| Show r Mrs Henry McLemore ore oreen K en Formed Baseball League in Spare Time DELAND ELAND DELAND Fla Howd How'd Howd you I k ke Baghdad Oh fair but think Iran is pretty overrated you get to the Garden of ofden ofden den 7 n No missed it Too id id nice spot I 1 liked Bomi Bom- Bom i ly lI Had d a good time there Yeah Teah We ran into some of ofir ir ir irold old gang in Ceylon and I ill like that town Did you Funny thing I Is as s never as cold In my life as was in that place hese These and many other names 1 lat spell pell magic to those of us h to have never been there were T g b bandied about as freely Jf the men were talking about mets met's Junction or Carsons Carson's orners omers i I say men they were boys most of them them them-dr them dressed sed in the uniform of the armed guard Four of them William them William C C. C Maw- Maw of Chicago Robert Layman of Stoneham Mass James Nicholson of Brockton Mass and Gerald Good of Cambridge Mass had Mass had returned after being gone for a year and they had spent eight months of that year on a freighter stranded near Archangel They were unable to get an escort to get away so there they stayed along with a number of other stranded ships We didn't like it when the Germans would take a crack at us from overhead and we didn't like the short rations but the thing that bothered us most of all was having so BO little to todo todo todo do one of the boys told me Then one of the fellows fellows' got the idea of organizing a baseball league between the ships There was one bad drawback drawback we we had nothing with which to play baseball baseball baseball base base- ball but we overcame that We took cork from and wound It with thread we unraveled from our socks We used the leather from our Icelandic boots for covers Wed We'd row ashore and look for pieces of driftwood which wed we'd take to the machine shop and make into bats For gloves we used hot shellman's gloves which are made of asbestos and leather Before long we had a darned good baseball league and It certainly certainly certainly helped to pass the time away Officers and men alike played and when we weren't playing it gave us something to talk about and think about One a advantage we had over any baseball league I ever heard of was that we never had to call cali calla calia a game on a account count of darkness F. F D. D Bell of Jacksonville was torpedoed in the th Caribbean and he with 55 5 of his crowded into two small lifeboats They were Very kery short on w water ter which they rationed very carefully carefully carefully care care- fully as as they drifted for five days with the thermometer regIstering regIstering registering reg reg- On the fifth day they were picked up by a Cuban I gunboat The thing that really made madeus us all mad the armed guardsman guards guards- man map told me is that we had a half gallon of or water left when we were rescued r |
