Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-07-03
SUCCESS ATTENDS
CAMP At EDGEWOOD
Men From Various Colleges Are
Proving Their Efficiency
With Rifles

S.-An unqualified success is the
verdict which has been given to the
Reserve Officers Training Corps
camp. at Edgewood Arsenal, at the
end of the second week by Lieut.
Colonel G. L. Townsend. camp com
mander, by the regular army officers
who are acting as instructors and by
the 700 college students VINO are at
tending the camp for six weeks, as a
part OF their preparation to become
reserve officers of the United States
Army. Col. Townsend is the military
commandant at st. Johns College,
Annapolis. and the cadets OF that in
stitution are in camp here.
The combination of life in the open.
interesting work in military training,
baseball, swimming, regular hours,
and large quantities of plain but we'll
cooked food, is agreeing with the
young college men. When they left
their final examinations two weeks
ago to come to camp, they could be
distinguished from the regulars by a
paler shade of complexion. The pre-
vailing shade at present, however, is
that of cigar store Indian.
A competitive drill was held Thurs
day morning between the First, Sec
ond and Third Infantry companies
upon the completion OF the advanced
course in infantry drill. The judges,
Major E. B. Carey, senior instructor;
Major r. j. Leavitt, camp inspector,
and Major ]. d. Patch, instructor in
tactics, said that the competition was
so close they could not pick a winner.
Practical instruction in selecting
locations for trenches, in construc-
ton, revetting. and building barbed-
wire entanglements, was given during
the later part of the week by Major
E. N. Bowman, in charge of the work
in field engineering. Each company
laid out and organized a strong
point" as it was done in France.
Artillery Bests Infantry
The officers on duty with the Artil-
lery camp defeated the officers on
duty with the Infantry camp at base
ball Wednesday evening by score of
z to 6. The features of the game were
the pitching of Bringham, for the In
fantry, and the fielding of Andrews,
as shortstop for the Artillery. Capt.
u pripohovo Tpfantrx, n athIat;o 0P
fcer, lost his left arm in battle in
France, but he struck out thirteen
men in six innings in Wednesdays
game. Capt. J. w. Andrews is an
Artillery instructor at Princeton Uni
versity. Major John w. Lang, camp
executive officer. played first base for
the Infantry. Major T. ]. ]. Chris
tian, senior instructor for the Artil-
lery camp. was declared to have won
the game by his head work" He was
hit on the head with the ball and
brought in the scores that gave the
game to the Artillery.
Captain F. c. Mills, of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, who is chief of the
Life Saving Corps or the Atlantic Di-
vision, has been giving instruction
during the past week in swimming
life-saving and resuscitation. Several
hundred men have gone to the beach
every afternoon to cool off after the
days work. +.
Qualify In, Rifle Work
The Fifth Company, composed of
men from Georgetown, Johns Hop
kins. Lehigh, University of Maryland
University of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-
vania State, Porter Military Academy
and st. Johns Military Academy
qualified 10 sharpshooters and SO
marksmen. The Fourth Company
produced the highest scores, but the
Fifth Company produced a better
average of shooting.