The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-22
+ COMPANY WINS FIELD
MEET AT FORT SKATER
Scores Forty Seven Points Against Thirty-Seven
for G Men, Who Get Second PIace---H
Team Basketball Champions.

Company + of the Twentieth Infan-
try won the big field meet at Fort
Shafter yesterday morning with a total
score Of Il points; and the H company
basketball team trimmed the pick of
the battalion, 10 to H. in fast game
IN the post gymnasium in the afternoon.
Today there will be a rifle match.
bowling tournament and a soccer game
which will conclude the program Of
military sports that has been the buzz
of local army circles for some time.
The H company athletes. who have dee
GRATED their hall of fame with trophies
captured in many a conflict on the
field of sports, were relocated to third
place yesterday with a total of only
l3 points, but they squared themselves
on the basketball court. gaining
bloody victory. They played with des-
peratlon and the crimson streamed from
elbows and other prominent projections
OF the anatomy sustained in the scrim-
mage by violent contact with the floor.
In the morning card f company won
four events and tied with & company
IN the blank cartridge race which gave
them four points each for this event.
Company & made first place in three
events and and II captured two first
places. The + company men won the
relay, the live load race. the call to
arms and the one hundred yards swim
ming race. The G bunch took the Strik-
ing shelter tent and rolling blanket con-
test, the centIpede race and the tug-Of-
war ii company captured the wheel
barrow and the shoe races and first
place IN the making fire and boiling
water and the diving for twelve objects
| under water contests went to + com
| pany men. Very good time was made
| IN all the races and the water boiling
| contest and scramble for shoes out OF
| the barrel created the most excitement.
| Instead OF rummaging around in the
| barrel to dig up the mates the men
| grabbed the shoes on top and hurled
| them in the air until each one uncov-
/ cred the two with his number on the
| SOles. There were four men from each
| company III the boiling water race. OF
| the sixteen ten got their kindHng start
| ed and four cooked their water. Each
man was allowed one match, one stick
| of klndllng wood, piece OF two by
| four timber and a mess knife with
which to get up steam. Four matches
| went out before the kindling started
! to flicker 1t was all done inside of
| four minutes.
| The first event was the relay race in
which each entire company competed,
| every man doing one hundred yards. T
company won this event, giving this
| company ten points. II company came
in second for five points.
| Next was the blank cartridge race
| between one member from each com
! panv Corporal Spicer Of T company
and Private Mercer of G tied for first
| place IN this event which gave each
company four points.
Private johnson Of II Company beat
! the wheelbarrow race, which counted
two points. and Private Little Of +
| finished second for one point. Then
came the making fire and boiling water
contest which Private Morse of + Com
panv won, and Private Worthy of F
! came second. I, scored four points In
! this event and + two. The striking
shelter tent and rolling blanket was
J contested for by teams of two men from
each company Corporal Smith and
! Private GongoI took first place, count
| ing Company five points and Cor
! poraIs Mount and Jones took second
] place for three points. Corporal Richter
and Private Herrick of + Company won
. the Hve-lOad race. which counted four
points. and Privates Howell and kra-
/ pek of II finished second, giving II Com
panv two points.
/ The shoe race was the next on the
| card This was won by Private Long
| ford Of Company II. counting four
points, with Private Foy of + second
| for two points.
| The call TO arms was a contest be-
/ tween each entire company. First place
/ went to F for ten points, and G scored
| five for second place. The F men
dressed themselves and fell in for in
/ speetion in pa minutes.
! The centipede race, which was con
| tested by teams Of eight men from each
| company. who straddled poles which
| they gripped forward ana aft and ran
| one hundred yards. was won by Ser
| geaur Nichols, Corporal Smith, Artificer
/ Vickerv and Privates Bowers. Carroll,
| Henry, Hughev and Plpmmer of Com
uauv c. Sergeant Simons. COTporals
! Richter Falkeusteiu and Patton, Artl-
/ fcer BuforJ ana Priyates Maxwell,
! Keen and Williams Of + Company were
second. First place I'm this event count
/ Ell eight and second five.
The next event was the diving con
/ test. in which one from each company
connected. The trick was to plunge TO
| the bottom of the swimming tank at
/ the deepest end and gather mp twelve
/ objects, which were thrown into the