The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-23
ATHLETICS AT STATE CAMP.
HOMERIC CONTESTS IN SPITE
or THE RAIN.
Running Races for the Men Of the Twenty.
second and Shot Put for West-Point
Enklneers-Last OF the Bridge Build
inE-Soldiers Getting Ready for Home.

PEEKsKILL n. V, June 22.-The athletic
spirit in the Twenty -second Regiment
cannot be downed. full program of field
events was scheduled to begin at O'Clock
this afternoon At that time the rain was
falling in torrents. The sky was filled
with lightning flashes and the thunder
reverberated along the Dunderberg crags.
Games were off for the afternoon? Yes,
for while. But by and by there came
rift in the Clouds and then the sunshine
and about half past o'clock the games
began. The summaries OF those events
which took place follow:
100 Yard Dash-Tirst heat--Won by Schroe
der Company +: Fleetwood. Company a,
second. lime. II - seconds.
Voolfolk, Company !. second. Time. /?
Third Heat-won by Flood Company r:
Robertson. Company \. second. liIne' ii
Fourth Heat-Won by Posgenburg, Com
pany A; Coleman. Company b, second. Time.
Fifth Heat Won by Edwards. Company l.;
PrInstin. Company +. second. Time Ii -
Final Heat-won by Schroeder Company
tompany third TIVE; i - f TrS mE Tom
crockett, Company 4, third. lime. minute
40 seconds. ,,--.....
A: William Frank. Company A, second. lime,
Half Mile, for Novices many starters a.
Won by Read. Company A. Sattery. COMPANY
minutes no., seconds.
Shot Put--For the, West Point Regular
Won BY Corporal Purhamns: with "a feet
inches; DUFFY, second. with 80 feet inches
O'Brien. third with - feet inches, 49,.
Victoria Cross. or Rescue Race Won by
Gross and Ahearn. COMPANY with Shafler
and Burns. Company +. second. ana tloNrrs
and Medmer. thlrd. Distance. 100 yards
No time.
Col. Franklin Bartlett was referee with
Ma jor Mason NJ. Patrick Of the West Point
Engineers honorary referee. There was
also long list of judges including Lieut..
Col. Treadwell, Mayor Hodgkiss. Major
Iilianthal, Capt. Mahon, Capt. Diet and
others.
This morning was another season Of hard
but profitable work for the men There
was more suspension bridge building and
exercise at bombproof making. earthwork
laying out and number of other lines OF
army engineering instruction. In the after
noon Majo Patrick of the regular army
lectured to the commissioned and nom
commissioned officers Of the regiment on
various technical topics connected with
the work of the military engineers.
Tomorrow morning the entire regiment
will go down 70 the water side and see the
detachment Of regular army engineer
CORPS build ponto Don bridges. In the after
noon the regiment will assist the regulars
in ma king the pontoon equipment into a
raft, which tomorrow evening will be
towed by a tug back to West Point just as
it was towed down from there last Satur-
day.
That will finish the regiments work in
camp and it will leave here at 1850 O'Clock
Saturday morning. arriving at Sixtieth
street and Eleventh avenue about o'clock
in the afternoon
The health Of the men continues excel
lent and Col. Bartlett attributes this in no
small degree to the high standard OF com
missary work done by Capt. Sternberg.
Col. Bartlett personally inspected the kitchen
and food while dinner was being cooked
to-day and found everything in excellent
order. The clearly condition in which the
regiment has kept it's company streets has
been generally admired by adj the visitors
to the camp.