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May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

even with this Camp for a recent coat of

whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

away, sent a team here to play the best we

had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

to face the Engineers, and face them was about

all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

score. The game was an interesting one and

some good playing, especially among the

visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

team.


SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

a longer route than their battle in Paris on

April 26th. The bout on which the decision

was made was intended ten round affair, but

after three extra rounds, the judges were

unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

edly raw.


TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

had another defeat-less week and added four

more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

ten straight victories without any defeats.

The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

University team of Clermont was taken over

in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

it over to Maloney.

On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

combination kidding match and ball game from

the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

perfect support. Playing conditions were very

bad for both games but every member of the

team is strong in his praise of the treatment

accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

everybody in general.

On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

but the home team was too strong for them.

On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

decisions by the umpires caused considerable

wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

camp, and performed well.

The previous victories of the Varsity are:

19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

14                              Mars Hospital     2

12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

14                              Sougy                   3

8                                Verneuil               2

5                                Verneuil               2

10                              Mesves                0


The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

and according to them the entries from the Camp

failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

ing and the selection of good men from among

the homeward-bound Casuals.



CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

The continual rain has badly handicapped the

Camp League in which only a few games have

been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

that the new officers will make things hum as

soon as the weather improves,


ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

appointed a committee and are all set for a

"hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

has completed the details. The arrangements

will be completed at a meeting to be held next

week and the date of the party decided upon.

Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

not already registered are cordially invited to

"horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

Guerre and one of those green cord things on

his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

to give him away without a reason. He may,

on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

decorations in a rather particular way. The

story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

consoler and one of his most recent artistic

jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

so big that friend Widow contributed the

decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

this later!


"AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

With a few minor changes, it can be added to

our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

desired results:

"A SOLDIERS PRAYER

Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

very small sum and our clothes wont hang

together. Give us this day our stew and beans

and forgive us our longings for discharges as

we forgive those who keep us from getting

them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

Amen."


JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

The headliner on the program for the Boxing

Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

evening, April 25, was the bout between George

Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

down for the count, in the third section. It was

Johnston's party from the start. He floored

Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

third round. This is the second knock-out

Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

having floored one of the French fighters from

Paris, several weeks ago.

The show opened with a wrestling match

between Cox and Miller for two out of three

falls, but after a thirty-minute struggle with

"No Fall," the match was called a draw.

Farley and Sherman, two 140 pounders fought

three lively rounds to a draw while Warnick

won on points from Buttes in a slow, three

verse thing. Kerrigan and Curtin put up a

nice heavy-weight exhibition offering on which

no decision was given.

The show was one of the best that Lieutenant

Fraser has staged and pleased the large crowd

in attendance.



THE BATTLE OF NEVERS!

A certain young man went down to Nevers

and spent a whole afternoon gathering unto

himself a choice collection of souvenirs. On

returning to camp, he counted up and found he

had 21 handkerchiefs, each bearing a card for

the sender's greetings, headed "Souvenir of the

Worlds Great War, 1918-1919, Nevers, France"!!

Historians may be kind and include us in the

Great War, but we would'nt go around bragging

about it, at least until we get something else

besides that disgusting S.O.S. insignia to wear!


"AIN'T IT THE TRUTH"?

An investigating Congressman, over here

prying into things for the sake of the publicity

he could get out of the trip, landed into a compa-

ny kitchen where he found a K.P. doing oculist

stuff on the spuds. After a few trifling quest-

ions, the congressman poised his pencil and

gazing sternly at the K.P., asked: "What my

good man, is meant by 'Passing the Buck"?

The K.P. expectorated neatly through a crack

in the wall and came back thusly: "They ain't

nothing' ever passes the buck, it always stops

when it gets to him"!

(The contributor of the above tells us that it

struck him as a gem of wisdom, full of pathetic

truth, and nearly moved him to tears!)


CAPTAIN KOLB - PHILOSOPHER!

When Captain Robert L. Kolb, Personnel

Adjutant and Chief Paymaster of the Camp, fin-

ished his college career, they did'nt nail

"Ph.D." on his name, but they should have for

he is some philosopher. The Captain generally

wears a serious expression (and his uniform)

which leads the junior officers and "bucks" to

image him a stern man. But this expression

is only his "gas mask" for actually, he is of the

"give-you-his-shirt" type.

The Captain's chief tenet is "Always pick out

the things no one else wants and you won't be

bothered!" It has worked out well in a number

of things -- his office space, furniture, etc. -- and

his enlisted staff was thinking it over when he

enlarged the scope of his system by stating that

it also applied to the picking of a wife. Con-

sistency is such a rare jewel, especially among

officers, that an investigation was started which

unearthed a picture of the "Skipper's" girl and

his inconsistency; the jury decided that if no

one wanted his girl, then every single male in

Eastern Pennsylvania is either a bum judge or

blind!


'S' MATTER STARS AND STRIPES

The inhabitants of Camp Stephenson, parti-

cularly the men who give up their own time

to handle the circulation of the STARS and

STRIPES would like to know what kind of a

deal the circulation manager of that paper is

"pulling over". They want to know why the

French newsdealers can get their supply of the

papers hours before the men wo are supposed

to be in charge of the circulation here. The

matter requires an explanation for it seems to

have become a regular thing, in this district at

least.

At 1:00 P.M. on Thursday, the circulation

representative at this canp had not received

his supply of papers, but dozens of copies were

in the possession of his prospective customers,

sold to then early in the morning by agents of

local newsdealers.

The profits from the sale of the papers here

are turned into the mess funds of the various

units, which we believe was the intention of

the Commander-in-Chief and the founders of

the paper. The profits are not going into those

funds but into the pocket of local newsdealers.

There is something wrong with the circulation

system and the units which helped make the

paper the huge success it is, are not getting a

square deal.

Surely the STARS AND STRIPES is not going

to stain it's glorious history and reputation at

this late hour by either carelessness or "penny-

wise" policies!


Imprimerie Fortin et Cie, Nevers-Paris.

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May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

even with this Camp for a recent coat of

whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

away, sent a team here to play the best we

had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

to face the Engineers, and face them was about

all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

score. The game was an interesting one and

some good playing, especially among the

visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

team.


SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

a longer route than their battle in Paris on

April 26th. The bout on which the decision

was made was intended ten round affair, but

after three extra rounds, the judges were

unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

edly raw.


TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

had another defeat-less week and added four

more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

ten straight victories without any defeats.

The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

University team of Clermont was taken over

in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

it over to Maloney.

On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

combination kidding match and ball game from

the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

perfect support. Playing conditions were very

bad for both games but every member of the

team is strong in his praise of the treatment

accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

everybody in general.

On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

but the home team was too strong for them.

On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

decisions by the umpires caused considerable

wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

camp, and performed well.

The previous victories of the Varsity are:

19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

14                              Mars Hospital     2

12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

14                              Sougy                   3

8                                Verneuil               2

5                                Verneuil               2

10                              Mesves                0


The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

and according to them the entries from the Camp

failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

ing and the selection of good men from among

the homeward-bound Casuals.



CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

The continual rain has badly handicapped the

Camp League in which only a few games have

been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

that the new officers will make things hum as

soon as the weather improves,


ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

appointed a committee and are all set for a

"hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

has completed the details. The arrangements

will be completed at a meeting to be held next

week and the date of the party decided upon.

Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

not already registered are cordially invited to

"horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

Guerre and one of those green cord things on

his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

to give him away without a reason. He may,

on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

decorations in a rather particular way. The

story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

consoler and one of his most recent artistic

jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

so big that friend Widow contributed the

decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

this later!


"AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

With a few minor changes, it can be added to

our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

desired results:

"A SOLDIERS PRAYER

Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

very small sum and our clothes wont hang

together. Give us this day our stew and beans

and forgive us our longings for discharges as

we forgive those who keep us from getting

them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

Amen."


JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

The headliner on the program for the Boxing

Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

evening, April 25, was the bout between George

Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

down for the count, in the third section. It was

Johnston's party from the start. He floored

Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

third round. This is the second knock-out

Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

having floored one of the French fighters from

Paris, several weeks ago.

The show opened with a wrestling match

between Cox and Miller for two out of three

falls, but after a thirty-minute struggle with

"No Fall," the match was called a draw.

Farley and Sherman, two 140 pounders fought

three lively rounds to a draw while Warnick

won on points from Buttes in a slow, three

verse thing. Kerrigan and Curtin put up a

nice heavy-weight exhibition offering on which

no decision was given.

The show was one of the best that Lieutenant

Fraser has staged and pleased the large crowd

in attendance.



THE BATTLE OF NEVERS!

A certain young man went down to Nevers

and spent a whole afternoon gathering unto

himself a choice collection of souvenirs. On

returning to camp, he counted up and found he

had 21 handkerchiefs, each bearing a card for

the sender's greetings, headed "Souvenir of the

Worlds Great War, 1918-1919, Nevers, France"!!

Historians may be kind and include us in the

Great War, but we would'nt go around bragging

about it, at least until we get something else

besides that disgusting S.O.S. insignia to wear!


"AIN'T IT THE TRUTH"?

An investigating Congressman, over here

prying into things for the sake of the publicity

he could get out of the trip, landed into a compa-

ny kitchen where he found a K.P. doing oculist

stuff on the spuds. After a few trifling quest-

ions, the congressman poised his pencil and

gazing sternly at the K.P., asked: "What my

good man, is meant by 'Passing the Buck"?

The K.P. expectorated neatly through a crack

in the wall and came back thusly: "They ain't

nothing' ever passes the buck, it always stops

when it gets to him"!

(The contributor of the above tells us that it

struck him as a gem of wisdom, full of pathetic

truth, and nearly moved him to tears!)


CAPTAIN KOLB - PHILOSOPHER!

When Captain Robert L. Kolb, Personnel

Adjutant and Chief Paymaster of the Camp, fin-

ished his college career, they did'nt nail

"Ph.D." on his name, but they should have for

he is some philosopher. The Captain generally

wears a serious expression (and his uniform)

which leads the junior officers and "bucks" to

image him a stern man. But this expression

is only his "gas mask" for actually, he is of the

"give-you-his-shirt" type.

The Captain's chief tenet is "Always pick out

the things no one else wants and you won't be

bothered!" It has worked out well in a number

of things -- his office space, furniture, etc. -- and

his enlisted staff was thinking it over when he

enlarged the scope of his system by stating that

it also applied to the picking of a wife. Con-

sistency is such a rare jewel, especially among

officers, that an investigation was started which

unearthed a picture of the "Skipper's" girl and

his inconsistency; the jury decided that if no

one wanted his girl, then every single male in

Eastern Pennsylvania is either a bum judge or

blind!


'S' MATTER STARS AND STRIPES

The inhabitants of Camp Stephenson, parti-

cularly the men who give up their own time

to handle the circulation of the STARS and

STRIPES would like to know what kind of a

deal the circulation manager of that paper is

"pulling over". They want to know why the

French newsdealers can get their supply of the

papers hours before the men wo are supposed

to be in charge of the circulation here. The

matter requires an explanation for it seems to

have become a regular thing, in this district at

least.

At 1:00 P.M. on Thursday, the circulation

representative at this canp had not received

his supply of papers, but dozens of copies were

in the possession of his prospective customers,

sold to then early in the morning by agents of

local newsdealers.

The profits from the sale of the papers here

are turned into the mess funds of the various

units, which we believe was the intention of

the Commander-in-Chief and the founders of

the paper. The profits are not going into those

funds but into the pocket of local newsdealers.

There is something wrong with the circulation

system and the units which helped make the

paper the huge success it is, are not getting a

square deal.

Surely the STARS AND STRIPES is not going

to stain it's glorious history and reputation at

this late hour by either carelessness or "penny-

wise" policies!


Imprimerie Fortin et Cie, Nevers-Paris.


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  • August 29, 2017 02:45:33 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!


    "AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

    The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

    AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

    ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

    With a few minor changes, it can be added to

    our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

    desired results:

    "A SOLDIERS PRAYER

    Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

    Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

    very small sum and our clothes wont hang

    together. Give us this day our stew and beans

    and forgive us our longings for discharges as

    we forgive those who keep us from getting

    them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

    deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

    Amen."


    JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

    The headliner on the program for the Boxing

    Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

    evening, April 25, was the bout between George

    Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

    Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

    down for the count, in the third section. It was

    Johnston's party from the start. He floored

    Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

    run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

    the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

    third round. This is the second knock-out

    Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

    having floored one of the French fighters from

    Paris, several weeks ago.

    The show opened with a wrestling match

    between Cox and Miller for two out of three

    falls, but after a thirty-minute struggle with

    "No Fall," the match was called a draw.

    Farley and Sherman, two 140 pounders fought

    three lively rounds to a draw while Warnick

    won on points from Buttes in a slow, three

    verse thing. Kerrigan and Curtin put up a

    nice heavy-weight exhibition offering on which

    no decision was given.

    The show was one of the best that Lieutenant

    Fraser has staged and pleased the large crowd

    in attendance.



    THE BATTLE OF NEVERS!

    A certain young man went down to Nevers

    and spent a whole afternoon gathering unto

    himself a choice collection of souvenirs. On

    returning to camp, he counted up and found he

    had 21 handkerchiefs, each bearing a card for

    the sender's greetings, headed "Souvenir of the

    Worlds Great War, 1918-1919, Nevers, France"!!

    Historians may be kind and include us in the

    Great War, but we would'nt go around bragging

    about it, at least until we get something else

    besides that disgusting S.O.S. insignia to wear!


    "AIN'T IT THE TRUTH"?

    An investigating Congressman, over here

    prying into things for the sake of the publicity

    he could get out of the trip, landed into a compa-

    ny kitchen where he found a K.P. doing oculist

    stuff on the spuds. After a few trifling quest-

    ions, the congressman poised his pencil and

    gazing sternly at the K.P., asked: "What my

    good man, is meant by 'Passing the Buck"?

    The K.P. expectorated neatly through a crack

    in the wall and came back thusly: "They ain't

    nothing' ever passes the buck, it always stops

    when it gets to him"!

    (The contributor of the above tells us that it

    struck him as a gem of wisdom, full of pathetic

    truth, and nearly moved him to tears!)


    CAPTAIN KOLB - PHILOSOPHER!

    When Captain Robert L. Kolb, Personnel

    Adjutant and Chief Paymaster of the Camp, fin-

    ished his college career, they did'nt nail

    "Ph.D." on his name, but they should have for

    he is some philosopher. The Captain generally

    wears a serious expression (and his uniform)

    which leads the junior officers and "bucks" to

    image him a stern man. But this expression

    is only his "gas mask" for actually, he is of the

    "give-you-his-shirt" type.

    The Captain's chief tenet is "Always pick out

    the things no one else wants and you won't be

    bothered!" It has worked out well in a number

    of things -- his office space, furniture, etc. -- and

    his enlisted staff was thinking it over when he

    enlarged the scope of his system by stating that

    it also applied to the picking of a wife. Con-

    sistency is such a rare jewel, especially among

    officers, that an investigation was started which

    unearthed a picture of the "Skipper's" girl and

    his inconsistency; the jury decided that if no

    one wanted his girl, then every single male in

    Eastern Pennsylvania is either a bum judge or

    blind!


    'S' MATTER STARS AND STRIPES

    The inhabitants of Camp Stephenson, parti-

    cularly the men who give up their own time

    to handle the circulation of the STARS and

    STRIPES would like to know what kind of a

    deal the circulation manager of that paper is

    "pulling over". They want to know why the

    French newsdealers can get their supply of the

    papers hours before the men wo are supposed

    to be in charge of the circulation here. The

    matter requires an explanation for it seems to

    have become a regular thing, in this district at

    least.

    At 1:00 P.M. on Thursday, the circulation

    representative at this canp had not received

    his supply of papers, but dozens of copies were

    in the possession of his prospective customers,

    sold to then early in the morning by agents of

    local newsdealers.

    The profits from the sale of the papers here

    are turned into the mess funds of the various

    units, which we believe was the intention of

    the Commander-in-Chief and the founders of

    the paper. The profits are not going into those

    funds but into the pocket of local newsdealers.

    There is something wrong with the circulation

    system and the units which helped make the

    paper the huge success it is, are not getting a

    square deal.

    Surely the STARS AND STRIPES is not going

    to stain it's glorious history and reputation at

    this late hour by either carelessness or "penny-

    wise" policies!


    Imprimerie Fortin et Cie, Nevers-Paris.

  • August 29, 2017 02:44:33 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!


    "AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

    The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

    AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

    ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

    With a few minor changes, it can be added to

    our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

    desired results:

    "A SOLDIERS PRAYER

    Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

    Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

    very small sum and our clothes wont hang

    together. Give us this day our stew and beans

    and forgive us our longings for discharges as

    we forgive those who keep us from getting

    them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

    deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

    Amen."


    JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

    The headliner on the program for the Boxing

    Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

    evening, April 25, was the bout between George

    Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

    Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

    down for the count, in the third section. It was

    Johnston's party from the start. He floored

    Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

    run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

    the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

    third round. This is the second knock-out

    Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

    having floored one of the French fighters from

    Paris, several weeks ago.

    The show opened with a wrestling match

    between Cox and Miller for two out of three

    falls, but after a thirty-minute struggle with

    "No Fall," the match was called a draw.

    Farley and Sherman, two 140 pounders fought

    three lively rounds to a draw while Warnick

    won on points from Buttes in a slow, three

    verse thing. Kerrigan and Curtin put up a

    nice heavy-weight exhibition offering on which

    no decision was given.

    The show was one of the best that Lieutenant

    Fraser has staged and pleased the large crowd

    in attendance.



    THE BATTLE OF NEVERS!

    A certain young man went down to Nevers

    and spent a whole afternoon gathering unto

    himself a choice collection of souvenirs. On

    returning to camp, he counted up and found he

    had 21 handkerchiefs, each bearing a card for

    the sender's greetings, headed "Souvenir of the

    Worlds Great War, 1918-1919, Nevers, France"!!

    Historians may be kind and include us in the

    Great War, but we would'nt go around bragging

    about it, at least until we get something else

    besides that disgusting S.O.S. insignia to wear!


    "AIN'T IT THE TRUTH"?

    An investigating Congressman, over here

    prying into things for the sake of the publicity

    he could get out of the trip, landed into a compa-

    ny kitchen where he found a K.P. doing oculist

    stuff on the spuds. After a few trifling quest-

    ions, the congressman poised his pencil and

    gazing sternly at the K.P., asked: "What my

    good man, is meant by 'Passing the Buck"?

    The K.P. expectorated neatly through a crack

    in the wall and came back thusly: "They ain't

    nothing' ever passes the buck, it always stops

    when it gets to him"!

    (The contributor of the above tells us that it

    struck him as a gem of wisdom, full of pathetic

    truth, and nearly moved him to tears!)


    CAPTAIN KOLB - PHILOSOPHER!

    When Captain Robert L. Kolb, Personnel

    Adjutant and Chief Paymaster of the Camp, fin-

    ished his college career, they did'nt nail

    "Ph.D." on his name, but they should have for

    he is some philosopher. The Captain generally

    wears a serious expression (and his uniform)

    which leads the junior officers and "bucks" to

    image him a stern man. But this expression

    is only his "gas mask" for actually, he is of the

    "give-you-his-shirt" type.

    The Captain's chief tenet is "Always pick out

    the things no one else wants and you won't be

    bothered!" It has worked out well in a number

    of things -- his office space, furniture, etc. -- and

    his enlisted staff was thinking it over when he

    enlarged the scope of his system by stating that

    it also applied to the picking of a wife. Con-

    sistency is such a rare jewel, especially among

    officers, that an investigation was started which

    unearthed a picture of the "Skipper's" girl and

    his inconsistency; the jury decided that if no

    one wanted his girl, then every single male in

    Eastern Pennsylvania is either a bum judge or

    blind!


    'S' MATTER STARS AND STRIPES

    The inhabitants of Camp Stephenson, parti-

    cularly the men who give up their own time

    to handle the circulation of the STARS and

    STRIPES would like to know what kind of a

    deal the circulation manager of that paper is

    "pulling over". They want to know why the

    French newsdealers can get their supply of the

    papers hours before the men wo are supposed

    to be in charge of the circulation here. The

    matter requires an explanation for it seems to

    have become a regular thing, in this district at

    least.

    At 1:00 P.M. on Thursday, the circulation

    representative at this canp had not received

    his supply of papers, but dozens of copies were

    in the possession of his prospective customers,

    sold to then early in the morning by agents of

    local newsdealers.

    The profits from the sale of the papers here

    are turned into the mess funds of the various

    units, which we believe was the intention of

    the Commander-in-Chief and the founders of

    the paper. The profits are not going into those

    funds but into the pocket of local newsdealers.

    There is something wrong with the circulation

    system and the units which helped make the

    paper the huge success it is, are not getting a

    square deal.



  • August 29, 2017 02:42:37 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!


    "AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

    The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

    AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

    ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

    With a few minor changes, it can be added to

    our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

    desired results:

    "A SOLDIERS PRAYER

    Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

    Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

    very small sum and our clothes wont hang

    together. Give us this day our stew and beans

    and forgive us our longings for discharges as

    we forgive those who keep us from getting

    them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

    deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

    Amen."


    JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

    The headliner on the program for the Boxing

    Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

    evening, April 25, was the bout between George

    Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

    Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

    down for the count, in the third section. It was

    Johnston's party from the start. He floored

    Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

    run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

    the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

    third round. This is the second knock-out

    Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

    having floored one of the French fighters from

    Paris, several weeks ago.

    The show opened with a wrestling match

    between Cox and Miller for two out of three

    falls, but after a thirty-minute struggle with

    "No Fall," the match was called a draw.

    Farley and Sherman, two 140 pounders fought

    three lively rounds to a draw while Warnick

    won on points from Buttes in a slow, three

    verse thing. Kerrigan and Curtin put up a

    nice heavy-weight exhibition offering on which

    no decision was given.

    The show was one of the best that Lieutenant

    Fraser has staged and pleased the large crowd

    in attendance.



    THE BATTLE OF NEVERS!

    A certain young man went down to Nevers

    and spent a whole afternoon gathering unto

    himself a choice collection of souvenirs. On

    returning to camp, he counted up and found he

    had 21 handkerchiefs, each bearing a card for

    the sender's greetings, headed "Souvenir of the

    Worlds Great War, 1918-1919, Nevers, France"!!

    Historians may be kind and include us in the

    Great War, but we would'nt go around bragging

    about it, at least until we get something else

    besides that disgusting S.O.S. insignia to wear!


    "AIN'T IT THE TRUTH"?

    An investigating Congressman, over here

    prying into things for the sake of the publicity

    he could get out of the trip, landed into a compa-

    ny kitchen where he found a K.P. doing oculist

    stuff on the spuds. After a few trifling quest-

    ions, the congressman poised his pencil and

    gazing sternly at the K.P., asked: "What my

    good man, is meant by 'Passing the Buck"?

    The K.P. expectorated neatly through a crack

    in the wall and came back thusly: "They ain't

    nothing' ever passes the buck, it always stops

    when it gets to him"!

    (The contributor of the above tells us that it

    struck him as a gem of wisdom, full of pathetic

    truth, and nearly moved him to tears!)


    CAPTAIN KOLB - PHILOSOPHER!

    When Captain Robert L. Kolb, Personnel

    Adjutant and Chief Paymaster of the Camp, fin-

    ished his college career, they did'nt nail

    "Ph.D." on his name, but they should have for

    he is some philosopher. The Captain generally

    wears a serious expression (and his uniform)

    which leads the junior officers and "bucks" to

    image him a stern man. But this expression

    is only his "gas mask" for actually, he is of the

    "give-you-his-shirt" type.

    The Captain's chief tenet is "Always pick out

    the things no one else wants and you won't be

    bothered!" It has worked out well in a number

    of things -- his office space, furniture, etc. -- and

    his enlisted staff was thinking it over when he

    enlarged the scope of his system by stating that

    it also applied to the picking of a wife. Con-

    sistency is such a rare jewel, especially among

    officers, that an investigation was started which

    unearthed a picture of the "Skipper's" girl and

    his inconsistency; the jury decided that if no

    one wanted his girl, then every single male in

    Eastern Pennsylvania is either a bum judge or

    blind!


    'S' MATTER STARS AND STRIPES

    The inhabitants of Camp Stephenson, parti-

    cularly the men who give up their own time

    to handle the circulation of the STARS and

    STRIPES would like to know what kind of a

    deal the circulation manager of that paper is

    "pulling over". They want to know why the

    French newsdealers can get their supply of the

    papers hours before the men wo are supposed

    to be in charge of the circulation here. The

    matter requires an explanation for it seems to

    have become a regular thing, in this district at

    least.

    At 1:00 P.M. on Thursday, the circulation

    representative at this canp had not received

    his supply of papers, but dozens of copies were

    in the possession of his prospective customers,

    sold to then early in the morning by agents of

    local newsdealers.



  • August 29, 2017 02:41:23 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!


    "AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

    The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

    AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

    ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

    With a few minor changes, it can be added to

    our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

    desired results:

    "A SOLDIERS PRAYER

    Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

    Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

    very small sum and our clothes wont hang

    together. Give us this day our stew and beans

    and forgive us our longings for discharges as

    we forgive those who keep us from getting

    them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

    deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

    Amen."


    JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

    The headliner on the program for the Boxing

    Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

    evening, April 25, was the bout between George

    Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

    Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

    down for the count, in the third section. It was

    Johnston's party from the start. He floored

    Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

    run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

    the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

    third round. This is the second knock-out

    Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

    having floored one of the French fighters from

    Paris, several weeks ago.

    The show opened with a wrestling match

    between Cox and Miller for two out of three

    falls, but after a thirty-minute struggle with

    "No Fall," the match was called a draw.

    Farley and Sherman, two 140 pounders fought

    three lively rounds to a draw while Warnick

    won on points from Buttes in a slow, three

    verse thing. Kerrigan and Curtin put up a

    nice heavy-weight exhibition offering on which

    no decision was given.

    The show was one of the best that Lieutenant

    Fraser has staged and pleased the large crowd

    in attendance.



    THE BATTLE OF NEVERS!

    A certain young man went down to Nevers

    and spent a whole afternoon gathering unto

    himself a choice collection of souvenirs. On

    returning to camp, he counted up and found he

    had 21 handkerchiefs, each bearing a card for

    the sender's greetings, headed "Souvenir of the

    Worlds Great War, 1918-1919, Nevers, France"!!

    Historians may be kind and include us in the

    Great War, but we would'nt go around bragging

    about it, at least until we get something else

    besides that disgusting S.O.S. insignia to wear!


    "AIN'T IT THE TRUTH"?

    An investigating Congressman, over here

    prying into things for the sake of the publicity

    he could get out of the trip, landed into a compa-

    ny kitchen where he found a K.P. doing oculist

    stuff on the spuds. After a few trifling quest-

    ions, the congressman poised his pencil and

    gazing sternly at the K.P., asked: "What my

    good man, is meant by 'Passing the Buck"?

    The K.P. expectorated neatly through a crack

    in the wall and came back thusly: "They ain't

    nothing' ever passes the buck, it always stops

    when it gets to him"!

    (The contributor of the above tells us that it

    struck him as a gem of wisdom, full of pathetic

    truth, and nearly moved him to tears!)


    CAPTAIN KOLB - PHILOSOPHER!

    When Captain Robert L. Kolb, Personnel

    Adjutant and Chief Paymaster of the Camp, fin-

    ished his college career, they did'nt nail

    "Ph.D." on his name, but they should have for

    he is some philosopher. The Captain generally

    wears a serious expression (and his uniform)

    which leads the junior officers and "bucks" to

    image him a stern man. But this expression

    is only his "gas mask" for actually, he is of the

    "give-you-his-shirt" type.

    The Captain's chief tenet is "Always pick out

    the things no one else wants and you won't be

    bothered!" It has worked out well in a number

    of things -- his office space, furniture, etc. -- and

    his enlisted staff was thinking it over when he

    enlarged the scope of his system by stating that

    it also applied to the picking of a wife. Con-

    sistency is such a rare jewel, especially among

    officers, that an investigation was started which

    unearthed a picture of the "Skipper's" girl and

    his inconsistency; the jury decided that if no

    one wanted his girl, then every single male in

    Eastern Pennsylvania is either a bum judge or

    blind!


    'S' MATTER STARS AND STRIPES

    The inhabitants of Camp Stephenson, parti-

    cularly the men who give up their own time

    to handle the circulation of the STARS and

    STRIPES would like to know what kind of a

    deal the circulation manager of that paper is

    "pulling over". They want to know why the

    French newsdealers can get their supply of the

    papers hours before the men wo are supposed

    to be in charge of the circulation here. The

    matter requires an explanation for it seems to

    have become a regular thing, in this district at

    least.


  • August 29, 2017 02:39:00 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!


    "AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

    The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

    AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

    ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

    With a few minor changes, it can be added to

    our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

    desired results:

    "A SOLDIERS PRAYER

    Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

    Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

    very small sum and our clothes wont hang

    together. Give us this day our stew and beans

    and forgive us our longings for discharges as

    we forgive those who keep us from getting

    them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

    deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

    Amen."


    JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

    The headliner on the program for the Boxing

    Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

    evening, April 25, was the bout between George

    Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

    Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

    down for the count, in the third section. It was

    Johnston's party from the start. He floored

    Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

    run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

    the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

    third round. This is the second knock-out

    Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

    having floored one of the French fighters from

    Paris, several weeks ago.

    The show opened with a wrestling match

    between Cox and Miller for two out of three

    falls, but after a thirty-minute struggle with

    "No Fall," the match was called a draw.

    Farley and Sherman, two 140 pounders fought

    three lively rounds to a draw while Warnick

    won on points from Buttes in a slow, three

    verse thing. Kerrigan and Curtin put up a

    nice heavy-weight exhibition offering on which

    no decision was given.

    The show was one of the best that Lieutenant

    Fraser has staged and pleased the large crowd

    in attendance.



    THE BATTLE OF NEVERS!

    A certain young man went down to Nevers

    and spent a whole afternoon gathering unto

    himself a choice collection of souvenirs. On

    returning to camp, he counted up and found he

    had 21 handkerchiefs, each bearing a card for

    the sender's greetings, headed "Souvenir of the

    Worlds Great War, 1918-1919, Nevers, France"!!

    Historians may be kind and include us in the

    Great War, but we would'nt go around bragging

    about it, at least until we get something else

    besides that disgusting S.O.S. insignia to wear!


    "AIN'T IT THE TRUTH"?

    An investigating Congressman, over here

    prying into things for the sake of the publicity

    he could get out of the trip, landed into a compa-

    ny kitchen where he found a K.P. doing oculist

    stuff on the spuds. After a few trifling quest-

    ions, the congressman poised his pencil and

    gazing sternly at the K.P., asked: "What my

    good man, is meant by 'Passing the Buck"?

    The K.P. expectorated neatly through a crack

    in the wall and came back thusly: "They ain't

    nothing' ever passes the buck, it always stops

    when it gets to him"!

    (The contributor of the above tells us that it

    struck him as a gem of wisdom, full of pathetic

    truth, and nearly moved him to tears!)


    CAPTAIN KOLB - PHILOSOPHER!

    When Captain Robert L. Kolb, Personnel

    Adjutant and Chief Paymaster of the Camp, fin-

    ished his college career, they did'nt nail

    "Ph.D." on his name, but they should have for

    he is some philosopher. The Captain generally

    wears a serious expression (and his uniform)

    which leads the junior officers and "bucks" to

    image him a stern man. But this expression

    is only his "gas mask" for actually, he is of the

    "give-you-his-shirt" type.

    The Captain's chief tenet is "Always pick out

    the things no one else wants and you won't be

    bothered!" It has worked out well in a number

    of things -- his office space, furniture, etc. -- and

    his enlisted staff was thinking it over when he

    enlarged the scope of his system by stating that

    it also applied to the picking of a wife. Con-

    sistency is such a rare jewel, especially among

    officers, that an investigation was started which

    unearthed a picture of the "Skipper's" girl and

    his inconsistency; the jury decided that if no

    one wanted his girl, then every single male in

    Eastern Pennsylvania is either a bum judge or

    blind!


  • August 29, 2017 02:33:03 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!


    "AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

    The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

    AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

    ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

    With a few minor changes, it can be added to

    our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

    desired results:

    "A SOLDIERS PRAYER

    Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

    Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

    very small sum and our clothes wont hang

    together. Give us this day our stew and beans

    and forgive us our longings for discharges as

    we forgive those who keep us from getting

    them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

    deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

    Amen."


    JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

    The headliner on the program for the Boxing

    Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

    evening, April 25, was the bout between George

    Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

    Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

    down for the count, in the third section. It was

    Johnston's party from the start. He floored

    Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

    run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

    the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

    third round. This is the second knock-out

    Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

    having floored one of the French fighters from

    Paris, several weeks ago.

    The show opened with a wrestling match

    between Cox and Miller for two out of three

    falls, but after a thirty-minute struggle with

    "No Fall," the match was called a draw.

    Farley and Sherman, two 140 pounders fought

    three lively rounds to a draw while Warnick

    won on points from Buttes in a slow, three

    verse thing. Kerrigan and Curtin put up a

    nice heavy-weight exhibition offering on which

    no decision was given.

    The show was one of the best that Lieutenant

    Fraser has staged and pleased the large crowd

    in attendance.



    THE BATTLE OF NEVERS!

    A certain young man went down to Nevers

    and spent a whole afternoon gathering unto

    himself a choice collection of souvenirs. On

    returning to camp, he counted up and found he

    had 21 handkerchiefs, each bearing a card for

    the sender's greetings, headed "Souvenir of the

    Worlds Great War, 1918-1919, Nevers, France"!!

    Historians may be kind and include us in the

    Great War, but we would'nt go around bragging

    about it, at least until we get something else

    besides that disgusting S.O.S. insignia to wear!


    "AIN'T IT THE TRUTH"?

    An investigating Congressman, over here

    prying into things for the sake of the publicity

    he could get out of the trip, landed into a compa-

    ny kitchen where he found a K.P. doing oculist

    stuff on the spuds. After a few trifling quest-

    ions, the congressman poised his pencil and

    gazing sternly at the K.P., asked: "What my

    good man, is meant by 'Passing the Buck"?

    The K.P. expectorated neatly through a crack

    in the wall and came back thusly: "They ain't

    nothing' ever passes the buck, it always stops

    when it gets to him"!

    (The contributor of the above tells us that it

    struck him as a gem of wisdom, full of pathetic

    truth, and nearly moved him to tears!)




  • August 29, 2017 02:31:57 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!


    "AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

    The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

    AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

    ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

    With a few minor changes, it can be added to

    our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

    desired results:

    "A SOLDIERS PRAYER

    Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

    Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

    very small sum and our clothes wont hang

    together. Give us this day our stew and beans

    and forgive us our longings for discharges as

    we forgive those who keep us from getting

    them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

    deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

    Amen."


    JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

    The headliner on the program for the Boxing

    Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

    evening, April 25, was the bout between George

    Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

    Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

    down for the count, in the third section. It was

    Johnston's party from the start. He floored

    Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

    run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

    the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

    third round. This is the second knock-out

    Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

    having floored one of the French fighters from

    Paris, several weeks ago.

    The show opened with a wrestling match

    between Cox and Miller for two out of three

    falls, but after a thirty-minute struggle with

    "No Fall," the match was called a draw.

    Farley and Sherman, two 140 pounders fought

    three lively rounds to a draw while Warnick

    won on points from Buttes in a slow, three

    verse thing. Kerrigan and Curtin put up a

    nice heavy-weight exhibition offering on which

    no decision was given.

    The show was one of the best that Lieutenant

    Fraser has staged and pleased the large crowd

    in attendance.



    THE BATTLE OF NEVERS!

    A certain young man went down to Nevers

    and spent a whole afternoon gathering unto

    himself a choice collection of souvenirs. On

    returning to camp, he counted up and found he

    had 21 handkerchiefs, each bearing a card for

    the sender's greetings, headed "Souvenir of the

    Worlds Great War, 1918-1919, Nevers, France"!!

    Historians may be kind and include us in the

    Great War, but we would'nt go around bragging

    about it, at least until we get something else

    besides that disgusting S.O.S. insignia to wear!


    "AIN'T IT THE TRUTH"?

    An investigating Congressman, over here

    prying into things for the sake of the publicity

    he could get out of the trip, landed into a compa-

    ny kitchen where he found a K.P. doing oculist

    stuff on the spuds. After a few trifling quest-

    ions, the congressman poised his pencil and

    gazing sternly at the K.P., asked: "What my

    good man, is meant by 'Passing the Buck"?

    The K.P. expectorated neatly through a crack

    in the wall and came back thusly: "They ain't

    nothing' ever passes the buck, it always stops

    when it gets to him"!


  • August 28, 2017 18:20:10 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!


    "AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

    The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

    AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

    ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

    With a few minor changes, it can be added to

    our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

    desired results:

    "A SOLDIERS PRAYER

    Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

    Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

    very small sum and our clothes wont hang

    together. Give us this day our stew and beans

    and forgive us our longings for discharges as

    we forgive those who keep us from getting

    them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

    deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

    Amen."


    JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

    The headliner on the program for the Boxing

    Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

    evening, April 25, was the bout between George

    Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

    Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

    down for the count, in the third section. It was

    Johnston's party from the start. He floored

    Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

    run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

    the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

    third round. This is the second knock-out

    Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

    having floored one of the French fighters from

    Paris, several weeks ago.

    The show opened with a wrestling match

    between Cox and Miller for two out of three

    falls, but after a thirty-minute struggle with

    "No Fall," the match was called a draw.

    Farley and Sherman, two 140 pounders fought

    three lively rounds to a draw while Warnick

    won on points from Buttes in a slow, three

    verse thing. Kerrigan and Curtin put up a

    nice heavy-weight exhibition offering on which

    no decision was given.

    The show was one of the best that Lieutenant

    Fraser has staged and pleased the large crowd

    in attendance.


  • August 28, 2017 18:18:17 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!


    "AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

    The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

    AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

    ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

    With a few minor changes, it can be added to

    our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

    desired results:

    "A SOLDIERS PRAYER

    Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

    Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

    very small sum and our clothes wont hang

    together. Give us this day our stew and beans

    and forgive us our longings for discharges as

    we forgive those who keep us from getting

    them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

    deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

    Amen."


    JOHNSTON KAYO'S BROWN

    The headliner on the program for the Boxing

    Show, staged in the Auditorium on Friday

    evening, April 25, was the bout between George

    Johnston of "119" and Patsy Brown from

    Decize, in which Johnston sent the Decize man

    down for the count, in the third section. It was

    Johnston's party from the start. He floored

    Brown early in the opening, gave him a husky

    run in the second, and, with a hefty right to

    the jaw, put him to sleep in the middle of the

    third round. This is the second knock-out

    Johnston has scored at Camp Stephenson,

    having floored one of the French fighters from

    Paris, several weeks ago.


  • August 28, 2017 18:15:52 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!


    "AND NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP!"

    The clipping quoted below was "stolen" from

    AS-YOU-WERE, official paper of U.S.A. Hosp-

    ital No. 24 and published in Pittsburgh, Penna.

    With a few minor changes, it can be added to

    our daily prayers and may, perhaps, bring the

    desired results:

    "A SOLDIERS PRAYER

    Our Boss: who art now in Washington:

    Wilson be thy name, our pay does come with a

    very small sum and our clothes wont hang

    together. Give us this day our stew and beans

    and forgive us our longings for discharges as

    we forgive those who keep us from getting

    them. Keep us not forever in Parkview: but

    deliver us back to our homes in God's country,

    Amen."




  • August 28, 2017 18:12:47 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


    SPEAKING OF DECORATIONS!

    Any o'you birds live in or near Chambersburg,

    Pennsylvania? When you get back to the village,

    keep your eyes open for a certain Second Lieut.

    with a familiar face and a familiar walk. The

    chances are that he'll be wearing a Croix de

    Guerre and one of those green cord things on

    his shoulder. Of course we would'nt want you

    to give him away without a reason. He may,

    on account of his Sam Browne, edge in on you

    somewhere, and if he does, just tell the Editor

    of the town weekly that the Lieut. acquired his

    decorations in a rather particular way. The

    story we get is that the Lieutenant is one swell

    consoler and one of his most recent artistic

    jobs was the consoling of a good looking War

    Widow of this vicinity. His consoling got over

    so big that friend Widow contributed the

    decorations which the Lieut. salted in his hope

    chest. We may have "Moore" to say about

    this later!




  • August 28, 2017 18:08:48 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.



    CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE

    The continual rain has badly handicapped the

    Camp League in which only a few games have

    been played since it's organization. A reorgan-

    ization of the league was the feature of a meet-

    ing held on Thursday evening and it is expected

    that the new officers will make things hum as

    soon as the weather improves,


    ELKS PLANNING BIG PARTY

    The Elks of the Camp have formed a club,

    appointed a committee and are all set for a

    "hot" party to be held as soon as the committee

    has completed the details. The arrangements

    will be completed at a meeting to be held next

    week and the date of the party decided upon.

    Elks in the Camp and neighborhood who have

    not already registered are cordially invited to

    "horn in" on the party; a note dropped to

    Lieutenant R. S. Fraser will insure a place

    being reserved for any "Bill" in France.


  • August 28, 2017 18:05:34 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.

    On Tuesday, April 29th, the tenth victory was

    wrested from the Section Quarter-Master team

    by a 7 to 4 score. It was a scrappy game on a

    bad field which handicapped both teams. Close

    decisions by the umpires caused considerable

    wrangling. Phayer was the heaver for the

    camp, and performed well.

    The previous victories of the Varsity are:

    19th. Gd. Div.          Opponents          Score

    14                              Mars Hospital     2

    12                              Autun M.P.'s       2

    14                              Sougy                   3

    8                                Verneuil               2

    5                                Verneuil               2

    10                              Mesves                0


    The results of the field meet staged at Cler-

    mont-Ferrand last week are clouded in myst-

    ery. Nothing but rumors have reached us yet,

    and according to them the entries from the Camp

    failed to figure in any of the wins. St Aignan

    seems to have cleaned up as the result of train-

    ing and the selection of good men from among

    the homeward-bound Casuals.


  • August 28, 2017 18:00:41 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.

    On April 26th, the "Varsity" team won a

    combination kidding match and ball game from

    the M.P.'s of Vichy, trimming the club swingers

    with a 17 to 3 score. Reed was the slab

    artist, pitched wonderful ball, and was given

    perfect support. Playing conditions were very

    bad for both games but every member of the

    team is strong in his praise of the treatment

    accorded the team at Clermont-Ferrand by

    everybody in general.

    On Sunday, April 27th, the Camp team gave

    a decisive drubbing to a team representing the

    313th Labor Battalion, the final count being 16

    to 4. The dark complexioned Yanks tried hard

    but the home team was too strong for them.


  • August 28, 2017 17:58:19 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.


    TEN IN A ROW FOR VARSITY

    The Regimental team of Camp Stephenson

    had another defeat-less week and added four

    more wins to it's string, bringing the total to

    ten straight victories without any defeats.

    The Camp boys have piled up 122 runs while

    their opponents have scored only 24 times, are

    are contenders for, at least, the S.O.S. honors.

    The trip to Clermont netted two wins: the

    University team of Clermont was taken over

    in a shutout contest of seven innings, the boys

    from Nevers gathering in a total of 19 runs.

    Anderson sewed up the game and then turned

    it over to Maloney.


  • August 28, 2017 17:55:53 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.


    SUMMERS GETS RAW DEAL

    Billy Kleck now owns the A.E.F. welterweight

    title, but his right to it is very much in doubt,

    and if he is a real sportsman he will agree to

    give Johnny Summers another chance at it over

    a longer route than their battle in Paris on

    April 26th. The bout on which the decision

    was made was intended ten round affair, but

    after three extra rounds, the judges were

    unable to agree and the referee gave it to Kleck

    on points! In all three of the extra rounds,

    Summers had the edge, but the judges pulled

    Peace Commission stuff and the referee got

    tired. If Kleck is a sport and will fight

    Summers again, the fans at Camp Stephenson

    won't have to be coaxed in to putting up a

    sizeable wad for the privilege of witnessing it.

    The deal that Summers received was undoubt-

    edly raw.




  • August 28, 2017 17:52:49 Jim McIntyre

    May 3, 1919.                    THE POP-VALVE                    Page 5.


    MESVES DOWNS SECOND TEAM

    The baseball sharks at Mesves decided to get

    even with this Camp for a recent coat of

    whitewash, and, when the "Varsity" went

    away, sent a team here to play the best we

    had! So on April 26th, a second Camp team was

    picked (on the same plan as the draft numbers)

    to face the Engineers, and face them was about

    all the team did, being walloped by an 8 to 4

    score. The game was an interesting one and

    some good playing, especially among the

    visitors featured it. The gruesome details are

    missing on account of the Sporting Editor's

    absence. He was in Clermont with the "Big"

    team.




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    Camp Stephenson, Vauzelles, Nievrè

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Médiathèque municipale Jean Jaurès de Nevers
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