Arizona republican., 1913-08-29
MILITIA BOYS IN
 UNIQUE CONTEST
Company B Team Wins the First Tent-Pitching Event and Company A Takes First in the Equipment Race

1 Not since Companies A and E re- 1 turned from the 1913 cncampment at 1 Whipple Barracks, has either or both 1 of these organizations carried out a l more interesting and pleasing affair ! than the nt-pitching contest and | equipment race held yesterday after noon at the ball park just before the | regular Thursday afternoon ball game Two teams from each com pany contested in the first event and | there were nine entries in the latter 1 To Company B went the first honors, Whc Corporal Smith and Private Rob
 ortson, in two minutes flat, completed the task assigned, that of erecting dog tent in the manner prescribed in the regulations. The time made by Smith and Robertson was within ten seconds of the record made n the regular army contests.
 Announcement had been made seV- cral days in advance that the con tests would be held as sort of curtain raiser for the ball game In anticipation of this extra number there was a good sized crowd at the ball park half an hour before the game was scheduled to begin. For Company A Corporal Jordan and Pri- vate GuIleN constituted one team and Sergeant Shuc and Private Johns, the second. For Company B, Corporal smith and Private Robertson consti- tuted one team and Corporal Gillian and Private Sorrenson the other. Cor poral Phillips, of Company B, was
 also an entrant in the second event. Col l.. w, Coggins. Col J, H. Me
 Clintock and Captain Oscar Temple
 were designated as judges.
 The first event was that of pitching
 the little tents. These shelters are
 made LID of two tarpauIins of which
 each man carries one constituting the
 cover for the bed roll They are so
 constructed that when used jointly
 a very effective and practicable tent
 is constructed Each man has his
 work mapped out for him. each stake
 being placed just within reach and
 each rope being placed just where the
 right man can secure it at the proper
 moment
 Corporal Smith and Private Robert son reported their task completed and stood at attention fully twenty seconds before the next nearest team was ready. Examination of the tent by the judges revealed that it had Eccn pitched in exact accordance with the regulations. Corporal Jordan and Private Gullcy finished second, Ser goant Shuc and Private Johns. third, 1 and Corporal GiIIam and Private Sor- rcnsOn, fourth
 Corporal Jordan, of Company A. | took first place in the equipment race 1 with Private Johns. of the same com pany, second. The time was 1 min | ute, 5 seconds This contest consist ed in the placing of seven pieces of | equipment in a straight line, each l ten paccs apart, running the entire 1 seventy paces, picking up the pieces | on the return and reporting at at | tention with all equipment restored | to it's proper position.
 Commenting on the work in the | contests the judges stated that it was | the quickness with which l the men accomplished their tasks, es- recially when it is considered that they had very little preliminary prac- tiCe. Captain Price, of Company A and Captain Hill, of Company E, were each hand in uniform dt- rectinG the work of the teams from their respective companies.
 Contests of this sort are being planned for the future by the officers of both the local companies and are If the class calculated to keep interest
 in the organization alive between the periods of the annual encampments