THE BATTALION
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in cits,” and “A walk to O. P. No. 10
today.”
It would take volumes to tell all
of the camp, so must end this by tell
ing of the best time enjoyed by all;
it was when the Major handed us
our five cents a mile home.
Signal Corps.
Perhaps Camp Vail was the most
distantly located of all the camps in
so far as Texas A. and M. was con
cerned; but it was not the least by
any means, when it came to uphold
ing the good name of the old school.
The Farmers were assigned to the
Fourth Company along with the men
from Yale and Carnegie Institute. It
was this company that always won
the line at reviews and reigned su
preme in athletics. The A. and M.
delegation was sufficiently strong to
rule the spirit of the entire company
and the Easterners learned much
from them.
Camp Vail is ideally situated for
an R. O. T. C. Camp. It is only an
hour and a half’s ride from New
York City. No explanations need be
given as to where the Aggies could
be found when there was time to
make the trip. They were in the very
brightest of the bright lights of the
city. “The Follies,” “Ladies Night,”
‘ and other shows of equal interest
were great favorites.
The bearing and alertness of the
A. and M. Cadets was commented
upon most favorably by the officers.
The training back in College Station
enabled them to demonstrate their
superiority over the men from other
schools.
The entire last week was given
over the field maneuvers in the wilds
of middle New Jersey. Traveling in
trucks, on horse and on foot under
full equipment, one hundred miles
of telephone communication were es
tablished. The wireless phone, and
telegraph also came in for an impor
tant part. In fact, complete commu
nication for an army on the attack
was maintained. At night time after
the work of the day, the problems
developed were discussed and ex
plained.
The weekly dances were ample op
portunity for the Lone Star State
boys to meet the high brow dames of
the East and they did not let it pass.
The only trouble is that some of
them will never be forgiven for the
wild tw!o-gun lies and hair-raising
stories they told the innocent mem
bers of the fair sex.
By the end of the fifth week, each
and every Aggie was longing for the
sight of that little girl down in Tex
as. Cood-byes were said to the newly
made acquaintances and the trains
mounted for points in God’s Own
Country—Texas.
Cavalry Camp.
The cavalry camp was situated in
an ideal place. It was on a shelf on
the side of a hill rising abruptly out
of the water, overlooking the Pacif
ic ocean, and about five minutes
walk from Monterey, California, a
town of 10,000 people, about a hun
dred miles south of San Francisco.
The night we arrived in Monterey,
our straw hats and summer suits
were very much out of style. The
people there were wearing overcoats.
This kind of weather prevailed
throughout the camp. Of course the
days were a little warmer than the
nights but it was never warm enough
to be comfortable.
Our work consisted chiefly of Cav
alry drill and rifle practice. We had
to ride two miles every morning
through dense clouds of dust to the
drill ground at Moss Beach. After
coming back through this dust we
were hardly recognizable. We spat
mud for a week aafter leaving camp.
However, the drill was very interest
ing and we could easily eat dirt for
the pleasure we had. The afternoons
were taken up by rifle practice. The
last week we fired the regular army
course for record at two, three, five
and six hundred yard ranges. Several
of our men qualified as expert rifle
men, sharpshooters and marksmen.
“All work and no play makes
Johnnie a dull boy” is a slogan that
we heartily believe in. All the young
belles for miles around turned out
to our first dance which was given
in the Officers Club. After this, the
social problem was no longer a prob
lem. Several other dances were pull
ed off in grand style at the Hotel
Del Monte, one of the most famous
summer resorts in the West. Many
of the boys found inspiration in Car-
mel-by-the-Sea, a small village of
artists and authors about five miles
from camp.
The trip was thoroughly enjoyed
by everyone, especially the after
camp trips made to San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Denver
and other places; but we were all
glad when we crossed the line into
Texas where the dusky passengers
transferred to their own car.
The Bakery Fire.
Only the quick, heroic work of the
summer students and workers in the
College Mess Hall saved Sbisa Hall
from destruction when fire broke out
in the bakery on August 18. The dam
age was approximately $6,000, and we
are counting ourselves lucky to be
back once more dining under the same
roof as formerly.
A. AND M. RIFLE
TEAM MAKES GOOD
AT CAMP PERRY
Makes Higher Record Than Any Mil
itary School and Scores Close Up
To Regular Army.
One of the main features of the
big field day at the Infantry R. O.
T. C. camp at Fort Logan, Colorado,
was the rifle team match between
the different schools represented.
The Texas A. and M. team won eas
ily with a lead of 117 points, there
by entitling it to represent the eighth
corps area, R. O. T. C., at the Na
tional Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio.
The members of the team werer
Maj. W. H. Morris—team captain,
Capt. A. L. Tuttle, D. H. Webster, C.
W. Thomas, R. W. Fouraker, F W.
Boriskie, J. A. Davidson, H. K. Hock-
aday and P. C. Franke.
The matches opened the 27th of
August. Teams began to congregate
from every state, community and lo
cality in the country. Each state was
represented by its national guard and
its civilian team; all brancnes of the
army, navy and marines sent their
representatives—all gathered to com
pete for honors.
The first week was spent in proc-
tice ont he range, determining the ze
ro of the rifles, doping out accurate
sight-settings for every range, and in
general getting the team “broke to
the shooting harness.” Then fol
lowed a week of individual matches
in which each member of the Texas
A. and M. team at sometime “drew
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