The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-12
SEATTLE BRIGADE SPORTS.
The Boys Drill Run. Jump, shoot and
PLAY Ball.

The Seattle brigade held It's FIRST gen
eral field day 81 Madison street baseball
grounds yesterday. Companies A. cCm-
manded b. sergt- Donihue: 4. command
ed by Sergt Newman. and {. commanded
by SeTst. Price, assembled al the Armory
al o'clock IN the morning and marched
from there down Third street 70 the Mad
isOn street car line. where they ~ere met
~ the Georgetown boys, commanded by
Sergt BisssIl
The programme OF field sports kept the
boys busy nearly ali day. The FIRST event
was the company driI. Companies A and
c competing Sith a picked section from
each company. The honors were carried
of by Company A which thereby gains
the privilege OF carrying the brigade coli
ors until the first general field cay OF 1885.
The makeup OF the two sections - as
follows. Company A-First Sergt- DcHt-
hue. Sergt. Kidd. Corp. Hammond, Pri-
Yates Kaen, Y. Brown. 3. Brown. Moore
and Wagenblast. Company C-First
Sergt Price, Corps H. Buchanan and
Hainss. Priyates ". Buchanan, stockwen.
Simpler. Palmer and Thompson.
Next followed the ail-aroun6 athletic
contest consisting Of three events. 100
yard dash. obstacle race and running high
lump. the championship being decided
upon the following bases: The first in
any event counts ten points second, six
points third. four points, and fourth, TWO
points There were a large number or en-
tries for these events. and owing 70 the
great difference in ages and sizes II was
very difficult 70 secure satisfactory nahoi-
caps Nevertheless. the little runner
Henry Mossback. from Georgetown. sur
rrlsed the city boys. and will put them on
their mettle for future events.
In the foo-yard dash Mossback came IN
arst. II. Huri second. Leary laird and
Donihue fourth.
Next came the obstacle race. when
proved the most interesting o. the day
eports Mossback once more won ny
more than thirty feet. with Harry Hicks
second. George Brown third and l. Kidd
fourth. There was some feeling among
the bows concerning the decision OF tne
Judges in awarding Mossbaek first place
but the lack of time prevented running
the race over again.
The running high jump vas won ~ -
Hurd. with Harry Hicks second '.
brown third. Ben Hammond fourth
--he totals for the three events were as
.,i,o1s Nossback. -; H. Hurd, 10;
Hicks. l.: V. Brown. T.
THE boys had not forgotten 70 oFins
,hatr laav friends. and as soon as the
s..,.'s. y,as finNhesf they all hurried 70
she lake and partook q then iaci'ie "'4'-
ners. .,.,. es-ca1lhra
-,so = foot range. with ,the following
Pysse q simpler. =. Moore. Z: H. Hurd'
"a. nanihue. IS Stockwell 1; jan hurd'
Is Kick Is: Kidd. {. Fenron. Ia f.suS x
a. Jennlng. Il. Haines. Is. Morse To- '.
r},-,gxn 4. Bissesl. Higgins, Il.
The winner. Jim Hurd, was awarded a
baseball -
TIE next event Was the individual drtlL
ssr.nn 20 all members OF the brigade. foE a
Ieasgie hat and hall. offered as prize ny
s4e comma ndsr. There were about twenty
fs~.~fe@. and after hong and holly con-
s.-ste.f .f-{a Sergeant Willie Price. Of Com
Starry q. Vas declared the victor. Those
aero stood up with him al tho last we're
Rereeaut Kidd. - Company A. and Cor
rstr23 TsarhAnan. % Company &.
T~.e fsu game bet weea Company A's
sea-a and a picked nine from the rest ~
tAe brigade finished the days sport The
tezGus ware.
gsa-nrass- 4 Pick rs