Evening journal., 1922-10-18
news GOSSIP
OF new CASTLE
Battery H Organizes Ath-
letic Club TO Promote
Sports
AMBULANCE MAKES
! IT'S FIRST RUN
snecisl TO The Fvening journal

bers of Battery II. in Van Dyke
Armory last evening, an athletic as
sociation was organized to operate
An extensive sport program during
,the fall, winter and spring months.
The organization will be known as
the Battery II. A. A." The follow
ing officers were elected: President,
Captain S. B. l. Duncan; vice presi-
dent and treasurer Lieutenant VIII
Giam S. Weggenman; secretary, Mer-
ton White; manager Of basketball
team. Sergeant /. Leslie Walls. cap
tain OF basketball team, Sergeant
David Harrington.
1t is the aim of the association 10
promote sports Of all kinds. includ-
Ing basketball voiley bali, quoits,
boxing. wrestling, etc.
The association instructed Lieu
tenant weggenmann TO purchase
basket and voiley balls, nets and
quoits.
The second annual Thanksgiving
eve ball will take place IN the ar
n1ory on Wednesday evening, No
vember 20.
Further arrangements and the ap-
pointment OF a COMMITTEES OF ar
rangements will be made at the
meeting next Monday evening. An
award OF large turkey will be made
st the ball.
Battery II will hold its second pre-
.liminary and instructive shoot and a
record shoot at the State Rife Range
next Saturday. Those desiring to-
enter viii meet at the Van Dyke Ar
mory. Seventh and Delaware streets,
at 10 O'Clock that morning.
Sergeant L. Leslie Walls and Pri-
vate Merton White were appointed
committees to attend the schedule
conference at the State Armory.
Wilmington. 10 discuss the organiza-
tion of a National Guard Basketball
League.
Sergeant Leslie Walls. Of Battery
II. is being considered for the ap-
pointment as second lieutenant, open
because OF the promotion OF W. s.
Weggemann 10 first neutenancy.
The first hospital run made by the
new Good VIII Company ambulancei
took place about 2 o'clock yesterday
Afternoon, when Jacob Jerjenson.
aged about SIS years, a Norwegian.
was taken TO the Delaware Hospital.
Wilmington, suffering with frac-,
fured skull. John p. Leonard drove
the ambulance on its initial run.
JerJenson is a member OF the crew
of the u. S. dredge Delaware which
wac operating OFF New Castle. He
was working on a launch hanging on
1ae davits and fell 10 the steel deck.
When picked up he was unconscious
and was brought TO the Office OF Dr.
Lewis Booker, who ordered him
taken TO the hospital.
An X-ray examination was made
and showed a fracture OF the skull.
The injured man has no relatives in
this country. His condition Is said
10 be serious.
The condition of John McNally. OF
East Third street. who was seriously
injured when struck by an automo-
Dale on Monday evening and taken
TO the Delaware Hospital, Whining
ton, is reported to be much i'm
proved. At first It was thought Mr..
AfcNally had sustained internal as
well as external injuries and little
hopes OF his recovery were enter
tained. An x-ray examination made
at the hospital Yesterday afternoon
disclosed no internal injuries but a
compound fracture of his right leg !
and two ribs.
He was reported resting easy ana
the attending physician at the hos
pital said Mr.. McNally would re- '
cover. 1
The street improvement work now
being done by Contractor Joseph S.
Burke, OF Piainfield, n. j., has been I
DELAYED in finishing, due 10 his IN {
ability to get the necessary stone for
the work as fast is he needs Il. From 2
the present outlook the work already \
contracted for will be finished by 2
the second week in November
The question OF putting new sur y
faces on Third street, Harmony !
street and the Strand will be dis \
cissed as soon as Contractor Burke 1
gives his estimate. e
A special rehearsal OF Emmanuel a
Episcopal Church choir OF music 10 8
DC used In conjunction with the CEN s
tennial anniversary OF the consecra- !;
ton of the church to be held Sun
day, October 20, will take place in N
tpe parish house tomorrow evening. n
Mike Cutrona driver Of a New \
Gastle-Wilmington bus. was fined SO L
and cost for violation OF the motor \
vehicle ordinance b
Frank j. Moore, OF Landers ave \
nue., who has ben III for the past c
-Teek suffering with hemorrhages. is T
rbch improved. g
Mrs. Harry E. Holiday, of Della X
ware street, is confined to her home
yIth grip.
. Mr.. and Mrs Edward Proud moved s
INTO the property of william Leach I
on West Sixth street. q
Jesse Longacre. OF South Whining "
ton. is opening a new grocery and ei
meat market in the John F. shen-
Day property Fourth street and L
Foundry avenue q
The Young Mems Bible Glass OF d
the Methodist Sunday School will n
r7eet IN weekly rehearsal of the g
play Hunting for Mary Jane" att
the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. George 7. a.
Tobin. Jr., on Delaware street, this el
evening. il
Norman Reilly, an employe of :
The American Manganese Steel Plant. ! I
here. sustained a badly mashed h
thumb OF the left hand yesterday i
when a large casting fell on It,
The monthly meeting of the Of
ncial Board of the Methodist Church IN
was held in the church parlors, last =