Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball, 1918, World War One, WW1, Army

Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball
Deming, New Mexico - World War One

Baseball Cubs Vs Santa Rita Copper League
Baseball Cubs Vs 34th Division
Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball - 1918

Chicago Cubs vs Camp Cody - April 1918
Camp Cody Soldiers in the Mimbres Valley - 1918

Chicago Cubs vs Camp Cody Scan Donated by Johnny Green
Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball - 1918

Cubs vs Camp Cody Closeup #1 Scan Donated by Johnny Green
Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball - 1918

Cubs vs Camp Cody Closeup #2 Scan Donated by Johnny Green
Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball - 1918

Cubs vs Camp Cody Closeup #3 Scan Donated by Johnny Green

Walkaway For Chicago Cubs - El Paso Herald Newspaper - Monday, April 8, 1918

The game between the Cubs and 34th division team was played in a high wind which kept the players digging sand from their eyes. There never was any danger of the army boys scoring, first base being the place decided on by the Cubs for the division boys to expire. The program in that respect was carried out perfectly, none of the army players ever getting to warm their feet on second. At no time during the game did it appear that the Cubs were forced to let themselves out.

Score by innings: ------------- R. H. E.
Cubs ............... 411 020 000 - 8 7 1
34th Division ....000 000 000 - 0 4 8

Pitchers:
Chicago ...... Alexander, Killifer, Walker and 0�Farrel.
Camp Cody .... Sullivan, Denny, Wilson and Kennedy.

Louis Barnaby - Camp Cody Baseball Player Scan Donated by Bruce Barnaby
Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball - 1918

Cubs Vs Sunshine Division - Camp Cody - Deming, New Mexico
34th Division had chosen Sunshine Division as Nickname but had to change it
to Sandstorm after finding out the 40th Division was already called the Sunshine Division.
Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball - 1918

At Camp Cody, near Deming, New Mexico, Army engineers converted a unused fifteen-acre reservoir into an amphitheater
where 20,000 soldiers could watch baseball and football games. At Camp Travis, in San Antonio, Texas,
according to the New York Times, soldiers averaged twenty-five baseball games a day.
'Baseball: The People's Game By Harold Seymour' Scan Donated by Don Williamson
Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball - 1918

Mimbres Valley Baseball Team From Camp Cody - 109th Engineer's Training - 1918 Scan Donated by Don Williamson
Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball - 1918

Mimbres Valley Baseball Team From Camp Cody - 109th Engineer's Training - 1918
Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball - 1918

34th Division Champions - Baseball Co. A. 126th Machine Gun Battalion - Camp Cody - Trench and Camp - August 22, 1918
Left to Right Top Row - Major F.J. Lund-commanding battalion; Knack; Porter; Colwell; Lieut Guthrie-battalion athletic officer;
Lieut E.L. Fhas-manager. Bottom Row-Plotner; Shaut; Wyatt; Summers (captain); Essinger (southpaw); Wright; Boyle.
Camp Cody Soldiers Playing Baseball - 1918

Desert Winds Magazine - April 1989 - C. A. Gustafson

Acknowledgements: I wish to express my sincere appreciation to Don Williamson, Johnny Green, Bruce Barnaby and C. A. Gustafson for donating
these scanned photographs. Thank you very much Don, Johnny, Bruce and Gustafson for sharing these pictures with everyone and for helping me
to preserve the history of Camp Cody. - - (I do not own any of the actual Photographs or items on this Camp Cody Web site.)

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