The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-19
annual DRILL
J OF CADETS TODAY
Uniformed Battalions Of High
Schools Of City to Face
Military Judges.
TROPHIES FOR WINNERS
Six Companies to Maneuver Today
and Five to Go the Route
Tomorrow.

When Capt Carl NJ. Noetzel, of Com
pany E, of Business High School, brings
his subordinates before the judges for
| instructions this afternoon at American
League Park. the annual competitive
drill of the five white high schools will
have gotten under way. The first COM
pany is scheduled to march on the field
at 5 o'clock.
at high pitch for the past three weeks.
Young girls and boys have been seen
wearing the armbands OF their favorite
company. Some members of the fairer
sex. not quite as loyal as the boys. have
undertaken to support two. three and
even half dozen companies. Accord
ing to custom after the drill only the
winning band will be worn by them.
Six companies drill today and five to-
morrow. After the last company has
gone through its programme tomorrow
the entire regiment will assemble, and
after a lengthy conference on the part of
the judges, Col. Sam Leonard, OF East
ern, will be first informed OF the win
ming company. He in turn Will order
the regimental adjutant to bring the well
come news to the successful captain
Slowly the adjutant will march out to
the waiting companies. IL he turns to
the right. then the hopes of the COM
panies at his left are blasted. II to the
left. then the hearts Of those on the
other side are made downcast. The win
ming company will report to the judges
Gen. George Andrews, the adJutant gen.
eral of the United States Army, will
present the banner to the first sergeant
and the Aliison-Nailor medal to the
captain Of that company. Each private
Will he ad uHfth he
red ribbon that goes with a winning COM
pany.
Picking the Favorites.
According to one of the most promi-
nent of the regimental officers, whose
duty IT is to inspect the different COM
panies regularly, Companies F, of
G, of Business. and A, of Gem
trail, have been doing by far the best
work Of any the others
or the three companies mentioned, |
Company is going to be a hard one |
to defeat. The members of this COM
pany were told sometime ago by Col. |
Burton r. Ross, commsndant of the |
cadets in charge of the boys, that last |
year the judges had decided unani- |
mously in favor of them for the PEN
nant, but that one careless error, that |
Of firing toward the grandstand, |
0duSeu inc uecision 10 De made else
where.
Company F is the largest organizs-
lion in the regiment, and possesses Q
arge percentage of experienced men.
Another reason why this will be a dan
yerous company is that every school /
has had winning company since
Eastern won the drill, with Capt. Har-
non Linthicum in command, in 1905.
The spectators today will be COM
posed for the greater part OF the fol-
overs of Eastern. Central. and Bust
less, for IL is Companies E. i, F, B, A,
md G. in the order named, that drill
his afternoon. Tomorrow will find a
crowd, for. in addition
o those who came the first day. the
'ther schools will turn out in full
orce.
The judges will be Mai. F. ]. Rooster,
4 the Adjutant Generals department.;
apt. r. o. Van Horn, of the general
tan, and r. r. Ralston, of the Corps
I Engineers.
Roster of the Companies.
Following are the rosters of the several
ompanies drilling the first day:
COMPANY A il
Company A. Central High School-Cap-
ain, John E. Hoover: first lieutenant,
humphrey u. SyOenndms second ueuten- | ,
mt. Francis z. Gray; sergeants, first.
Harold II. Osborn; second. John B. Lord :,
bird, James J., Fowler, jr.; fourth. Frank
4. johnson; fifth, James B. Newman: ,
Alfred d. Bailey, ]. Parke .
impson. David Davis, Paul Pearlman, :
,dwin N. Atherton. Hyman D. Shapiro;
rivates, Harold B. Whitney. George N
ester, jr.. Cornelius Jadwin, Raymond
:. Rich, John ]. McPhaul, William P.
arey, Meyer H. Berry. Horace L. Ste
enson, Lawrence E. Brody, Herbert ]. :
auber, Paul W. Beck, Sidney Well. Will :
I'm c. Eldridge, George A Horning, :
hilip G. Otterback. John r. Belcher,
larry Cohen. Paul l. Sellars. Nathaniel
layton. Karl D. Wood. Allen R. Whit 7
ngton, John E McKenny, James E. r
Albert II. Parham, George =
'. Boyle. Edgar D. Smith. McNeir Smith, r
arnest E. Strobel. William Z. GemmelI, !
dward NJ. Taber. William C. Burch, z
lilies w. Jones, Dean Gallagher Robert Q
McCreight, Aubrey d. Fischer, Charles {
: Curtiss, Louis II. Greenberg, John S. 4
Carl H. Shaifer, Louis Turoff, h
awrence E. Kreider, David NJ. Stephens, 7
aul E. Waring, and William W. Ben I
etts. "a
COMPANY B. +
Company B. Central High School-Cap- L