Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-06
JACKIES START
YEARS TRAINING
Sixty Basketball Stars Try for Sail
ors' Svarsity' Quintet at Great
Lakes.
SEASON WILL OPEN ON DEC. 2
Northwestern College WIN Be First
Foes of Uncle Sans Five This
Season.

Great Lakes. ILL.,, Dec. with foot
ball in the hold basketball now holds
down the bridge at the Great Lakes
Naval Training station. Lieutenant
Commander John B. Kaufman, in.
charge of athletics for Commandant
Moffett's jackies, has found time after
performing his duties as head or the
hospital training school and station en-
. tertainment TO lay plans for success
full basketball season.
About fifteen teams, eight regl-
mental and the rest composed OF men
of petty officers, coxswains, quarter
master, and other training schools, are
| in the process Of incubation. After
Matching they will be in charge OF
Eddie HI. Fall, to whom Kaufman will
delegate charge Of all basketball ac-
tivities.
To Have @Varsity'' Team.
A regular station team will be
formed from the most promising ma
Iterial. Games with universities, col
leges, and training camps throughout
the middle west are being negotiated
for by Fail, who plans to card about
fifteen or twenty games for the season.
When DR.. kaufman issued call for
candidates a squad of SO put in an
appearance at the station gymnasium
/ YESTERDAY. The men were given pre-
liminary workout by Herman Olcotti
! former head coach at the University
of Kansas, who has been designated
as athletic aid to Commandant Moffett
Olcott will smear the gloss on the
team that will represent the station
II Fall now has on the books at the ath-
letic office the names of several hun
dred tackles who claim to have had
) varied experience as basket tossers
There are any number Of former higl
school stars from states Throughout
the middle west, and not a few yarsit!
men from colleges who have regis
tered.
: Long List of Star Players.
Some Of the best material that ha'
been lined up follows: J. B. Felmley
WHO has played two years varsity bas
iketball with the University of Illinois
liz. W. Lormer, four years with Norma
; High and two years with Northwest
ern: Harold A. Erickson OF St. Olaf
college, star halfback on the station
: football team, who made the Fort Sher
I idan newly commissioned officers loo
Z like a bunch OF wagon soldiers vine
: he tangoed 95 yards for a touchdown
= Frank Nikolas, forward for the Yves
! Side Browns of Chicago; Jimmy Con
, zelnlan Of Washington university
:. quarterback on the station footba
= team and the best all around athlete q
y Great Lakes. Cy Ward. formerly {
: Evanston High and the Eyansto
Reds; Lane, for two years forward {
Northwestern; and McNaughton, fol
merly of Western Reserve, Cleyelan
and a high school coach of repute.
Two tentative dates have alread
r. been arranged by Manager Fall, tt
first being Northwestern college at n;
perville on Dec. % and the Universal
+ of Minnesota at Minneapolis on ia
= 5. Fall is now corresponding with Oh
10 cago, Illinois. Wisconsin, Notre Dam
y Detroit +'Y, = and Camps Custer, Dodg
, and Grant
- Plan Swimming Team. Too.
S Inc tackleS would Hhe 10 carry
team into the east, but it is felt he
IS that negotiations would be useles
a, Later this week Chief Woman McGil
xt vray, Hazelhurst. and McClanaha
n who are teaching the iackies how
ar swim, will issue a call for candidat
u for station swimming teams. II
til planned to make run for honors
the polo and relay championships.
tn
be BOYS QUINTET GOING GOOD.
I'd The Young Mems Hebrew assoei
! ton first team defeated a second al