Camden Athlete Badly Wounded in France
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CAMDEN ATHLETE BADLY WOUNDED IN FRANCE
One of eight orphan children, William Gooch, an East Camden boy widely known in athletic circles, has been severely wounded in France, a dispatch to that effect being received yesterday by a relative, Mrs. Mary Hart, of 209 North Ninth street. Private Gooch lived at 67 South Twenty-ninth street and enlisted in the heavy field artillery last December. He trained at Camp Greene, N. C., and has been in France several months with Bern and Frank Carver, East Camden chums.
Gooch was with the Sixteenth Field Artillery. He is a football and basketball player of local prominence and was widely known in East Camden.
One of eight orphan children, William Gooch, an East Camden boy widely known in athletic circles, has been severely wounded in France, a dispatch to that effect being received yesterday by a relative, Mrs. Mary Hart, of 209 North Ninth street. Private Gooch lived at 67 South Twenty-ninth street and enlisted in the heavy field artillery last December. He trained at Camp Greene, N. C., and has been in France several months with Bern and Frank Carver, East Camden chums.
Gooch was with the Sixteenth Field Artillery. He is a football and basketball player of local prominence and was widely known in East Camden.
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