Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02

the citizen troops Of this city, Mary"
land and Virginia.
The team representing the 12let
Engineer Regiment was presented with
the Briggs trophy, which u competed
for annually, and medal given to
each member OF the winning team.
The team this year was composed OF
First Lieut.. T. A. Riley, First Lieut.
w. r. Stokes, Second Lieut.. w. n.
Lane, Second Lieut.. e. D. Andrus,
Sergt. H. Parsons and Sergt. +. Brickles.
The Esterly company team match
was won by Q team representing the
Ordnance Department, each member
of the team receiving silver cup, In
addition to the trophy awarded to the
second prizes in this match, and the
team was composed of Capt. Just C.
Jensen, head OF the Ordnance Depart
ment; Staff Sergt. A. j. Thill, Sergt.
T. A. Harrell, Corp. p. Qeraci, Private
e. A. Ross and Private George Kearns.
First Lieut.. w. r. Stokes. Medical
Department Detachment, 12ist En-
gineers, won the Gould rapid fire
match, the offleer winning in shooting
of q tie in the original firing with q
United States Navy man.
Lieut.. Stokes also won the Roosevelt
Trophy, awarded the man making the
highest average score of all the matches
fired In the .22-caliber tournament, July
/ to 6. He also won the grand aggre-
gate match, which includes the aggre-
gate scores of all .S0-caliber matches
fired between June 81 and June 81.
In this match Sergt. H. B. Parsons was
second and Lieut.. T. A. Riley third.
The Palma Trophy was awarded to a
team composed OF Capt. j. C. Jensen,
Ordnance Department; First Lieut.. T.
A. Riley, 121st Engineers; First Lieut..
w. R. Stokes, Medical Corps, and Sergt.
Theodore Harrell, Ordnance Depart
ment.
The 121st Engineer Regiment and
the Special Troops, goth Division. were
paraded In honor of the successful
ri1emen.
Unit 6rders for the movement Of the
Headquarters Detachment, 2eth Divi-
sion; the Headquarters Detachment,
Special Troops, 29th Division, and the
10Th Division Military Police Company
to their annual training camp site at
Cascade, Md, were issued during the
week by Mai. Grove. The troops, ac-
cording to the order, will proceed to
the camp by rail, leaving on August 0.
The commissioned and enlisted Per-
sonnet of these units have been ordered
to report to the armory at 9 o'clock on
the morning of August 0.
The baggage will move to the camp
by motor truck caravan, the trucks to
be loaded early on the morning Of
August 3.
The following detail has been ordered
to report at the armory at o'clock on
the morning Of August fully equipped,
so as TO proceed to camp as the ad-
vance detail
capt Hobart T. Walker, Headquar-
tiers Detachment, Special Troops Capt.
William T. Roy. 29th Division Military
Police Company: Master Sergt. Charlie
w. Alderman, Pvt. First Glass; Leroy
L. McCauley. Pvts. Hamilton Colt, Gar
rett c. Rush and Howell K. Stephens
of the 29th Division Headquarters De-
taehment; Sergt. Leighton B. Hastings,
Corpl. Car1 A. King and PvtS. CFirSt
Glass; CaApar NJ Roemer and Raymond
B. Taylor Of the 29th Division Military
Police Company.
Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan visited
Fort Myer last Tuesday at the invita-
ton OF Col. Cootes, commanding officer
of the post, and witnessed the presenta-
ton of medals to the r. o. T. @. troops,
and the review which followed.
Second Lieut.. David w. Milne, Head
quarters Detachment, Special Troops,
has been designated transportation ON
Ger for the District of Columbia troops.
which will go TO Camp Richie on
August 8 for two weeks of field train
ing.
Two units Of the local Guard had
enough men at drill last week to be