Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-03
GRAND
MILITARY CARNIVAL
COMES TOMORROW
July 4 and Everything Is in
Readiness for the Big Event
"A Long List of Sports Will
Furnish Rare Entertainment,
for All Who Visit the Driving
Park

One Of the really big Fourth OF July
celebrations Of New England this year
will be Augustus big celebration and
Military carnival at Capital Driving
Park. The newly organized. crack
Milhken Regiment of Heavy Artillery
letes in Maine, and they are all to he.
represented. Besides the Maine COL
leges, the regiment boasts stars from
Dartmouth, Williams and Tech. Each
battery is to send a team to the carni-
val, and these men will make the old
Second Maine hustle for its laurels.
Keen rivalry has developed between
the regiments that promises the most
exciting contests Wednesday. 1t Is not
forgotten than the Second Maine has
over 500 collese men on its rolls. and
most of them took part in athletics.
Besides the colles, athletes. each COM
pany has a lot of men who have played
semi professional baseball. In fact
when an attempt was made to get to-
GetHer the baseball team at Holinss-
worth Il Whitney's big plant, it was
found that all but two Of its last years
stars We're enlisted and in training up
on the muster grounds. q
This carnival is gong to be a now
city to most of the spectators in that
a large part of the events are military
events. The mule race is probably the
first race Of its kind ever held in
Name. The mule skinners" of the
Supply Company and Of the Machine
Gun Company have been training their
mules all the week for the event, and
some mighty exciting sport is prom
Used. Maud, the machine gun unrid-l
able mule will be on hand, and a spe-
cial prize is offered to any one who
will stay on her back for two minutes.
The mounted scouts, the pride OF the
regiment. are to give a special caval-'
ry drill including hurdle jumping. dis
patch races and quarter Of mile
free for all race. ?
Probably no one even: on the pro.
gram is arousing as much interest
among the rank and file of the COM
panies as the tree-cutting contest. The
Second Maine has a lot OF real died
in the-wool lumber jacks, and they
propose to show tine crowd that they
have a. brand Of athletics all their own
The contestants have been putting
razor-edge or their axes all day'
TweIve-inch hard wood logs are set
firmly in the ground and it's free-
for-all for the first tree to drop. Inc
Central Maine Power Co, has its pole
setting crew hard at work setting these
logs ready for the fray.
The carnival will begin at 10 sharp
although it may be necessary TO start
one of the four ball games at 3 O'CLOCK.
There are four teams to play, ana
there is the greatest rivalry between
them Co. ELS team has cleaned up
everything around Augusta, but the
Machine Gun team and the BurlelSh
BATTERY team promise stir scrap.
Cant. T. Wallace Blunt. o. r. C.. ana
the renowned e. w. Hanks are look
ing after the sporting events. Sher-7
man Shumway, Charles kinsman ana
Cant Francis H. Farnum. Y. 3. A.
will, he the Judges of the track events.
The State Park has been moved and
gotten in shape for parking place,
for the hoard of automobiles that are
exnected Provision has been made 70
feed the crowds right at Capital PARK.
tune VIII DS iOSt III iNA'-'A-'c
the contests.
The carnival will close with FORM
al Guard mount by Co. f. assisted by
the Second Regiment Band. Guaro
mount is the most impressive ana
beautiful military ceremony of all. ana
Co. f. is one of the crack companies
of the regiment and will undoubtedly
put on performance of this time -non-
ored ceremony which will compare IL
vo,ably with the regular army.
The following is list Of the events:
Toward dash. 2o0yard dash, $50
ward dash, half-mile run. mile run. re-
Law race, three-leg race. bag race
backward race 100 yards, hat and shoe
race. mounted scout race. mule race.
IA mile. army wagon race, standing
broad jump, running broad jump nisn
lump. baseball throw, tug OF war tent
pitching contest. shot put. tree chop
ping contest. four baseball games
mounted scout hurdle race. .-
Miss yira Johnson of Haliowen VIII rep