Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-30
ARE MAKING GOOD
Boys of 9th Are Becoming as
Proficient as Veterans Un-
der Camp Training
jOF THE REGULAR SOLDIERS
Field Meet Promises to be Three-Cor-
nered Event-Company A ChaI-
lensed to Ball Game.

Camp Lincoln, Springfield, ILL.,. July
29.-(Special correspondence to the
Argus. Camp Lincoln has thrown It's
ment and they are following the daily
routine like old vets. The detachment
from the 4th infantry of United States
regulars is keeping the guardsmen
humping and great improvement IS
being shown in their drilling. The IL
ficers claim that the men are twice as
efficient in their drill as they Were
three days ago. 1t is the opinion Of
all at camp that about three DAYS of
drilling under the instruction of the
regulars is worth as many weeks OF
the kind of drill the men have been in
the habit of getting.
Plan Field Meet
Sergeant Gus Hall OF Co. A. has
been put in charge of the field me IT
and is at present securing the entries
from the different companies From
| the line of the contestants and their
records. the meet will be a three cor
nered one. with Rock Island. Kew.r
nee and Monmouth on the points. M
special time can be set aside for the
meet this year and the probabilities
are that it will be run off between the
hours of II a. m. and , p. m. on two
separte days. possibly Tuesday and
| Wednesday. The meet is not CAUSING
quite so much interest this year as il
did last year, probably because thee
are TO be no medals awarded. The
silver cup is the only prize.
There is a suit pending in a Spring
field court which is keeping the rife
range closed. but the officers in chars,
of the match between picked team,
from the companies are determined t,
carry out the affair if they have TO Z,
somewhere else to do so. They al,
still in hope however that this will b.
unnecessary.
. Regulars Want u Game.
The regulars have a crack ball tear
and they have challenged the Co.
boys for a game If Co. A can organ
! ize fairly strong team the challeng
may be accepted.
Camp CHAR.
, The non-comS are attempting {
drive the men like a bunch of horse
Corporal Blake brings his squad TO
halt by commanding. whoa, and /
" the morning Sergesat Stranssburgt
tells them to git up.
The company was entertained ia:
! night by wandering musician II
E., kept the boys laughing for sever
hours with a number of bum joke
5 funny stories and rank songs +
e was worth the dollars(?) which role
into his hat when he finally passed
around.
II Private Kennedy committed Il
awful crime of going to sleep on h
post When the officer of the guar
explained to him the magnitude of h
VI crime and that ne would surely be sh
= for it. he tearfully as well as succes
) fully pleaded for his life. He is st
answering mess call, but his knees
5 fuse to stop shaking.
1t Sergeant MacManus believes in d
o ing to others as others do to him.
4 friend asked him for a dime, al
was given it under the impressit
# that it was a loan. 1t turned out tn
is it was payment for n ticket viii
would admit a certain "E. u. Mark
n the Task Mark club" Mac got squa
G. with the world, however. and lit
to the good. by selling it in SUGGEST
to Sergeant Hoffman, Private Wac
worth and Sergeant Hall. The latt
in is now trying to sell it.
tn To Enjoin Militia.
Is Springfield, H., July so. Jud
eS Creighton in the circuit court he
re heard arguments on the injunction p
nj ceedings instituted by Michael Do
'p- van, who seeks to enjoin the Hin
National Guard from firing onto
property during rifle practice at Ca
Lincoln. decision will be given
Ill morrow.
III Plans are being made by the SIP
sic ish-American war veterans of the
id regiment to hold reunion at Ca
gu Lincoln this evening.
W There are As of the 9th who W
IT, with the regiment when it was N
tered into service at Camp Tam
and acted undpr General Milac in h