Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-01
10000 ATTENDING
ANNAPOLIS EVENT
Secretary Adams and Other
NotabIes at Graduation
Week Exercises.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, June June week
athletic day and the first of the series
of June week hops which will be staged
this evening In Dahlgren Hall, at the
Naval Academy, brought a crowd OF
more than 10000 persons from all parts
of the country to Annapolis today.
Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis
Adams and Mrs. Adams arrived at the
Naval Academy shortly before noon to
witness the athletic festival that will
be staged this afternoon. The Secre-
tary's visit was official and he was re-
ceived by the Naval Academy Band. a
Id of Marines and sailors, and
was given a salute from the guns of
the station ship, Reina Mercedes. Mr..
Adams will return TO Annapolis this
evening and will return IN Wednesday
to present the prizes and awards to the
midshipmen at the full dress parade at
S o'clock that afternoon. He will re-
main as the guest of Rear Admiral S.
S. Robson, superintendent of the Naval
Academy, until after the graduation
exercises at 1890 o'clock Thursday
morning. Mr.. Adams will preside at
the graduation exercises and present
diplomas to the 242 graduates.
Prizes TO BE Awarded.
Among the members of the gradual
ing class who will receive prizes, ac-
cording to an announcement by Lieut..
Comdr. Harry Patrick, secretary to the
academic board. is Midshipman George
Herrick Wales, son of George r. Wales.
1909 Norton place, Washington. He
will be given a sword presented by the
National Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution, for excelling in
seamanship.
Midshipman John Bartholomew
Webster will graduate at the top Of the
class, 1t also was announced. Webster
will be given three prizes mex We'd
nesday. For graduating at the top OF
his class he will be given q gold watch.
known as the Gardner L. Caskey Me-
mortal Prize; he will receive navigating
sextant presented by Col. Robert NJ.
Thompson for being most proficient in
practical navigation, and he will receive
q wrist watch. presented by the Mill
tary Order of Foreign Wars. for stand
ing highest in mathematics.
The sword presented by the class Of
1897 to the midshipman who has on
tributed most by his officerlike and
positive character to the development
OF naval spirit and loyalty in the regi-
ment was won by Midshipman Charles
E. Weakley of st. Joseph, Mo. The
sword given by the class of 1911 to be
presented to the midshipman most pro-
ficient in practical and theoretical
ordnance and gunnery will be presented
TO Midshipman James M. Farrin,
Chicago. Ill. The gold watch presented
by the class of 1924 for the m~idShipman
standing first in engineering and aero
nautics was won by Abraham Lincoln
Baird, Cleveland, Ohio. Baird also gets
the marine binoculars. known as the
F. E.. Bunts Memorial Prize, for stand
ing highest in order of merit during
his four years at the academy.
Gets Ordnance Honors.
Midshipman Corben C. Shute of
Philadelphia will have his name in
scribed on the cup presented by the
General Society Sons of Revolution for
proficiency in ordnance and gunnery.
I The Maury Prize Omitted Daughters Of
the Confederacy), which is a set of
marine binoculars for excellence in
physics, will go to Tom Donald Tyra of
st. Paul, MINI. A wrist watch pre-
sented by Mrs. James Edward Palmer
as a memorial to her husband, Comdr.
James E. Palmer, will be given to
Robert Bruce Mccoy, for his proficiency
In practical steam engineering.
M1dshipman Roderick Shanahan
Rooney of New York will get 500 in
cash; offered by the National Associa-
ton OF Mutual Savings Banks for the
best essay on thrift and savings. He
also Will get a prize of $3.50 offered by
the New York Times to the midshipman
showing the broadest knowledge and
most thorough understanding of current
events. Ralph w. Eden, Portland,
Greg, will get the second price of $75
and Ira Ellis Mcmillan. Honey Grove,
Tex. the third prize Of $25. &
C~ommendatory letters will be given
to Manly L. Curry, Mountain City, Ga:
George Hedwig Deter, Clintonville.
Wis; John Fl. Keatley, Davenport, Iowa;
Leslie z. Richardson, Boulder. Colo;
Claude v. Ricketts,, McCune, Kans., and
Charles Z. Trescott, Girard, Ohio.
The sermon to the graduation class
will be delivered by Capt. Sydney X.
Evans, chaplain of the Naval Academy.
in the chapel at 10:45 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Gymnasts Give Exhibition.
Eight members of a model gymnastic
team from Czechoslovakia, delegated to
attend the second congress of the Amer
Jean Sokol Association in Chicago June
IL, gave an exhibition of their skill
at the Naval Academy last night.
The performers included two world
In gymnastics, LaolSlaV Va
cha, parallel bar artist, and Bedrich
Supcik, rigid pole expert. Both won
their titles at the last Olympics. 9th
er members of the team are Emanuel
Loefler, Josef Effenberger, Vaclav YES
ely, Jan Bruckner, Jan Karafat and
Vladimir Pokorny.
The gymnasts were guests of acad-
envy officials yesterday afternoon and
were escorted OF a sightseeing tour of
the institution. Three officers of the
Czechoslovakian Sokol Association ac-
companied h group. They were DR..
Rudolf Krovak, DR.. Miroslav Klinger
and vladimir Mueller.
Today the athletes were to give a
demonstration in Baltimore as guests Of
the local branch of the American Sokol
Association. Monday they will go to
Washington to perform before Govern
ment officials assembled in the Y. M.
c. A. gymnasium there.