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MULTNOMAH ELEVEN
YPRES DESTINED IN
PORTLAND ATHLETE
TO BE CREW COACH
MAP OF THE YPRES BATTLEFIELD
nTirirt-rnrk rnivmii i
VICTORIOUS IN LOOSE
GAME AGAINST . CO. A
A
r'ulnKd rUK rUUlDALL
TEAM AT CAMP LEWIS
STAR BALL TOSSERS
1 "r
Keck, Cook, Biliie and Holden
Add Strength to Canton-
ment Elevens.
Max Carey, Pittsburg Out
fielder, Overlooked Because
He Is With Tailend Club.
Fullback Briggs Scores a
Touchdown in Third Period
After Line Plunging.
Three Times During the War i
Have Britisji and Germans
Met at This Point '
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WANT LITTLE GOLF GAME?
WALT JOHNSON EXAMPLE
PENALTIES ARE NUMEROUS
THE FIRST TWO BATTLES
IX SO There Are John Wllfcalm and Jo- I Firsts X On of ths Fleetest Bass
Clubmen, Unable to Gain Consistently
in First Half, Come Back Strong-
Britain's Professional Army XiOst in
First Battle Poison Qas Intro
duced Soring' Second.
Banners In the Ma J ore Is Improv
ing as a Wlelder of the Ash.
Hardies? Walter Eumnil.
la Third Quarter.
OREGON
FURNISHING
PLAYING
WITH
LOSING
MILITARY
HISTORY
BRITISH
LANDMARK
1 .Camp 7ewls, American Lake, Wash.
--Tb -Three Hundred Sixty-second
Field Ambulance company, composed
Of Portlanders, Is rich In the number
f men who have' been unusually prom
inent In athletic In their school aad
.college flays, and it Is furnishing a
large number of men tor the big can
tonment team. William Moltlcn. "
former Oregon varsity and Multnomah
club football man. Is with the unit.
along with Brewer A. Ulllle, former ;
O. A. G. eleven cantaln: Walter Al void !
Hummel, holder of the world's 440 yard
hurdle record; Ted Treble, high diver
.and fancy swimmer, and a number of
Others.
John Wllhelm and Joseph Lambert
are also rated cs two of the beat
golfers In Camp Lewis.
. Oregon is furnishing some of its
nest football men for the cantonment
team, the repreHcntati ve eleven from
the entire dlvlsiftn. Among the men
turning out for the squad are found !
Hvnon. Willamette: ICiihhcII Mnltno-
'man Athletic club; Jtowlan.l, Wllla- I
mette; Keck, O. A. C, and Sam Cook!
of the University of Orenon. These !
men are already among those selected
as the division football squad and will
be seen In action when the Marines
from Mare Island play the division
eleven at the Stadium high school
(rounds in Tacoma early In November.
The lied Cross team will take on !
the division eleven itctcher 27, and i
this game will find many prominent i any fan, offhand, to name the three
Oregon and O. A. C. men In action on grratest outfielders in the business
both sides. i and he'll probably nay Cobb, Speaker
While the Oregonlans at Camp Lewis ! and Roush, or if not Roush he'll name
are few in numbers, they have already Jackson. Burn.1 Kauff. Cruise or some
established a record for the number of other player, who, because he Is star
athletes, football players and boxeis;rlng with a winning club or happens
to be found amour the units In camp.
Jlardly a smoker has 1 een Biased but !
some Portland boxer has appeared, and
the great cantonment' football team
which Is being organized will find a .
larger percentage or players from Ore-
gon institutions than from any other!
couege or university in the west, in .
iu iiea uroBs train, oregonlana are
furnishing the mujorlty of gridiron
stars. In fact, practically every man ,
on the team bails from Oregon, tho
vast majority being from Portland
alone.
De Cicco's Eleven in
.Practice Game Today
The Pacific Athletic club football'
teVm, of which Mike DeCUcco is man- 1
ager, will play a practice game this !
afternoon at :30 o'clock on the Co- I
lumbla Park grounds against the Unit- I
ed Artisans. The Pacific club has .
about 24 players trying for positions '
this season and it Is the plan of Man- '
ager UeClcco to tlve every player a j
cliancto play 1n the game. I
' The lineups at the start of the game I
VUi be A follows. I
faclflc.
Pos?
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Artisans.
. .McCarthy
. . H. Teyema
. .11. Teyema
. . .It. Smitn
. . . .Gardner
'ortcr . .
Barretta
McDonald
Lawrence
Llllinau
Cook
Ilardlng
Hogoway
Itauer ...
.Wise
KOSOn
Clbbs
. . . . Keleli
.G. Smith
Cook
Murphy
. . .L. H. R. ..
Copp K.
Porest Grove Opens
Season With Win
Forent Grove. Or , Ort. 20. Thft For
t Grove high school football team I
opened Its season yesterday with a!
tK to 0 victory ever the Vancouver'
(Wash.) high school. The Forest
Grove will play McMinnvllIe next Sat-
tirday. The line-ups:
Fores Grove:' Pos. Vancouver:
LaVoll ' Vt "' ' E" k Kramer
Jligby R T T r rt i
Oarrig'us.'.T..'.K. K LKicl" nlaub
ICnshedes c Woster
trnderwood.,. . L; O. R Marsh
rrnnriaer t.. x. H, Andrews
?,t2n K, R. Wallace
JJ.uh Q Bowman
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r ort land alleja fnni itar.dlnf:
City league
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Bt. Mr hoi an Csfdrrla n ; :
Portland Alleya n f, a
Kraeat Welto llalty Co... !l r. 4
Himrjr Bldf. Barbr Shop. 9 ft 4
!llly Sllw Tallora.. 9 4 R
Walkover Boot Shop 8 2 7
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Ttf Grill 8 2 1
MlMinan CUr Co.,..,... 8 2' 1
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liuaaoa Arm 8 1
Prlntiiiff Tradea Lmcm
todm Printing Co 15 -'4
Junrnal Prnwrwim ., lft ,1ft
Jor.rnal Compoalura 15 8
1ram 15 6
iOrirnlan Praaaroom 15 4
.Jtchvld Llnotrpa Co 15 3
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Portland Electro-Stero Co. B 5 4
I-hor Tn 9 5 4
Portland Prlatlnf Hraiw. . 9 4 fi
Pir, Varuay A Wtraub 9 2 7
iportlasd' Uuotype Co 0 2 7
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Atbletlca Compulsory at U. of P.
j University of Pennsylvania has
.adopted a ruling making athletics
compulsory for all students that are
jatle-bodied and well. Dartmouth may
(require students to take at least three
Lhounr of athletics each week.
Oakland to Mare Winter Ball
Oakland, Cal., is to have a winter
,taseball league composed of the A, B
and C divisions of professionals, semi
professionals and amateurs that will
ibegln Us season after the Paclflo
;Coast league concludes its games. v
SKATES. &AXOBS, BEXAXS
and everytkia that requires an
SOOI1 ar ground by expert grind
ers. PortlanlrJ Electric Grind
Chnn 331 BTAXX BT.
OXlOp Broadway 1933
Between Broadway and Park, .
New York, Oct. 20. (I. N. S.)
Playing with a losing club Is often a
big handicap . to the ball plaver who
possesses class.
The star who Is firmly hitched to a
loser doesn't get the tame opportuni
ties to shine as the player who cavorts
about the big league lots with a win
ner, and he isn't kept before the public.
Look at Walter Johnson, for in
stance. Johnson is ranked as ore of th
greatest pitchers who have ever toed
' runner, anu no sun noias nis
lofty place today, but because of the
pcor showing of the Senators this
year, and the weak support Johnson
has received, he has been kept from
a commanding position in the won and
lost columns in the American league.
Xisads Base Stealers
But the player in mind is not a
pitcher. He Is an outfielder, and his
name Is Max Carnarius. He is bettor
known as Max Carey, premier out-
fielder of the Pittsburg Pirates and
lcadinn- h.isernnner rif th N.i t inn.n 1
lcRK'ic.
With all his ability as a fielder,
batsman and baserunnT, Max Carey
tloesn't gpt his full share of publicity
in the columns of the daily press, out
side of Pittsburg, Now and then he
pulls off some particularly brilliant
play and gots his name on the "wires. '
Put the average "doposter" "who wants i g
to mention a constellation of outfield w
stars generally passes up Carey. Ask
to be in the race for batting honors,
bos been kept In print.
Flaying Great Ball
The pastime of handing bunches of
lanrel to the ball players Is always an
interesting one, and when it comes to
classifying the outflelding stars of the
game Max Carey deserves serious con-
slderatlon. Carey's work with the
stick this season was greatly improved
Carey clouted close to the .300 mark
and headed his league in stolen bases
and despite the fact that the Pirates
were hopelessly buried in the cellar,
he played wonderful ball. Carey may
i not be quite as good as Cobb or Speak
er, lie may not be quite as heavy a
hitter as some of his" rivals In the
National league, but when it comes to
combining all-around ability he's all
there.
Scores From Second on Steal
i In a recent game at the Polo Ground.-
Carey beat the. Giants singlehanded
by scoring from second on what was
to have been a double steal. Boeckel
was on first and Carey on second
when the sign sVas hung uv and with
the motion of Rube Benton, who was
pitching, botht runners were off like
a flash. BUI Rariden pegged to Her
zog atj second and Buck succeeded in
tagging Boeckel out, but while he was
tagging his man the fleet-footed Carey
rounded third and slid into the plate
before Rariden could take the return
throw and tag him.
That was a brilliant bit of base
runnlnir. and It won the game for the
i pirates. . -
l f,V,l , n111r, ...nh
plays right along. If he was with
a winning club a club which did not
have to play the game safe, as a loser
must do in about seven out of ten
cases think what a name he might
make for himself.
Yes, Steven, it's sure tough to be
tied to a loser.
Urban Faber to Pass
Winter at Pilot Rock
'.
Pendleton. Or., Oct. 20. Red Faber,
star twirler of tne White Sox, who
won the deciding game of the worlds
series, will arrive in Pendleton tomor-
row ,n comPany with Fred Moea of
r,lot Rock- and wiU Pend tho wint-sr
wlth Mom. Faber and Moes were
, boyhood chums in Iowa and Moes was
a guest of 1-aber during the recent
series.
i . .
j Ty gp.tnrs' flnp Play
On Waverley Course
WaveTley Country club golfers will
play for the directors' trophy next
Sfltnrdav Thft ftvpnt will Ho an IS
1 hole medal play handicap, the four low
net players to qualify for match play.
; Handicaps in match play to be number
' ot oles UP according to one half dif-
ference between the handicaps of tho
contesting players.
Two riayer8 Ai-e Injured
Atlanta, Ga.. Oct. 20. (I, N. S.)
Bethel of Washington and Lee and
Strupper of Tech. were both hurt and
taken to the hospital in the fourth
quarter of the Tech. Washington and
Rute Couldn't
H
Just Anotker
. Further proof that Walter Malls has i
too much of the eccentric stuff to be
of value to a ball club! Walter even
disgusted a fellow countryman from
the island of Southpaw so much that
he laid down the ball and walked away,
through with him for. good.
A returning big leaguer brought the
atory west for the first time. It hap
pened last spring when Mails was a
member of the Brooklyn dub. Now
baseball men recognize that Rube
;Marquard, the veteran left-hander, has
; the best move to first In the National
J league.
I Manager Wilbert Robinson of the
Brooklyn club wanted to give Mails
soma instructon as he. appeared to
have a lot of "stuf f" on the ball, even
though green as a gourd. Robbie asked
; )
1 I Y- f
K5$B!R.
w
Ed Leader, former
3iuuAiAji1
High school football
ctnr nnli
former University of Washington
football and crew man, who has
been appointed to succeed HI
Conibear as rowing coach at the
FULTON AND MISKE IN
LEAD IN RACE AFTER
EHJ
Era of Small Heavyweights
Is Recalled With Advent of
St. Paul Slugger,
New York. Oct. 20. Fred Fulton
and Billy Miske between them have
eliminated Carl Morris from serioua
consideration as a contender for tha
crown worn by Jess "Wlllard.
The Oklahoma fighter, In disrepute
because of his rough fighting, seems
to have sadly slipped even as a mauler,
for Billy Miske, weighing far less than
Morris, met him at that game and
beat him up something scandalous.
Morris never was an invincible
scrapper. Luther McCarthy proved thar
more effectively than anyone eliei
CHANC
WILLARD
V,T k T o", vT.-t v, l8 u'V'the club colors in the 115 pound divi-
s!a. nl.s way mrougn most or tne ,
opposition, hard enough at any rate to
make him a serious obstacle in the
paths of most men who aspired to a
bout with Willard.
Was Disqualified in Gotham
Fred Fulton male himself decidedty
unpopular in his New York meetl lg
with Morris when he fouled his huge 1
opponent ana was disqualified. He
made it worse whn he began to cry
after the bout ttrSt it was Morris whj
did all the fouling, and that he was
forced to foul tactics in self-defense.
His shouts went unheeded until he
got Morris into a ring in Ohio and
proved that Morris was a foul fighter.
Fulton won that fight and immediately
hopped back into the spotlight.
Miske's victory must be taken wita
due deliberation by the fight fans,
for it presages a return of the small
heavyweights to popular favor. Back
in the days of Bob Fitzsimmons and
John L. Sullivan it was contended that
the ideal size for a heavyweight was
unaer uo pounas, Dut the recent
heavies Jiave been far over that mark.
Little Jack Dillon almost proved, and
Billy Miske seems to have taken
up the cudgel.
Fulton Would Save Chance
Gauged by these most recent hap
penings it looks more and more as
if Fred Fultpn would have a chance
in a scrap with Willard. And, then,
it wouldn't be laughable at all for Fu.-
ton if he were to meet Miske, for the
ei. f aui aemon has proved his
worthiness against the big men., ltla m i n r
would be stretching a point to con- (Trreat Tunnel Mav
sider ' Miske in a bout with Willard, W A cu A UJ-IJJ.OJ. LlXOiJ
for VYillard is much too huge for
Miske to reach with any telling effect.
Sliow a Busli
t- t
er
t
"Eccentricity"
Rube Marquard to teach hU move to
young -.Mails at morning practice. Mar
quard readily acquiesced for the good
of the club. Mails thought it would
bo fine and thanked Robbie for the
suggestion.
The following morning Marquard
and Mails went to the pitchefa box
to practice, nipping runners off first.
"Now, Mails, observe closely. You
do it this way.
"Say. you big tramp, you can't teach
me anything a-tall about this bnsiness
of throwin to first." v
Thus ended the lesson. Marquard
looked pityingly at the pompous
busher, looked witheringly at Robin
son, laid down the ball and walked
straight back to the bench without one
more word.
In a loosely played and listless foot
ball contest, the Multnomah club eleven
defeated Company A, Third Oregon,
'yesterday afternoon on Multnomah
I field, 6 to 0. The clubmen scored their
touchdown in the second half after
being outplayed throughout the first
two periods.
The contest was full of fight, both
teams showine a willinsmess to mix.
!The soldiers loet 25 yards in the second '
period for slugging, and the clubmen ,
ilost another opportunity to score a i
touchdown in the final period, as a re
sult of a 49 yard penalty for slugging.
!The ball was on the soldiers' two yard
line when the foub-occurred.
Multnomah was minus its mainstay
on the line, ;Elmer Leader, and his ab
sence greatly affected the playing of
Uhe clubmen.
Batter Their Way Across
The lone touchdown came in the third
period. Multnomah took possession of
the ball in midfield after an exchange
of punts. The clubmen, through the
efforts of Briggs, Horton and Lutge,
made yardage twice in succession,
which, followed by a pass from Briggs
to J-.utge, pat tne Dan on tne soldiers
is yard line, b rom that point the club- ,
men battered their way over the goal
line. Briggs failed to convert.
The clubmen will practice this morn
ing at 10 o'clock. Another practice will
i luc-up aim suaiuiary :
Multnomah.
Company A.
.K. Champion
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R. H. L.
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Horton Y. .
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Mnd ,
Briggs F
W. Champion i
SCORE BY QUARTERS
I Mv.ltnomah 0 n 6
1 C'oiEpsnjr A O 0 0 00
Touchdown Erlgga. Substitutions Mult
nomah, Buach for Iloaford, Lutge for Jones,
Imttj for Horton, Beharrell for Hale; Oom
nncy A. Eokman for Curl, Holmes for Mead,
Manning for Holmes, Mead for Holmes,
Holmes for Manning, Murray for Holmes,
Holmes for Wood. Officiate A. C. Stubling,
referee; George Dewey, umpire; Homer Jaml
on, bead linesman.
'WINGED M' HAS
DATE FOE BOUTS
WITH SOTJNDEES
Seattle -Mitt and Mat Men
to Be Met November 2,
Is Announcement,
Multnomah's first lnterclub boxing
and wrestling smoker will be staged
November 2, with the Seattle Athletic (
club. Frank Harmar, chairman of ths I
boxing and wrestling committee, has
already arranged for the weights with
the Seattle club officials.
Phil Neer, the lunlor tennis sensa
tion ,of last season, will represent
Multnomah In the 108 pound boxing
class and Hlem "will probably wear
th Bay,t.T-a!eett class XTultnnmnh'B '
158 pound grappler-has not been picked j
as yet, but it will in all probability
be ' George Hansen.
Multnomah will send Phil Neer and
Tom Louttit to San Francisco to par
ticipate in the two day boxing tourney
to be held by the Olympic club No
vomber 22 and 23.
Bob Fitzsimmons Is
Still Battling Death
Chicago, Oct. 20. (U. P.) Bob Fitz
simmons was entering the fourth
round of his bout with death tonigfot,
badly punished and weakened by the
attack of his adversary, but still hang
ing on and refusing to take the count.
Physicians marvelled at the wonder-
ful stamina of the 55-year-old pugilist
1 who was declared to be dying a few
; hours after he was taken to Michael
i Reese hospital weanesaay morning,
' suffering pneumonia.
The crisis in Fitzsimmons' remark
able fight was expected today, but
physicians say tonight that because
of his fine physical condition ft may
be averted for days.
Tho aged warrior's chief ''second"
his wife has succumbed to the strain
of the encounter and is now. confined
to a bed in the same room with henmiee, aim at their communications and
husband, suffering from a nervous
breakdown,
Be Constructed Soon
1 Douglas Haig to bring- his First corps
Denver. Oct. 20. Construction of a 1 f rm the Pilkem-Gravenstafel to the
37,000,000 tunnel under James peak ' Messlnes-Zonnebeke ridge and thus re-i
a dream of years of railroad construe- inforce the Seventh division, which
tion engineers probably will be real- was rapidly approaching the. point of.
ized in the near future, if plans to se- annihilation. But, despite all effort,
cure investment of $5,000,000 of east- the British were alowly but surely;
era capital, negotiations for which are driven from the crest of the Messinea
now under way in New York, are con- Zonnebeke ridge and on October 21
sumated. ' their line was actually broken n the
The tunnel will shorten by 200 miles Menin road, near Gheluvelt. This was
the present route of the Denver & Salt the crisis of the whole battle, the mo
Lake Tailroad the "Moffat road." ment when Sir John French himself
Two millions of capital toward the sent the cooks, the hostlers and every
seven millions required to construct available man to the front line. t
the tunnel, rehabilitate the road and A lost battle was saved by the sud
remove the receivership under which den appearance of the Second Worcej- i
it is now being operated and place it ters on the flank of the Germans ad- j
on a paying basis, ls assured by Colo-' vancing on the Menin road west of ,
rado bondholders, provided the re- i Gheluvelt. , The line was restored but'
quired additional . five millions Is se-
cured. k
Cubans Equip Hospital
Havana, -Oct- 20. The Cuban Red
Cross society, of which Mm. Mariana
Menocal. wife of the president of
Cuba, is chairman, has begun the
work of equipping a 100-bed hospital
unit, manned by a staff of Cuban
physicians and nurses, for active serv
ice on the western front In Franca,
By Frank H. Simondt
Ccpyrlsh, 1917. Th Tribune Association (The
. New" York Trlbnn)
TWO weeks ago I endeavored to set
forth the geographical circum
stances of the Ypres country, wl.i
a view to explaining the operations,
now going forward in the present bat
tle, which is the third and miEhtle-Jl
of the "Wipers" conflicts. Beyond all
(.question "Wipers" is to be the great
landmark in British military history
hereafter, and It has seamed to me
worth while now, cm the anniversary
of he first conflict, to recall briefly
xne events or tne conriict wmcft was
the most considerable and costly in
all British history up to 1915. In 1914
Britain fought the first battle with
out overseas aid. In the second bat
tle the brunt was borne by the Cana
dians; in the third, now going for
ward, Australia is on the line held
by Rawlinson's division in the terri
ble closing days of October, 1914. Thus,
in British imperial history the Yprca
campaigns are equAlly to have an en
during place. Finally, the ever-growing
importance of the present strug
gle and the steady reappearance of
old names give a cont&niporaryajvalue
to a: past conflict. For Ahese reasons
i mean to seview once more the hli-
tory of . Ypres salient, concerning
which I have never written, in detail '
before, setting forth views I obtained ,
while with the British army myself j
last winter.
The Lay of the Land
The geographical outline of the
countrv I have described in the' Dre-1
" Norglrd ' vious artlcles- Tt ls only necessary to Messines and Wytschaete was unablo
.".".'.".. Murray recall that Ypres is situated in a basin to hold either. The capture of Mes
........ Curl wellnlgh surrounded by low hills, and sines and Wvtsehaet reallv created
that thp.5 hills nn th a nrnct pormtltu ft 1
the Messines-Zonnebeke ridge, the '
j "
scene of the main Btruggle in the firit ,
! Battle, and on the north the Graven- ( the rear and commanded the communi
06 stafel-Pilkem ridge, the prize of tne ! cations of the British in and east of
second battle. Both sets of hills were ,
won back practically In their entirety
in June, August and September of the
present year.
But In thinking of these hills the
American must remember that they
are hardly more than gentle sweiis
suggestive rather of the prairies of ;
our own West than of the ruggei Britain's Professional Army Perishes
New England or New York country. The II days between October 21 and
Anyone who has visited the battle- j November L-are the days of the great
field of -Waterloo will recall his sur- stress on the Britisji-front, and in this
prise at finding hills referred to In j time that portion of the British exps
all battle histories as important ac-1 ditionary army which fought absuc
tually little more than mounds. A j Ypres was practically exterminated,
similar Impression would come with The Seventh division alone lost 3(6
a visit to the Ypres battleground. ' j out of 400 officers, and 8664 out of
With this qualiftcation in mind, 112,000 rank and file. At Ypres alone
however, it is still essential to recog I the British losses were 40,000. Tne
nize that, inconsiderable as these ele- i German loss has Deen placed as htgn
vations are, they played a decisive1 250,000, and probably exceeded t3
part in three of the great conflicts of loss at the Marne. For three weeks
this war and in the most dramatic the British fought an enemy five
battle of British history. Beside Hill times as numerous and equipped with
304, or Dead Man's Hill or the Douau- heavy artillery and machine guns, both
mont Plateau at Verdun they are notn- j of which weapons were lacking to the
Ing. Wytschaete, the highest, is bare- j Britl3h in any useful number. Prob-
ly 250 feet high, against 1300 feet fcr
Dead Man's Hill and
1300 feet for
Douaumont, yet the Verdun hills were
not more bitterly contested, lost witn
more regret or recaptured with more
satisfaction.
First Encounter Accidental
Nor ls it less interesting to remem- i
ber that, this battle of Ypres, the first j
encounter, was an accidental
battle,
nor the Germans irnptd to mept
here, as Lee and Meade had no lnten-
tion of fighting a cecisive battle at
Gettysburg. Both were engaged in
great operations of their own, both
had to abandon their plans, and this
first conflict about the old Flemish
town marks the end of a war move
ment; henceforth to the present hour
the war in the West has been a w
of trenches.
On October 14, 1914, the first Britlsn
troops came to Ypres. They comprised
the immortal Seventh division, com
manded by General P.awlinson, which
had landed at Ostend a few day be
fore and had covered the retreat of
the Belgian army, aided by some
French formations.
At this moment the allied high com
mand believed that between the Oe
man army approachinp the Yser and
the northern end of the main German
front, which now extended. from Switz
erland to Lille, there was a wide gap,
! squarely in front of Ypres and ex-
tending from Menin to Rouiers Field
Marshal Sir, John French had sent Sir I -Douglas
Hale north with the First r
army corps; Allemby's cavalry, al-ij
ready about Armentleres, was to co 1 1
ODerate with it. and this force, toareth- i '
er with the Seventh division, seizing
the crossings of the Lys from Men-n
to Courtral, was -designed to turn the
extreme flank of all the German ar
compel a retirement from the coast
toward Brussels, which was not felt to
be beyond the reach of the allies.
ng-fcttn Intanse , I
From October 20 to October 31 thu'
fighting about Ypres was intense. On
October 23 and 24 the arrival of the
. French Ninth corpo permitted f.tr
1 Gheluvelt was lost, as Zandeverde had
4 been. and the front now ran from
Zonnebeke south through the Polygon
wood to a point on the Menin road
Just west of Gheluvelt. Like Meade
after the first day , of Gettysburg, ;
French bad been battered into a now j
but strongly defensible position; from)
Zonnebeke to the Menin road the new ,
front , was now to endure for many j
months and never to be lost to a di-l
rect attack. .But it was an exhausted
Where the British armies
and almost annihilated force which
now held the line.
On November 1 the Germans shifted
their attack to the Messines-Wytschaete
front and seized the southern end of
the Messlnes-Wytschaete ridge. This
was their arreatest success in the whole
battle, and a French armv coids which
arrived thA niTt av nnH rsinnt hnis
t& -Vnr-a c.iiunt xiar,fm.Y th
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Germans, from the highest ground in
the whole region, looked down upon
Ypres. After November 1 the battle
of Ypres continued with diminishing
fury up to November 11, when the
Prussian guard made its celebrated at
tack, temporarily pierced the BrltUh
line between Gheluvelt arid Veldthoek.
on the Merfin road and was thereafter
annihilated.
ably 60 per cent perhaps more oi
the British army w.ere Kniea, wounaej
or captured, but in the end they stiu
held Ypres and the lines before It
For such an achievement all praise is
inadequate. . And at Ypres Britain"
professional army perished, but Mi
tradition became henceforth imperlsh-
able. Unlike the Spartans, who died
in defeat, the British army had held
its gate.
! rrln? fnr thAir )kiihRouent offensive
southward near La Bassee. The trench
had recalled their best troops from
this fijent to participate in Foch's
great Artois operation, and most of
the few heavy British guns had like
wise gone south. There was no ex
pectation of any .considerable German
operation in the Ypres sector, and
allied Journals were heralding the
comintr of the nring offensive, which
was to throw the Germans out of
France and Belgium. Toward the last
of the third week in April an-attack,
preceded by the explosion of a mine, i
had given the BritisH a oner noia on
hill No. 60, a raound near the point
where the Ypres-Comlnes canal
crossed the battlefront. Heavy attack
and counter attack on this point oc
cupied the attention of the world In
the next few days.
Poison Qas Introduced
But on April 22 came one of the
most dramatic and terrible episodes of
the war. Toward evening the Ger
mans suddenly loosed vast quantities
ice
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PRE-SEASON CONTEST
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are meeting the Germans for the
of chlorine gas against the French j
colonial division standing between
Langemarck and the Ypres-Yser canal
at Steenstraete. The result was a
natural and inevitable panic. The
black troops fled south and west
toward Ypres and across the canal.
Within a brief period the allied front
was broken and for four miles between
Langemarck and the canal .there was
a gap. The German road to' Ypres was
at last open. ,
East ef the colonials were the
Canadians. When tho French troops
fled the Canadian flank was left in
the air, while the troops were them
selves exposed to gas fusjies, and suf
fered severe losses from this cause.
Yet. despite -all the circumstances, tb,a
Canadians .hung on. They drew back
their left flank, forming in a half
circle, and fought on, holding up for
many hours the onrush of the Ger
mans. .Here, on this front, the Cana
dian contingent won their title to rank
with the old British army which had
held the Ypres position in the autumn,
and with their Anzac brethren, who
were soon to win equal glory at Gal
iipoli. The next morning, Friday, April 23,
the situation was critical in the ex
treme. The Germans had forced the
crossing of the Yser canal, between
Boesinghe and Steenstraete. and taken
Lizerne, while they were in possession
of Langemarck and Pilkera and crowd
ing down the roads from these towns
towar Ypres Itself. Could they push
on forN?ut three miles more Ypres
would be" in their hands and all the
troops in the salient east of Ypres
would be caught like rats In a trap.
That they did not do this can only be
charged In part to the bravery of the
Canadians and their British supports.
In point of fact, the true explanation
appears to be that the Germans had
not expected so tremendous a success
and lacked reserves at the decisive
point at tha favorable moment. A bet
ter chance than the British bad had
at Neuve Chapelle therefore slipped
through their fingers.
Effect of Second Battle
By May 13 the second battle of
Ypres closed. The German purpose
had been accomplished; there had been
greater success than in the earlier at
tack, qt the purpose of the April
operation was far less colossal than
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third time daring the war.
that of the October campaign. Then
the road to Calais had been sought.
Now the Germans aimed merely to
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munitions and guns. They sought alxo
to impress the neutral nations. Italy
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