Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-10
FIFE AND DRUM CORPS.
Waterbury Captured Three Prizes at
 Bridgeport Yesterday.

Bridgeport Yesterday. Bridgeport, Aug To- The various contests held by the Connecticut Pliers and Drummers' association at Pleasure Beach yesterday afternoon attracted crowd of about 1,500 per sons, who occupied the grand stand at 1 the Colloseum. From courtesy the American Graphaphone Drum corps of this city did not compete for any of l the prizes, nor did any of it's members, enter the contests. At the conclusion 1 of the afternoons program the Grapho- l phone corps gave an exhibition at the request of their friends, and it was seen from their skill that they were in- deed courteous to withdraw from the l contests, for there was but one corps, l the Y. NJ. T. A. and B. of New Britain, l which could touch them. The latter 1 corps was of the modern drum corps 1 the leading exponent while the Graph l OpIOnes led the van for ancient corps. I The contests were excellent and proved that the art of drumming has not died out, but has, on the contrary, improved during the last decade. There were six contests, in all but one 1 of which there were more than one en- try. Ancient and modern drum corps, a flute band, drum corps without flies, | Ss were entered and gave good account of themselves. The antics of the an- cient bass drummers were in accord with the old style and pleased the l spectators.
 l The first contest was between an- I cient drum and fife corps and was won I by Mayflower Drum corps of Orange, ] St Mary's Drum corps of Derby being I second.
 
 The contesting corps were: East Hampton of East Hampton; Grenadier, Milford; Mayfower, Orange; Deep River, of Deep River; Brookfield of I Brookfield; St Mary's of Derby and Liberty of Ansonia.
 l There were seven contestants for supremacy in the modern fife and drum corps. thA Y. NJ. T. A. and E. of I New Britain being first; Sacred Heart of Waterbury, second.
 In this contest there were entered l the following corps Sacred Heart, Waterbury; Liberty, Ansonia; May flower, Oranges; Y. NJ. T. A. and B., New Britain; St Mary's, Derby; St Anne, Waterbury; Knowlton, Darien. Il As there was only one piccolo CT flute band, the. T. NJ. Russell Flute band of Middletown, they rendered one l selection and were awarded the prize HO CCI gG dnSWEEcu luC Cdll lOl r drum corps without flies, the Bunnell corps of. New Haven and Boldens corps, colored, of Hartford. Bolden's Drum corps of Hartford was awarded first prize.
 s. k. Carpenter of East Hampton l9corps,t s. Basey of Bolden's corps and G. NJ. Chidsey of Bunnell corps en- iitered the individual snare drumming contest. G. NJ. Chidsey was awarded first and S. Basey second prize.
 M., L.. Bunnell of New Haven and A NJ. Andrews of AIayfower corps en- tered the contest for bass drummers The time and execution of NJ. L. Bun nell secured for him the first prize The other prize, of course, went to An drews.
 The judges were: Major A. I. Allen of Pope's band, Hartford, who has been bandsman for twenty-five years; E. K. Wernman of Shelton, 3 member of the Ansonia band, with a record of eighteen years, and Elias NJ Tibbals of the Wheeler & Wilson band, whose thirty years of service fiji him to be a competent judge. E At Madison hall last evening a crowd of, about 800 witnessed the. con tests Of individual fifers, piccolo and flute players and drum majors. The winners were. lnQlVldual HIeFS, all cient class, Joseph Jeannott, Park City corps, first w. 0. Hooper. Grenadiel corps, Milford, second; modern fifers James Bonney Southington, first; Rob ert Saunders, Mayfower corps, Orange
 second; piccolo players, James Ward
 first; NJ. Lawton, second, both of T M Russell Flute band, Middletown Drum majors first class, w. J.. Brun
 nell, Southington, first; Peter J. Shea
 Sacred Heart corps, Waterbury, sec
 ond: drum majors, second class, Majol
 Shea, Waterbury, first: E. Schread Park City corps, second. The contests
 between Majors BrunnelI and Shes were very close, both being adept' in swinging the baton. The sam, judges decided these contests as off fiated at the afternoon program.