The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-10
Sergeant Loses
Last Game Fight
By FRANZ ]. TAYLOR,
nited Press star Correspondent.)

(Cnlted Press sian COrfeSponoent.)
An American Hospital in France,
Sept. 20--(By Mail.) mo, they're
not going to bring the sergeant back
to the ward. boys"
| Those were exactly the words the
nurse used. But 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 sergeant's operation was
taking place. stopped suddenly. all at
tention, all hungering for good news.
you don't mean the sergeant's
gone, do you?' exclaimed one.
yves, boys, the sergeant's gone.
Four operations were just too much
for his strength. He never regained
consciousness"
The little group of patients and the
nurse were silent.
The chap with one leg gone had half
a 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 q Game Boy.
Gee, the sergeant's gone" he said
huskily. ''he sure was game boy"
He was the best fellow ever
knew" said another, "and the cheer
fullest, too I've seen them dressing
his leg time 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" mused a third, cit
wasn't half an hour ago when we saw
Sarge when the stretcher was car.
ried through the door, and he smiled
and said. Thanks. I'll be back in
few minutes with you.'"
They sat there together. the half
dozen of the sergeant's bunkies. all
invalids. with the nurse OF the ward,
just musing and talking like that. try
ing to realize that the sergeant was
gone. Mess time came and went, and
on one paid any attention to it--they
were thinking only OF the sergeant
The sergeant was Frank Carbaugh Of
Greencastle, Pa. member of the eth
Machine Gun Sanitary Detachment.
His mother is Mrs. Carbaugh, and no
mother ever reared braver SON
Didn't Talk Of Deeds.
The sergeant. who was mathe-
matte teacher before the war. was
wounded when his outfit was rushed
into action near Chate6e Thierry.
None of his bunlkies knew just how,
because. as one Of them explained,
"the sergeant wasn't the kind Of a fell
low who'd talk OF himself. You can
bet he was wounded doing something
for somebody. though"
They did know that the sergeant lay
was wounded. Medical records showed
that His leg was badly smashed and
they operated at the first hospital he
reached. But gangrene 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 complaint
The rest Of the boys in the ward would
do anything in the world for "rhc
Sarge"
The little group sitting on the cots.
with the nurse, had been talking OF the
sergeant for long time when one OF
the boys said, "You ought to write 70
his mother, Miss Cutter. The Sarge
thought the world of his mother"
I'm going to-" replied the nurse.
''you boys write out what you thirk
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 cried when lie
went. He was a great boy---a clean
fellow through and through. wish
my foot was so could walk iwth them
to the cemetery"