The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-04

 LOSES LAST
 GAME FIGHT

AN AMERICAN HOSPITAL IN FRANCE, Sept. 2.-Cby maiD No. they're not going to bring the Ser geant back to the ward, boys"
 Those were exactly the words the nurse used. Put the tone of her voice and the look in her eyes said more
 The little group in the ward which had been playing cards on one of the beds to forget the tension they felt while the scrgeant's operation was l taking place, stopped suddenly. all attention, all hungering for good news
 You don't mean the scrgeanrs gone do you?" exclaimed one.
 "Yes. boys the Sergeants' gone. 1 Fonr operations were just too much for his strength. He never regained consciousness"
 1 The little group of patients and the , nurse were silent
 Tn" chap with one leg gone had half q deck of cards in his hand. | Dazed. he relaxed. and the cards fell to the floor. scattering over half the ward. The chap with one leg gone never noticed them.
 He Was a Game Boy.
 Gee, the Scrgeants gone" he said huskily, he sure was game boy" "IIc was the best fellow | ever knew" said another, and the cheer fullest, too. l'y" seen them dressing his leg tim" and again, and gosh but it hurt. But did the Sergeant ever say anything? Not the Sergeant-he never batted an eye"
 Just to think" unused the third. it wasn't half an hour ago when We saw him go out. shouted. Good luck. Sarge. when the stretcher wa car. ri"d through the door. and he smiled and said, Thanks, I'll be back in q few minutes with you "
 They sat there together. the half q dozen of the SerEeant's bunkies. all navlids. with the nurse of the ward | just musing and talking like that. try ing to realize that the Sergeant was f'''''' +h's'H lllll' tdllt anu went, . and no one paid any attention 10 it
 they wer" thinking only of tho Ser . gcant
 The Sergeant was Frank CarEaugh |. of Greencastl" Pa. q member of the . 1th Machinc-gun Sanitary detachment His mother is Mrs Carbaugh. and no mother ever reared a braver sor
 Didn't Talk of Deeds
 The Sergeant who was teacher !, of mathematics before the war, was |, wounded when his outfit was rushed | into action near Chateau Thierry. i None of his bunkies knew just how ! because, as one of them explained. Tn" Sergeant wasn't the kind of a fellow who'd talk of himself You can bet he was wounded doing some. | thing for somebody, though"
 They did know that the Sergeant lay out in tn" open long time after n" was wounded Medical records | showed that His leg was badly smashed. and they operated at the first hospital he reached But gan grene had set in, and four operations had followed in an effort to save him |
 They have had lots of brave patients | that doctors and nurses and patients | admired alike in that hospital, but never one just like the Sergeant. who | said little, was always joking and | cheerful, and never had a complaint The rest of the boys in the ward would do anything in the world for the Sarge"
 The little group sitting on the cots. i with the nurse. had been talking oS the Sergeant for d long time when one Of the boys said, You ought to write to his mother, Miss Cutter. The Sarge thought the world of his mother you know"
 I'm going to-" replied the nurse | You boys write out what you think | of the Sergeant, and I'll send that too"
 What the Boys Wrote.
 The boys did, and here are a few lines from them
 Private Elmer Hyland wrote, "I was with him as soon as he came | from the operation, and I cried when | he went. He was great boy-a clean fellow through and through I | wish my foot Was so l could walk with him to the cemetery"
 Wagoner John Trask wrote, Our Sergeant is gone. Why, I loved that fellow like my own brother. I've seen other fellows go but l never felt like this"
 Sergeant Vincent Sauer wrote, "I never felt worse since I came in the | fight. He was game to the last al | ways cheerful, and when I called |