The Big Lake Breeze, June 29, 1935

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The Big Lake Breeze
VOL. I NO. 7
CAMP S-79, CCC COMPANY 1760
CLOQUET, MINNESOTA
JUNE 29, 1935
SPORTS
Teams Improving.
The baseball and diamond ball
games with Company 719, scheduled
here for June 16th, had to be postponed for the reason that that company was under quarintine. We will
meet them at a later date, however.
The boys are eagerly looking forward to these games, for we took a
double beating from Company 719
some time ago and we are out to even
up the score.
In a Twilight League game in Cloquet on June 21st, the Company baseball team battled it out with the Cloquet Co-op. team for nine innings to
a 0-0 score. Being a twilight game,
seven innings was the regulation
length of the game but we played
nine innings in an effort to break the
deadlock. Darkness finally came along
and the game had to be called. Frew
pitched a good game, allowing three
hits and striking out eight men. The
Co-op. pitcher also pitched a good
game, allowing five hits and striking out seven men. Deveney saved
the day for us when, in the seventh
inning with a man on third base and
two out, Anderson, the Co-op. center-
fielder, hit a hard liner between short
and second base. Deveney knocked
the ball down, then picked it up and
threw the runnner out at first base to
retire the side.
The baseball team went to Two
Harbors Sunday, June 23rd, to play
Company 721. For once we got a
break in the weather, and the boys
came through with a decisive win.
The score was 9 to 2. Frew again
pitched good ball, holding Company
721 to two hits in six innings. The
boys hit when they needed to, gathering 12 hits in the seven innings played. The work of Marcelino Fernandez, a rookie, was indeed gratifying.
He got three hits, scored three runs,
stole a couple of bases, and did a fine
job of first basing. Frew also. got
three hits. Watt got two, one a double. Vincent Wallace, another rookie,
played part of the game in left field
and pitched  the    last    inning.      He
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FORESTRY NEWS
By Don Burcalow
A side camp is contemplated at Big
Sandy Lake and, if all plans are approved, will be established soon. The
camp will last for a period of from
two to eight weeks and will have an
enrolled strength of from forty to
fifty men. For those who don't already know, Big Sandy is fifty miles
west of camp on Highway No. 210.
There is already a completed camp
there, so living conditions shouldn't
be so bad if, and when, the plans go
through. Work projects may be only
tearing the camp down or completing
several forestry projects before above
mentioned wrecking. And, to satisfy
everybody's curiuosity, it has not yet
been decided who the forty or fifty
men will be—if any.    So there.
We are sorry to report that F.
(Fitz) Fitzpa trick is leaving our
camp the end of the month. Fitz is
quitting to accept a U. S. Customs
Inspector job at the Port of Duluth.
We wish Fitz the best of luck and
hope he doesn't get any trunk covers
shut on his fingers in his new work.
And watch out for mouse traps, too,
Fitz.
Having lost one member of our
personnel, we wish to announce the
addition, or rather replacement, of
another member. Old time enrollees
will remember John Long of Cloquet,
who will be with us the first of July.
Mr. Long was an original foreman of
this camp and left us a year ago last
January because of a hip injury sustained at that time. We are all glad
to have you back Mr. Long and hope
you will like the new faces that have
accumulated during your absence.
Five members of Section E know
what it means now to plant trout.
When Skeezix heard that a crew was
to go on this job he started mooning
around because he had "just put the
good mattocks away." Well, approximately 4000 trout were planted, the
day of this writing, in Otter Creek—
and not with mattocks, Skeezix.    The
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OUR BIRTHDAY
Camp Here Two Years.
On June 28, 1933, 200 Kansas men
rolled into Cloquet at about 5:00 a.
m. They were tired and very cold.
These boys from the south weren't
used to 60 degree weather. As soon
as breakfast was over, the men loaded into trucks and were brought to
Big Lake, and it was then that they
got their first look at what was to be
the camp site of Co. 1760. They
saw an open hay field, approximately
ten acres in size, and that is about
all there was here. It was real work
for awhile, with everyone (except
those who started for the lake) busy
pitching tents, digging holes, cutting
a few trees, etc. But they stuck with
it and soon had things in good order.
The men lived in tents most of the
summer, the mess hall being constructed about three weeks after the
camp located here. Barracks and hospital were next to be built, then the
bath house and finally the recreation
hall and supply room were built. It
was a pleasure indeed to have everyone under a roof, but one still hears
the stories of the great times the men
had when they were living in tents.
Two years is a long time. But in
talking to the men who have been
here two years, most of them admit
that it doesn't seem to them that the
camp has been here that long. The
camp is much better than it was two
years ago, of course. The men and
officers and foresters who are here
now, and those who have come and
gone, have done something to make
it what it is. The results are good,
we would say.
NEW MEN ARRIVE
Once again there are Rookies in
camp. This time only twenty Jay-
hawkers are to be transferred temporarily into Gophers. These twenty
men are from Kansas City, Kansas,
and from Leavenworth, Kansas. Of
these twenty men, only three have
been in the CCC before, and two of
those three were in this camp. They
are August Bateson and Emil Breiner.
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