The San Francisco call., 1898-01-27

of Company H, First Infantry, was the winner, with Sergeant O'Marie of Com pany c only a few inches behind him. The time was Il seconds.
 Three soldiers of the First infantry worked hard for five minutes digging a hole in the hard sand with their bay onets and the tin plates they carry in their haverSacks. It was a competition in hasty entrenching. The contestants were Private Waldmann of Company c, Sergeant Lang of Company D and Private Anderson of Company F.. Pri- vate Anderson was declared the winner, he having dug the deepest hole and put up the largest embankment of earth before him to stop the bullets of an enemy. Private Waldmann was given the second prize. He was somewhat handicapped. He struck a large iron water pipe few inches under the sur face of the spot where he commenced to dig.
 The wall-scaling event was a walk over for the regulars. Two teams of six men each, one from Company L. N. G. C., and one from Company D. First In- fantry, entered for the contest. A smooth wall ten feet high was con- structed, and the soldiers were to get over 1t with all their military accouter- mentS. Each man was to fire a shot from his rife from the top of the wall and five more after he had reached the ground on the opposite side. The regu- lars boosted each other over the wall in quick time, and their whole team was lined up on the other side waiting for inspection by the judges long be- fore the last man of the National Guard team had reached the top of the fence.
 The gun detachment contest was the most novel feature of the entertain ment. Two teams from Light Battery F, Third Artillery, were in the race. NTf irnh wheeled into line, and at the word they were loaded and fired, then the gun carriages were taken apart and put to- gether again, and loaded and fired second time. The team commanded by Sergeant Rathbun was declared the winner. One minute and twenty-eight seconds was the time occupied by the winning team. The other team was about a second behind them.
 The high jump was won by Private Rooney of Company c, N. G. C., with Private Hoffman of Company B second. and Corporal Belden of Company c third.
 There were fourteen entries in the 220-yard run. It was won by Private Fernandez of Troop K, Fourth Cavalry, with Private Saunders of Company c, N. G. C., a close second.
 The shoe race was a novel and inter esting feature. There were fourteen
 
 shoes and mixed them up in a heap. Then they raced fifty yards to them, and the man who first picked out his shoes and put them on and returned to the starting point was the winner. The contestants threw each others shoes all over the field, and it was a lively race after them. Trumpeter Merry of Troop I. Fourth Cavalry, was the winner, with Corporal Curley of Troop K second, and Private Taylor of Troop K third.
 The tent-pitching contest was won by a team from Company c, First Infan- try. The team from Troop K, Fourth Cavalry, was second, and the team of Company D was third.
 The equipment race, in which the sol diers scattered their accouterments in running 100 yards and gathered them up and put them on on their way back, was an interesting feature. It was run in two heats. One for the United States troops and one for the men of the Ma tional Guard, as their equipment differs in some respects. In the race of the regular soldiers, Private Nandell of Company G, First Infantry, was first: Sergeant O'Marie of Company c, sec ond, and Private De Haven of Company c, third. In the National Guards, Pri- vate Valento of Company H was first, and Private Sands of the same com pany second.
 In the mounted gymnastics, Corporal Hea1y of Troop B took first place, with Corporal Steerstedler second The con- testants raced their horses the full