Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-29
FORT CROOK ATHLETIC MEET
First of Series of Outdoor Contests is
Held Thursday.
COMPANY E FIRST IN SCALING
shelter Tent Pitching L. Won by Com
pany g and Company Takes
Marching COntest-FOot Rae
ing ana Fencing Results.

The quarterly field meet for the second
quarter. 1911, was held at Fort Crook
Thursday, beginning at $50 a. m. A large
crowd was on hand to see the soldiers per-
form and the way they went through
their different athletic exercises earned
plenty of applause from the spectators.
This meet was different from the last one,
In that 1t was held out Of DOORS and the
marching contest 10O-yard dash, 22O-yard
hurdle race, fencing with rifle wall seal
Ing contest and shelter tent pitching hav-
ing been added TO the list of events The
meet was in charge Of Captain Samuel w.
Moves, Fourth infantry, with Captains
John s. Switzer and Louis M. huffman,
First Lieutenants ]. De Camp Hall, Fourth
infantry; Charles Abel John X. Cowan,
Reginald H. Kelley second Iieutenants;
John p. Bubb, William e. Seibie, John II.
Muncaster and George w. c. Whiting
Fourth infantry as judges. The clerk Of
the course was Second Lieutenant Arthur
w. Lane; assistants to the clerk of the
course, sergeants Majors King and Goede,
and announcer, First Sergeant Charles
Lewis. Company H, Fourth infantry.
Pringle Wins First Event.
The first event was the 100-yard dash,
with eleven entries. The track was grass
and very hard to run. the finals being be-
tween Privates Pringle, Fogarty and Fiser,
with Pringle the winner in Ii seconds.
The 22O-yard hurdle was not contested
closely, with only about seven entries,
with only about twenty yards at the start
and finish to run clear. and hurdles were
placed at a distance Of about every flf-
teen yards. The final was run between
Musician Clendening and Private Brown,
The next event was shelter tent pitching.
with six companies, as Company was
on guard and Company II mounted guard.
making only six companies to compete.
Company A started well, but at the finish
Company q was ahead. having their tents
up better and quicker than any of the rest.
The finals of the 1OO-yard and 29o-hurdles
were run off after the shelter tent pitching,
and then came the wall scaling with six
companies. Company A started over first
with Second Lieutenant John p. Bubb,
Company A, in command, they made q
fine start, Lieutenant Bubb giving a fine
exhibition of scaling, but his company
was slow: It fact, it failed to put its last
man over, as the assistant to the man on
the wall jumped off and left Sergeant Owen
Mercer. Company A, to pull him up alone.
This he failed to do, so Company was
disqualified.
Company Il First in Scaling.
The best exhibition of scaling was done
by Company G., whose men showed that
they were there all the time, but owing to
not getting in their proper places at the
finish which was one Of the rules govern
ing the contest, they lost ten seconds
which gave the prize to Company e,
Fourth infantry. In the time OF 1 minute
and IL seconds, and Company d second
with / minute and As seconds. This event
was slow, as the Sixteenth infantry while
at this post last June, put their wall
scaling team over the wall in thirty two
seconds.
Next came the tug-of-war between a
picked team from the second battalion and
talon after they had pulled the first bat
talon team almost two feet The captain
OF the first team was Private Frederick
Allen and the second battalion team Ser
geant George Knight Company G.
The games were then postponed until
p. m, when the next event called was the
fencing contest. which consisted of one
man from each company, and masked,
gloved and armed with a light rifle ana
leather bayonet, a flower was placed in
the top OF each mask and the last man to
keep the flower In his hat was the winner.
This event went to the team from the first
battalion, although they came a very close
second on a great many and lost them by
accidents.