Show I I I r CRIPPLED HEROES I OF WAR M STAGE 1 1 FIELD MEET BEET I I II I- I I By Associated Press I ES MOINES la Ia Aug 25 DES Five Five of the largest re reconstruction reconstruction reconstruction re- re construction army hospitals hospitals hospitals hospi hospi- in the United States this afternoon were to participate ina in ina a telegraphic track meet for wounded men only the first of its kind in the country At each hospital events of the same kind were to be held and the names of the first and second with the time and distance in m each event telegraphed to Surgeon General Ireland at Washington who was to act as judge Unusual contests were on the program among them being a yard fifty-yard dash for patients inthe in inthe m the hospitals yard thirty-yard hops for men with single amputations a yard fifty-yard wheel chair race for formen formen formen men with double amputations and yard thirty crutch race for formen formen formen men with single amputations or leg injuries necessitating use of ofa a crutch Officers detachment men aides and nurses also had part on the programs Hospitals entered in the meet were Ft McPherson Ga Letterman Letterman Let- Let terman San Francisco Chalons Rahway N N. N J J. J Walter Reid Recd Washington J. J and Ft Des Moines Momes II I |