The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17
TOO
ROUGH A GAME
FOR OFFICER
English Bayonet Instructor
At Camp Grant Is
Really Shocked
HAS SPENT THREE
YEARS IN TRENCHES
Stepping All Over a Mans
Face Too Much For
Him, However


Rockford, ILL.,, Nov. 17.-There was
a practice" football game at Camp
Grant the other day, husky bunch of
national army artillerymen lining up
against the picked divisional team
which is to represent this canton
ment in the contest with Camp Custer
in Chicago three weeks hence. The
divisional team was made up entirely
of officers. and composed of players
whose names are written large in
college football annals. The oppos-
ing eleven was a hard driving ag-
gregation of enlisted men from the
333rd artillery, but all official bars
were down and it was fierce scrim-
mage.
English and French officers. fresh
from the western front, were in the
crowd which watched the practice"
Many of them never before had seen
an American gridiron battle, and ex-
pressed their amazement over the
fierce attacks and defense in no I'M
certain terms.
some game!" remarked an Ameri-
can major to Sergeant Major w. Bar
raft, of the British army, whose
speciality is the bayonet.
"Jove" returned the visitor earn
estly, you know, / don't like it. It's
all too rough! Fancy game where
they take 'em off in stretchers and
no one seems to notice it,"
Lets see," remarked the American
officer, cycling the visitor curiously,
you wear the badge of Meritorious
Service on the Field do you not?
You have served three years in front
line trenches and lodged bombs and
cleaned dug-outs of Hun occupants,
have gone over the top in charges a
good many times and seen the war
as 1t is played over there. Ever
woundedT'
Englishman still watching the scrim-
mage wonderingly. 81 say, look
there! Stepping all over that mans
face! Extraordinary! You know. i
have read about thousands of people
going to see Harvard and Yale break
each others legs and the like. It's
altogether too bally rough, you
know"
The American officer watched the
distinguished ''non-com" depart for
trenches" he murmured again, "dodg-
ing bombs, spearing the Hun on
bayonets. Getting scratches and
it's too rough for hint"
Men of the hospital corps had some
real work to perform. One artilT
leryman was carried away because
of a sprained ankle and another was
given 'frst aid for a deep scalp
wound.
After the first lineup when the
artilleryman plowed through the Of
ficers for clean ten-yard gain, both
teams settled down. Guided by Lieut..
Jack Eddy, former Princeton quarter
back, the division representatives
soon struck their stride, exhibiting
Individual, flashes OF football genius
that bewildered their opponents and
brought the ball in a steady march
to the artillery goal Three touch
downs were scored by the officers be-
fore ITO The Colors," played at re-
treat, brought the two teams sud
denly from a tangle of arms and
legs to salute the division flag as IL
was lowered from headquarters nag
pole.
Lieutenants Schobinger, former
University of Illinois star; Chatfield-
Taylor, Yale; Berger, wisconsin and
Chicago; and Shiverick, Cornell,
showed up. we'll in the hard practice
fight while Captain Whiting, Chfca-
go, played a mastery line game.