Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-18
SECOND BATTALION
C.M,G,O.T,S, HOLDS
FIELD MEET
Baseball, Races and Gross
Country Run Held in Big
Meet By the Second
Battalion

No decided superiority was shown by
any one OF the competing companies in
the first Of the weekly field and athletic
meets neld at Camp Hancock last We'd
nesday afternoon by the Second Battalion
OF the Central Officers Training School
This meet was the first Of series
that will pc held every Wednesday aft
eracon by tie Second Battalion. The
different company officers were in charge
and acted as the umpires and judges.
The first m,et was well staged, and
the future ones promise even greater sue
cess and interest.
Baseball. basketball, boxing races and
Other evorts OF Il usual track meet were
contested
OF these baseball is probably the
and the spectators.
A regular 81 DUE GAS been adop;el
TO TN" attrlion, ard three games VIII
he played each Netres2ay. Real base
ball was GlGy%d by the six teams lust
Wednesday, and team which would
give any outfit In camp a hard fight
could be selected from the battalion.
The best gene. from mechanical or
sctestific stanG}clnt was between the
TwCnty-SiNth c mpany and the Eighth
Company The Twenty sixth won the
game Ivy the score OF to o. Both teams
played crrcrle5s ball, and the game was
fas, and swift. IL was a pitchers battle,
with Winters. Of the Twenty sixth Com
pany. having the edge on Byerly, Of the
Eighth Company. He allowed only three
hits. Will Ehctt, Of the Twenty sixth,
and Willis II Of the Eighth were the bat
ting stars, cach getting two hits, one of
Iilnotts being q double
The game between the Ninth and Sew
enth Companies resulted in a victory
for the former, by the score of to ?.
This was ano'hCr well played game, with
the defense much in evidence, although
there was considerable slamming of the
bail.
The most Interesting game, from
fNFtt t,s eyg,Sot III tod
last game In which the Eleventh Company
defeated the Tenth Company. 6 to 3.
In this game the defense wasn't so
tight. and the old base hit, the delight
Of the fans life, was much more in evil
dercc than in the preceding games,
The cross country run was won by the
Tenth Company, with score of $40
points. The Eighth Company came sec
third with 1876 points. and the Twelfth
Company fourth with 32G
individually, Candidate Mann, Of the
Twelfth Company. finished first; Yates of
the Seventh Company, third; and Farrier,
OF the Eighth Company, fourth.
Wright, Of the Ninth Company, won the
first heat of the 50-yard dash in 5 4-5
McCandless. of the Eighth. was sec
ond, and Malcolm, Of the Twelfth. was
| third
baldwin, of the Twenty sixth Company
| ShuWeU All MS opponents Il Cledl pair OF
heels in the second heat and won hand
! lily in seconds
Allen of the Tenth Company, was Sec
ond, and Sickle, Of the Eighth, was
| third.
McCandless, of the Eighth Company,
won the third heat in seconds.
| Baldwin of the Twenty sixth Com
pany finished second and Wright, of the
Ninth Company third.
| There were a number of other events
| including several boxing matches Prob
ably the most interesting of these was
the three-round fight between the heavy
Company, and Hark, from the Seventh
| Company. The big batter from the
| Twenty sixth Company. won andily.
! TIE men are looking forward to the
next meet each company making claims
i that it viii win the majority of events.
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