Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-23

1st Infantry Won Last Year. g.. ,
The meet last year was won by the
list infantry, which scored one-fifth of
point more than the 25th. In today's
inject, however, the athletes Of the 25th
1 displayed better form than year
ago. Al feature OF the meet was the
perfect order maintained by the big
crowd Of enlisted men The field
was well polieed, and not once were
the men ordered back for crowding.
One thing noticeable was the absence
of Carnival bleachers, which undoubt-
Iedly would prove haore comfortable to
spectators than the damp grass on
the mauka bank. The athletes res
pended promptly when the various
events were called, and there were no
long waits between contests.
Tonorrowis events promise to bring
out even more enlisted men and more
spectators than were present today.
providing the weather holds good. Of
ffcers In charge Of the meet spoke en-
Enthusiastically regarding the results
of the first day. and the men were
ltompiimented generally on the good
showing which they made.
Ieie Cheer For Mills.
There was a tremendous cheer from
the ranks OF the 25th when Mills.
lcrossed the line in the i00-yard pfelin-
mary. Mills made name for himself
during the military meet last year.
and today hesshowed his prowess as b,
speedy track man by knocking a fifth
| of q second off the island record in
| the hundred. s.,
Mills Will enter in the finals on Sat.
urday, and the members OF his organi.
zation are boosting him to win. Fl,
Bray Of the 1st Infantry took second
place In the event, with Corn of the.
Coast Artillery third u Bray won out
by few inches for second place.
The speediest events Of the meet
were the two tugs Of war, with parti.
lcipants dismounted. It took the 1st
Infantry team just 10 4-5 seconds to
pull the members ofrthe 18th Infantry
ever the line, and the I'd infantry did
Eeven better when it pulled the 4th
Cavalry team over the line in six Sec
onds flat. The members of the win
ming teams were:
Winning Teams.
LIST Infantry-Sgt Steger, team cap
tain; Sgt. Seiss, Cpl, Biluys, Nc
Gowan, Gadze, Cpl Tolson, Hawkins.
Williams. Gather, Ellingbo, Leitch.
I'd Infantry ~ Bergwin, team cap
tain; Benhke, Bruncicke, Cpl. Dun,
can, Fogarty, Cpl. Carter, Brinker.
Doris, Henderson, Rhode, Schuck.
Tomorrow morning the tug-of-war
contests will be between the LIST In
fantry and Coast Defense, and I'd In
fantry and the 25th Infantry.
One of the prettiest races of the day
was the preliminary in the half-mile
run, first place being taken by Pride
of the 25th Infantry. Trayers of the
list Infantry took second place, cross
ing the tape about II feet behind the
eolored Splinter. The time was min
utes, is seconds. Pride ran an ex-
celleft race and has been picked as a
winner in the finals of this event,
Other preliminaries in this event will
be run tomorrow and Friday, with the
finals on Saturday,
~6asehaii Relay" Popular.
A newseyent,, and an Interesting one,
was the baseball re:ay In which abil-
fly for pitching accurately over dis
lance are the essentials needed to
win. There we're two teams OF eight
men each, one. from the LIST Infantry
and the other from the I'd Infantry.
The team members were placed in a
line, with two men at position, the
positions being about 40 yards apart,
At signal the ball was felayed from
one end of the line to the other, pass
ing back and forth is times. The
ball going first over the finish line for
the 10Th time won, the distance COW
cred being little more than two
miles. -
LIST Infantry men won handily from
the I'd Infantry, the time taken by the
winner to cover the distance being
minutes, 81 seconds. The finals in
this event will be run off Saturday,
there being further preliminaries to-
morrow and Friday. The winners
were auckland, CpE Munson, Maddes.
Sgt Judd, Dunlap, Whitehead, Kowie-
cinshi, Cpl. Shelton.
Ware of the 25th Infantry won, cas-
| lily for his organization In the 220-yard
dash by covering the distance in
% 1-5 seconds. Smith of the 1st In
fantry took second place, crossing the
tape about 10 feet behind the colored
runner.
Fifteen In Comedy Race.
About Is men entered the shoe race.
which was the comedy event Of the
day The neat line of shoes was kick
ed into scattered pile by officers
and, at the crack of pistol, the fun
commenced. The contestants landing
on the pile of footwear reminded one
of a pilesup in an old style football
game.
There was heated scramble for
the shoes and for while the air was
thick with flying leather Some shoes
were thrown as far as the sides of the
field, which lost their owners any
chance Of winning the contest.
White of the I'd Infantry succeeded
| in donning his shoes embarrassing the
finish line first, with Bernstein of the
1ste infantry good second. First
| prize was 50 and second prize 81 The
I'D and 25th Infantry and the Coast
Defense had men in the team
4 "A SSa,sr,daAr& Gate nAcfaion &C.,