Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-09-29
CITIZEN SOLDIERS
ARE GOOD SHOTS
Ohio Lee Makes Best Record at
Saunders Range.
GEN. RIGGS A CLOSE SECOND.
Several Policemen Make High Marks
1.-The Recruits at the Training
Camp Spend Cold Night
Sleep Under Double Covers

| Sleep Under Double Covers
Oyercoats. beans, an actual test un-
der fire and one sick man werethe feat
ures of the military training camp at
| Saunders Range yesterday where 50
Maryland business and professional men
are learning to be soldiers.
There might have been a spy story
| except for the fact that all visitors are
| welcome and any one may do all the
spying he desires. If the possible spy
| was real he played his part like a vau-
deville detective. He came 10 the camp
about 1890. and with a IS bill i'm his
hand examined all the tents.
When asked what he wanted he in
variably replied in broken English that
he was looking for someone to change
the money. No one in the camp had
any money and he was really lucky to
get away with his note intact He ap-
peared rather confused and excited
when Capt G. Hadsell questioned him
rather sharply and told him he was ex-
cused. Grim war and all the work
connected with il is being experienced
at Saunders Range by the citizen sol
diers who have been drilling there
since last Saturday
After a night so cold that many of
them were forced 10 resort, to double
covering before they could 90 to sleep
they were aroused early in the morn
ing by the reyeille and after short
splash in icy water and a breakfast
that was partaken of with the partic-
ular relish of the Woodworking roo
kie" field drill Eegan. They were drrll-
ed in open order. extended order, battle
formation and skirmishes and they
were beginning to feel that much more
of this would put them hors du combat,
when the welcome relief of dinner
came their way.
The afternoon was spent i'm revolver
and rifle practice under the supervision
of Lieut.. C. E. Waddell, r. s. A., and
greatly to his surprise the men did ex-
cellent work with the heavy .45-caliber
Colts, as well as with the Army rifles.
Although sore from the early morning
drill part of which consisted of roll
ing on the ground, then arising and
making dead run for several yards.
and then at command, again falling
down and renewing the rolling, some
of the men made excellent records with
the pistols and rifles Some of the men
acknowledged that they had never.
handled one of the guns and hardly
knew one end from the other.
Otho Lee. a private, made the best
record in the revolver practice, MAX
| ing 90 points Cen Lawrason Riggs
was close second with 81 points ana
Sergeant j. ID. Wade made the same
number of points. Then followed Ser
geant Clapp with SIS points. and Cor
poral Way, with rs. Patrolman Downs
made a good record with 43 points at
rifle and As at revolver practice. Clerk
Charles Lenderking, of the Northwest
ern district Baltimore. perhaps the
| thinnest but most active of the rook-
les, sports a coat of tan not excelled by
any of the men. and is delighted with
his experience. and Sergeant William
| White claims to have lost at least 20
pounds by the rolling and marching
exercises at the camp.
| Company b, which has proven itself
the crack company, has in it many OF
the tallest man of the rockies as well as
the smallest Little Joe Wicsenfcld iN
one of the sergeants and has stood the
drilling and wear and tear of the sol
dier's life as well as the best of them
The company is under command of
Lieut.. Guy II. Stanton of the Fourth
Infantry First Lieutenant Walter E.
Black. Fifth Infantry; First Sergeant
Oscar A. Williams, U. S. A.. and the
following non-commisisoned officers:
Sergeants Joseph Wiesenfeld, NJ b
Bruder. +. D. Myers and Corporals o.
w Wiley, o. Z. Ridgley. Jr.. b. Swing
ley, w. Barnes, c. Ridgley.
| Among the rockies are five frotl Eas-
ton, Md. who are taking the soldiers
life most enthusiastically and who have
sworn to return to Easton not only
good soldiers. but also to work there
for the establishment of company of
1.-THE National Guard Easton formerly
had a company of the guard but It
went out of existence owing TO the lack
of interest The young men at Saun-
ders Range are convinced that their
stories of the life at the range will
awaken the latent enthusiasm and will
bring about the formation of the new
company. They are A. A. Hathaway,
s. s. Wales George Junken. W Potter
and w D. Brnickloe.
All of the ninety. cne men who start
ed last Saturday. only one has been in
capacitated by illness. He is Leray r.
Eigln. who is sufferig from heavy
cold. Julius Hellweg, the Oldest of the
recruits, asked for leave of absence
yesterday morning, as he was called to
Baltimore on urgent business matters
but he. declered that he would return
today and continue with the rest OF
them until the end. The arrival OF two
rapid-fire guns at the range yesterday
morning increased the interest of the
men and the visitors, in the war game
| considerably. Today the men were ia.
/ ken through the field drills again an to-
| morrow the state rife team of the Ma
/ tional Guard will go TO the range foI
/ / practice for the coming international