Evening star., 1918-05-19
CAMP MEADE NOTES.

Washington will be the mecca for
a thousand or more Meade soldiers
Sunday, May 1s, when the first pro-
fessional base ball game-to be played
In the capital will take place between
the Washington Nationals and the
Cleveland team, at $3.50 o'clock. Clark
Griff1th. manager of the washington
team, has sent word to the camp au-
thorities that he will hold seats and
admit free Of charge thousand or
more soldiers from Meade
For the past week members of the
District Machine Gun Battalion have
been going through a stfn course OF
training in muscle-building feats cal.
culated to make them the 'Samsons'
of the National Army. In order to
the service a soldier must be able to
chin himself fifteen times successive
ly on the horizontal bar. climb hand
over hand twenty feet on gym
rope at the rate Of one foot to the
second, run 100 yards in thirteen sec
onds, 200 yards in thirty-f1ve seconds
and hand vault four and one-half feet
without touching the bar with any,
thing except the hands.
Three members of the District Ma
chine Gun Battalion. all ex-Company G
men, have made the Division base ball
nine They are Private Ralph Earle
Fraser. Private "Cappy" Langan and
Corp Salb.
Lieut.. E. W. Jordan of Company B,
Division coach in base ball. now has a
big squad to report for practice every
day. One of the new recruits for the
squad is Buck" Becker. former
pitcher for the Washington Nation
ais, and a Washington selective.
Postmaster Holland p. Watts of
Odenton. a village just outside the
by the Post ONCE Department to be
on the lookout for the aerial mail.
and to notify the department as to
areas suitable for landing nearby.
camp post office to receive aerial mail
dropped while the aeroplane is In
flight
Mess sergt. Allen Kidwell Of Com
pany A has been grained a Ave day
honeymoon pass. His flnancee Is a
Washington girl. but outside of that
his comrades have not been let into
the secret as to the identity Of his in
tended.
Corp. wellborn of Company 3. Dis
trict Battalion, and Privates O'Don-
nell and Logan, Company c. have
been assigned to the Tack School At
the hemOunt station.
Members of Company C's base bal
team, winners of the champions sh in
contests in the District Battalion.
will all be awarded medals inscribed
with the event won and the insignia of
their unit. Private Monk Fraser and
Corp. Salb were. respectively, catcher
and pitcher for the winning team
Other members of the team are: Corp.
Boteler. Corp. Green. Privates Lang
SO: Corps. Kelley and Bailey, an.l
sergts. Peterson and Biddle.
Everybody knows that a good SOL
dier can become a good congressman.
but now comes Royal c. johnson OF
South Dakota with the statement that a
good congressman can become a good
soldier. In the past. America has
honored many of its military heroes
by making presidents and senators
out of them. Now the shoe is being
tried on the other foot, and Sergt
johnson. who left Congress to Join
the Army here. is already RAPIDLY
demonstrating that. although he is
above draft age, he has the makings
of a splendid soldier in him.
Lieut.. Rochat, of the French Army
attached to the division staff here as
adviser and instructor, has been lee
turing for the past two weeks in
Baltimore and nearby towns to fur
ther the sale of war Saving stamps
and more than 100000 worth OF
thrift books have been sold in places
where he talked.