The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-18
ARMY OFFICERS KEEP SCORE
Members of the Local Commandery
Receive Individual Souvenirs and
Team Brings Home a Handsome Silk
Banner as Trophy.

Members of Kenosha Commandery
Knights Templar returned home from
the great conclave in Chicago We'd
nesday evening, tired but happy. In
the great competitive drill held on
Wednesday afternoon, the Kenosha
Commandery made a good showing.
Drilling with companies the members
of which had been working together
for from five to twenty years the Keno
sha team, under Captain Bert Fowler,
was awarded fifth place for their
splendid maneuvers and they were
scored but a little over seven points
below the Raper Commandery of In
diana, which carried off the first hon
ors in the contest. Considering the
handicap that the Kenosha team work
ed under it was a great showing for
the team and the members of the Ke-
nosha Commandery who witnessed the
drill are high in the praises of the local
knights. The Kenosha team Of thirty
two men had been drilling less than
three months and the team was not
finally selected until last Saturday
night The Raper Commandery of
Indianapolis who won the first trophy
offered by the committee had been
drilling together for years and had
takn part in several competitive drills
lat conc]aves in the past. The Keno
sha Commandery team was further
Handicapped by the luck of drawing
the last place, in the drill and the
members were forced to wait until
late in the afternoon before they took
their place on the drill ground.
The judges of the contest were all
army men and they insisted on follow->
ing the rules laid down for army com
petitions. The Kenosha formations and
sword drills were greeted by the great
est applause given to any team in the
contest but some of these maneuvers
were not strictly in accordance with
the army tactics and they did not ap-
peal so strongly to the judges as did
the strictly army sword play of some
of the other Communicates. The
scoring of the various teams was re-
ported by the judges as follows:
First-Raper Commandery, Indian
apolis, score 92.3.
Second Hanselmann Commandery.
Cincinnati, score 87.3.
Third-Oriental Commandery, Kan
sas City, Kan, score S7.2.
Fourth-Ivanhoe Commandery, Mil
waukee, score S5.5.
Fifth-Kenosha Commandery. Keno
sha, Wis, score $40.
sixth-Beauseant Commandery, Bal
timore, score 1919
Seventh-Mount Olive Commanderv.
Wichita, Kan, score 7S.5.
The first prize is ibation fountain
of silver, the second silver loving
cup and the third a silver centerpiece
and candelabrum. The awards were
made by three army officers who were
sent to Chicago at the request of the
officers of the grand encampment bv
Secretary of War Dickinson.
The Raper Commandery team has
won many prizes in the past. It's un-
form is distinctive, being of cream
colored moleskin, with scarlet and gold
facings. The team is made up of men
six feet OF more in height and straight
as a ships mast.
While the Kenosha team did not
win one of the first three prizes offer
ed for the contest it was presented
with a handsome silk banner as q SOU
venir Of the contest and each of the in
dividua! members of the team was
presented with a. watch fob emblema-
tical of the Knights Templar degree.
The souvenirs are highly priced by the
members of the team.