A line from Staff Sgt. Ralph Walters at Camp Glenn states that the Company has finished its shooting record and averaged about 120 points to the man. Lee Hammie attained expert rifleman, making 230 out of a possible 250. Four others of the Company, said Sgt. Walters, made the rank of marksman. They are: James E. Mathews, Fred B. Perkins and Collie Lee Wilson. Lt. Charles Jones making the rank of sharpshooter by the narrow margin of one point. His score was 218 out of the required 219.
“We are looking forward to the Field Day this week,” says Sgt. Walters, “and hope to bring home the baton of this event. Corp. William S. Hunt Jr. has charge of the athletics and is doing some hard work. He and Lee F. Hammie are putting on a small show at the ring side tonight. Lee challenges the heaviest man in the camp to stand on his chest and after that he will let Corp. Hunt drop a butcher knife on the muscles of his chest; by this they expect to prove to the rest of the companies that we have a man that not only is the champion rifleman of the Battalion but somewhat of a champion in this line.”
From the front page of the Oxford Ledger, Friday, July 18, 1924
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