Show SHAM BATTLE BY FORT DOUGLAS DOU GLAS TROOPS TROOPS I i TAKES PLACE NEAR PENITENTIARY lARY There would have been a glorious op en opportunity for fake take war r picture mn I to have busied themselves them yesterday In the vicinity of oC Fort Doug i I ts s and later reproduced for the bene hone benefit benefit fit of the tile country photographs I taken on spot of some death charge between Russ Ruse and Jap The occasion I vis is as a 1 sham battle between post troops i in lt 1 which five companies of infantry I and two batteries participated I II I The battle waged wa ed for over three 1 I hours bure and was finally won on by b the I Blues the judges of maneuver man Cap Capin j I It t in ill l K E H II Jamison and Captain J a E 12 Woodward deciding that their tactics I 1 i 1 id ri been superior to those of the j i Khakis The contestants left the f fort rt about 7 4 yesterday morning the j Khakis l striking toward Emigration Emi ci CuY y n the Blues pursuing a south direction The forces fOrGes each num Pf ln s about and each having haTing fur fWd t d guns met about 1030 a ra tn innear near n ar prison While the vie vic tons toes the tae Blues had a as slight ad advantage advantage vantage in numbers the decision In lit their favor was as made solely on merit meriti I of oC movement and maneuver After an engagement enK that was wa as said I by those in the neighborhood m of or the j I penitentiary to have hae been something fierce and In which the sham shain battle Held field ran sham red with sham blood the victory vie tor wa was won and the Port Fort Pratt region decided by It the Blue forces force The companies taking talking part averaged about bout a men each euh many of or the Infantrymen being forcibly absent Kb nt ow OIl lug leg to post port duties |