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ESCAPES DROWNING
Private Orrin Hopkins Pulls Three
Other Men Down With Him. But
All Are Rescued.

Camp Mcclellan, Ala, Sept. 10
\ narrow escape by First Regi-
ment man from drowning in Chesa-
peake Lake, his rescue by Sergt.
kenton Strange, of the FirSt'S Ma
chine Gun Company. assisted by TWO
other sergeants and a private, Tea
tured the Marylanders' first Sunday
in training camp.
Private Orrin Hopkins, OF L com
| pany, Salisbury. was the man who
| nearly drowned. With a crowd of
| other Maryland soldiers, he went
| swimming after a ball game on the
new diamond back of the First 5
| camp, where H company had just
| beaten c company to l in a two
hour battle.
Hopkins couldn't explain his sud
| den weakness i'll the water. He saw
Sergeant Gray, of | company, near
| him, and stopped swimming Il mo-
ment to call to him. He began to
sink. and, he sad afterward, it new
er occurred to him to try to swim.
He touched bottom, pushed himself
up and sank again, but first he
shouted for help
Sergeant Strange and Sergt. Carl
Hollingsworth, of Belair, also of the
Machine Gun Company, We're dress
ing on top of an old building on the
bank OF the lake. Holngsworth
heard Hopkins shout, but he is not
a good swimmer, so he called TO
Strange, who is an expert swimmer.
Strange, fully dressed, leaped from
the shed, ran up the bank and
plunged in.
BY that time three men We're I'M
der water. Sergeants Wagner and
Gray and Private Tubbs had gone TO
Hopkins rescue one by one, and
Hopkins had pulled them all down
Hopkins to the top and the other
men, being less exhausted, were able
to tax ecare of themselves.
When Strange got Hopkins TO
shore the latter was exhausted.
They rolled him On the ground and
gave him restoratives and he finally
revived. An hour later he had fully
recovered and was able TO go to
mess with the rest of his company.
Strange came oft with nothing
worse than a slightly strained back
and d pair of badly torn olive drab
Dreeches. They had split when he
jumped from the roof. His machine
gun comrades roundly congratulate
ed him.
The tai game attracted nearly ev-
cry Marylander in camp. 1t went
the full nine innings, with H COM
pany leading all the war, through
the mastery work OF its pitcher.
Corporal Fike. Fike struck out II
&c company men in succession at the
very beginning and his strike out
record for the game was 20. Not
&c company man got base on balls
Thomas, of H company, captain OF
the Western Maryland ball team
this year, got the only home run,
and Sergeant Boone and Corporal
F1ke each got a two-bagger. tike
let his opponents down with two
hits and H company ran up a total
of 10 hits
The batteries for H company were
Ffke and Boone, and for company
Corporal Trippe and Corp. S. T.
Price. The umpires were Sergeant
Jarboe, of G company, and Sergeant
Walker, of c company Sergt DE-
Shipley, of H company, was official
scorer Boone is captain of H COM
pany's team and Price is captain OF
the company outfit
The First Regiment will begin
drill and instruction tomorrow. f'if-
teen of the training camp officers
who came here Two weeks ago nave
been assigned 10 the First to in
struct and to be instructed The
regiment is badly handicapped for
lack of nearly level field, and, for
the time being, Colonel Little Will
probably use the roads and company
streets