Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14
MEN OF CAMP DIX
TOPLAY FOOTBALL
STARS" There From the Uni
versities Marshaling Forces
as Part of Training
Y. M C. AS GREAT PART
The Rev. DR.. Woelfkin Joins
Forces for Religious Work.
A Song with a Swing

CAMP DIX. wrghstown, N. j. Sept. ~.
| announcement that friends in Trenton
are anxious to raise company fund for it's
| boys who are and will be In Company Il.
of the 311th Infantry res ched the Mercer
| County men today. They sent a commit.
| tee consisting of Privates Schrpth and Aid.
ridge to Trenton to talk the matter over
with Mayor Donnelly and Richard Stock
ton. state Commissioner Of Charities, leaders
OF the movement. The plan is to raise 500 }.
| the physical training of the new army Is
suggested by the leaders of the Young
Mems Christian Association who are out
lining tentative football schedule. Many
former football stars are among the Off.
GERS and drafted men in camp and teams
are being formed from the early recruits.
gridiron is to he laid out at one end of
the parade grounds where a nearby hill
forms natural ampitheatre.
In tho 311th Infantry Captain Warner, a
famous ha fbaCli at Yale before he become
New York broker is selecting a skeleton
team from the ''rooliies." The 307th Field
Artillery has Lieutenant Dave" West,
former All-American tackle: Captain FL
lery Huntington, an All-American quarter
lineman, all Of Columbia University, as
trainers for its football squad.
MANY COLLEGE STARS
star. and several fellow officers who played
with Yale, Princeton and Brown, are pan.
nlng 10 turn out a team from the Fif
teenth New York coored infantry that
Will made big drive for the cantonment
championship.
Important changes in the schedule for
the sending of the next 40 per cent of the
drafted men to Camp Dix were announced
on yesterday at General Kennedys head
quarters whereby the new Nationals" will
arrive here in two divisions, instead of from
New Jersey, Delaware and New York stimuli
taneously, as with the first per cent. From
September 10 to 23. inclusive Delaware and
New Jersey will send something less than
5000 men and from September 26 to 80
New York States quota of about 5000 will
come. This will bring bigger daily quota
from each of the districts i'm the three
States, will mean less complications for
the exemption boards and will enable the
camp officers to centrallze the work of re-
ceivng the new recruits.
The Rev. DR.. Cornelius F. woefkin of
the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New
York city. which is attended by John d.
Rockefeller, reported for duty to General
Secretary Lansdale, of the Army Y. NJ G.
A, this morning. He offered his services
TO the association last week and was
quickly accepted and made a member of
the general staff.
one of the first men Doctor Woelfkin met
here yesterday was the Rev Dr. II. NJ. East
wood, of the First Baptist Church, Bur
lington. Doctor Eastwood was Doctor Woelf-
lin's former pastor at Wilmington. Del. and
he came here to inform the Y. NJ c. A.
of the plans made by his Burlington church
to welcome Camp Dix officers and men to
it's services and the use of its recreation
hall when in Burlington.
The Y NJ C. A. is to be in wide sense
the clearing house for all religious activi- |
ties inside the camp. The broadness of
its work was illustrated today when Cyrus
j, Janover national leader of the Jew |
ish Young Mems Association. opened his |
headquarters in an association building and |
became one Of the association family eat |
ing and "bunking" with the general staff. |