Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-04-22
NAVAL ACADEMY.
Outdoor Sports Begun-Instructing the
Cadets Aboard Ships-Base Ball.

Out-Door sports Begun-Anstrucung the
Cadets Aboard Ships-Base Ball.
Outdoor sports are in full course at
the Naval Academy. The lawn tennis
courts are occupied with alert. batters,
the ball grounds TEEN with players, and
the boat crew is loyal to it's exacting
practice.
Two games of baseball were played
at the Naval Academy Saturday after
noon, the first between the Naval Ca
diets and the Kendalls, a deaf mute team
from Washington City, resulting, Ca.
diets ii, Kendalls, Z. This was followed
by match between the officers and the
Pastimes. of Baltimore, ending in a
score of for the officers and 4 for the
Pastimes. The day closed with q hop
ct the bathhouse.
The cadets of the third and fourth
classes were engaged last week on the
Monongahela learning how to unfurl
and furl sails. The great sails, as they
are thrown, one after another, to the
breeze, make the ship thing of beauty.
The work Is no doubt intolerable to the
young seadogs, as the sails are unfurled
and furled, ropes hauled and ladders
climbed in rapid routine, one after the
other, until the hour and a-half of prac-
tice is out.
The class of '93, the six-year men, is
now beginning to report here for their
final examination. The class numbers
thirty-five or more, and will report with
out exceptions. There is at present not
half enough vacancies in the navy to pro-
vide for these young graduates, but it is
expected that the usual wedding viii
take place by which officers near retir-
ing will be hurried along to their desti-
nation on the retired list. This will
leave about dozen of the class TO ac-
cept 81 900 and an honorable discharge
from the service.
The class usually graduates in the same
order in which it left the academy, and
this gives some indication as to who
who will remain in the service and who
will leave it. This is the order of merit
in which the class graduated In 1898: /,
Wilfred Van Nest Powelson, of New
York; 2, William Slack Montgomery,
of Kentucky; 3, Edwin Avory Eldor, of
Massachusetts; 4, Frank Hodges Clark,
Jr., of Rhode Island; 5; Henry Hobber
Ward, of New Jersey; 6, Joseph Albert
Perry, of Illinois, Eugene Leo Bisset,
of Kentucky;s, s, Walter Selwyn Crosley,
of Connecticut; 8, Charles Jonas Lang,
of Pennsylvania; 10, Edward III. Camp
OCii, Va IL llOuib OOilh
of Pennsylvania; IL, David Mark Berry,
of California; 1S, Thomas Sheldon Will
son, of Illinois; IA, John Sehon Dodd-
ridge, Of West Virginia; Is, Henry Allen
Pearson, of Utah; l6, William X. Gise,
of Illinois; II, Allen Merriam Cook, of
Kansas; Is, Frank Laird Chadwick, of
Minnesota; 10, Christopher Catran Pow
ell, of Texas; 20, Percy Napier Olmstead,
of Oregon; q, Orton Porter jackson, of
Pennsylvania; 22, William G.. Powell,
of New Jersey; 23, Richard S. Douglas,
of Georgia.; "a, Frank Brooks Upham,
of Montana; 25, John Low Sticht, of
New York; 26, John Paul Ryan, of New
York; q, John Ramsey Morris, Of Mis-
souri, 28, Chester Wells, of Pennsylvan-
ia; 20, Gerald Long Holsinger, of Kan
sas; 80, Alfred Augustus McKothan, of
North Carolina; 81, Emmett Biddle Pol
lock, of Illinois: 32, James Boyd Potter,
of New Jersey; 33, Alfred Allen Pratt,
Of Illinois; "a, Marvin Carver, of Min
nesota, 35, Andre Morton Proctor, of
Kansas.