The Big Lake Breeze, July 31, 1935

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The Big Lake Breeze
VOL. 1 NO. 9
CAMP S-79, CCC COMPANY 1760
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CLOQUET, MINNESOTA
JULY 31, 1935
SPORTS
Athletic Teams Busy.
Brimson Camp, Company 719, came
down Sunday, July 21, to play off
postponed games in baseball, diamond ball, volley ball, and horseshoes. It was an afternoon full of
activity, but we finished it and won
three of the events, tying the other.
The baseball game, scheduled for j
seven innings, went eight innings to j
a 2 to 2 tie. At the end of the eighth
inning it was thought advisable to;
call the game and get along with
some of the other games. Fernan-
dez pitched good ball for the home
team, allowing six hits, walking only |
one batter, and striking out seven.
The Brimson pitcher was also in good
form, allowing only four hits, walking four batters, and striking out
four. It was a pitchers' battle all
the way, neither side getting many
chances to score. Dick Deveney played nice ball at shortstop for us, and
McDonald made two nice catches in
right field, one that robbed the Brimson batter of a hit for extra bases.
Brimson's left fielder played a good
game in the field.
On July 25th we met the Cloquet
Co-operative team in the City league
and defeated them by the score of 8
to 4. About a month ago we played
this team to a 0 to 0 tie, so the game
was played with the understanding
that the winner would be awarded
the tie game also. Hits in the game
were fairly even, out team getting
seven and the opponents getting six.
Frew pitched pretty good ball, striking out nine batters and walking, only two. In addition to his good pitching, Frew got two hits, a single and
a clean home run to centerfield. Deveney and Wallace each got two hits.
Our team didn't look so good in the
field, Wallace at third base especially
having quite a bit of trouble fielding
his position.
On Sunday, July 28th, we went to
Two Harbors and played Company
703 in the first game of the second
half of the subdistrict league. We
had met  Company  703    before    and
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FORESTRY NEWS
Above is a picture of the new Spirit
Lake tower, recently completed by
the Technical Service here. This
tower is eighty feet high, to the floor
of the cabin. It is the second of its
kind that has been built here by this
camp, the Arrowhead tower having
been built last summer. The Arrowhead tower is 100 feet high. The entire structure, pictured above, was
erected without mishap of any kind.
Members of the company who helped
build the tower were Conkright, Turner, Locke, Nasinius, Scott, Harold
Anderson and Smiley. Steel for the
structure was furnished by the Aero-
motor Manufacturing Company of
Chicago.
Several members of C & D barracks have been taking Charles Atlas'
Dynamic Tension physical culture
course lately. We might suggest that
if these men would do some work out
on the job it wouldn't be necessary
for them to take a bunch of exercises
every night.
Many Projects  Under  Way.
Section D was without the services
of its pilot, Pierre Grey, during the
latter part of last week, as Pierre
was called to Bemidji on business.
The boys did well in his absence,
though, for Pierre had instilled in
them such a furious pace that they
couldn't bring about any noticeable
letdown in three days time, even if
they  wanted  to.
If the proposed project for the construction of a concrete dam on the
Nameless Creek, 3 miles east of Barnum, is approved it will afford something new for a number of men, as it
is the first dam of its kind to be
built by members of this camp. The
purpose of this dam is to provide a
pond for the rearing of bass, and, according to Engineer Gareis' computations, it will take a six man ci*ew
approximately two weeks to complete
construction.
For the past week Foremen Long
and Santerre, with their crews, have
been penetrating the depths of the
Fond du Lac, building four miles of
foot trail, two and one-quarter miles
from Rice Lake to Mud Lake and
one and one-quarter miles close to
Hyotla Lake. The purpose of these
trails is to make the forests more
easily accessible in case of fire.
A new stretch of fire hazard removal, consisting of 12% miles of
roadside cleanup starting at Nygard's
hill and working northwest to Highway No. 73, has started this week.
The crews of Ryan and Grey will be
concentrated  on this job.
A crew of eight men will perform
the Herculean feat of moving a building out at the station and putting it
on a new foundation. Something
more to write home about.
It was feared that because of the
excessively heavy rainfall during the
last few weeks, quite a few of
the seed beds in the station nursery
would be washed away. But even at
their early age the seedlings showed
their value as a preventative of soil
erosion and as a result, only a por-
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