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Show j DODD NATURAL CAVALRY LEADER Columbus, N. M., March 31. This sketch of Colonel George A. Dodd was rMxAn tnrlnv Vr n pnntnln tv1ii-i Vina served under him: "Colonel Dodd Is a typical Remington Reming-ton cavalry officer, if that conveys what I mean. He Is 64 years old, but doesn't Bhow It by twenty years. He rides his horse as though it were a part of him, and Is known throughout the army for his activity In developing develop-ing cavalry horsemanship. He is the man who made the monkey drill a cavalry cav-alry feature. "Aside from 'Black Jack' Pershing, he Is the hardest rider in the army, and the man whose command knows what it is to ride. He Is about 5 feet 11 Inches tall, and as straight as a maple lance. A meerschaum pipe that must bo a relic of his Indian campaigns cam-paigns is the only thing he ever smokes. "The colonel wears a hat that never varies the slightest fraction of an Inch. It is pulled down in front so that you can't see but half of his face. It tilts up behind, and his neck is corduroyed from the sun and wind of thirty-five years' campaigning. He Is the senior colonel of the cavalry arm, but can outride the hardest-riding trooper In i he army, with one exception, and that exception Is General Pershing "Colonel Dodd Is a disciplinarian. Shennanigans don't go with him, and many a captain, among them myself, known the bitterly sarcastic tongue that is In his head. But not one of tho officers who have served under him can say that Colonel Dodd ever called a man down when the calling was not deserved, or can tell of an instance where his judgment was not honest, Just and sincere." |