The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-30
Sport Shots
by -
Harry Whitlow

The City Recreation Basketball
League gets away Wednesday night,
December 8. There will be two
games played with the first start
ing at 7 o'clock. The public is in
vited to these games and Of course,
there is no charge for admission.
Last year the games we're well at
tended, and the spectators enjoyed
watching some high class basket
ball. II there are teams still wish
ing TO enter either the Class A or
Glass G leagues they may still do
so until Friday, December l. If those
teams will call the Recreation phone
number, Wyandotte 1905, they will
be taken care Of. In the Glass A
league, eight teams have entered,
while the Class G for boys under
10 years haxe six teams entered.
So, you basketball followers, stop
over to Roosevelt and see the
leagues get started.
In the Detroit Brass and Male
able Bowling League-CZopek fun
eral home has swell lead of six
points over the fast going MehlhoSe
Department store gang. Garwolin-
ski has the high average for the
league with a 177.24. Riding in Sec
ond place is Mckay with 167
closely followed by Kyle with 165
and Jonas with 1914. The high game
is held by w. Lybik who knocked
the pins over for a Beautiful 243.
In the high three games Kyle takes
the honors with GA. The high
single team game is held by Supe-
rior Lunch with Gil. In the high
three games Tor teams Superior
Lunch also holds the number one
spot with 1904
Last summer 1 had a little piece
in this column about going camp
ing and spending a few days in
pup tent. The other morning I re-
ceived a letter from Pvt. Albert
Pieper who wrote to give me small
idea of what the camp life Of the
soldier was like around the Alaska
Highway. At the present time Pvt.
Pieper is stationed somewhere in
the Pacific, Part of his letter fol-
lows:
Il know you don't know who 1
am, but I thought I would write
and tell you about little pup tent
life on the Alaska Highways. In the
spring of 1912 we left Seattle, Wash
ington. Four days later We arrived
IN Alaska.
From there on for the next six
months it was sleep on the ground
in pup tents. A pup tent isn't bad
if you have one by yourself But
when you put your buddy in it
with you. that is when you feel
like Sardines in can. If you go
in head first. You can't turn around
without crawling all over your
buddy. So you go in head first and
back out feet first. Just like you
would run car in garage. You
can't turn around inside.
Most of the time there is always
a drizzel of rain. The biggest part
of the pup tent sheds water like
sieve. Once your stuff got wet, you
were lucky to get 1t all dry in a
month.
Every day you worked in mud and
water and that water up there is
really cold. When fall sets in you
go to bed like a wet dog, and in
the morning you wake up and find
the mud is frozen tight TO your
shoes and all the water puddles
have ice on them So the first thing
you do in the morning is jump into
your wet clothes and shoes. 1t
doesn't make any difference what
clothes you put on, they are all wet
anyway.
The mosquitoes there in Wyan-
dotte are tame compared to those in
Alaska and the Yukon. The first
mosquitoes come out when there is
still two feet of snow on the ground.
What they live on I don't know
In the last part of October and part
of November we got tents big
enough for six to stay in.
You don't think it is possible to
wake up in the morning and find
out it is anywhere from ten to
twenty below" zero.
Well, my friends, you get the
general idea about what some of the
kids are going through. So-dont
you think you could do little more
and buy some of those Bonds? Kids
like that deserve all the help you
can give, and are depending on you,
and you. not to let them down.
Thanks for your letter, my friend,
and lots of good luck.