Evening journal., 1917-05-14
Students leave
FOR FORT MEER
Coach McAvoy and About
Twenty Delaware Boys
Go TO Training Camp
CADET CORPS ON
HIKE IN COUNTRY

Special 70 THE EVENING JOURNAL
NEWARK, May 14-More than
twenty Delaware College students
and graduates whose applications for
the Officers Training Camp at Fort
Myer were accepted are now at the
fort Some left Newark yesterday for
Washington. and the remainder left
early this morning The exact num-
Der of students who will take training
az this camp has no. been ascortained
by the college officials as the notice
FOR them to report was sent direct &c
their homes IN most instances and
some OF them have not notified the
college. There are several members
OF this years graduating class in the
group and all OF the students will
receive their diplomas the same as
though they finished out the term
which ends the first OF next month
The college cadet corps headed by
the band, marched to the station this
morning to see the prospective Off
GERS OFF
Coach William J. McAvoy was
among those who left for the training
camp yesterday Assistant Coach
Clarence q. Keyes will have charge
Of the athletics the remainder of the
college year Baseball IS hit hard,
three of the varsity being lost Cap
tain Harold II. Horsey, left fielder on
the team; George r. Ferguson. also
an outielder, and Randolph Taggart
have left college, Ferguson was a
sergeant in Company Il, Delaware
National Guard when the troops we're
at Deming. and received his appoint
ment 10 the training camp through
the militia. Stanley LOOMS. James
Bice. j. L. Smart. George c. Brewer,
]. Wilson O'Daniel, j. Alexander
Crothers and Harvey c. Bounds. Del
aware College men who served in
Company e at the border, are among
those who have gone to the Fort Myer
Camp
Other students who left yesterday
or this morning for Fort Myer in ad-
dition to those mentioned are: John
A. Hopkins Jr. r. Tracy Campbell,
Morris r. Mitchell, son OF DR. Sam
uel c. Mitchell president Of the coll
lege; +. Earl Plumley, Leon b. Stay
ton, Michael j. Fidance. for three
years quarterback on the football
team: Howard A. Broadwater, S. A.
Hamilton, John =. Gum, Owen e.
Spruance and f. Colen McCaughey.
J. A. Mather. James Bice and Louis
G. Gibney are among the graduates
who went to Fort Myer
Randolph Taggart. the shortstop on
the varsity team. whose home is in
Elkton, and who was a member OF
Company Il militia OF that town. has
been transferred to the engineering
corps and viii not likely he back
to Delaware this term.
The track team so far has lost but
one man. This is ArrigO +. Mar
conetti. who has entered the aviation
school at Mineola, l.. I. He was the
champion boxer OF the college and
played guard on the football team in
few games last fall and was one OF
the best weight men on the track
team His home is in New York
Notwithstanding the fact that many
OF the men who have gone to the train
ing camp are officers in the college
cadet corps. Lieutenant William f..
Hoey. the military instructor. Will 90
ahead today with the training work
preparatory 10 the annual government
inspection which will be made this
year May % and "a. Today the cadet
corps will spend the day in the coun-
try on hike taking their lunches
with them. They will be drilled IN
field exercises. Tomorrow there will
be a general review on Frazer Field
of the years work.