The Washington times., 1902-04-19

reached feet fat, White, of the Morton
| Cadets, cleared IL and won. Others tried
] Ii spd f$iIsd. ap9 then the bar was low
| cred to 1 feet IL Inches. when both Boyle.
| OF the Corcorans, and Smell, of the Nor
| tons, cleared It, and as neither could go
| higher they tossed for second place and
| Smell won.
Another Record Breaker.
Another Guards record was broken in
| the sixteen pound shot put. The old mark
was 81 feet inches Last night the lead
en- sphere was sent 32 feet Az inches by
Sam shreve. of the Light Infantry. and in
the preliminaries the night before ne put
it 80 feet inches. Smell had next best
put. with 81 feet 3A inches, and COOK
made 81 feet inches.
Real action was furnished by three
teams of juniors of four each under SIX
teen years old, entered for the Y NJ e. A
special relay race. Each of the youngsters
ran a lap. or 100 yards, and it was sprint
from first to the last of the twelve. The
team composed of Wickerham, Perry,
Richardson and Herring won in log Id
by three yards from Bristol, Ellsworth,
Sp-owles. and Huntington second, whlcn
team finished about the same distance
ahead of Covell, Cole, Taylor. and Stead.
The potato race was cieyerly run, ana
so closely contested that for some time
the result was in doubt, but the judge
gave first place to Boyle and decided
Moriarty and Mastin tie for second. All
are Corcoran men.
A New Broad Jump Record.
1t was record breaking night, and it
was left to Bouvet, of the Corcorans, to
break his own record of feet inches In
hv oil
feet liz inches. Iglehart, of the same
company, finished second, with rect 1o%
inches.
A match relay race between two Y. M
c. A. teams, each man running 300 yards,
or laps was full of good running, and
excitement was at high pitch all or the
3 minutes IA AS seconds it took Captain
Burrus' team to cover the distance. cap
tain Burrus led off with Spaulding, OF the
Athe team, and beat him about l12 YARDS,
when he touched Graham's hand, who snot
away at a good pace and beat Bateman
out by scant yard. Then Loughran took
up the running and when he touched
Richardson's hand Ludwig was yards
behind Ker was unable to make up any
OF this. and Richards won for mis- team
by yards.
Reveille Race Interesting.
One of the most interesting contests
ever seen hereabouts was the reyeille
race. With all sorts of garments from
leggings to caps and accoutrements, from
canteens to guns, strewn promisciously
along the floor the contestants were re-
quired to pick up one article al time
and return to the starting line, put 1t on
or adjust it properly, whatever the article
was, and the man who was first complete
ly dressed and equipped and passed in
spection was the winner.
Bowling, OF the Corcorans, won in
minutes Az seconds, with Carter, of the
same company, second, and Tucker and
Hunter next in order.
The tug-of-war was won by the Cor
corans in two straight bouts from the
Sixth Battalion, the first by Az inches
and the second by 5 inches. The winning
team had Mastin, anchor; Boyle, Zell and
Moriarty and the losers were Stott, an
Choir; Smith. Decker and Coon.
Guards Neiay nace.
The Fifth Battalion won the relay race
from the Corcorans after an exciting
struggle around the laps. The Corcorans'
first three men had a fair lead and it
looked like their race until Draeger and
Cooke took up the running and the lat
ter at once took the lead and all that
had been left TO Draeger to finish. By "a
magnificent sprint Cook won out by about