The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-05

ldllS lOl DlS Sllilll Ddltlt WHICH
tn Sooner battalion will stage in the
near future are rapidly nearing com
>'eton. Although the exact date OF
~ combat has not yet been an
nounced. it is thought that it will
be held during the first part OF May
Members of the civil engineering
class are preparing a map OF the
section where the battle will bt
fought. This map will be studied
by the officers of the regiment prior
TO the day of battle 1t is planned
to let the commanding officer oil
each unit have blue print of this
map from which he and his staff will
work out their problems. Possibly
each commanding officer will be told
to study the situation from both the
offensive and defensive angles. In
case this is done, neither major will
be informed as to whether he will
attack or defeud. One battalion will
be detailed to defend the bridge
across the South Canadian River,
three miles south OF Norman. 1t
will be the duty OF the other bat
talon to wrest this bridge from the
hands OF the defenders before they
can continue their advance.
The Sooner regiment passed in re-
view before Col. II. w. Pentecost
Of Oklahoma City, Wednesday,
April p. Colonel Petecost was ac-
companied by Maj. Ed Overholser,
Oklahoma City. and Commandant
X. c. Terrell. This was the first
time the regiment had been reviewed
by men not connected with the or
ganization.
Colonel Pentecost and Major Ov-
srholser made special trip to Nor
man to review the regiment and eX-
tended to the regiment an invitation
to act as ascort of honor for w. J.
McAdoo, secretary of the treasury,
who was Oklahoma City's distin-
guished guest of honor in celebra-
ton of the nations Liberty day.
After the review the men were
formed in massed formation before
the visiting party and Colonel Pente-
cost, as a special representative of
Governor Williams, asked that all
men in the regiment, who could pos
sibly do so, to go to Oklahoma City
on that occasion. More than $50
made the trip and acted as escort to
the secretary. Colonel Pentecost
stated that he had recently visited
two or three training camps and that
the Sooner regiment compared ia
Vorably with the men under training
at the army camps, and in some in
stances were better than the men i'll
the camps.
The Sooner Regimental Band ac-
cOmpanied the cadets and took part
in the parade.
Glasses were cut, professors raced
with students to see an army air
plane go over Norman. Approach
ing the university from the south
west, an army airplane carrying two
passengers swooped down upon the
campus and rose again only to turn
and fly back and land in a wheat
field west OF the campus. The avi-
ator attempted TO light upon the
campus, but the ground was too
rough and the distances too short
to make a good landing.
Oklahoma University's track
team gave the Texas University
team the first defeat that it has suf-
fered in nine years when it won the
dual track and field meet, held on
Austin field, by a score of n to 35.
An Oklahoma man broke the South
western 440-yard dash record when
he crossed the tape in 81 Is sec
onds, lowering the former record by
Is OF 4 second. In the high Jump.
a Texas man cleared the bar at S
feet 10 3-S inches. McGee, an Ok
lahoma man, won the individual
honors by scoring IS points.
On Friday, April 20, work was
started on the new library building,
which is to be located on the camp
us north of the law building. The
work on the library building will be
pushed in an effort to complete the |
structure by November. The library
will! not be wholly COM
T. f. MICKEY