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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATU
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GAMES OF THE GOBS
Recreation Plays An Important Part in the Life of the Sailor- Baseball Follows the Flag-Many sions.
Diver-
[By NORMAN C. McLOUD.)
With the American Navy playtime allows the flag. The bluejacket knows is games and he makes the most of hem. Wherever there is a battleship, cruiser, a destroyer or any vessel of se fleet, the recreation of the gob is of the vital activities of the day. with When he works he does it
phasis When he plays he goes at it the spirit of an American school boy
a Saturday holiday.
Playtime in the Navy is one of the
spots of this branch of the sational defence. The gob is essentially thletic. Perhaps this is due to careful choosing of raw material for admission
to the service. Perhaps it comes from
youthful exuberance of spirit and a
etermination to overcome the monotony
韪 life on the ocean. Possibly both What. easons exert their influence.
ever the reason, the results are mani-
fested wherever there in an assemblage hf bluejackets,
The American enlisted man has diversity of taste. He would as soon wim as play baseball. He would get op a contest of some sort if he were Stranded on a desert Island.
All he
Deeds is somebody with whom to phiy The spirit of competition does the rest. Veterans tell me of baseball games the South Sea Islatarts, where the atives marvelled at the novelty of the proceedings. They tell me of foutbali remote corners of the Indian Ocean, nd of wrestling matches in Constan Inople; of swimming races in the ropical waters of the Carribean, and
As af quoits on the coast of Africa. matter of fact there are few forms of creation concerning which they will il the one who has the inclination to ear.
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Baseball is one of the prime sports of the Navy. No ship's putt is coro
lete when it does not include the balls, bats, gloves and uniforms of the
diamond. American
When the
of
eography furnishes an acre or so of Level territory the national pastime anda swift introduction. In fact the round needn't be very level or very mooth of surface, A Navy baseball hine will find satisfaction in a terrain that would All Babe Ruth with con- ternation
Making The Best Of It. tell me of a game played a few months ago in a small island in the Pacific. The whole island would not ave served as a switchyard for a six- on truck. The surface would have
ade, ploughed ground appear as illiard table. To most of us the place Yould have suggested anything but aseball. Wo would have thought of it
BASEBALL PRACTIC
OY DOMAO A SHIP
as the ideal location for an obstacle race of Rocky Mountain goats. This thought, however, would have been due to the fact that league games have spoiled our sense of perspective. We have become accustomed to the perfect diamonds and well-groomed turf of the home grounds. We have let our selves believe that without these refine ments of civilization the game would be impossible.
play mates from the battleships.
bounce to left or right; or that the
Baseball al sea le one of the majori grounder just inside of third base stood every chance of being deflected into the sports of the protracted voyage. In one ocean between first and second. Those of the illustrations the camera showe things were of slight importance. The the day practice conducted by the real business of the day was a match sailors of a battleship, Pitching and of the daily routine. tween rival nines of the battle-catching are a part the goby do things game between
else, ship. Nothing else mattered; the game in this, as in
"under the guns. itself mattered tremendously,
Football And Racing. Baseball Missionaries.
The football games of the fleet aro
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in
its apparatus for the daily practice of rowing exercises, and the work is strongly encouraged by commanders.
Other recreations of the Navy cover a wide range of activity, all planned for "physical development and for the health of the bluejackets. Wrestling and boxing have their recognized place in the Naval programme. I have seen äfteen
hundred members of a ship
that all Navy rocreations are athletic. Some of them are along the line of the higher arts, such as dancing, mas quorades
and amatour theatricala There is nothing more ongaging than the sight of a set of gohs entertaining themselves and their comrades-at-ses with a clover burlesque or a bit of musical comedy in improvised costumes. A ship's ball, in a friendly port, is an
done more for the spread of basebail another phase of the recreation of the ong as well as an exercise personnel-officers and men-lined an event of importance to the native
It
is
to carry.
safe to say that the Navy has.
have
Con- the
Not 30 with the gobs. This was amply and aptly demonstrated by the than any other single influence. Ameri-gob. These contests afford one of the made occasional reasons a anilor welcomes service at a can teams game staged on this tiny island of the Pacific. Within ten minutes after land- pilgrimages to Englund. Europe, Cuba station on shore.
The foot-race is another favourite ing the sailors had laid off their grounds and Australia, with indifferent success.
Several Professional ball games have appeared diversion in Naval recreations. and established their bases. miles of rowing, from the island at
vast spaces of deckroom om modern peoples. which their ship was anchored, had slight conviction to the minds stant training is made pessible by merely whetted their appotites for out- With the Navy, however, the situa-war-craft, and this training serves the door exercise. An American ball game Lion is different. The gobs go into a purpose of keeping the sprinters in was soon in progress-and the umpire strangu
of the crowd. They got of the pictures ahows & race between the natives to playing it themselves. sailors at the Long Beach station in violence. The staging was complete in
One of the best educational inspira- California. The camera caught E. W. every detail.
To the bluejackets it made tuletions in the world is said to be to hear Ferrin, able seaman, in the act of win difference that the fly driven to centre- a set of South Ses islanders abusing ning the mile championship of the field might strike a jutting rock and the umpire after the manner of their Pacific flect...
At Home In The Water. In aquatic sports the American Navy The blusjackets comers, regardless of defies the universe. welcome all
The swimming exercises of the gob nationality or environment. are not the simple affairs of dress parade on, an American beach or in a finely equipped concrete basin. For him the daily plunge is a matter of swimming, His pier is the yard-arm of the ship. His leap is limited only by the height of this arm above water. Els return to the deck is a test of strength in climbing a rope. The beach bather may stuly the sailor's technique with distinct profit and advantage.
In sailing and rowing the bluejacket knows no competition--except from his own fraternity. Raccp in whaleboats
Beamanship, with
with definite wizard of benefit to his usefulness to his ship. Some of the livaliest sporting events between picked crews from rival of the Navy are found in the races cruisers or battleships. Each ship has
on gm barrela, on turrets and in the population as well as to the men of the of fleet: While A Neptune party is some- Aghting-top, watching the progress
closely contested wrestling or boxing thing to be remembered by all who match between perfect specimens of participate or witness. The fantastic crossing I have seen garb of the gob at the time of physical development,
apota basket-bail and the potato-race on the the equator is one of the brightest
in his career as defender of the Eng. deck of a monster war-craft, and I have
The contests between 'gobs sports of the bluejacket ara seen pio-eating that would have heen the envy of the wd by the officers in catamand. Physical wisely encouraged and carefully direct I have heard wealthiest drapeptic. sailors fought each other, on hands and defence, and the authorities find that knees, with harmless tinware as their good sport and good health travel hard weapons of offence.
was in his usual danger of physical within try and bring baseball perfect trim for frequent contests: One and small sailing craft make him of cup-fights, in which blindfolded âtness is the prime essential of national
WHAT IT COSTS
Nothing To Buy But Food and Clothes- Everything Else is Provided By Uncle Sam, Even To the Cook's Wages, the Household Linen and the Fuel.
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[By KENS BACHE)
GUITOSE O THE STATE DINING ROOM
Incaras taxes have cut down the military bands in the world is always lient's salary from $76,000 to fat her disposal. She can telephone, and 9,000. The cost of living is way upis will come and play for her. There bo going to manage to make is nothing to pay, for the Marine Band oth ends meet 7
is the President's own band. His wife Importantly helpful is the fact that
can order it about as she likes. day wife, apart from clothing and radual incidentals, has practically no enges. She has fower things to pay than any other woman in the United
Suppose that she wishes to take a drive. She can choose between two high-powered automobiles that cost the government $12,000 aplace--one of them export chauffeura imousine car. Two
by are at
No other woman has so few things
Uncle Sama tak vs the Coad hd, The upkeep of the White beries off her hands, and pays for House garage is provided for by Uncle Mrly everything: She has no bother
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in hand. The naval craft without its recreations would be a poor training school for the serious work of the
It is not to be suspected, however,estabilaliment.
FIRST
LADY"
wages. There are twenty-five servants, Six women do the 'npstairs work. The the butler has two assistants.
kitchen
น а winan chef, Martha Mulvey, who is a permanent institution, having occupied that important position through several administrations. There are two #smistant cook,
white women,
and two coloured women who are rated as acullions, All together, about forty
people ha
nave to be regularly fed in the white houB6., -
That means quite a lot of "grub," And
rigat incre the one item vi expense which Mr. Coolidge, or one snowa rather Buy her husband, ́ ́is obliged to meat, here is, of course, no cons to pay. * Boss is' heateu and gaved are of large. The house Keeper and an the servanta ars on the government payans But all the foo eills are pau duc of the President's owa pocket,
A moal formal dinner to the LIQ Proaldunt
(U
Cptiou neutrality cum, appropriated By CongreBK" maintain #greeable relations with foreign Powers for the oner "state dinners to the Cabinet, to the Juciary, and now and then a extra one for u notable guest," mansi himsel pay. it used to be reckoned that these dinners, cost about $1,000 apiece, but at least half of it was for wine, which now amated..
Ten White House Baths.
Up to the time of Grant's second admmistration the pay of the Preacher was only $26,000 a year. It was then Braised to $50,000," "Mr. Coolidge's galley, with, taxes, subtracted, does not "quris rouch the latter figure. ; Idost Prusk dents, since Grant hava akved a good
while"
'in the White House.
deal of monother thing that
Even
does not have to pay the op applied
government. Likewise todet the. -bathrooms.
rooms upstairs, attached to a like nam- ber of unites, all on the second" floor. Before MRATION WA Feidodeled by Mr. Roosevelt. Uhura were only two bathrooms," and in 1850 there was no bathroom at alll · Folks did not Bathe much in the old day
"Interior" Beartaljómuntia:
servants. The government hires One might imagine that Mr. Coolidge and sees that they do their work would have many burdens; some social factory. All of them are carried duties to perform, but itris not so. She he Federal payroll, Even the family is not obliged other to make or to
is done free of cost,
return a call. In this respect ber almost imperceptibles, wearing of the army, navy, and marine corps, why governmenu makes the President a: a million and a half dollars have been mistress of the White House.
position iko that of royalty. I a new rug, or a new plecs of lady of royal rank wore to visit Wash color design on a plate, suffices to happen to be stationed in Washington, special allowance of 825,000 a year for
condent that pises of crockery. It aand he takes her pick: Invitations are traveling lture, she does not have to ask kerington, aho would call at the White put make on a shelf, and by and by, sent to them-equivalent, of course, tu
If she would travel by water, a war. Mridi. All she has to do is to spell - Tosine, and Mrs. Coolidge wonid return; } when a number of soch: “rejects have commands and they, coine. they are hip is at ber-command. That is to say." altering R, and 250w it la proposed: £500 mnd + this "pantry?:
Coolidge'a perianal side, Andriej at all him to buy it. The
With nearly everything paid for by (way. Y come, but they wʊ: got to, any ↑ it in nominally a warship, but Rited, wo make further, allärstions at a post of dinner" are eaten by they ray for t
business of this of:
Withnes at her call and suNZIONE, so do any errands for hor that che to five him. He exercise aryision over the household,
scension to
vielt on dis surae day. That is the accumulated, they are sent to auction. single ezõevelém.
the government the IO. of La does not
es Coolidge is the most luxuriously isundin tas world. The White wo stories" (with hases ita mistress la never walk up or down stairs.. Bho
glad to
cons of the most sumptuous pleasure
tiled bathroom, awaits at all times her. occupancy. No expense for dra the ship ip naval vessel, manned and
furnishing t Fresident Roosevelt sent merely for fgrishing gandro expended $665,000 for rebuilding and
(about $400,000
The mistress of the White House Netcraft in the world. suite on board, Household Management bother the Presidangelfs very much. never pay for theatre Haket if she with private dining room, bedrooms, and The only serious zvaniet to be mist is does not wish to do so. Managers ate for entertaining the Coplites do a always glad to offer sente as a birs from good des) of informal entertaining; and of charger nearly always they have House-guests.
When the art now goes on officered by that service, neposso ma into an automatky alexate When there Houdinita banonta Journey, anally with her husband button, and "is carried to then zumal women there" insure to be and her ticket donc
No anson father royal per of | liven in quite so luxurious a
Tact, there
In effect, the White House is a small rate hotel) It has an oncisi house
who is paid. $2,000 a year in the servants and manage all the sire. She does the market-
(bathi
The first floor of the White House, ja series of drawing rooms, have only or the state dining room, the breakzest
formal diners are given
on positor
Sattle which:
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