Well here it is Sunday and time for me
to drop you a letter. Last Wednesday we went on
a 12 mile hike and a bivouac. We stayed all
night. I am so chaffed I can hardly walk and I
am all bit up with mosquitoes and chiggers.
It has been plenty warm or hot here all
week. No signs of it cooling off either.
Yesterday we had an inspection in ranks
just as we will be dressed as we leave here.
It was awlful warm. Then we had inspection
in the barracks. We have our barrack bags all
packed and ready. It looks like it will be the
comeing week. If it is I will try to let you know
I have left here.
We have been busy preparing to go so I
have been rather busy. I hardly know what to
write about. I didn't here from Luella or Cliffs
this week. I have been to busy to write and I
don't know of a thing to write about. I think
this letter will be a short one. I went to church
this morning and that is all I have done all
day. Last night I did my laundry. This
barracks looks like a laundry. Cloths hanging
all over the place. I am going to the ballgame
this afternoon. It is with Hondo and Stinson
at Tech. Stadium in town. It is a grand day for
a ballgame.
Well mother I can't think of a thing to write
about. I hope I get your letter before I leave
here. Goodbye for now and don't worry about
me.
Love Ralph.
The next letter will be posted on July 3rd.
Background Information (and comments):
- Hondo TX is about 45 miles west of San Antonio.
- From a Wikipedia site:
Tech Field was a baseball stadium, located in San Antonio, Texas, from 1921 until 1946. It served as the home of the San Antonio Missions of the Texas League. It also served as the spring training site of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1936 and the St. Louis Browns from 1937–1941.[1] The field belonged to the city high school today known as Fox Tech.
- The Missions team moved to Tech Field after a June 18, 1932, fire destroyed the club's former home at League Park. The Missions then were affiliated with the St. Louis Browns, which had made some moves in the late 1930s toward buying the property. The Browns front office passed when offered the opportunity again, months before the city school district decided to sell it to the San Antonio Transit Company, forerunner of VIA Metropolitan Transit, for $160,000. Alamo Stadium, then opened in 1940 and become the chief venue for high school football. Tech Field was deem non-essential to the school district. The Missions were allowed to play there for a final season in 1946, before the field was demolished.[2]
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