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...military training didn't bother Billy too much ("Drill, drill, a little more drill. Then drill, and lastly drill. Between drills we drill . . ."), and the discipline was generally not too severe. In battle, Billy proved his salt. He did not have the dash and gallantry of Author Wiley's Johnny Reb. but sometimes he could pull up his coat collar and walk into a hail of bullets "the same as I would go through a storm of hail and wind." He did not go looking for trouble. "The diferance between dyeing today and tomorrow is not much," wrote...
Abbott flipped in three straight goals, all on assists by wing-man Larry Nichols, to open the Puritans' scoring late in the first period. He also got a fourth in the second period, this time unassisted. Dave Cabot and Fritz Drill each collected two, while Wally Flynn and John Cooke got one apiece...
...Drill, led the first line with three assists in addition to his two scores. Cabot got two, and Flynn and Cook one each to complete the Winthrop totals. Harry Sprague, fast skating wing, led the Eli team with two goals...
Open U. squad is as follows: Slug Dolan, Dana Getchell, Roger Swanson of Kirkland: Art French, Will Kurth, John Marshall. Henry McKusker, and Dan Simonds of Leverett; Hollis Hunnewell and Bruce White of Lowell; Ed Bloom, Bob Baldwin, Dave Cabot, Fritz Drill, Roger Howland, and Roger Taylor of Winthrop. HOUSE HOCKEY STANDINGS W L T TP Winthrop 11 1 2 24 Dudley 9 0 4 22 Eliot 9 1 3 21 Kirkland 5 4 2 12 Dunster 5 7 0 10 Leverett 4 9 0 8 Lowell 3 10 1 7 Adams...
...spent in tussles with the army's standing operating procedure. Sometimes a man lost to S.O.P.-as when Wheeler showed up with sore eyes, and was rigorously dosed before the entire regiment with "three ounces and a half of the bitter gall Epsom salts, and two hours knapsack drill in double quick time [to] open my back door...