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Show Yankee Team From Food Ship Wallops 1 Lads From Destroyer AN IRISH PORT, Sept. 5 (by mail). The boys who man one of Uncle Sam's food ships proved too strong for tho prize baseball team of tho destroyer flotilla in these waters and they took back to their larder $1,000 in very hard cash that was 'a matter of record. Just how much they cleaned up on the side is not known. But tho betting was heavy, and it is a safe guess that shore leave on several of the destroyers will be a "broke" party for some time to come. ' The thousand was put up as a prize , for the winning team, when rival, claims becamo bo noisy that a big match was arranged to settle the dispute. dis-pute. The weather was ideai, and in adition to tho Yanks everybody I being present, who could obtain leave many English officers and townspeople towns-people packed the sports field, A similar elimination contest, scheduled sche-duled for a later day, to settle claims of the cinder path, had to bo postponed post-poned indefinitely when a malady developed de-veloped which made it Inadvisable to permit the event Several English cracks were entered for' the-vTunning events. The Jackies claim to -have some world's champions in reserve" to uphold America In the international events. |