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Agog over having a free drill period tomorrow, we scarcely know what to do with ourselves. Turning somewhat metropolitan, your scribes haunted the empire city and found it much to the liking of many who are weekly confined to the limits of Beantown. We are still in the process of figuring out how 200 miles could make such a difference...
Coach Stahl commented yesterday as his squad loafed through a light batting drill that steadier defense play and an edge in the pitching department turned the trick against Melville. Wallace, who was pitted against a former Chicago White Sox hurler, notched ten strikeouts...
After 1918's Armistice Day, the doughboys of World War I spent much of their time cursing General Order 241. On the theory of completing the troops' training, Order 241 called for six solid hours of drill a day-to keep the doughboys busy enough and tired enough. World War II's brass hats have a better idea: a whopping sport program...
...Right to Gripe. Bernstein's most unpredictable tour of duty was with the actors (as press agent) of This Is the Army. At drill, intimidated sergeants would hesitate to give the order "Fall Out" because of the three or four irrepressibles who obeyed by falling flat on their faces. One day an ex-vaudevillian was assigned to calisthenic drill. "Inhale!" he shouted. The men inhaled. "Outhale!" They outhaled. "Sidehale!" "What the hell is that?" a regular corporal demanded. "A new breathing method. Field Manual 36-B, with Kreplach...
...word on "Iron" Phil Masquelette. His weekends are spent seeing twin bills at the N.T.S. movie followed by two hours of open order drill. We understand old Sam Wolfe it better reached by asking for "the voice," up on the fourth deck. Shifting the scene to the fishing industry, we found Messrs. Unsinn, Vadakin, Vance, and Violand tripping the line fantastic, greys and all, in that order...