Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-25
CAMP lee PREPARING
FOR THANKSGIVING DAY
To Bo Occasion for, Much Eating
and Many Athletic
rs Contests.
GET 49, 900 POUNDS OF TURKEY
Each Soldier Allotted One and One
Quarter Pounds of Popular Bird.
ALI Usual "Fixings" Bought in
Large Quantities.
IBy Stan Correspondent

CAMP LEE. VA, November 81
THANKSGIVING day at Camp Leo will
be one long remembered by the me.
OF the Elghtieth Division. Everything
is being done to assure the mon n
round OF pleasure. and there VIII be
sports OF every nature and for every
inclination, all of which will be garn-
ished by Thanksgiving dinner served
a In Uncle Sammy. which means that
there will be everything for the men
to eat that can be purchased in Peters
burg Richmond or elsewhere to make
the dinner of the real Thanksgiving
variety It will be 4 holiday here in
every sense.
+ B. r. Murphy, the division athletic
director. has worked out plan for
the sports OF the day. These will start
in the morning. then called off for
Sthe big dinner and resumed again in the
afternoon. Then at night the Y. NJ.
&C. A. has arragcd for an indoor athletic
Z meet in its auditorium. There will
ALSO be a football game at Petersburg
In the afternoon between the Three
Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment and
Wesleyan. of West Virginia.
On account OF the fact that only one
days leave will be granted for Thanks
giving. and the fact also that SO many
attractions will be offering at the
camp. it Is not believed that many of
the men will leave.
Featuring the morning exercises will
be an interunit cross-country run. in
which each regiment and separate unit
will enter at least twenty men. The
course will be about four miles in
length. Winning teams viii: be award
cd trophies. Individual prizes will be
given the first five men finishing. These
will be presented with the compliments
: of the Richmond branch OF the Com
mission on Training Camp Activities.
There will be four sets Of athletic
events held in the camp Thanksgiving
ono in the Depot Brigade, one in
each of the two infantry brigades and
one In the artillery brigade. Foot
ball games have been arranged. and
pushball contests, volley-ball games
and what not, all are to be played be-
tween various regiments. At the Y.
NJ. c. a. at night there Will be races
and other indoor events.
a team of colored men will play
football in Richmond Thanksgiving
afternoon.
Beginning Monday, the camp quar-
termaster will begin issuing the 49,
coo pounds OF turkey, which will make
up the principal item at the dinner
Thursday. Each man will sc, one
pound and quarter Of turkey Thanks
giving day. In addition. the mess SER
sesnts have been purchasing extras of
all kinds. including Smithiield hams
oysters. celery. cranberries and every
ccI!cacy that goes with The day
So much extra food Will be provided
for the holiday that il Will be ncces-
sary 70. the cooks and mess sergeants
10 begin day or two N advance 10
prepare the dinner. Many of the conf
panics arc preparing 20 decorate their
nessrooms for the occasion
An additional class in the bavone.
action Of the infantry school of arms
will commence Monday. one noncom-
missioned officer from each rife com
pany in the Virginia Brigade Will be
selected. the purpose OF the new in
struction being to develop from the
CLASS specialist bayonct Instructor
Tor each company. On the completion
OF the course by the noncoms from the
Virginia regiments. = similar class will
be started for the men in the Penn
sylvania commands.
1t was stated. to-day that Private