The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
ONLY ONE MORE TO DRILL.
Uniformed Rank winners VIII BE An
nOunced To-Day


All but one of the drill teams of the
knights of Pythias have appeared before
the judges at Newly Oval and when Alpha
company, No. 45, of Louisville, appears this
morning, all the drills will have been COM
pleted. The prize winners will be an
nounced at II O'Clock this morning in front
Of General Canadians headquarters.
Nine companies competed yesterday be-
tween a. m. and $50 p. M, seven of them
being in what is termed Glass and the
other two in Glass b, the distinction being
that none OF the latter class has hitherto
competed in the prize drills
One of the tyro companies encountered
a peculiar experience. Vigo company of
Terre Haute considered itself good enough
70 enter in the Class A programme, but to
make, itself somewhat more solid for one of
the prizes also entered in the Glass drills
In the morning the company drilled in Glass
A and made fine showing by its prof.
cheney. Yesterday afternoon the same COM
pany came out in Class b to drill, and fell
down completely. For some inexplicable rea-
son the men were not able to keep the pace
they set during the morning and their work
was considered much lower than that of the
other companies in Class b, while their
morning efforts brought them many praises
AS a consequence the reversal of form of the
men IN the second grade drills will proba-
bly, cost the Terre Haute men one of the
first prizes as had they performed during
the afternoon in the same manner they did
during the morning, 1t is a certainty they
would have won over any of the other COM
painless
On the whole the drills of the day were
the best seen so far during the encampment.
Promptly at o'clock in the morning Terre
Haute company. No. 3. marched out through
the tunnel. headed by Captain Duddleston
and a band Marching across the field to
the bleachers, the company swung to the
right and like clockwork wheeled around
and facing the grand stand marched up
company front in line as straight a
yardstiek. Hating about 100 yards from
the mouth of the tunnel where the judges
were stationed, the men at the word OF
command drew swords as one man and held
them before their faces in salute. Their
followed the foot movements from the man
ual recently compiled by General CaEnahan.
They consisted largely of complicated
wheels tending to test the ability of the
men 10 Judge tIigta noes The marching took
the men over nearly the entire field. When
the time came for the sword drills, the men
lined up in company front about ten feet
eDart At the command all drew their
swords and stood at attention. The drill
consisted Of salutes, parties, thrusts, front
and rear cuts. winding up with each Knight
dropping TO his knee and leaning on his
sword.
AS the drills progressed Ii was apparent
that there was wide difference in the con-
cepti0n the different company commanders
had OF the drill manual. Some of the COM
panies. IN going through the sword drills,
understood a feature printed in the book
entirely differently from men In other COM
panies. as was evidenced by the way the
movement was executed. One movement In
Darticular known as right shoulder and