Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-29
SCOUTS TO SHOW
SKILL IN NOVEL
FIELD EXERCISES
Two Thousand Boys Will
Drill and Compete for
Prizes at Annual Meet
Saturday Afternoon.

Boy Scouts will have their day on satur-
day Two thousand and more Of them
will be at the Philadelphia Baseball
Park grounds, Broad and Huntington
streets, participating in the fourth an
nuaI field day of the Philadelphia troops.
Mayor Blankenburs, Director Porter,
Scout Commissioner Hart and many other
prominent Phtladelphians will attend the
meet. Scout activities. beginning at ESQ.
will last all afternoon, and at the end
prizes for. work during the summer will
be awarded.
II Is the first time that Philadelphia
has had good opportunity TO see the
Boy Scouts in action. Heretofore the
field day has been part of the eNer-
cises at out-ot-towu camps. The events
in the field day at the baseball park
will be examples Of the work the scouts
were organized TO perform.
Forty troops OF scouts. the compile
ment of the Philadelphia Council are
training for the trim that will be neces-
sary to win in contests on Saturday
Some Of the troops are learning rescue
work from members of the Fire De-
psrtnent, while drillmasters Of the
police are training others in intricate
evolutions
Doctor Hart, Director Porter. r. TruX-
ton Hare and Charles Longstreth will
award prizes. Interest is being centred
IN the results OF "fy swatting" con-
test. The contest closed when the last
Nv had died from the cold. but the
scout executives delayed the award Tor
Held day. one scout is said to have
killed two bushels Of flies Records Of
the hy-swattlng contests are on file with
the scout masters. They viii De pre-
sented to the judges on Saturday.
MANY NOVELTIES ON PROGRAM.
Th. sen,a phore signaling contest is one
OF the events looked forward to with
interest. During this event message
from President Wilson will be wig-wagged
across tie field. The message was de-
livered 20 Walter S Cowing, scout execu-
tive. TO-DAY II Will turn 1t over To the
head Of the signal corps before the con-
test begins
The guides race will be novelty. This
event will begin with the teams en-
cap1peI and lined mp before their tents.
AT a signal the tents Will be struck
yyrs pp4d for the march and the teams
Will start of. The first obstacle VIII be
fallen trees For this purpose telegraph
Doles will be used. Each scout SAYS
the instructions, must Walk down Inc
trees without falling off or dropping the
tents and other equipment
ftar that the teams will come 10
stream" with an island In the centre.
Canvass pegged out on the field Will
repre- sent the stream, Necessary material
for building bridges will lie nearby, and
It Is uu 70 the scouts TO throw them
across and reach the island and the other
side.
After that there win be fence, through
which the teams must climb without
tearing the tents. when they have gone
that Far the contestants speed for the
grandstand as fast as they can go and
SET about pitching their tents once more.
The team which first pitches its tent
and builds camp fire will be the winner.
Among the other events Will be a set
ting-up drill, the wood choDping contest,
he bsndaging contest, barrel fitting, Paul
Revere race, stretcher race and tug
oF-war,