The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-08
FZiOOeY
That Was What Tough
GUY Proved to Be When
Danger Rose.

Some of the tough guys IN
World 1Unr 1Uere not so tough
aCken Danger reared its terri
firing head, and one of them
IS sho10n IN toddys series of
mar stories.
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Henry a. Walsh, 118 Vir-
giniG dUenue, spins one about
the 'hard guy" 1Oho lost his
crust IN the pinch.
1T was May 10. 1918. when we
u showed of for France on the
Princess Matoko. After we got
aboard and we're given quarters in
the fifth hatch, right at the water
line, they put a fellow named Phil
lips, As years old, an I. w. w. and
supposed TO be tough, in with us.
A young fellow named Carter,
from Connecticut, and 1 slept to-
gether. The orders we're that from
& to 8 at night we could go on deck.
Phillips was hard to get along
with-a bulldozer and braggart
from away out west" He was sup
posed to be game,
One afternoon we we're all on
deck having a vaudeville show,
when all at once the bells gave
warning Of sub sighted. The
large guns got to going. Carter and
I noticed Phillips was showing yell
low. We weren't any of us feeling
the best at that time.
That night Carter and 7 were two
Of the eight to go up on deck about
II p m. Carter remarked that
Phillips was not over the experience
yet.
It was dark in the hole as Carter
and got to our hunks. Some one
asked, How does it look on deck?"
Carter replied, so the tough guy
could hear, They say there are
subs all around us.
From way back In the corner
came a voice, Nav! Who in the
he is that fresh guy? Don't
you know there is a lot Of kids In
this outft?"
Who do you think 1t was?
A punch in the nose for q
Briti8her IS described by Vir-
GIL T. Jones, 2fOS Shelby
street.
TINE First division was pulling
j. into the Scissors sector in
July, 1918. Just before the big drive.
We had pulled to one side of the
road to rest a few minutes While
We were there, an English outfit
came up, also stopping to rest.
One of the English soldiers came
over and asked a sergeant of my
outfit for cigaret. After the ser
geant had given 1t to him, the
Englishman said, "Say Yank, when
are you bloody Americans going to
start f1ghting?"
The sergeant looked up at him
and said, Right now, you son-of- a-
gun" And punched the English
soldier in the nose.
Among the strange sights
seen in the a0ar By SerqeGat
Ed J. Walsh, S19 BRADSHAW
street, 10ho aOdS 10ith the Fif-
tenth Company, Second regi-
ment, aUiation, aUas a hoo
Nth more bones than a fish.
IT was at Jefferson barracks. st.
4 Louis. in December, 1917, and
my second day. I was put on K. P.
This particular day they had pig
knuckles for dinner. We had a
large mess hall that held about
1000 soldiers. I was detailed to
clean up the tables after mess.
A young fellow working with me,
after seeing all the bones piled on
the tables, remarked. in a very sar-
castle voice, by Gawdl This is
the first time I even knew that a