Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-22
CHEERING THRONG
GREETS CENTRAL
Schools Companies Open
1923 Competitive Drill.
Others in Program.

Defeated on the drill field for four
successive years in the annual high
/ school ciassjc-the company COMPETE
, tive driN OF the Washington High
! School Cadet Corps = Central High
School cadets set pace for victory
in the 1923 event which opened today
in the American League base ball
park
Six Of the seven companies on which
the Mount Pleasant institution has
pinned its hope for the high school
military supremacy of the District
, of the drill this morning with the
spirit and merit that has filled the
schools trophy case in other lines OF
interscholastic competition.
Company G Appears.
Precisely at $50 o'clock Company G
aid Wheeler, marched through the
gate to the right field of the ball
park to the tune OF Sousas immortal
High School Cadets March from the
instruments of the Cadet Brigade
Band. Capt. Wheeler drew his unit
presented arms to the three Army Of
f1cers whose combined judgment will
determine the winner of the great
est of all high school military con-
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formally opened.
A crowd of several thousand Cen
tralites vociferously cheered and
waved blue and white pennants as
Company G. and each of the five sue
ceeding Central companies appeared
on the drill field The companies,
which followed Company G, were.
in the order of their appearance:
Other Units i'm Order Named.
Company F of Central, in command
of Capt. K. Dayton; d, commanded
by Capt. III. Chaplin: Z. under Capt.
w. Satterfield; 3. in command of
Capt. w. E. Howard, and A. COM
of these units gave creditable exhi-
billions. but to the military critics
in the stands 1t appeared that Com
pany G's maneuvers. ,both in the
close order and extended order drill
were virtually f1awless
stephen E. Kramer, assistant SUPER
intendent of schools; Robert A. Maur-
er, principal of Central; Lieut. Col.
Wallace NJ Craigie. L. S. A.. pro-
fessor of military science and tactics
in the high schools, ard his assistants.
Capts. William II. Johnson and Ar
thur J. OKeefe. viewed the drilling
of each Central company from the
field.
Western With Prize Flag.
Carrying the coveted prize flag
which it won in the competitive drill
last year, Company l. of Western
High School. commanded by Capt. H.
Clark, opened the afternoon program
at 2 o'clock. Company A OF Business,
in command of Capt. j. Collins. fol-
lowed half hour later. The time of
the appearance of other companies
| this afternoon follow:
Company d of Eastern. under Capt.
L. H. Cheek. 3 o'clock; E of Business,
under Capt. Z. Riecks, $3.50 pm; +
of Eastern. under Capt. g. F. Kern,
4 pm; X of western, under Capt. NJ
Flint, 1870 pm. and G of Eastern,
under Capt. E. B. Smell, pm.
Drill to Close Tomorrow.
The drill will come to a close late
| tomorrow afternoon, when the judges
will announce the winning units and
| the prizes presented A crowd of
| $4,000 persons, including President
| Harding, ranking Army and Navy
officers and government officials, Is
| expected to view the closing events.
| Judges of the drill are Col. Frank
| c. Rowell. Lieut.. Col. William n
| waidron and Maj. William II. Simp.
| son. all of the infantry of the Regu-
| lar Army. These officers constituted
| the board of judges in the recent
regimental and battalion competitive
| drills of the Cadet Corps.
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