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Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
CAMP ITEMS IN BRIEF
If Band Leader McFarlane had'nt been a good
fellow and willing to go the limit for the Camp
dances, the music of last Saturdays dance would
have consisted of whistling by the Welfare
comittee! A mixup in instructions left the
M.T.C. orchestra under the impression that it
was released and when this was learned, it was
also discovered that the members of the Band
were nearly all out on pass; but Mac grabbed
what was left, started the dance an kept things
going till a searching party had rounded up the
rest of the Band. The committee is certainly
grateful to Mac and the Band for coming to
it's rescue.
Saturday's dance was the usual enjoyable
affair with 150 couples in attendance, excel-
lent music, a luncheon consisting of lemonade
coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the moonlight
dances were the feature attractions.
Twenty five men of the R.T.O. force are now
being quartered and rationed at this Camp, these
men having lost their outfit by the "ordered
home" route. The men will continue on duty
at Nevers as long as troops are stationed here.
Since they are the boys who will get our "40
and 8" Pullmans ready when the big news
comes, we've gotta treat 'em right - Mess
Sergeants please note!
Three members of the delegation are not
strangers in the camp as they were formely
members of outfits of the camp: Pvt 1 cl
Lawrence E. Sullivan is an old "Forty-Niner"
having been connected with it's Head quarters
while Pvts 1 cl C. D. Sill and V. O. (Dusty-
Rhodes) Wilkins are both well known as ori-
ginal members of the "Fighting Fiftieth".
The new order permitting us to roam around
the camp without blouses was one of the most
popular orders we've received. It means a lot
of real comfort and was received with great
applause in most of the Mess Halls when it was
announced. Now the next item on the program
is the restoration of our B.V.D's. and it is hoped
that the Supply Sergeants will come out of their
winter lairs and get busy on this little item -
that is those Supply sergeants who were so
energetic in relieving us of them last fall!
Last week's number mentioned a letter and
subscription received from Major G. W. Whybark,
now on duty with General Headquarters. This
was an error since it should have read Lieute-
nant Colonel Whybark, the Major having been
promoted since he wrote to Captain Huff. The
news of this promotion was pleasant news to
the may friends of the Lt. Col. at this post,
and we are hoping that he will pay us a visit
so we can see how he looks with the new
jewelry adorning his shoulders.
The "Booko" Minstrels with a caste of fifty
four members of the Sixth Division was the
big attraction in the Auditorium on last Mon-
day night and it certainly made a big hit with
the crowd that filled the building. The show
is one of the snappiest attractions yet seen at
the Camp.
The first part consisted off regular minstrel
stuff, new songs and funny stunts, helped along
by an eleven piece orchestra. An ohio of seve-
ral attractive numbers followed. The camp
does'nt mind a limited number of attractions
if they can get attractions of the quality of the
"Booko" show.
The biggest laugh in the performance came
when one of the comedians announced that the
man who built the pyramids had the contract
for moving the A E.F. home!
A copy of the POP-VALVE drifted into the
Le Mans embarkation area and the Editor is in
receipt of a letter from an old pal, Sgt. J. G.
Haughey of the 320th Infantry Hqrs. who com-
mented favorably upon it. The Sgt. states
that his outfit expects to sail after the A.E.F.
leaves (proving that Cook Haley of 121 did'nt
make that joke up himself) and that they star-
ted out expecting to be home by Decoration
day, but will be very much surprised if they
hit Hoboken by July 4 th. Getting to an em-
barkation area does'nt always mean a quick
trip home, according to experiences we hear of.
Lieut. Proctor, Post Utilities Officer, wants
the winners at certain little pastimes that are
indulged in by the boys, to quit cornering the
Clacker market. The Post Canteen is runing shy
on small change and -- absolutely unofficially --
the Lieutenant would like have the fortunate
ones cash in to Sergeant Gibbs, exchanging
their clackers for bills: That is unless they
care to exchange their ill-gotten gains for the
variety of things that the Canteen has on sale.
Messrs. Pearce and Opperman please note.
While at St. Aignan, the Regimental Ball
team had the pleasure of meeting Lieut. Alex
Broadhead who left the Casual Camp on
Thursday, enroute for the "Hielands". Likewise
they met 1st Sgt. Atwood and Mess Sgt.
Aichelman of "120" and Mr. Engr. O'Connor,
all of whom had been thru the delousing plant
a couple of times and were enjoying their stay
at St. Aignan as much as they did the "Flu"!
They were firm in their statements that Camp
Stephenson is the ONLY camp in France.
Miss Walters, the Camp Librarian has been
kind enough to take over the handling of back
numbers of the POP-VALVE, and will keep a
supply of them at the Library. The company
representatives are kept pretty busy with the
current numbers and this will relieve them of
considerable work in the distribution of the
paper.
The YMCA Ice Cream Factory is working
overtime these days, several live Mess Sergeants
having used Ice Cream for dessert on warm
days. The line at the serving counter is longer
every day, and Miss Leonard is also taking care
of the dances. The front porch of the "Y" is
one of the prettiest places around, comfortable
furniture, flowers and many other things giving
it the appearance of a clubhouse or a high-class
hotel. The gang is practising up on the gentle
art of draping themselves around the front
porch furniture.
VERNEUIL (LYONS) TEAM DOWNED
The Regimental team proved to Verneuil
rooters that it is a real championship team by
cleaning the M.T.C. outfit on its own field when
the teams met on Tuesday afternoon. The
Verneuil outfit knew it was under orders and
wanted to win bad; our team did'nt know it,
but it was under orders to pull out too, and
perhaps this news got to them by mental tel-
epathy for they fought hard and won.
Reed did the twirling for the Varsity and made
the old pill hum. Hard luck in the second frame
netted Verneuil two runs in the second and one
in the third while our fellows netted but one.
It ran this way until the 8th, when a batting
rally netted the Nevers crew two more runs,
tieing the score, and one more tally in the ninth
brought home the bacon. It was a fast, scrappy
game, with both sides fighting every point.
Every man on the Camp Stephenson nine
played a splendid article of ball and only in the
second inning did the machine fail to work
smoothly.
The POP-VALVE wants to take back part of
the harsh collection of statements of last week.
Colonel Hegeman proved that he, at least was
a good sport by personally seeing that both
teams got a square deal on Tuesday. He had
two new umpires on the job and their decisions
were all fair. The Lieutenant who pulled such
raw stuff here was on the sidelines and when
he got a little bit too noisy; the Colonel sent
him to the Officers clubhouse or somewhere
off the field. And Johnny Summers followed
him a little later, only Johnny went to the
Bucks club.
Verneuil and it's paper -- LETS GO has put
a little excitement in things for us. The Staff
of the paper consists of a number of good fel-
lows. They saw things their way, and that way
was'nt ours. They are going home "toot
Sweeter" than we are and it is with real
regret that we call off our paper battle and,
we think they are willing to call off all bets
and accept our best wishes for a nice trip to
America. Bon Voyage n'everything.
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Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
CAMP ITEMS IN BRIEF
If Band Leader McFarlane had'nt been a good
fellow and willing to go the limit for the Camp
dances, the music of last Saturdays dance would
have consisted of whistling by the Welfare
comittee! A mixup in instructions left the
M.T.C. orchestra under the impression that it
was released and when this was learned, it was
also discovered that the members of the Band
were nearly all out on pass; but Mac grabbed
what was left, started the dance an kept things
going till a searching party had rounded up the
rest of the Band. The committee is certainly
grateful to Mac and the Band for coming to
it's rescue.
Saturday's dance was the usual enjoyable
affair with 150 couples in attendance, excel-
lent music, a luncheon consisting of lemonade
coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the moonlight
dances were the feature attractions.
Twenty five men of the R.T.O. force are now
being quartered and rationed at this Camp, these
men having lost their outfit by the "ordered
home" route. The men will continue on duty
at Nevers as long as troops are stationed here.
Since they are the boys who will get our "40
and 8" Pullmans ready when the big news
comes, we've gotta treat 'em right - Mess
Sergeants please note!
Three members of the delegation are not
strangers in the camp as they were formely
members of outfits of the camp: Pvt 1 cl
Lawrence E. Sullivan is an old "Forty-Niner"
having been connected with it's Head quarters
while Pvts 1 cl C. D. Sill and V. O. (Dusty-
Rhodes) Wilkins are both well known as ori-
ginal members of the "Fighting Fiftieth".
The new order permitting us to roam around
the camp without blouses was one of the most
popular orders we've received. It means a lot
of real comfort and was received with great
applause in most of the Mess Halls when it was
announced. Now the next item on the program
is the restoration of our B.V.D's. and it is hoped
that the Supply Sergeants will come out of their
winter lairs and get busy on this little item -
that is those Supply sergeants who were so
energetic in relieving us of them last fall!
Last week's number mentioned a letter and
subscription received from Major G. W. Whybark,
now on duty with General Headquarters. This
was an error since it should have read Lieute-
nant Colonel Whybark, the Major having been
promoted since he wrote to Captain Huff. The
news of this promotion was pleasant news to
the may friends of the Lt. Col. at this post,
and we are hoping that he will pay us a visit
so we can see how he looks with the new
jewelry adorning his shoulders.
The "Booko" Minstrels with a caste of fifty
four members of the Sixth Division was the
big attraction in the Auditorium on last Mon-
day night and it certainly made a big hit with
the crowd that filled the building. The show
is one of the snappiest attractions yet seen at
the Camp.
The first part consisted off regular minstrel
stuff, new songs and funny stunts, helped along
by an eleven piece orchestra. An ohio of seve-
ral attractive numbers followed. The camp
does'nt mind a limited number of attractions
if they can get attractions of the quality of the
"Booko" show.
The biggest laugh in the performance came
when one of the comedians announced that the
man who built the pyramids had the contract
for moving the A E.F. home!
A copy of the POP-VALVE drifted into the
Le Mans embarkation area and the Editor is in
receipt of a letter from an old pal, Sgt. J. G.
Haughey of the 320th Infantry Hqrs. who com-
mented favorably upon it. The Sgt. states
that his outfit expects to sail after the A.E.F.
leaves (proving that Cook Haley of 121 did'nt
make that joke up himself) and that they star-
ted out expecting to be home by Decoration
day, but will be very much surprised if they
hit Hoboken by July 4 th. Getting to an em-
barkation area does'nt always mean a quick
trip home, according to experiences we hear of.
Lieut. Proctor, Post Utilities Officer, wants
the winners at certain little pastimes that are
indulged in by the boys, to quit cornering the
Clacker market. The Post Canteen is runing shy
on small change and -- absolutely unofficially --
the Lieutenant would like have the fortunate
ones cash in to Sergeant Gibbs, exchanging
their clackers for bills: That is unless they
care to exchange their ill-gotten gains for the
variety of things that the Canteen has on sale.
Messrs. Pearce and Opperman please note.
While at St. Aignan, the Regimental Ball
team had the pleasure of meeting Lieut. Alex
Broadhead who left the Casual Camp on
Thursday, enroute for the "Hielands". Likewise
they met 1st Sgt. Atwood and Mess Sgt.
Aichelman of "120" and Mr. Engr. O'Connor,
all of whom had been thru the delousing plant
a couple of times and were enjoying their stay
at St. Aignan as much as they did the "Flu"!
They were firm in their statements that Camp
Stephenson is the ONLY camp in France.
Miss Walters, the Camp Librarian has been
kind enough to take over the handling of back
numbers of the POP-VALVE, and will keep a
supply of them at the Library. The company
representatives are kept pretty busy with the
current numbers and this will relieve them of
considerable work in the distribution of the
paper.
The YMCA Ice Cream Factory is working
overtime these days, several live Mess Sergeants
having used Ice Cream for dessert on warm
days. The line at the serving counter is longer
every day, and Miss Leonard is also taking care
of the dances. The front porch of the "Y" is
one of the prettiest places around, comfortable
furniture, flowers and many other things giving
it the appearance of a clubhouse or a high-class
hotel. The gang is practising up on the gentle
art of draping themselves around the front
porch furniture.
VERNEUIL (LYONS) TEAM DOWNED
The Regimental team proved to Verneuil
rooters that it is a real championship team by
cleaning the M.T.C. outfit on its own field when
the teams met on Tuesday afternoon. The
Verneuil outfit knew it was under orders and
wanted to win bad; our team did'nt know it,
but it was under orders to pull out too, and
perhaps this news got to them by mental tel-
epathy for they fought hard and won.
Reed did the twirling for the Varsity and made
the old pill hum. Hard luck in the second frame
netted Verneuil two runs in the second and one
in the third while our fellows netted but one.
It ran this way until the 8th, when a batting
rally netted the Nevers crew two more runs,
tieing the score, and one more tally in the ninth
brought home the bacon. It was a fast, scrappy
game, with both sides fighting every point.
Every man on the Camp Stephenson nine
played a splendid article of ball and only in the
second inning did the machine fail to work
smoothly.
The POP-VALVE wants to take back part of
the harsh collection of statements of last week.
Colonel Hegeman proved that he, at least was
a good sport by personally seeing that both
teams got a square deal on Tuesday. He had
two new umpires on the job and their decisions
were all fair. The Lieutenant who pulled such
raw stuff here was on the sidelines and when
he got a little bit too noisy; the Colonel sent
him to the Officers clubhouse or somewhere
off the field. And Johnny Summers followed
him a little later, only Johnny went to the
Bucks club.
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
CAMP ITEMS IN BRIEF
If Band Leader McFarlane had'nt been a good
fellow and willing to go the limit for the Camp
dances, the music of last Saturdays dance would
have consisted of whistling by the Welfare
comittee! A mixup in instructions left the
M.T.C. orchestra under the impression that it
was released and when this was learned, it was
also discovered that the members of the Band
were nearly all out on pass; but Mac grabbed
what was left, started the dance an kept things
going till a searching party had rounded up the
rest of the Band. The committee is certainly
grateful to Mac and the Band for coming to
it's rescue.
Saturday's dance was the usual enjoyable
affair with 150 couples in attendance, excel-
lent music, a luncheon consisting of lemonade
coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the moonlight
dances were the feature attractions.
Twenty five men of the R.T.O. force are now
being quartered and rationed at this Camp, these
men having lost their outfit by the "ordered
home" route. The men will continue on duty
at Nevers as long as troops are stationed here.
Since they are the boys who will get our "40
and 8" Pullmans ready when the big news
comes, we've gotta treat 'em right - Mess
Sergeants please note!
Three members of the delegation are not
strangers in the camp as they were formely
members of outfits of the camp: Pvt 1 cl
Lawrence E. Sullivan is an old "Forty-Niner"
having been connected with it's Head quarters
while Pvts 1 cl C. D. Sill and V. O. (Dusty-
Rhodes) Wilkins are both well known as ori-
ginal members of the "Fighting Fiftieth".
The new order permitting us to roam around
the camp without blouses was one of the most
popular orders we've received. It means a lot
of real comfort and was received with great
applause in most of the Mess Halls when it was
announced. Now the next item on the program
is the restoration of our B.V.D's. and it is hoped
that the Supply Sergeants will come out of their
winter lairs and get busy on this little item -
that is those Supply sergeants who were so
energetic in relieving us of them last fall!
Last week's number mentioned a letter and
subscription received from Major G. W. Whybark,
now on duty with General Headquarters. This
was an error since it should have read Lieute-
nant Colonel Whybark, the Major having been
promoted since he wrote to Captain Huff. The
news of this promotion was pleasant news to
the may friends of the Lt. Col. at this post,
and we are hoping that he will pay us a visit
so we can see how he looks with the new
jewelry adorning his shoulders.
The "Booko" Minstrels with a caste of fifty
four members of the Sixth Division was the
big attraction in the Auditorium on last Mon-
day night and it certainly made a big hit with
the crowd that filled the building. The show
is one of the snappiest attractions yet seen at
the Camp.
The first part consisted off regular minstrel
stuff, new songs and funny stunts, helped along
by an eleven piece orchestra. An ohio of seve-
ral attractive numbers followed. The camp
does'nt mind a limited number of attractions
if they can get attractions of the quality of the
"Booko" show.
The biggest laugh in the performance came
when one of the comedians announced that the
man who built the pyramids had the contract
for moving the A E.F. home!
A copy of the POP-VALVE drifted into the
Le Mans embarkation area and the Editor is in
receipt of a letter from an old pal, Sgt. J. G.
Haughey of the 320th Infantry Hqrs. who com-
mented favorably upon it. The Sgt. states
that his outfit expects to sail after the A.E.F.
leaves (proving that Cook Haley of 121 did'nt
make that joke up himself) and that they star-
ted out expecting to be home by Decoration
day, but will be very much surprised if they
hit Hoboken by July 4 th. Getting to an em-
barkation area does'nt always mean a quick
trip home, according to experiences we hear of.
Lieut. Proctor, Post Utilities Officer, wants
the winners at certain little pastimes that are
indulged in by the boys, to quit cornering the
Clacker market. The Post Canteen is runing shy
on small change and -- absolutely unofficially --
the Lieutenant would like have the fortunate
ones cash in to Sergeant Gibbs, exchanging
their clackers for bills: That is unless they
care to exchange their ill-gotten gains for the
variety of things that the Canteen has on sale.
Messrs. Pearce and Opperman please note.
While at St. Aignan, the Regimental Ball
team had the pleasure of meeting Lieut. Alex
Broadhead who left the Casual Camp on
Thursday, enroute for the "Hielands". Likewise
they met 1st Sgt. Atwood and Mess Sgt.
Aichelman of "120" and Mr. Engr. O'Connor,
all of whom had been thru the delousing plant
a couple of times and were enjoying their stay
at St. Aignan as much as they did the "Flu"!
They were firm in their statements that Camp
Stephenson is the ONLY camp in France.
Miss Walters, the Camp Librarian has been
kind enough to take over the handling of back
numbers of the POP-VALVE, and will keep a
supply of them at the Library. The company
representatives are kept pretty busy with the
current numbers and this will relieve them of
considerable work in the distribution of the
paper.
The YMCA Ice Cream Factory is working
overtime these days, several live Mess Sergeants
having used Ice Cream for dessert on warm
days. The line at the serving counter is longer
every day, and Miss Leonard is also taking care
of the dances. The front porch of the "Y" is
one of the prettiest places around, comfortable
furniture, flowers and many other things giving
it the appearance of a clubhouse or a high-class
hotel. The gang is practising up on the gentle
art of draping themselves around the front
porch furniture.
VERNEUIL (LYONS) TEAM DOWNED
The Regimental team proved to Verneuil
rooters that it is a real championship team by
cleaning the M.T.C. outfit on its own field when
the teams met on Tuesday afternoon. The
Verneuil outfit knew it was under orders and
wanted to win bad; our team did'nt know it,
but it was under orders to pull out too, and
perhaps this news got to them by mental tel-
epathy for they fought hard and won.
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
CAMP ITEMS IN BRIEF
If Band Leader McFarlane had'nt been a good
fellow and willing to go the limit for the Camp
dances, the music of last Saturdays dance would
have consisted of whistling by the Welfare
comittee! A mixup in instructions left the
M.T.C. orchestra under the impression that it
was released and when this was learned, it was
also discovered that the members of the Band
were nearly all out on pass; but Mac grabbed
what was left, started the dance an kept things
going till a searching party had rounded up the
rest of the Band. The committee is certainly
grateful to Mac and the Band for coming to
it's rescue.
Saturday's dance was the usual enjoyable
affair with 150 couples in attendance, excel-
lent music, a luncheon consisting of lemonade
coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the moonlight
dances were the feature attractions.
Twenty five men of the R.T.O. force are now
being quartered and rationed at this Camp, these
men having lost their outfit by the "ordered
home" route. The men will continue on duty
at Nevers as long as troops are stationed here.
Since they are the boys who will get our "40
and 8" Pullmans ready when the big news
comes, we've gotta treat 'em right - Mess
Sergeants please note!
Three members of the delegation are not
strangers in the camp as they were formely
members of outfits of the camp: Pvt 1 cl
Lawrence E. Sullivan is an old "Forty-Niner"
having been connected with it's Head quarters
while Pvts 1 cl C. D. Sill and V. O. (Dusty-
Rhodes) Wilkins are both well known as ori-
ginal members of the "Fighting Fiftieth".
The new order permitting us to roam around
the camp without blouses was one of the most
popular orders we've received. It means a lot
of real comfort and was received with great
applause in most of the Mess Halls when it was
announced. Now the next item on the program
is the restoration of our B.V.D's. and it is hoped
that the Supply Sergeants will come out of their
winter lairs and get busy on this little item -
that is those Supply sergeants who were so
energetic in relieving us of them last fall!
Last week's number mentioned a letter and
subscription received from Major G. W. Whybark,
now on duty with General Headquarters. This
was an error since it should have read Lieute-
nant Colonel Whybark, the Major having been
promoted since he wrote to Captain Huff. The
news of this promotion was pleasant news to
the may friends of the Lt. Col. at this post,
and we are hoping that he will pay us a visit
so we can see how he looks with the new
jewelry adorning his shoulders.
The "Booko" Minstrels with a caste of fifty
four members of the Sixth Division was the
big attraction in the Auditorium on last Mon-
day night and it certainly made a big hit with
the crowd that filled the building. The show
is one of the snappiest attractions yet seen at
the Camp.
The first part consisted off regular minstrel
stuff, new songs and funny stunts, helped along
by an eleven piece orchestra. An ohio of seve-
ral attractive numbers followed. The camp
does'nt mind a limited number of attractions
if they can get attractions of the quality of the
"Booko" show.
The biggest laugh in the performance came
when one of the comedians announced that the
man who built the pyramids had the contract
for moving the A E.F. home!
A copy of the POP-VALVE drifted into the
Le Mans embarkation area and the Editor is in
receipt of a letter from an old pal, Sgt. J. G.
Haughey of the 320th Infantry Hqrs. who com-
mented favorably upon it. The Sgt. states
that his outfit expects to sail after the A.E.F.
leaves (proving that Cook Haley of 121 did'nt
make that joke up himself) and that they star-
ted out expecting to be home by Decoration
day, but will be very much surprised if they
hit Hoboken by July 4 th. Getting to an em-
barkation area does'nt always mean a quick
trip home, according to experiences we hear of.
Lieut. Proctor, Post Utilities Officer, wants
the winners at certain little pastimes that are
indulged in by the boys, to quit cornering the
Clacker market. The Post Canteen is runing shy
on small change and -- absolutely unofficially --
the Lieutenant would like have the fortunate
ones cash in to Sergeant Gibbs, exchanging
their clackers for bills: That is unless they
care to exchange their ill-gotten gains for the
variety of things that the Canteen has on sale.
Messrs. Pearce and Opperman please note.
While at St. Aignan, the Regimental Ball
team had the pleasure of meeting Lieut. Alex
Broadhead who left the Casual Camp on
Thursday, enroute for the "Hielands". Likewise
they met 1st Sgt. Atwood and Mess Sgt.
Aichelman of "120" and Mr. Engr. O'Connor,
all of whom had been thru the delousing plant
a couple of times and were enjoying their stay
at St. Aignan as much as they did the "Flu"!
They were firm in their statements that Camp
Stephenson is the ONLY camp in France.
Miss Walters, the Camp Librarian has been
kind enough to take over the handling of back
numbers of the POP-VALVE, and will keep a
supply of them at the Library. The company
representatives are kept pretty busy with the
current numbers and this will relieve them of
considerable work in the distribution of the
paper.
The YMCA Ice Cream Factory is working
overtime these days, several live Mess Sergeants
having used Ice Cream for dessert on warm
days. The line at the serving counter is longer
every day, and Miss Leonard is also taking care
of the dances. The front porch of the "Y" is
one of the prettiest places around, comfortable
furniture, flowers and many other things giving
it the appearance of a clubhouse or a high-class
hotel. The gang is practising up on the gentle
art of draping themselves around the front
porch furniture.
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
CAMP ITEMS IN BRIEF
If Band Leader McFarlane had'nt been a good
fellow and willing to go the limit for the Camp
dances, the music of last Saturdays dance would
have consisted of whistling by the Welfare
comittee! A mixup in instructions left the
M.T.C. orchestra under the impression that it
was released and when this was learned, it was
also discovered that the members of the Band
were nearly all out on pass; but Mac grabbed
what was left, started the dance an kept things
going till a searching party had rounded up the
rest of the Band. The committee is certainly
grateful to Mac and the Band for coming to
it's rescue.
Saturday's dance was the usual enjoyable
affair with 150 couples in attendance, excel-
lent music, a luncheon consisting of lemonade
coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the moonlight
dances were the feature attractions.
Twenty five men of the R.T.O. force are now
being quartered and rationed at this Camp, these
men having lost their outfit by the "ordered
home" route. The men will continue on duty
at Nevers as long as troops are stationed here.
Since they are the boys who will get our "40
and 8" Pullmans ready when the big news
comes, we've gotta treat 'em right - Mess
Sergeants please note!
Three members of the delegation are not
strangers in the camp as they were formely
members of outfits of the camp: Pvt 1 cl
Lawrence E. Sullivan is an old "Forty-Niner"
having been connected with it's Head quarters
while Pvts 1 cl C. D. Sill and V. O. (Dusty-
Rhodes) Wilkins are both well known as ori-
ginal members of the "Fighting Fiftieth".
The new order permitting us to roam around
the camp without blouses was one of the most
popular orders we've received. It means a lot
of real comfort and was received with great
applause in most of the Mess Halls when it was
announced. Now the next item on the program
is the restoration of our B.V.D's. and it is hoped
that the Supply Sergeants will come out of their
winter lairs and get busy on this little item -
that is those Supply sergeants who were so
energetic in relieving us of them last fall!
Last week's number mentioned a letter and
subscription received from Major G. W. Whybark,
now on duty with General Headquarters. This
was an error since it should have read Lieute-
nant Colonel Whybark, the Major having been
promoted since he wrote to Captain Huff. The
news of this promotion was pleasant news to
the may friends of the Lt. Col. at this post,
and we are hoping that he will pay us a visit
so we can see how he looks with the new
jewelry adorning his shoulders.
The "Booko" Minstrels with a caste of fifty
four members of the Sixth Division was the
big attraction in the Auditorium on last Mon-
day night and it certainly made a big hit with
the crowd that filled the building. The show
is one of the snappiest attractions yet seen at
the Camp.
The first part consisted off regular minstrel
stuff, new songs and funny stunts, helped along
by an eleven piece orchestra. An ohio of seve-
ral attractive numbers followed. The camp
does'nt mind a limited number of attractions
if they can get attractions of the quality of the
"Booko" show.
The biggest laugh in the performance came
when one of the comedians announced that the
man who built the pyramids had the contract
for moving the A E.F. home!
A copy of the POP-VALVE drifted into the
Le Mans embarkation area and the Editor is in
receipt of a letter from an old pal, Sgt. J. G.
Haughey of the 320th Infantry Hqrs. who com-
mented favorably upon it. The Sgt. states
that his outfit expects to sail after the A.E.F.
leaves (proving that Cook Haley of 121 did'nt
make that joke up himself) and that they star-
ted out expecting to be home by Decoration
day, but will be very much surprised if they
hit Hoboken by July 4 th. Getting to an em-
barkation area does'nt always mean a quick
trip home, according to experiences we hear of.
Lieut. Proctor, Post Utilities Officer, wants
the winners at certain little pastimes that are
indulged in by the boys, to quit cornering the
Clacker market. The Post Canteen is runing shy
on small change and -- absolutely unofficially --
the Lieutenant would like have the fortunate
ones cash in to Sergeant Gibbs, exchanging
their clackers for bills: That is unless they
care to exchange their ill-gotten gains for the
variety of things that the Canteen has on sale.
Messrs. Pearce and Opperman please note.
While at St. Aignan, the Regimental Ball
team had the pleasure of meeting Lieut. Alex
Broadhead who left the Casual Camp on
Thursday, enroute for the "Hielands". Likewise
they met 1st Sgt. Atwood and Mess Sgt.
Aichelman of "120" and Mr. Engr. O'Connor,
all of whom had been thru the delousing plant
a couple of times and were enjoying their stay
at St. Aignan as much as they did the "Flu"!
They were firm in their statements that Camp
Stephenson is the ONLY camp in France.
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
CAMP ITEMS IN BRIEF
If Band Leader McFarlane had'nt been a good
fellow and willing to go the limit for the Camp
dances, the music of last Saturdays dance would
have consisted of whistling by the Welfare
comittee! A mixup in instructions left the
M.T.C. orchestra under the impression that it
was released and when this was learned, it was
also discovered that the members of the Band
were nearly all out on pass; but Mac grabbed
what was left, started the dance an kept things
going till a searching party had rounded up the
rest of the Band. The committee is certainly
grateful to Mac and the Band for coming to
it's rescue.
Saturday's dance was the usual enjoyable
affair with 150 couples in attendance, excel-
lent music, a luncheon consisting of lemonade
coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the moonlight
dances were the feature attractions.
Twenty five men of the R.T.O. force are now
being quartered and rationed at this Camp, these
men having lost their outfit by the "ordered
home" route. The men will continue on duty
at Nevers as long as troops are stationed here.
Since they are the boys who will get our "40
and 8" Pullmans ready when the big news
comes, we've gotta treat 'em right - Mess
Sergeants please note!
Three members of the delegation are not
strangers in the camp as they were formely
members of outfits of the camp: Pvt 1 cl
Lawrence E. Sullivan is an old "Forty-Niner"
having been connected with it's Head quarters
while Pvts 1 cl C. D. Sill and V. O. (Dusty-
Rhodes) Wilkins are both well known as ori-
ginal members of the "Fighting Fiftieth".
The new order permitting us to roam around
the camp without blouses was one of the most
popular orders we've received. It means a lot
of real comfort and was received with great
applause in most of the Mess Halls when it was
announced. Now the next item on the program
is the restoration of our B.V.D's. and it is hoped
that the Supply Sergeants will come out of their
winter lairs and get busy on this little item -
that is those Supply sergeants who were so
energetic in relieving us of them last fall!
Last week's number mentioned a letter and
subscription received from Major G. W. Whybark,
now on duty with General Headquarters. This
was an error since it should have read Lieute-
nant Colonel Whybark, the Major having been
promoted since he wrote to Captain Huff. The
news of this promotion was pleasant news to
the may friends of the Lt. Col. at this post,
and we are hoping that he will pay us a visit
so we can see how he looks with the new
jewelry adorning his shoulders.
The "Booko" Minstrels with a caste of fifty
four members of the Sixth Division was the
big attraction in the Auditorium on last Mon-
day night and it certainly made a big hit with
the crowd that filled the building. The show
is one of the snappiest attractions yet seen at
the Camp.
The first part consisted off regular minstrel
stuff, new songs and funny stunts, helped along
by an eleven piece orchestra. An ohio of seve-
ral attractive numbers followed. The camp
does'nt mind a limited number of attractions
if they can get attractions of the quality of the
"Booko" show.
The biggest laugh in the performance came
when one of the comedians announced that the
man who built the pyramids had the contract
for moving the A E.F. home!
A copy of the POP-VALVE drifted into the
Le Mans embarkation area and the Editor is in
receipt of a letter from an old pal, Sgt. J. G.
Haughey of the 320th Infantry Hqrs. who com-
mented favorably upon it. The Sgt. states
that his outfit expects to sail after the A.E.F.
leaves (proving that Cook Haley of 121 did'nt
make that joke up himself) and that they star-
ted out expecting to be home by Decoration
day, but will be very much surprised if they
hit Hoboken by July 4 th. Getting to an em-
barkation area does'nt always mean a quick
trip home, according to experiences we hear of.
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
CAMP ITEMS IN BRIEF
If Band Leader McFarlane had'nt been a good
fellow and willing to go the limit for the Camp
dances, the music of last Saturdays dance would
have consisted of whistling by the Welfare
comittee! A mixup in instructions left the
M.T.C. orchestra under the impression that it
was released and when this was learned, it was
also discovered that the members of the Band
were nearly all out on pass; but Mac grabbed
what was left, started the dance an kept things
going till a searching party had rounded up the
rest of the Band. The committee is certainly
grateful to Mac and the Band for coming to
it's rescue.
Saturday's dance was the usual enjoyable
affair with 150 couples in attendance, excel-
lent music, a luncheon consisting of lemonade
coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the moonlight
dances were the feature attractions.
Twenty five men of the R.T.O. force are now
being quartered and rationed at this Camp, these
men having lost their outfit by the "ordered
home" route. The men will continue on duty
at Nevers as long as troops are stationed here.
Since they are the boys who will get our "40
and 8" Pullmans ready when the big news
comes, we've gotta treat 'em right - Mess
Sergeants please note!
Three members of the delegation are not
strangers in the camp as they were formely
members of outfits of the camp: Pvt 1 cl
Lawrence E. Sullivan is an old "Forty-Niner"
having been connected with it's Head quarters
while Pvts 1 cl C. D. Sill and V. O. (Dusty-
Rhodes) Wilkins are both well known as ori-
ginal members of the "Fighting Fiftieth".
The new order permitting us to roam around
the camp without blouses was one of the most
popular orders we've received. It means a lot
of real comfort and was received with great
applause in most of the Mess Halls when it was
announced. Now the next item on the program
is the restoration of our B.V.D's. and it is hoped
that the Supply Sergeants will come out of their
winter lairs and get busy on this little item -
that is those Supply sergeants who were so
energetic in relieving us of them last fall!
Last week's number mentioned a letter and
subscription received from Major G. W. Whybark,
now on duty with General Headquarters. This
was an error since it should have read Lieute-
nant Colonel Whybark, the Major having been
promoted since he wrote to Captain Huff. The
news of this promotion was pleasant news to
the may friends of the Lt. Col. at this post,
and we are hoping that he will pay us a visit
so we can see how he looks with the new
jewelry adorning his shoulders.
The "Booko" Minstrels with a caste of fifty
four members of the Sixth Division was the
big attraction in the Auditorium on last Mon-
day night and it certainly made a big hit with
the crowd that filled the building. The show
is one of the snappiest attractions yet seen at
the Camp.
The first part consisted off regular minstrel
stuff, new songs and funny stunts, helped along
by an eleven piece orchestra. An ohio of seve-
ral attractive numbers followed. The camp
does'nt mind a limited number of attractions
if they can get attractions of the quality of the
"Booko" show.
The biggest laugh in the performance came
when one of the comedians announced that the
man who built the pyramids had the contract
for moving the A E.F. home!
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
CAMP ITEMS IN BRIEF
If Band Leader McFarlane had'nt been a good
fellow and willing to go the limit for the Camp
dances, the music of last Saturdays dance would
have consisted of whistling by the Welfare
comittee! A mixup in instructions left the
M.T.C. orchestra under the impression that it
was released and when this was learned, it was
also discovered that the members of the Band
were nearly all out on pass; but Mac grabbed
what was left, started the dance an kept things
going till a searching party had rounded up the
rest of the Band. The committee is certainly
grateful to Mac and the Band for coming to
it's rescue.
Saturday's dance was the usual enjoyable
affair with 150 couples in attendance, excel-
lent music, a luncheon consisting of lemonade
coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the moonlight
dances were the feature attractions.
Twenty five men of the R.T.O. force are now
being quartered and rationed at this Camp, these
men having lost their outfit by the "ordered
home" route. The men will continue on duty
at Nevers as long as troops are stationed here.
Since they are the boys who will get our "40
and 8" Pullmans ready when the big news
comes, we've gotta treat 'em right - Mess
Sergeants please note!
Three members of the delegation are not
strangers in the camp as they were formely
members of outfits of the camp: Pvt 1 cl
Lawrence E. Sullivan is an old "Forty-Niner"
having been connected with it's Head quarters
while Pvts 1 cl C. D. Sill and V. O. (Dusty-
Rhodes) Wilkins are both well known as ori-
ginal members of the "Fighting Fiftieth".
The new order permitting us to roam around
the camp without blouses was one of the most
popular orders we've received. It means a lot
of real comfort and was received with great
applause in most of the Mess Halls when it was
announced. Now the next item on the program
is the restoration of our B.V.D's. and it is hoped
that the Supply Sergeants will come out of their
winter lairs and get busy on this little item -
that is those Supply sergeants who were so
energetic in relieving us of them last fall!
Last week's number mentioned a letter and
subscription received from Major G. W. Whybark,
now on duty with General Headquarters. This
was an error since it should have read Lieute-
nant Colonel Whybark, the Major having been
promoted since he wrote to Captain Huff. The
news of this promotion was pleasant news to
the may friends of the Lt. Col. at this post,
and we are hoping that he will pay us a visit
so we can see how he looks with the new
jewelry adorning his shoulders.
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
CAMP ITEMS IN BRIEF
If Band Leader McFarlane had'nt been a good
fellow and willing to go the limit for the Camp
dances, the music of last Saturdays dance would
have consisted of whistling by the Welfare
comittee! A mixup in instructions left the
M.T.C. orchestra under the impression that it
was released and when this was learned, it was
also discovered that the members of the Band
were nearly all out on pass; but Mac grabbed
what was left, started the dance an kept things
going till a searching party had rounded up the
rest of the Band. The committee is certainly
grateful to Mac and the Band for coming to
it's rescue.
Saturday's dance was the usual enjoyable
affair with 150 couples in attendance, excel-
lent music, a luncheon consisting of lemonade
coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the moonlight
dances were the feature attractions.
Twenty five men of the R.T.O. force are now
being quartered and rationed at this Camp, these
men having lost their outfit by the "ordered
home" route. The men will continue on duty
at Nevers as long as troops are stationed here.
Since they are the boys who will get our "40
and 8" Pullmans ready when the big news
comes, we've gotta treat 'em right - Mess
Sergeants please note!
Three members of the delegation are not
strangers in the camp as they were formely
members of outfits of the camp: Pvt 1 cl
Lawrence E. Sullivan is an old "Forty-Niner"
having been connected with it's Head quarters
while Pvts 1 cl C. D. Sill and V. O. (Dusty-
Rhodes) Wilkins are both well known as ori-
ginal members of the "Fighting Fiftieth".
The new order permitting us to roam around
the camp without blouses was one of the most
popular orders we've received. It means a lot
of real comfort and was received with great
applause in most of the Mess Halls when it was
announced. Now the next item on the program
is the restoration of our B.V.D's. and it is hoped
that the Supply Sergeants will come out of their
winter lairs and get busy on this little item -
that is those Supply sergeants who were so
energetic in relieving us of them last fall!
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
CAMP ITEMS IN BRIEF
If Band Leader McFarlane had'nt been a good
fellow and willing to go the limit for the Camp
dances, the music of last Saturdays dance would
have consisted of whistling by the Welfare
comittee! A mixup in instructions left the
M.T.C. orchestra under the impression that it
was released and when this was learned, it was
also discovered that the members of the Band
were nearly all out on pass; but Mac grabbed
what was left, started the dance an kept things
going till a searching party had rounded up the
rest of the Band. The committee is certainly
grateful to Mac and the Band for coming to
it's rescue.
Saturday's dance was the usual enjoyable
affair with 150 couples in attendance, excel-
lent music, a luncheon consisting of lemonade
coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the moonlight
dances were the feature attractions.
Twenty five men of the R.T.O. force are now
being quartered and rationed at this Camp, these
men having lost their outfit by the "ordered
home" route. The men will continue on duty
at Nevers as long as troops are stationed here.
Since they are the boys who will get our "40
and 8" Pullmans ready when the big news
comes, we've gotta treat 'em right - Mess
Sergeants please note!
Three members of the delegation are not
strangers in the camp as they were formely
members of outfits of the camp: Pvt 1 cl
Lawrence E. Sullivan is an old "Forty-Niner"
having been connected with it's Head quarters
while Pvts 1 cl C. D. Sill and V. O. (Dusty-
Rhodes) Wilkins are both well known as ori-
ginal members of the "Fighting Fiftieth".
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
The bout was carded as an eight round affair,
and both men started out premeditating murder.
But it did'nt last long. Spike fought like a
demon and knocked his man for a row six
times in three rounds and the opposing faction
threw up the sponge.
Like all good stories, it ended happily for the
hero -- Spike spent the night in his own
bivvy, and his financial backer has sent home
for some automobile catalogs. Only the love
element is missing and maybe the Lieut. will
take care of that!
THE CAMP BASEBALL LEAGUE
After a quite successful week, during which
several exciting games were played, the stand-
ing of the Camp baseball league gives a pretty
fair idea of Who's Who in ball tossing around
the camp. The standing of the league, up to
and including Tuesday evenings game is as
follows:
Team Won Lost Percentage
Hqrs and Band 3 0 1000
Co. 109 3 0 1000
Co. 121 3 1 .750
Co. 118 2 1 .666
Co. 117 2 2 .500
Co. 116 1 1 .500
Co. 119 1 2 .333
P.W.E.Co. 240 1 2 .333
Co. 120 1 4 .200
Co. 110 0 4 .000
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Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
The next day, the Varsity evened things up
by defeating the Romorantin team in another
flingers battle, Summers twirling class "A" ball
and winning out by a 1-0 score.
All told, the team has played 14 games,
winning all but two of them and piling up a
total of 144 runs to 44 by it's opponents. Camp
Stephenson still has reason to believe it's team
to be the best in the whole A.E.F.
"SPIKE'S BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
A detachment of boilemakers from this camp,
just returned from St. Nazaire, has a story
which any writer of fiction could clean up on.
It appears that one member of the detachment
who is "handy with his mitts" got into a fracas
in the "Y" at St. Nazaire with another "mitt-
artist" and landed in the St Nazaire Cooler,
while his enemy went free. The local battler
sent for Lieut. Kroske and asked him to get his
influence working and open the gates of the
"hootch-gow" long enough for Spike to demon-
strate his superiority over his opponent. The
Lieut. is a real sport and he immediately
hooked up with another good sport who had
enough influence to get Spike released long
enough to meet his enemy in the ring at a
boxing show, and the promise of complete
liberty if he won. Lieut Kroske, it is rumored,
faced financial ruin to back his man to the
limit.
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Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
On May 10, defeat number two was admini-
stered by the Romorantin team who took the
locals over in an interesting game, that ended
5 to 2. It was in this game that Kloth was
injured and Johny Summers made his debut
as a pitcher. The team does'nt feel at all bad
about this defeat, claiming that it was almost
a pleasure to be defeated by such a clean play-
ing team. The team further claims that the
whole Romorantin outfit is one grand collection
of genuine good sports whose royal treatment
will always be a pleasant memory.
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
On May 4, the Verneuil team, playing under
the name of Lyons, aided considerably by it's
own umpire, defeated the Camp team 4 to 3.
The Montierchaume team was defeated on
its own field, May 6th, by a 1-0 score in a
pitchers battle
Bourges was taken over in another 1-0 game
on May 7, this being an exhibition game.
A swat fest at St. Aignan yielded another
victory on May 8th, the final count being
14 to 11.
-
Page 4. THE POP-VALVE May 17, 1919.
MAY RECORD OF THE BIG TEAM
The record of the Regimental team for May
will not be quite as good as it was during April,
but the best of teams lose once in a while, and
only one of the local team's defeats should be
counted against it; the other being a technical
verdict against it.
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Camp Stephenson, Vauzelles, Nievrè
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- Médiathèque municipale Jean Jaurès de Nevers
May 17, 1919
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