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* Big Tennessean, at 34, Tries to Gain Better
. Living for Mother and Sisters.
B - Has Broken Leg.
i W‘h thirty-four years old and
}; to the original draft,
}: srd Brewer of ward 28 got into
i% the war because he wanted to serve
°_his country. Now he lies in bed while
; ‘leg i 8 slowly healing, the wound
fg‘ \aving been received in an accident
~ February 1.
=~ “Everybody has been fine to me,”
%;..u Dick (for that is what every
o Medy calls him), “and 1 certainly
%\m had to thank my friends for
. Jooking out for my welfare.”
% ° ‘The surgeons have told Dick that
.he ‘will have *to be in the hospital
. six months, in all, before his leg will
. be entirely well. He was riding a
* om cycle when he was run into by
i @ truck and knocked unconscious. His
TN '(‘.‘h was broken above the knee
' -and he. lflfil to have heavy weights
) sttached to it\in order that the bones
% might be held in their proper place.
' . But Dick is never thinking about
° 2 Bimself; unless it is to try to fit him#
.. @elf to_be of greater help to his
" mother 'and sisters. Now that the
' war is over, he wants to get back
,'nllro.d work and earn a nice
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& péut two of his sisters to college.
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i WMesding from left to right—Lieut.
/[ dames D, Wiliford, detachment com
‘i mander; Privates Ashman and Wil
' With a burst of glory the basket
ibe | team of the Base Hospital De
*‘ shment brought their playing sea
' m:to & close as champions of Camp
M de, and alsp military champions
w‘M state. The team was organized
_’ arly last fall, played a full season,
_rql%nmc with the month of October,
9 _.M‘oute of“tire total number of games
F . Biyed, both' in camp and outside, lost
e t:fq, none of which were suffer
_ the home court, the “Y” hut
45 It would be a hard matter to slnfle
F i out any one member of the team for
*+ praise or special commendation, as all
" played the game for all it was worth,
§ ssnd it was only the unselfish spirit of
sl ghd the lack of ‘‘grandstand” playing
- thatd ted in tlie many victorles.
"r:-“-.-"‘?’f ¢ ar:‘..T.nAs mkan. tlh?i centgr. I;‘e
- colved first knowledge of the
" game while a member of the Nanti
. poks, Pa., High School team, and his
- “perfprmance dxrln"s,the past season
L gvée ample’ evidence of the excel
; lemceé of that training. . Ashman was
\;}‘%:’ ‘his foes every minute, and the
f Minute that the whistle blew was in
3 the air, demonstrating his’ ability as
" the best center in the. camp by out
é"n{ ng every .m,lf.xthat stood pppo
ig““ im in the white circle. ; ;
%i . Team Work'a Maryel.
i Charles H. Gaul, Amos Williams and
% Ford played the forward positions in
.& " moste capable manner, and their
. teamwork was a marvel wherever
i they played. Gaul was always in
.evidence and move}? about the court
%9 ter than th® ball. Being small in
_@ ! it seefhed, to the observer on
¢ the side lines, a very easy matter™or
L him to secure the ball, and dodging
" awd ducking his way the entire length
S @of the court, bring it to a position
" where -he 'could pass it to Ford
e y 8 near the basket—the inev
\*Mu 9 result being a score. Gaul is
*’6;s tied by the-Pennsylvania boys as
. & member of the Reading team in the
35 aster League, during the seasen of
,éf“ <lB, while Ford has played with
gl ~~mml-protcsslonal teams of
- ¥r Pa.
L CyWilliams received his early train
~ ing. in the Baltimore High ligchool
- League n%tor cool-héaded playing
“aad tourage could not be beaten. The
" puard positions were looked after by
. Haro 8. Dunton, Ruben Finkelstein
‘vand Thomas McDonagh. Dunton is a
“Syell known member of the Greystock
Beserves of Philadelphia. Finkelstein
Sow' his spurs ss & member of the
Gprasll Uniyersity team, while Mc-
ERED AR 11-Areßnc. . hjata of BAl<
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Yet he never went to .school a day in
his life. Whm his mother and sisters
found the cHance they taught him
to read at home, at night, and they
did well, for he has learned a great
deal simply by reading.
In ward 29 Sergt. Bray is studying
the same book that is occupying so
much of the time of Brewer. Both
men want to become railroad en
gineers. Brewer used to he a brake
man on the Norfolk and Western, a
road for which he has the highest
praise.
“This manual on engineering.” he
said, “is just what I want, and Sergt.
Bray, in the next ward, will have to
go some in order to get it back. I
understand that ke memorized it
within a month. Well, I am going
to do that; then learn it backward,
before I give it back to him.”
One for Each.
The problem will have to be solved
by Miss Bowman, who has about con
ciuded to buy two books to please
each man.
Brewer played foot ball before he
was hurt. He was then in Jackson
ville, Fla. He. had ‘not been here
more than four days when the acci
dent put him out of commission. He
declares that the “Y” will find him
very busy @n the athletic floor when
he gets well. He is a fine specimen
of manhood and very popular.
lilams, Sergis. Ford and Dunteon
Private Finkelstein, Private G--i:
team eaptain, and Sergt. Patrick,
manager.
ability to shift quickly from defensive
to offensive, always forcing the play
ing into their opponents’ territory,
was wonderful. ‘ -
- Beat Home Teams.
During the early part of the season
playing was confilned mostly to Camp
Meade, and the boys from the base
met and defeated such teams as the
63d Infantry, JFranklin cantonment,
Utilities (three games) and.the 11ith
Sanitary Train. With the latter téam
the hospital team was compelled to
split victories, each winning a game,
but with due credit for the Sanitary
Train representatives and in justice
to the medical men it must be said
that the game which the train. won
was against a patched-up team from
the base, three of the regular men
from the base line-up being out of
camp. This game was the only one
lost in the camp. ’
In a series of games with Walter
Reed General Hospital® of Takoma
Park, D, C, one was won and one lost.
Here again the boys from Meade wWere
handicapped by different playing
rules, and the fact that they were on
a strange court. They met and de
feated the Walter Reed -five at the
Base Hospital Y Hut in this camp by
a wide margin.
With the organization of the Army
and Navy, League, the Base Hospital
team was selected to represent Camp
Meadeé. That they upheld the honor
of the camp, intrusted to them, is
evidenced : from the fact that they
finished their schedule with a per
centage of .866, meeting and defeat
ing teams from Fort McHenry, Aber
deen, Edgewood Arsenal., Curtis Bay
and Evergreen General Hospital. But
one defeat was-.suffered in the league,
this at Annapolis, at the hands of the
team from the training., ship Reina
Mercedes.. This prevented a perfect
record for the Meade boys, who hold
the military state championship of
Maryland.
Much of the success of the Meade
team is due to the great interest
taken in the game by Lieut. James
W. Willford, detachment commander
at the Base Hospital. A b*et ball
player himself, it was a sfOurce of
great pride to Lieut. Willford to
match his boys against the best
teams in this section, and feel confi
dent of their coming home with flying
colors.
Sergt. Andrew F. Patrick acted as
manager of the team, and it is due
to his untiring effort and firm belief
in the ability of the medical men that.
a team was organized. Thanks also
must be extended to the Y. M. C. A.
-organization.for its interest and thor
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But Card Fails to Do Justice to
the Charming Lady
Librarian.
The photo postal cards which are
being given out by Miss Bowman of
the A. L. A. are fine advertisements
for the work of the Library Associa
tion, but they cannot be said to be
flattering to the charming little lady
who serves as librarian to hte boys in
the hospital wards.
Miss Bowman is not a self-adver
tiser and consequently when the pic
ture was taken she turned her face.
away from the camera. This shows
her bending over, showing a book to
one of her readers. She wears an Al
pine hat and the picture gives her the
appearance of an old man. Nothing
could be farther from the truth.
The boys who appear on the card
are happy with their books and the
card is an excellent reproduction of
the scene in the wards when. Miss
Bowman comes around with her roll
ing library. There are 208 libraries of
this sort in the military nospitals of
the country.
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Students Send Up Prayers That
Colonel’s “Hard” Heart May
A Repent and Relent. :
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Just think of it, girls! They came
all the way from Georgia, from Ogle
thorpe, too, and yet they had to\con
form to military discipline and keep
their eyes straight in front of them.
It was too bad that the little misses,
twenty-eight of them, should have
to come to such a cold and heartless
place as Meade to finish their course
in nursing. Here the world is set on
solving the problems of the great
war,; men’'s minds and women’'s minds
are devoted to things that do not per
tain to love.
Are Always Chaperoned.
Just too bad, it is, and not a bit
interesting for the fair maidens who
really thought that being a bigger
place the chances for good times were
vastly increased, But, alas, the rules
are 80 stringent that a student
“nursie” has to have a chaperon al
most: everywhere she goes.
And they are such pretty girls. It is
a wonder that the ‘“hard”’ heart of
Lieut. Col. Kefauver does not melt
and grant them privileges for which
they crave. Their smiling faces are
80 coquettish end their ways so at
tractive that his mind must at least
be wavering. There may still be a
chance. -
The only solution is for the girls to
lose their hearts in their work. After
all, they are very young and wooing
can come later. : e
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Are the M. D. boys downhearted?
We' should say not. And if “you'se
guys” don't believe us—stick around
some Thursday night. s
Ah, I beg your pardon. I forgot to
tell you that Thursday night is
“stunt night” in the “Y.”
By thé way, you know, of course,
that we have the basket ball champs
in camp—but do you know that you
also can find Camp Meade's “stunt
night” champs in our place?
Wiho are they?
Just a second, buddy. I have.a long
list of names, and they are all willing,
to enter into a contest against out
siders—and, as 1 said, stick around
some Thursday night and you will be
convinced. i
Take last Thursday, for instance.
The auditorium was one roar of
laughter from the time the fun start
ed to the time the bugler’'s sad tones
of “tattoo” told the boys to hit the
hay. ¢
Do you want some details about the
fun? All right—take it all in:
. “Gentlemen! Allow me to introduce
to vou the king of all pilow-fighters,
Arthur T. Carney.”
“Did you gay ‘pilow-fight?” I never
- heard about any pillow-fights but
those college girls used to stage be
fore they go to bed.”
“Excuse me, want explanations, elr?” .
‘“Two wooden horses, one nice roll
ing log on top of the hor¥es, two soft
pillows and two men on each end of
the log.” That's the recipe—go to it.
And the boys surely went to it.
Twelve men were fighting each other,
twelve bloody battles were staged
before the referee was able to crown
Carney as the winner.
- Then we had a very gracefyl for
ward and backward leg-rolling race.
Twelve men tried their skill on the
rolling log:. Many comical situations
developed during this race, many
wonderful feats of balancing were
performed, and Manyer had to do his
yory best in order to be declared the
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ARM SHATTERED GADDI
USES TYPEWRITER AND RADIO
77th Division Man Look '
t Ivision IMan L.ooks to Capt. Ra
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John Gaddi of Company L, 306th In
fantry, 77th Division, has a shattered
left arm, but he is learning type
writing at the. base.
When he is not at the radio school,
in P block, John is pounding ‘the keys
of his Royal at the school in ward
37. He is developing rapidly.
T used to be a salesman in a linen
store,” said Gaddi, “but now that I
have been wounded and my arm is
not very much use to me, lam going
to learn the radio, and the typewriter
will beé a part of the course.
To Complete Course Elsewhere.
“I do not expect to complete my
self sixteen times, with Zihto and
Jackson tied for second place, each
doing f%xrteen times.
Now for the big act of the even
ing—the fight between Mayer and
Schweitzer for the trapeze champion
ship of M. D. It has been a fact
that for a long while there existed
a keen rivalry between those two
men. And, with Schweitzer going
home (he left Saturday) something
had to be déne in order to decide who
was the bést man of those two
‘‘aerial”’ performers. - And we surely
had some doings. For more ‘than
three-quarters of an hour the big
audience was held spellbound by wit
nessing the daring stunts of Mayer
and Schweitzer. An_ “ace” couldn’t
have performed more thrilling ‘diyes,”
“spirals,”” “nose . divings,” ° “semer
saults,” ‘“corkscrews” and “logping
the loop” than were those we had the
privilege of seeing. - s
It was impossible for the referee
to decide the winner. Both men
showed such skill.-and daring that a
coin had to be tossed up in the air
and fate decided that Oscar Mayer
should be awarded first prize and
Schweitzer second peize.
Several minor games went off in
fine style and the audience was in
the right kind of spirit when the box
ing match between Rasmussen and
Gerhardt finished the program of the
evening. 8
The match was fought under hith
erto unknown ruies. Both men were
blindfolded and a solid rope tied
around their waists. But the rope was
not long enough to allow the -two
fighters to reach eaeh other, and
when the beil rang for the first round
the referee did the handshaking,
making each man believe he was
shaking hands with his opponent.
Gosh! How they were fighting mad
ly. how earnestly did they.try to hit
all the air and space they were cover
ing. In the second round the climax
of the' whole evening’s fun was
réached. Some of the spectators were
kidding the blindfolded boxegs. but
the kidders got within reach of the
padded gloves and a wonderful battle
'royal was in full swing in a fiew sec
onds. Some of the men claim that
Physical Director Hausen got -+the
worst deal in the battle. How about
it. Hausen? :
After the boxing match the winners
of the different events, in which more
than sixty men had participated, were
awarded their prizes and each win
ner was cheered loudly by the big
crowd at hand.
Thursday night (tonight) is “stupt
night” again, so, as I said from tge
start, stick around if you want to
see some real fun.
THE NORSEMAN.
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- Did you not.lce ‘that there wer
more Fords in front of the income f‘.:
TR R R R e B i
H A ,g,.:‘":'l z a,x:fly“?-? nees. . L.it w‘ku; ',:‘ TPy
training in Meade. But the sehool”w
has taught me a lot. I hayve had m¥
jnterest aroused and I expect to mtkt;;
good use of the things I have learned ™
when I leave the Army.” - S
Gadadi is from New York city. He is 4
a big fellow and was hit by a “whizz
bang,” which did not explode until
after. it had buried itself in the mud’
of the trench in which he stood. He'
and his pal were weglded. This was
in the Argonne forest. 7 F
“My arm is set,” said Gaddi, ‘so that
I have to keep it bent all the time. -
If T make love to a girl and my arm
happens to steal around her, of
course, I have the excuse of saying.
that it was set that way and -that I -
cannot help it. It really is ideal for
‘spooning.’' . . 2
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“Miss America.” :
BY WARD MASTER SMITH. - :
“ Ward 10, | ¢ $ 3
Me for a man from the Army, . 741 3
For I know what he t tlntlii Lt <
I saw him washing dll:::. o i 53;1-;’
And for me the same he’il do. -{’; 3
He'll sew on all his butions . ‘i:f
Aund wash up all kis clothes; T
He cansot fool this littie girl,” ey
'lOrlbellonethtkm‘.‘ ? >
The work he did for sergeants . =
He can do for women, tos; ~ ;
He'’s handy with a mop and-broow - ’
And used to eating .stew. Wl R g, g
. $ & o e ERPn ot
There'll be no more old servapts;” -+ .
“Wor & man thet did ‘.. W 9 ARI S
Knows 01l Bbot 1o iouswwialt sl i %
And he’ll get his share of Bt, . E Al
- When fle at wasliing windews . i
- He klo":?ow to -’lh hem shin J“"; f
© For he 814 it at inspection - = ELEN
. And they passed them every timie, it
And when the work is over .. i i
og 5 21l often sit and et e
m things s seem Jige LY
Beneath the shot and shell. - ?:, 7”3; ik
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So he’s had enough of travellag, . . w 4 *4.
Bone'“fbet:hd to w e %‘;’:fxg“ {
me for the man WY i
When he gets back to %;}
I think, tho! 1 help "
We'll Imv:‘%ldn.:m and’ ~"&v.:;..,g-;rli'
For way down in -’.mn 'l be .0
Proud of my Army man. ’4,;.‘?; 1,
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A. W. 0. L., Missed Ovhtion.
When William J. Déyle. #he
who won the $5 prize offered | f&’“‘ |
Red Cross for the ‘best title forth
new hospital paper, was summone:
to the convalescent house io receivil:
the prize Thursday evening befi 5 o
large and admiring audience: hé was
discovered to be A. W. O. L o |
“Here and There” was. the it
Doyle suggested and was the |om
which appealed most to the jude: ,fl
He will still be fivo‘mt‘ ~hanice t
receive the money in ’u%?-};; !
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Belasco—'Dark Resaleen.” §iif
National—" Happiness”; .. ' ruifs
Garrick—" The 13th Chair |l
qui's—“Oh. mfi‘rz’g‘j} ‘ég’é !
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