Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-24
Fifty Boxes of Equipment Ar
rived the Other Day. Captain
James N. AShmore, Well
Known College CoaCh,is Camp
Athletic Director. Bulletin on
Baseball ,.,~

Athletic organization for the Machine
Gun Training Center at Hancock is well
under way and has been accelerated by
the arrival the other day Of SO boxes
of equipment, according to Capt James
N. Ashmore, who is camp athletic di-
rector.
Each contains about 5000 worth of as
assorted equipment which will be dis
trbuted as equitably as possible among
the outfits included in the athletic or
ganization. With organization complete,
the Machine Gunners are to get plenty of
training in every athletic branch as well
as being taught how to turn the fire on
the boches 1t is conceded on all sides
that the trained athlete makes the best
type of soldier.
Captain Ashmore, the athletic direc-
tor is we'll known in collegiate athletic
circles A graduate OF the University of
Illinois, he has spent about Is years as
coach at various colleges. For four years
he was director Of athletics at the Uni
Nersity Of Colorado. Since the war was
declared and the training camps estab-
lished throughout the country. he has
given up training college boys to devote
his time to training the lads of the army.
Before coming to the Augusta camp he
was stationed at Camp Cody.
The following athletic memorandum on
baseball was recently issued by Captain
Ashmore'
Headquarters Machine Gun Training
Center. Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ca.
ATHLETIC MEMORANDUM:
No. ?.
There are several reasons why soldiers
should have a desire to play baseball
well The first reason is that baseball is
our national game. therefore every man
should want to play the came so rs to
reflect credit on the game itself by play
ing this Enthusiastically American game
in an intelligent manner.
Another reason for soldiers being par
Interested 1f
ball is an historic one. Abner Double.
day was the first person to draw dia =
gram Of the diamond, indicating posi-
tons for players. He subsequently grad
uated from West Point, and as a captain
of artillery sighted the first gun fired on
the Union side at Fort Sumter. AS a
major general this man further distin-
guishcd himself by being in charge al
the close Of the FIRST days fight in the
battle Of Gettysburg So we learn a SOL
dier was responsible for the diamond of
baseball
The game owes its development large
ly to the impetus it received by the sol
diers Of the ciyl war playing it in the
camps and in the prisons,
With the hope Of stimulating the sol
diers, Of this camp to play good base
ball" a series Of discussions on the
game will be distributed,
To the Manager.
me manager or captain OF a baseball
team directs the playing tactics, in other
words he lays down the plan Of oper-
alton. In order to do this In an intelli-
gent way the men should know what tao
tics are most likely to succeed in a
given kind Of game.
We will divide games into four groups
and discuss team tactics for each variety
Of game. The four kinds Of games are:
o. Game wi tn close low score, (2)
Game with your team leading. ca Game
with your team two or three runs behind.
90 Game with your team several runs
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