Show 1 Ii 1 I tj t j t jt I Ir r j An Authoritative Te Sport Feature by the Foremost Fore Pore 1 I 94 most Sporting Writer and Cartoonist in inA t tJ A I America By Robert Edgren i out in the Atlantic a tIan transport is h heading this HILT you ou arc reading to the theBy load of ot American CI fighting litin men its capacity carrying eastward WHILE W I battlefields of Flanders and France l It Is a ship with a strange history Once Onee it was Russian but when deserted in an English h nt of Russia Hussla Its crew the government seized n the turned It Jorl cumulating accumulating rust until the took It H and port There It iMay lay of or ther steamers it Is flying a And now no like a great number transport transport- Into a freedom of the he American flag and doing its share in the tho world fight for the all lands kno known Is lad whose hose name is English that ship hip an officers of wherever One or of the the h InglIsh lag flag flies He Is Eugene Euene Corn Corri Jr His father is matches Eu Eugene cne famous for many years as the referee of championship boxing St at th Snorting club of or London the tho oldest boxing club In the world Ii If young o Mr i Corn Carrl Is Isto to to be taken as asa asa asit lack fightIng fighting fight- fight a it t type p England will never ing men while there is a lad tad left lett in knee breeches For Gene Genn went Into the British British British Brit Brit- i and has alread already al already al- al 13 ish na navy at the age of He ready read served three strenuous years ears has been torpedoed and his ship sunk under him twice and the sight of or a hostile submarine long Ions ago lost its novelty The first first time young oung Corn went through the experience of being torpedoed torpedoed torpe torpe- the Mediterranean where h he- he was a in On this occasion n wason on dut duty for a year ear fast sinking when It was the Vessel was beached so that the loss of men was wasu maJI maI which a year ear BUt BilL u the second time was January ago 5 6 off the coast of or England land didn't come of off so easily It was as exceptionally cold in midwinter Id winter weather went down Eugene EUben wh when n the tile War ar Baron fourth officer He was wa 15 lo Cor Cort was as ears vears old then 5 feet 10 Inches tall and anda II IIa a splendid athlete His father r- r a great sportsman i had brought him up I brothers with full training In boxing swimming and other branches of amateur athletics and nd he had won championships cham cham- while in boxing and swimming in the thc public schools Y Young Toung unG Corn had just been assigned to the War Baron which was an Am American oil burning vessel built on the Pacific I. I coaL Having served in coal burning coa to to In Inspect in- in I ship chips hip before he had a keen desire desiro re of or the oil burner en engine lne room tho O.-tho of the tIle first day out 4 o'clock and went Com off ore watch at e officer who relieved him that he lie thought hed he'd go bO down and look at the en engines roud 1 ud better not said the officer Jokingly You l know now the en engine ine room pleasant place to 1 bo 10 0 I If a torpedo cornea comes along alon- Oh w well we'll never be hit by a torpedo Cene confIdently W dressed He for dinner first and then in his dinner Jacket wem ent down into the engI engo room On a coal-burner coal there arc are several engineers but an oil-burner oil carries cartes a smaller crew and It took Corri Corn se ual minutes to find the chief and cx- cx what hat he lie wanted After a glance alance at the tho chief en engineer suggested tha the boy might m be interested In the tho stol Ito ehod so they left the engine room through a door In the bulkhead G e. gene gene- happened to note the time It was t thirteen minutes to 5 6 Ill never forget ho Bays saye It was clean down there In the stokehold stokehold stoke stoke- hold no no dust or grease easo or grime g You could wear white gloves there said Gene In describing it H. H Hi had Just noted the way In which the the-oll is sprayed into the fire when the chief engineer looking up remarked casually THE CHIEF FORGOT TO Kt KOCK OCK ON WOOD Cord COrri turned his eyes up to the long ong ladd ladder rc that led to the deck Through the hatch at the top he Just caught a I of one of the stacks He lie opened n I th t. t th hA n. n Crash hiU I thrown violently rio vio C rii and the chief were to the floor They scrambled up My steam gauge Is Jone gonel gonci shouted I d the over of strange noises dashed and for the door in the bulkhead him running neck Deck and neck was WM no live steam In the en- en Cine cine room Instead as aa they reached d the doot they saw a 3 wall of oC water rushing alon along along- the tunnel Into the engine room roomI I from a a. great hole torn In the steel hull the door gasped the chief Corn and engineer hurled themselves on the door In the bulkhead between the engl croom room and the stokehold It I shut hut and in fumbling haste threw two or I j three of the bolts In place And then of or I a a. sudden the wall of water struck the thedoor thedoor thedoor door and tore it from HH liv ft hinges and 1 hurled It In All lights wen ut In the darkness the rushing water swept Cornand Corn Corr and the chief across the stokehold and I against the ladder Up the they climbed in desperate haste Corn Corri could feel the chiefs chief's big hand boosting him from be behind behind be- be l. l hind bind when he missed his footing on oft the steep ladder in the inky blackness of that roaring pit pitOn I On deck he reported at once to the captain and was sent ent to tal take e charge of his bOlt boat The sailors were wera already alread i clambering Into it where It swung on the ther f r da davits In the wintry dusk the they could see that the War Baron was WaB wa sinking fast Corn took look his place and ordered Lower away t As the heavily load loaded d boat started down don suddenly the tackle broke The men were hurled Into the water Corn could coul 1 hear the shrill screech of the blocks as the ropes of the bow tackle ran through Then he was w-a in the water and the up-ended up boat falling on him gashed his left thigh For a long IonS long time lime the the- bo boy held hi hl breath and struggled As he came up ak n a h k t drowning sailor Bailor caught his head bead and tt Ju pushed d hIm him under He came cam up again ana anci a long JonI gasping breath Oreath and another another another an an- other drowning man grasped rasped him and andt t L dragged him down so o that he wis was nearly strangled with the salt water Again he came cam up The ship had gone Iono on All Allaround around him the water was ln f of struggling In gling lInS' men wearing He swam to one whom h he recognized as aM a a steward i hoping for aid until he hc could recover a t tittle littlemore moro strength I Help me Mr dr Corn I 1 cant can't swim I called the steward t Youre all right you rou have a a. bolt belt I answered Corn an and swam gwain on Turning to look for lor the ship he paw aw that her I headway had carried her along for several sev tSe eral erat hundred yards and as he looked the l war Baron slowly rose on end stern hl high h 1 In air al and ard 1 dived GERMANS JEERED AT THEIR VICTIMS I And now through the wintry dusk dusl the German Gennan submarine came slowly poking through the wreckage About twenty I Germans GermanI Ncr on her decks s and they JP waved their hands at Corn and shouted j 1 il at the men drowning In the J 1 Icy icy water Corn was wa tempted to shout back hut but he knew the Germans would Shoot him with their revolvers so 80 he I stopped swimming and and rolling slowly over on his back floated with only h fac face out of water expecting a 3 bullet every moment In a few minutes the submarine had gone The torpedoing had been seen Been from shore and wireless signals had been sent for tor British h destroyers It was two hours I they thoy arrived and found the surI survivors sur sur- I In the black winter night The They were two desperately cold hours for the men In the water Corn said that he was I I tempted to take tak off his coat for h he j found It Interfered with swimming but somehow he felt that t it would b b colder without the coat so ho l kept ept It on Alter After a time hel so 80 numbed that thai S. S F f the cold no longer hur hurt and when he was picked d up he was delirious and didn didn't t know much about what was wa's happening The rhe War Var Baron had gone on down dowa in two to minutes Corn Corr escaped death by the ten seconds or so 50 that he lie was In the tho stokehold stokehold stokehold stoke stoke- hold for the engine room crew was wa gone Jone seven Fifty-seven men were lost The Tho wound In Corns Corris leg became infected and he spent six months in a t hospital FIGHTING IN THE SKY But you ou cant can't stop an English bo boy in these da days s When he recovered he de determined determined dl- dl to tr try flying HI His father had h Grahame White coach him and md young Cord applied for a commission passed examinations and tests test and became a lieutenant In the fl flying corps Here he was stationed at one of the aviation fields for the coast defense He lie was on tho the ground when a raiding f squadron of thirty German planes came flying over The English machines m s were at once or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered up but were disarmed and forced down lOWn by b machine gun fire the Germans above being in a commanding position them English planes llanes doing doln- sentry dut duty In the sk sky attacked 1 On One dived Into the tho German formation to break It and was shot down and the others other with the Archies Archles from below forced the Germans German to turn back before they could reach their objective A few days after this young Corn Corri wa was coming down from a fight when his steering apparatus went wrong He lie tried de desperately to get It out of or a aJam aJam ajam Jam but in vain and close to the ground his machine sudden suddenly dived and crashed He was thrown out Corn says he dimly remembers coming down In a sitting position position po po- with a force that must have left quite a dent In the ground broun and next he knew ho was In tn the hospital But on only 1 strained and bruised His father came over to see him at once Im going to take the bo boy right out declared the elder Corn when hen an officer explained that young ounG Corn Corr was a good goodenough goodenough enough flyer but inclined to be too reckless But you can said the officer I 1 can said Mr Corn Hes only 16 What hat exclaimed the officer He Is supposed to be 19 Hes only 16 16 said Mr Corn Corri and he go goes s back bacle In into o the na navy That settled It t. t Young Gene was greatly great great- ly disappointed d. He Ho hope to be bo flying In France Tance before lon long And he thinks 16 quite old enough for any nn fighting man Didn't they catch a German aviator who Jand landed d on their field one ono night and didn't the Germans sa say that he was oni only 16 If It Ifa Ifa Ita a German of 16 can run a a. fighting or bombing plane surely surel- an English of 16 can do it It easily So Eugene Corn Corri Jr will w go through the monotony of taking occasional shots at submarines and dodging torpedoes until he Is a little older Then he lie may hava have hav havea a crack at fighting In the air air If if the war lasts It ma may be a short life but its it's a gloriously glorious exciting one Copyright 1918 by the Press Publish Publishing InS InS' InSCo Co the New York Evening World |