The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-05
TRACK AND FIELD
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sport back OF the firing lines OF France
may soon be taken up by American di-
Visions. In view OF this the following
lotter from II member OF the Canadian
ekp"dltionary force may be do,Ibly inter
esting
Dear Sir | have long been a reader
of the Sportlight, because | am fan.
Ana being returned soldier from the
'front.' with the Canadian expeditionary
forces, Third battalion. First brigade. |
th"ught ! would let YOU know something
about bomb throwing and what effect It
would have on the Huns II Walter John
son, Alexander, Ruth, ClCotte, Morton,
Iauss or any Of those with great whips
were In bomb encounter
IN the fIrst place, II is not speed that
Is counted upon. unless II In getting the
bomh away. once you pull the pin, and
IN The second plaqc, II is not a baseball
throw that hurls the bomb into the
trenches II IL more of throw on the
style OF cricket player with an over
mana delivery that loops the bomb into
the enemy trench straight throw.
such ns an outficlders peg or a slap
across the diamond, would invariably
MT tho top OF the paranet and do no
cortal damage, which is not what bomb
islntcndcd 10 do.
About Baseball In France.
Lot me tell you Mr. Rice. about base
ban I'm France. We Canucks surely did
have 10 have game to try and get our
minds on the he'll that was going on and
II would have done Kan Johnsofs y heart
good TO see two rival teams playing
within mile 0nd II half of the firing
me behind their billcts, pro tenn, on
route further back The "hcayics" were
playing all around the plowed field and
ne stone based diamond. but the gang
Kept on playing MS though they were On
ia ~ IA
ACTUALLY stated that the leftfiolder on A
company made n mistake and chased
Nhht he thought was n long fy only 20
discover that IL was four FOUNDER from
the Huns that nv and puffed up In the
neJ heli This happened nt Zllebckc,
= am telling you these facts lust TO
snow hoy the Canucks carry even though
they are intermIngled I'm all the most
vivid essences Of hell Sport II the cnl
tclaNation FOR nerve. wrecked body. and.
h.llcve me- tho wrecklng crew IN eatur-
at"d throughout France Therefore do
not let them cut out baseball kccause
you are IN this scrap. but carry on and.
MS the trench song goes, Put nl your
troubles In your old Kit bag, and smile
smile smile Another thing I would
IKE To tell you IL tnRt there are not any
thing Ike the number Of United States
natives In the Canuck army that they
tell about. What there are OF them are
t""u M any oi 'hc pcst ana we ohy
wish there were couple OF hundred
thousand more of them Most OF the
boys who came to Canada TO enlist from
the states were former Canadians or
from Great Britain. We had one ON our
team who came from Brooklyn, and he
declared the fun he was having had sit
ting in the bleschers watching the Dod-
gers beaten 10 frNlZle II Is SOME
game over there and would like to get
back To II, but that is impossible now,
and We who have returned look 10 see
many ~ your boys take our places for
God knows We have done our bit, Sim
ccrely,
mo. 7l2s--A CO.. 3d Bat. lat Brigade,
Canadian ENpcdltiopary Fosev: