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Show FAMOUS ATHLETE FLEETS DEATH OH BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE ! CRUEL WAR THWARTS CUPID'S EFFORTS i! : Hobey Baker Falls From Aeroplane to His J Death. T V"flK- I aplalll I l Iloi.;.rt A. II Haker. Ih famous ' 1'nni-rlnn athlrle. known In tit (illr(t days as "Hobey" Raker, nn aviator In the AmerH-sn army In I'raitre. lias been killed In the full of hljt plane. News of hia d&th was re -ceU'rrl here today by his friend. Terry Pine. . I. Itaker was famous In Ennt-rn Ennt-rn amateur anil college athletic circles cir-cles for hla foothall and hwkey playing. play-ing. He easily made th Prinretim varsity eleven anil as a menilier of the HillkfUlil f in ISII null mm rnptafn of the team In Ills senior year He was ut.io captain and a prominent fartor In many of the. victories of ilia Princeton hockey team. ' After hla Krailimtlon he entered the ranka of the amateiir hockey pluvers NU ' - 7 -eV- f -.4 i:x' 4 r 'v fcSr ' 1 HObEV eAK. 1 Hobay Bakar and Mimi Scott. Misa . I ' 8cott, a formsr Princeton classmata ; 9 j and now a volunteer nursa in tna ' ' "J Woman's hospital of Naw York was J ' - to hava becoma th athlete's bndt ' - , immadiataly upon his return from g , tna front. Tha angagemant of tha F-rto mi - " two, which was announced only a f -- few days ago, had its beginning in Sw W tha staid old college town of Pr'nee- mm '' V ton and was to hava had its c'ul- I : ruination immadiataly upon tha ra ' "' I Si rn of tha athlete front ha front i Hank Gowdy Denies sr , and eventually be ftito" a mwntier of " the St. NirhoUs club of the Amencun Amateur Hockey league. In the position posi-tion of rover he won immediate recognition recog-nition as one of the best .hockey players play-ers ever developed In U states. In a nurnher of InteriiMtiimal matches with the leading Canadian team ha held his own both as a specir skater and hockcyist. He was among the early collegian in enlist in the aviation service ser-vice and soon rose to the rank of lieutenant. lieu-tenant. Baker was awarded the ftotx de t'uerre by the French government in lecognltion nf his lira very and skill while In the air. Captain "Hobey" Baker's career as an aviator In France Is told bv Major Charles J. Biddle, one of the American area who was in command of the group in which Baker served. Major Middle Hobay Bakar and Mimi Scott. Misa Scott, a formar Princeton classmata and now a volunteer nursa in tha Woman's hospital of Naw York was to hava becoma tha athlete's bndt immadiataly upon hia return from tha front.- Tha angagemant of tha two, which waa announced only a few days ago, had its beginning in tha staid old college town of Pr' nee-ton nee-ton and waa to hava had its culmination cul-mination immadiataly upon tha ra urnftha athlete from tha front returned home last week. He said that Baker during his service at the front brought down three fiermnn machines, one at pres and two in the St. Mihiel sector In the last ten days of the war. The last machine. Major Biddle said was attacked by Baker I'0. 000 feet In the air and was carrying propaganda, leaflets to be dropped among American Infantry. Baker, who waa famous as a fnothal! and hockey player, left for Kngland In the aumiiiei uf 1017 after flviim In I hia country for about a year, principally at Mineola. Long Island. One of his flights was from New York to Princeton and hack again. After further training In Kngland, he whs sent to the American school at lssoudur, France. .Later he was sent to the French gunnery school ! near Bordeaux, where he finished hla ! training and then was assigned to instructing in-structing Americans. Baker Joined the lafayette squad and went to the front about April 1. In the latter part of May he brntiKht down his first Herman machine at Yoraa and waa awarded the French wnl cross. About July 1, according to Major Biddle, Baker was transferred as a flight commander to the Thirteenth aero pnrstmi sjro up w it ht h e rank of first lieutenant. In August he was! placed In command of tha One Hun- j dred Forty-first pursuit squadron and sent to the rear to organize It. There was aome delay over which Baker had no control, in getting the squadron or- Ksinlzed. and It waa not until the mid-f die of October that ha was sent to thai St. Mthlel front. About this time he whs promoted to captain. He waa In 1 command of twenty -six officers. 180 ' men and controlled twenty to twenty- five machines. Captain Baker few In tha tit. Mihiel sector until tha armistice armi-stice was sinned. Major Biddle said tm.t the last Her- 1 man machine brotiffht down by Can- " in tn BAUer wuh nn etreiiiiiiiullf f piece of work. The Herman waa attacked at-tacked i'0.000 feel up. The Herman machine turned over and the observer I fell out and dropped within the American Amer-ican lines. Ihe tirtnan pilot, however, how-ever, manured to riajht Ins machine and , Baker a sain attitcked him with tuej result thnt the Herman and his airplane air-plane fell about a mile within the Her- I man lines. After the armistice wasj siKned, Major Biddle said. American aviators wmit ovr the front and ex- a mined the machine where tt hd fallen fal-len and found a UHiittty of Herman propaganda for circulation unions; the American Infantry. Captain linker was stilt st the front when Major Biddle left on leember I. "There was no finer man nor a better bet-ter pilot." said Mat-T Biddle. ' He was vry skillful and particularly fearlens. He would have had an even greater record if he had been at the front more than he was." "Major Biddle said that the 'inicle-j 'inicle-j hari" mentioned In the cnbla:ram to . Tercy Blue of New York, announcing Captain Baker's death. Is C-tpl.iin ( Kianna N. Inajlehart of Baltimore. group operations officer of the Fourth pursuit group. j |