Citizens Military Training Camp - Full Pack Yearbook (Fort Leavenworth, KS)

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THE FULNL PACK f ' - I HISTORY OF TROOP B I I I . GEORGE F. C. Wiccms 1, V - - P.-A X ,, A.,- The Troop acquitted itself with credit. Events I . .A 7 pertaining to horse flesh were 'pickins for the cow- boys. They started out by winning the horseshoe pitching contest of the camp, the champions being Ser- geant James L. Harris and Sergeant H. C. Ward. August 20, in competition'with the Battery, E. M. Roth and IVI. R. Sherman won second and third places respectively in a horse-jumping contest. On August 26, Sherman, in another competition with the Battery, brought the horsemanship cup to the Cavalry, Sergeant R. Andie taking second place. The other member ofthe team representing the Troop in horsemanship was Longacre. . The outstanding event of baseball was the picking of the team captain, Lefty Lauderback, as all-camp pitcher. 'Lefty played first base and pitched for the team. 1 - The crew started out right by winning the first game from Company E in fine style and looked un- beatable. However, they began to drop games 'with GEORGE F- C- WIGGINS amazing rapidity, until the end of the season found them at the bottom looking up. Though they proffered no alibis, they were handicapped in baseball as in .all sports by one of the worst troubles-a small number of men from which to choose. The baseball squad was made up of Lauderback, Hopkins, Duncan, Roth, Sherman, Richardson, Lucas, Brown, Key, Lasley, Tull, Evans, Welsh and Meurer. Battalion champions in volleyball and indoor baseball by virtue of wins from Head- Quarters and Battery, the leather pounders met Company K and disaster simul- taneously, going down to defeat in both events. Members of the volleyball team were Miller, Bibb, Detrick, Smith, Evans, Von Rump,- McReynolds, Schlueter and Lauderback. The indoor baseball team consisted of Lauderback, Miller, Lasley, Tull, Osburn, Platt, Hopkins, Walker, Detrick and Wiggins. Swartz, in the 440 dash, did the honors for the team in the track meet, taking second place. Hilty, on the hurdles, failed to place. Due to some mix-up in the announcement of the preliminaries of the track meet held the day before, a number of aspirants from the Troop failed to try out, thus forfeiting their chances to appear in the finals. In tennis, Duncan reached the finals in both the singles and doubles, losing both, however, on the last lap. ' f i , Lauderback and Wiggins weathered the first round of the tournament, but failed to appear in the second and defaulted. Butler, Schlueter and McReynolds lost their initial contests after a hard fight. ' V u ' , Dame Fortune dealt a death blow to theTroop's aspiration to aqboxing crown on the night of August,.17, when their two white hopes in the tournament, Smith and Rohrich lost their bouts. On August 26 Smith had the satisfaction of gaining tlieidecision over Courter of Company L , featherweight champion. Three other troopers took part ,in the boxing exhibitions before the tournament. McGuire met Rohrich and loston a K.O. after a hard fight. Wiggins met Graham of Company I in the welterweightpcltass, losing two teeth in the first round and thedecision in the third. Osburn,-lightweight, won from'MacFarland of Company UI . I ,fi 5 , 'Q f U I Camp was polished off in fine style. We came off the rangeafter two days of shooting and the last week was filled with 'mounted parades and long morning rides led by Captain Blankenship. - ' l And now that we've heard our final call to quarters and the Zlastclear taps has blown, our thoughts turn to hope that those who return next year will prove that they have not labored in vain as we know they haven't. So let's give one rising toast to our officers, men-Cap'tains,Shoemaker, and Blankenship, and Lieutenant Comfort-Gentlemen all! , Pagz Seventy-one I ' A 1 n . .v.v.v.v.v.v . I