New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-14
MILITARY CARNIVAL TONIGHT.
AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME PREPARED
GENERAL MILES TO REVIEW THE
PARADE on WEDNESDAY NIGHT
ARRIVAL OF THE SIXTH
CAVALRY MEN.


The Military Athletic League, which IA composed
OF about thirty military organizations In this state
Connecticut and Ncw-Jersey. will open its annual
cycling athletic and military tournament In Madl-
son Square Garden tonight This tournainent -
the result OF two months hard Work on 'he par
OF an efficient staf OF committeeman he"ueu pS
Colonel Charles H. Luscomb. president OF the
League The indications that the tournament
which is comparatively new thing in this coun-
fry will be a brilliant affair from military ana
athletic point Of view. An Interesting programme
of athletic and bicycle contests and military eNH'
billions has been arranged for each night IN inc
week The thirty athletic contests when are 10 NC
decided from s 20 9 o'clock each evening, nave
brought out over FIVE hundred entries from the III
teen thousand men constituting the individual
membership Of the military organizations IN the
league There will be lively Struggle 10 VIII '"o
handsome silver trophy which Is 10 De prese"'eu
10 the regiment securing the highest hunlper VI
points The favorites In this athletic Struggle are
tho 22l Of this city, the Attn. Of New-Jersey. ana
the 18th OF Brooklyn.
General Miles was 10 review tho opening parade
tonight which was to consist of sixteen hes from
each member of the league but the reNie" mus peo"
postponed until Wednesday night
In addition 10 the athletic and bicycle contests
tonight there will be exhibitions by the 18th In
.antry L. s. A: 9th Cavalry, l. 5 A: battery H.
9Th Artillery l. s A.. and the diminishing-nre
gatlng-gun drill by the "a Ihttery y. g. ~ 4
The 18th Infantry Will send about thirty men, VINO
will give gvmnastc exercises with rifles. waIi-scai-
ing battle exercises and number OF other con-
tests recommended by Captain Torrance L D a.
Battery d. 9Th ARTILLERY, will give dashng drh'
and exhibitions Of driving between stakes 'ose'her
with a number OF other points. The e,h CaVa.ry
VIII give an exhibition OF mounted athletics as oe
scribed in the drill under mounted exercises 'ea''
wrestling and tent-pegging with sabre.
Captain Wilson's ID Battery, which aroused al
mira,on last year in its spirited gatlinggun driH'
will repeat that in addition TO other interesting
manpuyres. All the participating troops nave Deen
practising for the work arranged TOT thehl t H
week: YESTERDAY afternoon six,yIonr oH ni sr
rived In this city Under command or captain
Cheever They arrived soon after o clock ana no
were met the Twenty third-st Terry py aptaII,
Rertram T Clayton and seventy-hVe members OF
Troop C. OF Brooklyn. Troop and a SQUAD OF
police escorted the regulars TO the tiarden ana a
Biz crowd assembled along the line OF march 10 see
On arriving the 9th Cavalry found the "a 4, Bat,
gan, drilling in the arena lnasmuch a. 'ne
BATTERY has exhibited in the Garoen before zap
tain Wilson's men found themselves AT nome
Captain Setter and Lieutenant Romano OF we
18th Regiment made arrangements 70 loose .me IN.
and quarter the horses IN .he ha a[ GARDEN his
week The Fort Hamilton troop will arrive 'o cay
with the 18th Infantry and the cavalry men from
William H. Robertson worked all day SATURDAY
an he track and field in the Garden with large
force Of One thousand carioaas 81 ea ala a nd
rolled hard The track is finely banked on NE
turns. is twelve feet wide and ten laps 70 the nIe
dinner N honor OF officers OF the regular Army
and OF the National Guard VINO are taKihs par ~
". * TUftary Club by the Military COMMITTEE OF
the Military Athletic League