Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-03
SLAIN TN BATTLE
THATENDED WAR
Captain Arthur Y. Wear,
Former Yale Athletic
Star, Killed
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APAU, BALL PLAYER, DIES
Hawaiian Pitcher Meets Death
in Final Days Of Great
Struggle
'APAU, BALL PLAYER, DIES

Captain Arthur Y Wear. former Yale
baseball star and brother of Joseph w
Wear, joint holder Of the national
rHcquets championship, has been killed
In action. Death came to Captain wear
only five days before hostilities ceaseu'
Messages telling of the fate of Cap
tain Wear were received by his brother
yesterday. Captain Wear was seriously
affected on October 15 by drinking well
water poisoned by tie Germans, but re-
covered in time to get into the ma
action of the war. owing to the fact
that Major Hobson had been severely
wounded during the fiattening of the 81
Aiihiel sector Captain Wear was IN
command of the Second Battalion oil the
sSsth Infantry.
For several years Captain Wear ana
his brother, Joseph W. Wear. represent
ed Thomas Potter ollcloth works in 81.
Louis. Mr.. Wear is son-in-law OIL
william Potter. Federal fuel admins
traitor fer Pennsylvania, and has been
acting as general secretary Of the State
fuel administration. The first intlma-
,tion of Captain Wears death came in a
cablegram from Major Wilson Potter
big-game hunter and former University
of Pennsylvania football star.
Word has also been received here OF
the death of another star ball player.
Sergeant Apau Kau. the first-string
pitcher for the famous Hawaiian team
that has toured this country for the
last five seasons. Apau Kau was al
most good enough for the big leagues.
and would have been given aSshance in
fast company last summer IT he had
not been called to the colors.
Reported Dead; At Home
There was a sharp drop in the cas-
n q
being given out by the War Department
as compared with the 6l75 made public
over the weekend. The total for Penn
syivania is 1i5, siXty-nine of this num-
Der being from Philadelphia and dis
trict OF these eleven have been killed
IN action. five have died of wounds and
eight of disease Thirty-one have been
wounded. five have been gassed and six
are missing. One. previously reported
killed. is now officially listed as returned
to duty AS a matter of fact. this last
named man, Private Myer Stone. of 4525
Fairmount avenue, had been sent back
to this country, suffering from serious
wounds and was at his own home when
the official notice of his death arrived.
Details of the death of Lieutenant
Henry Howard Houston, I'd. killed by a
stray shell on August 1S, have been re-
ceived by his family. It appears that
Lieutenant Houston and several other Of
ficers were halted by a military police
man as they were about to motor over a
road that was under German Are. As
they waited a shell that fell short. landed
near them. killing Lieutenant Houston.
None of the others was injured. Lieu
tenant Houston formerly served with
tho American ambulance and was
decorated for gallantry just a year TO
the day, before he was killed He came
TO this country last fall and was ap-
pointed to the staff OF Brgadier General
Y William g. Price, commander of the
FifAy-third Field Artillery, Iron Division
and\had been in France since last spring
He MAS the son of Samuel +. Houston
Of chestnut Hill.