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game under Tad Jones, one of the best
sportsmen and finest gentlemen who
ever coached band OF pigskin chasers.
Foot ball players are so nodded that
winning, under the emotional tension
of a big game. becomes a thing of
vital importance in their lives. Last
Fall one of the Princeton backfield stars
disappeared for nearly week after he
was removed from the Yale game for
making poor play. He was so sensi-
tive about the loss of this game that he
resigned from college shortly after,
although he had another year of varsity
foot ball.
THERE are some sensitive and highly
strung players who have an utter
lack of balance or sense of hun1or about
foot ball, playing it with all the fervor
attendant on a war for the protection
of family. home and country. In the
midst of very important intersectional
game. Stage, coach of Chicago, was
forced to derrick veteran out Of the
line for poor work He came off the
field showing resentment, but Stagg
avoided him until the following Mon
day on the practice field. The player
was still sulking. AS they were leaving
demanded hotly:
mr. Stagg. why did you take me out
of the game Saturday."
II took you out because you we're not
doing your BEST" said the coach.
Il was doing my best" the player
argued.
do you remember when you went
down the field at half speed under that
punt?" No, he did not remember.
do you remember when RI
was dragging So-and-So along and you
stood within two or three yards and
did nothing?" He didn't recall that
either.
do you remember the second time
you loafed under a punt?" No, the
coach was all wrong.
We'll, that's the time I took you
out" replied Stage.
The player argued until the coach
turned on him. Heaven help you in
your later life if you don't take tum-
BILE to yourself" he said. You are a
self-satisf1ed, opinionated young jackass
who is bigger than the team, the coach
and the school together. Go take
good look at yourself-and come back
when you see what / do"
Stage had spoken to the man alone.
But on one occasion he was forced to
lash man before the whole squad-a
task all the more distasteful in that the
victim was a weak and diffident soul,
with no tough coating of ego to protect
him. He was the only son, the darling
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them. Later it was learned, with prob
able truth. from the German major
commanding, who was met after the
armistice by an American officer at
Coblenz, that he was awaiting large
supply of ''flamen-werfers" for his final
attack upon the position.
The TANKS of the battalion had at
| first been strengthened with machine
guns, but these, on the right flank. at
least. had been knocked out by the
trench mortars and replaced with
chauchat teams. Ammunition was very
low SO that orders had been given
to fire only at we'll defined targets-an
enormous handicap in that close brush
fighting. Yet the evening attack of
October 7, preceded by an intense ma
chine gun barrage, was beaten off as
successfully as had been the others.
And then, after little, there was
burst of rifle fire which they had not
fired and which was not fired at them
a burst of rifle fire in the brush to the
right-and men looked at each other
as they lay. weak with hunger among
their delirious wounded and their sun
scorched dead, and they questioned
each other with the look And then,
pany of American soldiers moved in
upon them.
BY morning not an enemy soldier
was to be found on the ridge south
of the valley, and the valley itself pre-
Sented scene like some hospital or
rest area. filled with ambulanceS trucks
and staff cars. Company K, which
had gone in with SO men. was able
to march out with 43 and a like pro-
portion Of losses obtained for the whole
battalion.
Had fresh troops been available the
enemy on the ridge. to the southwark,
already almost surrounded, might, by
quick action, have been themselves in
tercepted and captured, but the limit
of endeavor for the time had been
reached, and they were allowed, during
to night, to draw out toward the west.
And this, as written by Capt. Rains
ford, is the story of the Lost Bat
TALON" which, in reality, was never
lost. And no printed word can ever
do full justice to the grim, unfaltering
courage Of this little band of men Who
with starvation and death staring them
N the face, wrote another epic into
American military annals. fighting on
and on without thought of surrender.
and with only one idea paramount
to hold their position at all costs.
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wall that lay between. In the anvil
chorus from across the hills, the slower
tnrobbing of the American chauchats,
like the bagplpes at Lucknow, could
always be distinguished from the swift
sound of the German machine guns,
and, as it sounded fainter or louder,
brought its message of hope.
A T least one act of chivalry by the
enemy should be recorded. A
single man of Company K. creeping
through the bushes to fill his canteen
at the water hole. where the bullets
were constantly splashing. was shot
through the log and disabled. There a
bombing party of the enemy later found
him. dressed his wound with care and
offered him his choice of being carried
back with them as prisoner or left to
be found by his friends. He chose the
latter and was known to the company
as their best bandaged casualty.
On october an American soldier.
captured on patrol, was sent to Maj.
Whittlesey with written demand for
surrender. The message was in Eng
lish, on clean paper, and had been
written on typewriter, something
which certainly could not have been
produced by any American battalion on
the line. 1t was courteous to the verge
of being flowery, point worth men,
tioning, because the rumor spread
among the men that 1t was very blood
thirsty in character. On the contrary,
it began by recommending the mes
5cnger to the major with the assurance
that he had been captured through no
fault of his own and had shown himself
a brave soldier. 1t then went on to
state that relief by their comrades was
clearly impossible. that the crying of
their wounded was distressing to hear,
and that in the name of humanity they
would do best to surrender. The note
was not even answered.
The name of humanity, already dis
regarded by Maj. Whittlesey. received
perhaps ruder shock when the enemy.
during the same afternoon, attacked
with flame throwers. Certain memories
of Neuviller in June always will abide
with those who probed the secrets of
that unhappy village, and will stamp
with detestation the use of that weapon.
The present attack was of very small
compass. only two of the enemy being
seen with the "flamen-werfers" and
both Of them being killed. 1t is thought,
though not with certainty. that one
man Of Company K was first killed by
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room who had been something of an
| individualist, yet too valuable a player
to discard. In some ways he had not
approved of Jones system and the
coach knew it. At all events. when he
| had finished speaking to the team he
turned to the man. And that goes
| for you, as we'll as for the rest" he re-
marked
| 1t was too much for the disaffected
| player; he broke down completely and
| then ran out upon the field and played
| little to the victory that came to the
Blue that November afternoon.
IL x
MORE tears have been shed in foot
A'A ball quarters than at matinee of
East Lynne" Some players have been
known to start blubbering before every
| big game and then play like wild men
after the first whistle.
A Western team playing Princeton
some years ago stood in midfield and
huddled together like a pack of lost
sheep; talked wildly and displayed other
symptoms of stage fright until their
coach saw the Princeton team running
on the field. Here they come, BOYS
Sock EN- and rock EN-! They're push
overs"
OF course, they didn't win, but the
! timely remark of the coach had the
| psychological effect.
The crying of individual players in
| the midst of a game is not a common
place: bu5 Harry Thomas, a famous
Chicago right half, cried from begin
ming to end of the Ohio State game in
brilliant all-around foot ball of the
afternoon. Players may cry from gen.
eral rage or over some specific break
| in the game. Before the final contest
| of the season, when the team is play
| ing together for the last time. sentiment
| is very strong, and many hard-boiled
| warrior fights back the tears.
| Before a big game some coaches re-
| sort to every form of evangelism and
every other legitimate weapon they can
| command to rouse the heart, mind and
temper of every player to the point of
| supreme effort. BY popular conception
the coach is believing BULL and if he
does not spit fire and throw a husky
halfback every once in while, he is
| something of disappointment to the
| admiring student body.
At Penn State, several years ago, a
coach resented the attitude of a husky
! linesman, squared off and took a sound
beating from the undergraduate. Such
things, however one seldom hears about.
They are hushed up. Yet such Incl
dents lend color. humor and drama to
the serious business of winning foot
ball games.
X X X
LONE of the most promising candidates
- for the Notre Dame eleven failed
to come out to practice for several days.
When he did report, Rockne, the story
goes. failed to make any inquiries re-
garding his absence, but just ignored the
player When the varsity played this
promising candidate saw the game from
the bench. Along toward the middle of
the season, the player asked for an ex-
PLANTATION. Rockne told him that he
was saving him. The season came to
close and before the last game ended
the player again asked Rockne for a
chance.
I'm saving YOU" replied the coach.
But the season will be over after
today. What are you saving me for?"
For the Junior Prom!" Rockne re-
piled.
Whether true or not, 1t is typical of
Knute Rockne. His wit and sense of
humor lift him above the ordinary run
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Decade Completed Since lost Battalion" Fought

| loss, had there taken position by night
| fall of October 2. K Company OF the
| 307th, under command of Capt. Holder
man, reached position on the right OF
| this force at about dawn of october B..
| The force consisted Of Companies A.,
| B, C, H and G of the 308th Infantry,
under command of Maj. Whittlesey
! and Capt. McMurty, and two platoons
of the 306th Machine Gun Battalion
under Lieut.. Peabody.
The position extended for some 400
yards along the lower slope of the ridge,
between the Moulin DIES Charlevaux and
the Bots de la Buironne K Company,
advancing over the lower shoulder of
the southern ridge at the end of night,
ran the gantlet of some machine-gun
| fire and suffered some slight loss be-
| fore reaching the farther valley. The
messengers sent back to report their
arrival end co-ordinates to Capt.
Blagden returned to K Company with
news that the runner-posts were gone
and the way closed by the enemy The
ration parties, which they had been
promised would follow them. failed to
arrive. and within the hour of their
arrival they realized that they faced
siege and starvation.
| They had had cooked meal before
starting forward, but carried with them
not greater average than days ra-
| ton each. With the marshy stream close
| behind them, their water supply was
assured but, except at night, only at
| the price of casualties. The duty of
the commander of Company K was
clear and he placed himself under the
orders of Maj Whittlesey. These we're
| for him to push back the enemy, clos
ing in on. the rear. Recrossing the
valley, X Company encountered sys-
| tenn of wire which it traversed, but
only to find other wire beyond, and the
men were themselves in some danger
of being cut off from the rest of the
battalion. They fought a rear-guard
action and regained their former posi-
ton. where they formed the defensive
right flank of the force.
X X X
THE first enemy attack was delivered
on the evening of October 3, the
| grenade throwars advancing above the
| cut bank along the road behind a bar
rage fire of trench motars while. covered
by an enfilading fire of machine guns,
the renemen attempted to close on the
| tanks. The attack was beaten off, but
with inevitable loss.
There was not, either then or later,
any massed infantry assault, in the
commonly accepted meaning of the
term, though in this instance the
ground was singularly we'll suited to it.
An assaulting wave could we'll have
been massed under cover of the cut
bank and hurled down the hill slope
across a position which had no natural
strength, Had the determination of the
enemy attack. then and later, been
comparable to that of the American
defense, only one outcome would have
been possible, but although few of
the enemy were killed within Is or 20
yards of K Company's front, not a
member of the company at any time
saw a b2yonet fixed on an enemy rife
Against the methods actually used by
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the enemy, the battalion's position on
the steep hillside had several advan-
tages. They were completely deflladed
from the front and, it soon became evi-
dent, could not be reached by hostile
artillery. The swamp in their rear.
which might have been danger proved
only a defense from rear attack but
against the constant fire of trench
mortars they had little or no protection.
On October 4 there were bombing
attacks during the morning, and in the
afternoon an American barrage fell
Squarely upon their position-the fire
to which Companies l. and G listened,
passing above their heads as they adj
vanced to their first attack no the
throat of the ravine to the southwest.
Carrier pigeons were loosed, and their
presence with the battalion comes
in the range of those guns, and the
incident was not repeated Two days
later, when barrage was laid down, 1t
moved across the swamp to their rear
and, jumping their position, struck
again before their front with precision
that could not have been bettered.
BY noon of the second day the last
of the food had been eaten and starva-
ton began to weaken the strength, but
not the spirit, of the defending force.
Fortunately, though there were two
nights of rain, there was no severe cold,
as on the few days previous to their
advance. to further exhaust their resist
ance. Patrols were frequently sent out
in an effort to get through the sur
rounding Gordon, but only one man,
Fvt. Krotashinski of K Company, sue
cecded in reaching tho American lines,
and very many did not come back Air
planes tried to drop food to them. but
never successfully.
The days brought little change. There
was a more or less constant FIRE of
trench mortars and of sniping, bursts
Of machine gun fire from the TANKS,
small bombing attacks from over the
cut bank and an attack in some force
in the evening. There was the steady
drain Of casualties. The wounded,
Though given oil aid possible. died from
lack of care that 1t was not possible to
give, from loss Of blood. from eXhaus-
ton or from gangrene. and the dying
still shared the shallow rifle pits with
the living 1t was a nightmare time,
frightened only by the courage of all to
see it through, and by the steady back
ground of sound beyond the ridge to
the southwark. where their comrades
could be heard hammerina upon the
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way through the wire. the battalion at
length reached a position of advantage.
D Company was ordered to continue
holding fire from this point, while 3
Company. led by Lieut.. Tillman ana
supported by A and M Companies,
moving northwest along the lower
slopes, along the route followed by Com
pany K. on October 2, outfianked the
enemy's left. The advance was along
the winding trail, an ineffective enemy
fire passing overhead.
Sergt. r. E. Watson, commanding
M Company, had pushed out to locate
machine gun firing from the flank
and was killed. The Americans crossed
the stream into the Bois de la Buivonue
and stumbled upon an enemy bombing
party operating against the right OF the
Lost Battalion" The enemy were all
further. a little before dusk, Company
B, led by Lieut.. Tillman, and closely
followed by Company A under Lieut.
Kenyon, and Company M, now COM
manded by Sergt. j. j. Maggie, reached
the Lost Battalion"
The condition of the survivors was
terrible There was no demonstration
or cheering The relieving companies
turned over every scrap of food in their
possession to the starving men, who
devoured it ravenously. Immediate at
tention was given the wounded, and
exhausted men threw themselves on
the ground to rest, while their relieving
companies took over the gruesome task
Of burying the necessarily neglected
dead
And Mai. Mckinney adds his en-
phatic denial to reports that Maj
Whittlesey rnerited censure for allow
ing his command to lose" its way and
be cut off.
Certainly not" came his emphatic
reply, in answer to direct question
Il met Maj Whittlesey on the field
shortly after the relief of his command
and was also fortunate enough to re-
turn home with him on the same trans
port. He was quiet, retiring man
unassuming, and good soldier He
knew his stuff He was ordered to
push through to his objective without
regard to the success of the troops on
either flank, and to hold that objective
until the general line was brought Up
to it. These orders were carried out
in every detail by Maj. Whittlesey Ii
Medal of Honor, he did. for he reflected
great honor upon the American Army
And it is only necessary to read an
| account of the heroic battle against
great odds, wased by little group OF
men suffering from lack of food, in
sufficient medical attention and almost
everything else that might go to lower
spirit and morale. to know that Maj
Mckinney was right.
Capt. w. Kerr Rainsford of the 307tl
Infantry, in a war book. refuses tc
concede that Maj. Whittlescy's bat
talon was ever lost" and refers to II
as the Surrounded Battalion"
The Surrounded Battalion" Capt
Rainsfords story relates, had advanced
under orders to occupy the north slops
of the valley stretching east from the
! Moulin des CharleVauX. and. after some
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the fervor and seriousness of young
men of college age for their lack OF
humor regarding foot ball. Yet the
work is so hard, and the promise of
fame so great, and the man-to-man
association of the game such an indie
Enable bond of loyalty springs up be-
tween the players and coaches that to
some extent the deadly seriousness of
their attitude is understandable.
Some time ago, just because the Yale
eleven lost a couple of important games
there was an outcry from a small, dis
affected coterie for change of coaches.
The great body of Yale men speedily
let it be known that Tad Jones was
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there any the most out of his
is Bill Roper of Princeton Upon occasions his Tiger
teams have field vanqushed whom
they had business to defeat
the memorable Princeton
eago 1922 perhaps the most spectacular and
FOOT ball battle waged.
The during first half weak spots brilliant
intervals but lacking IN sustained detense Cncago oaeeo
With the
1877 in of the MdweSternerS
eleven went into its dressing
quarters players Topped down rubbing tables
booming Bill leo the
where's Pink Baker?" he yelled
Baker husky neSman who had been puned and bruised o
the Maroon oense sitting corner his head resting on cupped
hands Roper stepped alongside of him.
Baker he said what's with you To-Day? chicago Is
the line. Look here
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wanted in charge of Yale foot ball men
even if his teams did lose occasionally
or often, for that matter.
Tad Jones has since resigned, but
no one ever played foot ball under him
who has not been the better man for
it. Once upon the day of foot ball
game in which Yale was the under dog
Jones came into the dressing room be-
fore the game.
Fellows" he said. I'm not going to
ask you to go out there and win this
game. know you will do your best to
win. l want to say / have come to
love every one of you chaps"
There was one man in the dressing
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rebuking some of his young charges for
appearing at foot ball practice clean
shaven. He intimated quite forcibly,
according to the often-told story, that
he considered this in the way of being
effeminate Anyhow, the members of
the Notre Dame team never would re-
port for practice clean shaven. They
cultivated the roughneck appearance
which the coach intimated that he
craved.
Rockne probably made the remark as
joke, If he made it at all. but the
aspiring foot ball players took him up
with the seriousness of college athletes.
Much has been written denounclng
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of foolishly fond mother In practice
he could stand at midfield and drop
kick over the bars with amazing accu-
racy. but in big game, when score
meant something, he fooled and lost
his nerve.
X
ONE of the most successful coaches
in handling men is Knute Rockne
of Notre Dame. Fortunately, he gets a
rugged type of boy, usually of Irish
ancestry, with natural love of COM
bat. And he needs a veneer of ego to
ward off the remarks of a very witty
and sarcastic coach.
There is story told about Rockne
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Triumph Comes to
D. G.. Woman in
The Philippines

A MOST dramatic episode in the
" recent Philippine general cleo
Il tions, in which virtually all the
4 4 Nationalist (Quezon Osmena-
ROxas combination) candi-
dates triumphed. was enacted when
Mrs Edna Rollins Suntay of WASH
ington, D. c.. gallant American VITA
played the heroic role by beating the
islands masterful political minds az,
their own game. And. what is more.
she pulled the impossible stunt" viz
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Ter"mont houses in futuristic designs
have been erected by the City of Am
sterdam. Holland.
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Magic of Foot Ball Coach Often Turns Weakness Into

Battered Heroes Sometimes Find Famous Which
Creates Fenzd Cyclone of Irresistible Power-On Depondent
Overcame Defeat FOR Old Mike Murphy
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F course it was the pressure
exerted on the whole enemy
line by the seven days of
the Meuse-Argonne Often
Sive that caused the Ger
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No. 737
NOTICE or HEARING PETITION.

In the Superior Court OF Santa Cruz
County, State of Arizona.
In the Matter of the Estate of BENZ
imam Coltman, sometimes known az
Ben Coltman, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that Molly
~ Coltman has filed In this court
q certain document purporting to be
the last Will and Testament of BENZ
imam COltman, sometimes known as
Ben Coltman, together with her petit
ton praying that said document be
admitted to probate In this Court as
the last Will and Testament of said
Benjiman Coltman, who, said petition
or alleges, is deceased, and that letters
testamentary issue thereon to said petit
tioner, and that same will be heard on
Monday, the 28th day OF May, A. D.
1928, at IL O'Clock, in the forenoon OF
said day, at the court room OF said
Court House, in the Town of NOgales,
County of Santa Cruz, State of Arizona,
and all persons interested in said estate
are notified then and there to appear
and show cause, if any they have, why
the prayer of said petitioner should not
be granted.
(Seal) ROBT. E. LEE.
CLERK.
VICTOR WAGER,
Deputy Clerk.
Dated May 9th, 1923. 5-12.St