The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-09-05
ENDURANCE MARCH
SETS HIGH RECORD
Squad Of Company & Finishes
Twenty Mile Course in
Four Hours

OAKLAND. Sept. 1.-The squad of
/ Company G of Alameda won the first
endurance march given by the first
! battalion Of the Fifth regiment ma
/ tional guard of California finishing
the 20 miles from this city to San
Leandro and return today in four
! hours and p minutes. Bearing heavy
marching accouterment. 81 pounds in
weight the eight men made remark
able time over the heavy streets and
/ roads and marched under the finish
/ line at Fourteenth and Washington
streets at l:5S o'clock this afternoon
/ with every man IN his place. To them
went the first prize, a silver cup given
4 by the Breuner furniture company.
Company G's squad was the first to
! take the road, marching from the city
hall plaza at 9:36 o'clock this forenoon.
Ten minutes later Company c of Berke-
ley sent its squad out, and Companies
a and +, both of Oakland followed in
the order named at intervals of 10
minutes.
OF the four squads only one did not
finish Sergeant Kelly, in command Of
Company AS squad, broke down after
he had marched IT miles, but he had
taken no breakfast before beginning
the 20 mile Jaunt with his heavy ac-
couterment. Not able to finish as con-
1 LNSAca4tNS All tic cups llS SQUdo i6LL
off the march and brought the sergeant
/ into town by car
! Company F finished second, winning
the Paul Carroll cup. They left the city
/ hall at 1906 o'clock and crossed the
/ line again at 2:52:30 o'clock, covering
/ the distance in 4 hours and 4615 min
utes. Company c. made the 90 miles in
/ hours and 90 minutes, winning the
third prize. They began the march
at 9:46 o'clock and completed at 1905
] o'clock.
! BY the time this company reached
the finish line several straggIers from
Company A had arrived, bringing word
that their eight men had abandoned
the march because of Sergeant Kelly's
Tabled leader to the armory, where he
! was cared for and soon pronounced out
OF danger.
The marching squads were met at
all points OF their course by spectators
/ and a crowd greeted the returning
militiamen in town. Several of the
men were overcome by fatigue when
/ they had ended their jaunt and reposed
/ in front of the city hall, where they
were cared for by friends.
None of the men had experienced
such a test before, and only Company
G of Alameda had a squad at all
trained. Corporal White of that com
/ pdllN lAldQ6 lLG i4ldlCn Will low llSHl
shoes. but instead of breaking down,
as was feared, he finished strong, car
/ rying the Quits of two others of the
/ squad a great part of the distance.
With nearly $50 pounds on his back
he sprinted for the last half block.
The umpires of the march were:
! Captain L. NJ. Francis, Company A;
| Captain Charles Sullivan, Company T;
Lieutenant c. P. Aagagnos, Company
/ G; Brigadier General Robert Wan
kowski, Major NJ. w. Simpson and
Colonel d. A. Smith. commanding the
! First regiment.
Companies G and A marched out San
Leandro road TO High street, thence to
! Scenic boulevard, thence to Estudillo
avenue, south to the San Leandro road
and finished by way of East Fourteenth
street Companies e and + reversed
/ this course, taking East Fourteenth
street to Estudillo avenue and return
! ing to High street by the boulevard.
Sergeant Edward Larkin, trainer of
Company G's squad, accompanied the
lmarchers without an outfit. The MEM
bers of Company GPs squad We're: Ser
geant Frank Watson, Sergeant NJ
Johnson. Corporal II. White, Cook j.
Mullen and Privates Joseph Fraga
! Fraderickson, Gore and knight.
! Company t. the second squad to
finish, was composed of Sergeant Kins-
! lev. Sergeant Mast, Corporal Rabbit
1 CORPORAL Carlson and Privates Kins-
man. Trahan, Van Ness and Lefevre.
In Company Cs squad were Sergeant
Write. Corporal Henderson and Pri-
Yates Upper, Lenfesty, Rengel, Hale
Scammell and McCaw.
These men were in the first militia
| endurance march ever held on the
coast The maneuver was an expert
ment and when it is repeated 1t is
likely that the regiment will be repre-
sented, instead of only battalion.