El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-06

D VI MaA4 4NAEAh tournament which
lasted all day Tuesday at Fort
Bliss, the Eighth cavalry went villa
Tuesday night, celebrating by pa
rades. songs and cheers. With their
closest competitors. the Seventh cav
airy, leading for most Of the morning.
. it was almost noon before the Eighth
began 10 gain so consistently. that
victory was assured long before the
final event OF the afternoon which
gave them total Of "a points. The
Seventh maintained second position
with g. points. the SD field artillery
came next with IS points and other
competing organizations scored as
follows; Quartermaster corps. Is
points; remount, ten points; fourth
wagon company, three points, and
eighth engineers, one point.
Best In The West.
me morse show was the most Sue
cessful ever held in the west, accord
ing 10 those who are familiar with
such affairs.
Brig. Gen. Robert L. Howe.
under whose auspices the MILL
tury carnival and horse show
were held, was complimented fire.
quently on the success Of the AZ
fair and the declaration was
made that nothing outside Of
Madison Square Garden had ever
cqualed ft.
Cen Howe presented the trophies
TO the winners at the conclusion Of
the days events and in presenting the
Sth cavalry with the master cup
for having won more points, he con-
graduated the organization and said:
Your feat IS the more worthy OF
praise by reason OF the fact that the
competition was so hard. Your com
petitors put up a game fight and de-
serve every credit FOR their hard
work and their clean fight. You de-
serve more credit for your officers
and men for having won from such
gallant competitors
Seventh Gets water Cart Cup.
when the presentation OF the cup
for the winner in the water cart
event was made, there was consider
able merriment when Gen. Howe
presented the cup TO Col Symmonds,
commander OF the 9TH cavalry Col
Laughorne ordered his band TO play
Garry Owen" and Col Reaney called
out; If Col. Tompkins could only be
here now" Someone else remarked
that u Col. Tompkins were in COM
mand OF the 18th, he would refuse TO
accept a water wagon" trophy
During the afternoon. the flight Of
the "blimp" from Camp Owen Bierne
over the audience attracted much at
tention and the maneuvering Of the
ship won compliments from Gems.
Dickman ard Howe and the specta-
tors.
The asbIimps flew ont over II
PnsO, On which II. j. Pritchards Of
the chamber Of commerce, dropped
SEQ free passes 70 the r Paso e1-
position II then returned 20 its
hangar, but had considerable
trouble IN landing, because Of
trouble with the rudder in mid
air. The landing was without
accident, however.
Military Carnival Ends.
The closing event Of the military
carnival took place Tuesday night
and included pyrotechnical display
and demonstration fire drill under the
supervision o. the signal corps and
the fort fire department. More than
5000 spectators viewed this event
The fire company with five engines,
chief and all Of the force, raced on
q given sinEnal 20 a real blaze in
small frame building, set on fire
uurposely- The equipment efficiency
and speed and skin Of the department
were well demonstrated
A dance for the officers and women
81 the organizations ana oistingul
civil and military guests was held al
$50 o'clock at the officers clubhouse
Some Of the events were judged 50
closely that many Of the points had
20 be divided The contests provided
hundreds Of spectators with an in
esting and beautiful exhibit Of rid
ing and stunts.
Events start Promptly.
The afternoons events began
promptly at $50 o'clock with team
Jumping. Two teams from each or
ganization were entered There were
three men 10 a team. composed Of
officers and enlisted men Eighth
cavalry took first place, Seventh sec
ond aud SD field artillery third
The next event held particular in
terest for the thronEs Of military ana
civilian spectators An officer and
woman representing each Of the com
peting military organizations took
the course. with six jumps each three
feet IN height Both the performance
OF the riders and the horses counted
here. The blue ribbon went 20 Capt
and Hrs. c. c. smith Eighth cavalry,
Lieut. Reynolds and Mrs. o. J. White,
SD field artillery, second, and Lieut..
Shomber and Miss Katherine Reaneyi
Eighth cavalry. third
The tournament was picturesque
affair. The huge field with orsani-
zation booths and officers reviewing
stands at the west side decorated
with gay colored bunting and 1laEsf
was surrounded By. enlisted men rom
each competing Organization, Hun
dreds Of motor cars which brought
civilian spectators from tbs city,
nanked each end OF the field As each
winner was announced, the sponsors
for the horse show, Miss HarrloL
Howe, Miss Virginia Morse MISS
Burtram Orndorff, Miss Frances
white and Miss Patty Ainsa, awarded
the blue, red and yellow ribbons
Women's Events Interesting
Much Of the interest and no little
rivalry conferred about the women s
events. In the open class about Il
women were entered. They made