Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-06
ATHLETICS IN
CAMPS MEAN
MUCH TO men
More Than Fifty Football
Teams at Camp Lewis
During Fall.

Camp Lewis. Tacoma, WASH, March
6.-Athletic training of the soldiers at
Camp Lewis. providing healthy recre-
alton and physical development of
some sort for every man at camp, is
one of the big features of military
training. The work here is being dt-
rected by Captain T. c.. Cook, camp
athletic director, and a corps of as
sistants in whose number are some of
the best known athletes in the sport
ing world.
Every recognized branch Of ath-
letics is embraced in the field covered
by Captain Cook and every man is able
to find some particular branch of
athletics for which'he is fitted n in
which he can find enjoyment and rec
reation.
Last fall there were between fifty
and sixty football teams. fully equip
ped and kept in the pink of condition
by frequent .scrimmages. In the Three
Hundred %Sixty-frst and Sixty-second
infa ntry there were thirty teams alone.
fifteen in each regiment. There was a
sixteen team reginental league in
which eight games were played every
Wednesday and Sunday. The Three
Hundred Sixteenth sanitary trains o
the championship II trophy which
went with it. There are fourteen
complete gridirons at camp and the
games were played simultaneously.
The Ninety-tirst division team, COM
posed of the pick of the regimental
teams. met outside aggregations and
there was always keen interest.
In soccer there is an eight team
reginental league playing four games
every Wednesday afternoon. Several
times the games assumed an interna-
tional aspect when the N%incty-frst di-
vision met teams from Victoria
and Vancouver, across h line in
Canada.
Rugby football has been launched
in camp by Captain Cook. n of the
principal reasons being to select Il
representative divisional team which
can meet the British teams when the
division goes across to France. There
are eight all-American Rugby players
on. the divisional team, including
Lieutenant Daniel Carroll. famous
Australian player from the All
and Lieutenant Deke Ciarde. also of
Stanford university and sometimes
called the worlds greatest halfback.
In basketball the division has 225
company teams now finishing the
regimental championships. There are
sixteen teams in the regimental league
n the Ninety-frst division team, Sc
lCClSu AIOIl lne pest uleu Ill Ill lIG
regimental teams. hasn't suffered de
feat. There are five all-northwest
college basketball players in the squad
and ten of the fifteen in the squad are
northwest college stars.
Boxing classes are conducted by
Willie. Richie. former lightweight
champion, assisted by 472 assistant in
structors whom he has developed
within the last few months. Each OF
the assistants is conducting a class OF
from fifty to seventy-five men.
The government has placed specia,
emphasis on the need of intensive
training of soldiers in boxing. The po-
sition of the boxer in the ring is vir.
tually the same as the soldier on. a
baycnet charge. This fact has beer
brought u by some official govern
ment motion pictures prepared for the
lamps. The division will hold soor
its boxing championship tournament
Wrestling is conducted under the
direction of Corporal Lloyd E. ireland
of Brainerd. Mimi. who won the
featherweight championship under the
name of Kid Irish. Wrestling ha.
proved popular among the officers Il:
well as the men and there are severa
classes of officers. 1t is planned t.
hold d tournament soon, in which ths
professional wrestlers will compete i,
one class and the ~novices in another