The San Francisco call., 1904-11-20

The athletic contests Of the Depart
ment Of California were concluded
yesterday at the Presidio. the team
from the home post winning the
championship by q comfortable mar
gin The Preside baseball team made
short work Of the Fifteenth Infantry
team, making the triumph Of the sol
diers from this city complete.
The instant the ball game was over
soldiers and civilians surged into the
held and formed a circle around Ma
JOr Van Vliet- When the major placed
the two pennants-One for the ath-
lettc championship. the other for the
basebalI-pandem broke loose
among the boys from the post. The
football and baseball teams formed a
dancing, yelling procession and
marched behind the banners, more
Ike a crowd Of happy college students
than disciplined soldiers.
The days contests began with
football game between the Preside
eleven and an eleven from Fort Baker.
For two halves the ball was rushed
back and forth. every inch being
fought for. The teams proved so
evenly matched that neither side could
score.
The thrilling event OF the day was
--AN Ne[AA 1-eAAAA-S ND-ANESN- - S4DSLdAL-
tial wooden imitation OF a section Of
the wall Of Peking or the wall of Ma
mia was carried into the field and
firmly braced At the crack Of a pistol
teams OF five men in light marching
order started for the barrier. Light
marching order includes rife, belt,
blanket roll canteen and haversack,
about a thirty-p pound load.
The first man is thrown Up, ac-
-
begins 10 fire at an imaginary enemy
Oh the other side. Meanwhile the
others are tossed uD. Two Of these
reach down rife 10 the last man
and haul him up, while the others
leap down TO protect the enemy's side
Of the wall. This is an exercise that
has been used in the real thing" in
China and the Philippines.
One man in the Fort Baker team,
the first 20 90 against the barrier, got
suIky and disqualified the team Then
five men OF the Thirteenth Infantry
stationed at Alcatrsz, did some wall
scaling as IL should be done, sur
mounting the twelve-foot barrier and
T2nQuishing the imaginary enemy IN
81 3-5 seconds. The men in the win
ming team were: Sergeant Bader, Com
pany II; Privates Aiken, Purdy, Bar
ton and Glocken. The Fourth Cav
airy team was second.
The contest in light artillery driving
was a hair-raising exhibition. Guns,
drawn by four horses, circled round
the field on a gallop. whirling between
posts Just wide enough TO let them
pass. A gun from the First Battery
Field Artillery. did this feat In l min
ute q 40 seconds, only overturning
one Of the posts. Five seconds pen
allied for the overturned post made
the corrected time 1 minute 81 As
seconds.
The baseball game was easy for the
Preside team Pitcher Rollin had
the Fifteenth Infantry men buff
fsIoed from the start. Only once
could the dough boys bunch hits on
him. Score-Presidio, s; Fifteenth
Infantry. 2.
The following were the officers who
had charge Of the games: Major R. c.
Van Viiet, Tenth Infantry; Captain
Arthur Johnson, Thirteenth Infantry;
Captain John J. Bradley, Fourteenth
Infantry; Captain John L Hayden.
Artillery Corps; Captain George P.
White, quartermaster; Captain VIII
liam NJ Morrow, Twenty first Infan-
try; Captain Charles H. Bridges. Fif-
teenth Infantry; First Lieutenant Fred
". Herschler, Fourth Cavalry; First
Lieutenant Morris E. Locke, Artillery