| Show S SOLDIERS OL 6 CONSTRUCT OWN FIELDS FOR BASEBALL CONTESTS AND BOXING BOUTS W 4 av 4 w y 2 members of 0 first engineers first farsi division en roual rout toi baseball game much Muc hhas has been written regarding the wonderful work of the american en engineers l in france both at the bases of the te united states army and along the many connecting lines which hook up the front lines with the sources of supply there Is however another side bide to their activity which Is as praiseworthy especially as aa tt it Is gratuitous and done after ord ordinary biary working hours it Is the preparing of fields or enclosures for the soldier athletes and without which it would be impossible to hold many odthe of the games and contests baseball field Wn wanted teil stories of the helpful work of the engineers in this direction are constantly being sent back across the seas along the following lines A YM 0 A athletic director with an engineer regiment in the center of france felt discouraged regarding the outlook for sports there was no field fit tor for baseball football or even basketball basketball to relieve his mind he took his trouble to a sergeant pereen nt if its a baseball field you want sald the serg sergeant pant well allwell have it desolate pasture as site A rocky uneven and generally desolate pasture was selected ag a the only possible place upon which h a ball park could be built the physical director thought that possibly after a years work something might be made of it that was before he knew the engineers well istook just three days to skin off the field level it roll it and put it in condition for play even to the building of a fine wire netting backstop and marking out odthe of the foul lines with flags place for boxing with the baseball field in operation it was decided to promote boxing the drawback was that there was no place to io stage bouts except the floor of the hut and the men who wanted to read or write stand for that again tile the sergeant was consulted in three days daye he had put up near the hut as good tv a ring as ever held a champion phlp bout |
