historic wallQp. I'm
going to write to the colonel right
away and ask him about it," he said.
Il want him to know how l regret
having slipped that one over-that is
If it really was !. and I guess it was"
F. G. H.