San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-24
THE BELKNAPS RETURN.
THEY ARE MADE WELCOME
AND FEAsTED BY THE HOME
MEMBERS.
The Trip HOme-The Official Score =
The Branch Guards Banquet
An About the Boys.

The Belknap Rifles Omaha team
returned home last night They left
Omaha last Tuesday night having
spent that day in camp, making
ready for the long journey home.
Wednesday they stopped over at
Kansas City. and spent q few hours
very pleasantly in that delightful
city. Their trip home was altogether
very pleasant. Their stay in Omaha
will be pleasantly remembered but
many were heard to say that they
were glad to be home again.
In answer to questions propounded
by the anxious ones who remained at
home, the boys said that they had
been treated very courteously by the
citizens of Omaha. That their spon.
sor, the daughter of Judge Thurston,
and her maids OF honor, had rendered
them several delightful receptions
That they bad met many of that city's
fair young ladies who had treated
them very kindly, considering they
were from Texas. The camp grounds
WoI0 very pIctby 6hu 6uu
they had very pleasant time.
II is reg retted by the citizens here
that the boys, for the first time in the
history of the company, returned at
home without trophy of the drill.
Their defeat was not 80 bad after all,
as the following score will show, Ma.
tional Fencibles, IS; Sealy Rifles, S3.S;
Mccarthy Light Guards, S3.7, and
the Be,knaps at 1914. Then came the
Devlin Cadets. Branch Guards, Lin
coin Cadets and Fletcher Rifles. The
Fencibles beat them by one and
six-tent tbs of q point. The IS score
however is the lowest that has ever
won q first place. The Belknap's
score in Galveston when they carried
off the championship cup was 9S,
next TO the highest ever made on
u. 3. soil. The highest made was
nv the Houston Light Guards at
Philadelphia when they won the first
prize OF "a, 900 and had to take 81, 600
for their trouble. The Omaha drill
in this last particular was q repeti-
tion of the Philadelphia affair. The
companies that won the prizes were
compelled to take so per cent cssh
and due bill for the rest. This was
exceedingly hard on them as the ex-
pense of the trip was very great.
Very much contrary to the rumors
spread about to the effect that the
company would disband, every man
of them has sworn new allegiance to
their captain and they will at the
next drill win that cup or "bust."
The first time the Sealys and Bel
knaps ever met on the competitive
field, in 1884 at Lampasas the Bel
knaps were defeated. Ever since
thu time, until the present, the
Sealys have been beaten by our boys,
although il has been "nip and
tuck" for the honors, and the Sealys
have always taken the place just be-
hind them. The 'McCarthys and the
Fencibles have heretofore, at every
drill, been beaten by both the Bel.
knaps and Sealys. What the Belknap
Rifles have done every citizen of San
Antonio is confident that they can dc
again, and at the next national drill
IL will be done.
Last Monday evening, just after the
awarding of prizes, the Belknaps re
ceived an invitation from the Branch
Guards to come over and share theil
sorrows and good cheer. They went
A delightful time was spent. They
had several most delicious beverages
which they drank to the health o
each other and their girls, and many
we're the "cheers" and "tigers" giveI
the successful companies. During