The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-12-11

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than we can as drilling is a specially
up there for they have drilling where
we have seamanship. but there are
twice as many of us as there are ca
diets and to the unprejudiced observer
we look as good as they do. but |
could not see us and could see them.
get the point? Our procession was
headed by "Bill" the well known navy
goat followed by the color guard and
band and then the regiment
"All of squad and the Plebe team
got special seats right back of the box
seats in front and sure had my
mouth and eyes open all the time.
Sitting right in front of our seats in
a box seat was Judge Lands. and
over to the right was President Cool
idge then on the left was Admiral
Eberle Chief of Naval Operations and
Admiral Andrews. head of the Allan
tic Fleet Ebcrle, by the way. is a
full Admiral while he is holding his
present position and his coat looks
like Zebra with all the insignia. You
know we have only had three full
admirals during our history. they be-
ing Porter, Farragut and Dewey. The
rest rear or vice admirals.
"There certainly was a large crowd
there. and it was quite sight to look
upon. Between halves our cheer lead
err drug a dummy mule on the field
and il busted open and about two
dozen pigeons flew out OF it with
streamers of blue and gold on their
legs. The army had a dummy ship
which they drug on the field and a
dummy airship which they fixed to
fly over the ship and blow it up, but
the ship didn't blow up and they
threw a bomb in il but still it didn't
blow up and all OF the midshipmen
commenced to yell 1--WE won't give
up the ship; we won't give up the
ship" then the cadets all jumped on
the ship and mashed it to pieces and
we, OF course. gave them the horse
laugh.
"The game was certainly hard
fought and both teams were only in
real danger of being scored on twice.
the navy played in army territory all
the first half and outplayed the army
quite bit, the second half it was
hfty-hfty 1t was the one big and
the one only game that | shall always
remember, as it was great battle and
the army was dopen to win, having
a better record and better individual
players, but the navy team is a regular
fighting machine, they just will not be
beaten. The crowd went wild at the
last for they did not want to see tie,
but the cheering of the midshipmen
drowned out their pleas, il sure IS
funny to think how you and other
people can get pitched to so high a
key over a game, but it gets everyone.
Coming back we took the ferry
back to Jersey City and ate supper in
a restaurant and believe me we sure
were hungry. The first and second
classes got to stay over night and they
are just coming in now. We got home
at exactly 200 this morning and got
to sleep till noon for once. and we
all didn't lose any time doing it either.
Coming down the Hudson last
night on the ferry you could see all
of n. Y. all lighted up, il was a beau
tiful sight TO see.
81 also saw the largest ship in the
world. the trans-coniinenial liner own
ed By the English, taken over from the
Germans right after the war, II was
the Majestic and my goodness il was
biz. | surely can't describe how big
Il was. except 'ha; the ba,ileship Utah
looked like a row boat beside H.