The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-25
UNIQUE CONTESTS
Soldier Athletic Carnival at
X. C. Saturday Night.
Dodge and Funston Men Will
Exemplify Training.

Kansas City, NO.. Jan. 25.-For the
first time since the organization OF the
national army, the people of the CEN
trail west will have an opportunity to
see how the citizen soldiers are tram
ing to battle with the Germans when
picked teams from Camp Funston and
Camp Dodge meet in Convention nan
here Saturday for carnival OF atn-
letfc and military events Like lodge
drill teams these men will "eXempli1y
the work they have been doing. each
team being selected by competltlon at
the respective environments and rep
resenting the best in athletic aoiilty
and army training.
Planned at first as an exhibition of
boxing and wrestling only, the idea
has developed to include events illus
trative of the daily life at the big
camps, with a stretcher race. rescue
race hand grenade contests, bayonet
fighting and exhibitions. gas mask
shuttle race, and a push ball contest
added to the program of three four
round boxing contests and three flf-
teen-minute wrestling exhibitions. In
addition to all this, Mike Gibbons and
Robert McAllister, the boxing instruct
ors of the two camps, are to demon
strate the similarity between the
moves of a scientific boxer and the
bayonet fighter to show why so much
importance is attached to boxing at
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Points for Each Contest.
The proceeds of the big meet are
to be divided between the athletic
funds of the environments, each being
now engaged in efforts to raise money
to provide gymnasiums and equip
merft. The contest will be decided on
points, first place in all events except
the puShball contest counting five
points.
Some Of the events scheduled. such
as the bayonet contests. are SO unique
that there is no precedent to follow
have been left to the French officers
teaching the lessons they have learned
in actual battle to the American SOL
diers at the two camps. 1t is under
stood this event will demonstrate how
the soldier leaves his trench for the
charge, daSheS across No Mans
Land and enters the enemy trench,
bayonetting German dummies.
| The stretcher and rescue races will
show the work of the medical corps.
The stretchermen will carry the men
| lying flat in the stretchers as tho
wounded while the rescue men will
pick up and bring back to the trenches
comrades supposed to have been
wounded. carrying them on their
| shoulders.
Hand grenade throwing will be ad-
Justed on the basis of both accuracy
| and form, the men hurting the mis-
slIes at targets marked on the floor
OF the hall while in the gas mask
shuttle race teams of four men each
Will compete in a 2O0-yard relay of
TOUR laps, each runner picking up and
adjusting his gas mask after being
| touched by his mate
The Funston Team.
The personnel of the Camp Funston
team has not yet been announced
definitely, but some of the members
are known. .. w. Miller, wrestler in
the Nebraska university team of 1913
IS one; Billy Uvick, once known as
| the Omaha Butcher Boy" is another
He will represent his camp at 100
pounds. c. w. Ligon. once claimant
| OF the welterweight championship of
| me southwest, is booked to be on
the program. Tony Eselun, former
| wrestling instructor of the Los An
| geles Athletic club, who also will com
pete is undaunted by the fact that his
| opponent on the Camp Dodge team
will be none other than Earl Caddock,
claimant to the heavyweight wrestling
championship of the world.
The Dodge team has been completed
and announced in detail 1t will be
| composed of the following:
Boxing-1S5 pounds. A. Lipsey (base
hospitaD; las pounds, Sergt. Pete
Roach (s3sth Machine Gun battalion) !:
100 pounds, F. Kiltie Company D,
| 351st Infantry.
Wrestling-135 pounds, J. STUBBORN
| Company A, 337th Machine Gun bat
talion); IFS pounds, Private Sharkey
(163d Depot brigade); heavyweight,
Earl Caddock, champion heavyweight
of the world.
| Military events@GaS mask shuttle
| relay contestants at pistol pick up
| masks, adjust them, run fifty yards,
tag reammate, who adjusts his mask,
runs another fifty yards and tags
| teammate), Sergeant Homberg (313th
engineers), Sergeant Quinn (313th en-
| gineers), Sergeant Anderson (349th
Infantry and Sergeant Armstrong
(313th engineers).
renade throwing-Lieut. ]. P. Lo-
| dentzen (352d Infantry and Private
c. H. Moe (352d infantry; Lieut.
James Smith (42d infantry.
50-yard dash-Lieutenant Shearer
(313th Supply train) Captain Jones
tenant Kasper (337th Machine Gun
battalion).
| Rescue race Contestants run forty
yards, pick up patient and return with
him. Ailenson and Churchill (349th
Field hospitaD King and Peregrieve
(349th Ambulance company; Kaupp
and Whitman (313th Field Signal bat
talion).
Stretcher race-(Contestants run
fifty yards, put patient on stretcher
and return.) Cargill, Smith and
Peregrieve (349th Ambulance COM
pany): Dunn, Crawford and Whitaker
(351st Field hospital); Payne, Gordon
and Churchill (349th Field hospitaD
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