Evening star., 1934-05-24
NAVY COL0RS WON
BY FIRST COMPANY
Results of Infantry Drill
Add 480 Points to
Winning Total.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, May 24.-The first
company of the regiment at the Naval
Academy, commanded by Midship-
man j. M. Wilson of Scottsburg,
Ind, won the right to the colors
during the next academic year, when
the results of the infantry drill COM
petition were posted in the rotunda
of Bancroft Hall yesterday
Miss Sara Mumma of Evanston, Ill.
was selected as the color girl" for the
June week ceremonies at the Naval
Academy by Midshipman Wilson.
Daughter of Army Officer.
Miss Mumma is the daughter of
Col. NJ C. Mumma, U. S. A. (retired)
and Mrs. Mumma, and is the sister of
Midshipman George Edwin Mumma,
the midshipman commander of the
battalion of which MidShipman Will
sons company is part.
She has two other brothers, Lieuts.
(Junlor Grade) M. C. Mumma, jr.. anu
A. 6. Mumma, on duty at the academy.
Miss Mumma is a senior at the Uni
verSity of Iowa and is not expected in
Annapolis until Saturday morning.
The competition in infantry drill
began Monday and ended yesterday.
The first company had total OF
21lO points to win, with the sixth
company, commanded by MidShip-
man G. F.. Pittard Of Thomaston, Ga,
second, with 1,706 points.
4SO Points Added i'm Drill.
The first company made 480 points
in company drill and 200 points in
battalion drill to add to the points
accumulated in other branches OF
academic life throughout the last
year.
MidShipman John P Wiley OF
Washington, honor man OF the
graduating class, will receive gold
watch, known as the Gardner l.
Caskey Memorial Prize, which is pre-
sented annually to the midShipmen
who graduates at the head of his
class. Midshipman Wiley completed
the four-year course with multiple
Of 893O4 out of a possible 1000.
Midshipman Mel Edgar Kingsley
of Waverly, Iowa, stood second, with
a multiple of 1886. kingsley led
his class during the senior year,
while Wiley was second. Midshipman
Frank Allen Nusom of Rockport.
Tex, was the third honor man, with
q multiple of 1892.
With the battleships Wyoming and
Arkansas lying in Annapolis Roads.
seven miles off the academy, the
DESTROYER Hamilton moored at the
academy wharf. and a regimental
dress parade yesterday, the institution
has swung into the commencement
activity.
Midshipmen are hunting rooms and
accommodations for relatives who
already are arriving, and before the
end of the week quarters will be
scarce
Hotel Greeters are Guests.
The Hotel GreeterS, in convention
in Baltimore, arrived today on the
steamer State of Delaware, the dele
gates and members filling the stands
at regimental dress parade. The
commencement period does not begin
until Saturday, with Army Navy
competition in base ball and track.
High ranking Navy and Marine
Corps officers were present in Me
mortal Hall yesterday when tablet
in memory of the late Vice Admiral
Joel Robert Poinsett Pringle. U. S. NJ,
was presented by his former COM
mander in chief. Admiral Sir Lewis
Bayly. K. C. b. K. c.. NJ. G., c. v. O.,
retired, of the British Navy
Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart, su-
perintendent of the academy, intro
duced Admiral Bayly. who commanded
the allied forces at Queenstown, Ire
land. in the World War. with Admiral
Pringle as his chief of staff. Admiral
William H. Standley. u. S. N. chief
of naval operations, accepted the
tablet on behalf of the Navy.
Following luncheon at the superin-
tendent's residence Admiral Bayly re-
turned to Washington. He was &C
companied by his niece, Miss Violet
Voysey.