The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-09-12
BIG TIME
Soldiers Preparing for Elab-
 crate Field Day.

Tuesday, September 22d has been designated as Field Day for the bat talion of the Eighth Infantry stationed in this GitY. Chaplain Colbert has in- terested himself in the event and it promises to be the greatest affair of the kind that ever took place in this city, The business men have all been intervieSed by the Chaplain with the result that there will be two prizes for each ofthe long list of events.
 The soldiers of each company are early and late on the recreation grounds preparing for the big event. As M company had SO much the advantage in tue baseball games 1t has been de- cided thatIhe usual field day game O. baseball should give way to foot ball.
 It win take the entire day to pull all the events on, so there will be some thing doing at any time between 9 o'clock a. m. and { o'clock p. m.
 The foot ball game will be the first played in SkAgway, and by the way the soldiers are going at it in practice there will be a hot time on the 22d
 The program with . list of the prizes and the donors follows;
 lOO-yard dash, first prize, IA k. gold chain, r. E. Kern; second prize, French briar pipe, Tony Dortero.
 l-mile run, first prize, Klondike mug get stick pin, H. D. Kirmsei second prize, los. Lowney's bonbons, Miss Dryden. '-l- .'+ '''.''
 Pole vault, first prize, pair Indian moceasins, B. A. whalen; secOndprfEe, l pair silk suspenders, w. H. Robert son.
 Running high jump, first prize, l gold penholder, .Keelar, the Money King; second prize, ? lbs. Durham smoking tobacco, E E. McDOnald
 Running broad jump, first prize, 50 cigars, The Totem; second prize, lslllN mumtfi Ntdys ysOu ~ w
 Wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, first prize, fancy golf shirt, Martin Con way; second prize, 1lb Climax chew ing tobacco, F. w. Moyerg y
 Three standing broad jumps, first prize, 9 cigars, Gage & Smith; second prize, large bottle perfume, Kelly & leo.
 Standing broad jump, first prize, l bottle Dewar's Scotch, the Idaho Liquor house; secoud prize, 25 cigars, Northwest Light & Power Co. [ Wrestling, Graco Roman, first prize. 50 cigars, Ross-Higgins O.; second prize, large framed picture E. R. Peoples.
 Putting l6-pound shot, first prize, l sweater, B. NJ. Behrends Co.,; second prize, fresh fruit to the amount of sl.SO, John Kalem.
 Tux-of-war, first prize, l box apples, Joe Rappuzzi; second prize, % cigars J. F. Fairbanks.
 mile bicycle race, first prize, bam- boo fishing rod, J. NJ. Tanner; second prize, 6 slaves, Jim Steinbaugh.
 Three legged race, first prize, 2 bot ties port wine, the Monogram; second prize, 6 Alaskan views, Case & Draper.
 Half mile walk, first prize I book, value s1.5O, Skagway News CO.; second prize, rubber bath sponge, W. Britt.
 Four-round boxing contest, Marquis of Queensberry rules, prize, ? bottles of wine, the Mascot.
 Shoe race, Company I vs. Company i NJ, 90 entries, first prize, 2i bottles ol wine, H. Grimm; second prize, l box of pears, c. Chealahder.' Q -
 Football, Company I vs. Company NJ prize, barrel of beer, Herman Barthel; ] 1 ham, J. J. Daly; lunch for the team winning, Boss bakery"
 old soldiers rsee, lO0-yard dash, en- tries must be serving in the third on listment, prize, dozen bottles of beer,