Evening journal., 1915-06-10

The postponed events OF the nelu
day will be held on Saturday after
noon, June 26, at Rockford Water
Tower The following events will
be held: Morse and semaphoro sig
Mailing. antelope race. dressing race,
experts signalling, both codes; and
experts first aid contest. Suitable
troop and individual prizes will be
awarded. Scout masters are urged to
enter Scouts in all contests.
The Scouts gave a brief demonstra-
ton of their work at the Chautau-
qua on Tuesday evening. Troops 2, ?
and Z were represented in the dem
onstration by the following Scouts:
Norton, Kenton, Clough, Stowe. Gray,
Francis, Records, Brown and Moore
The court of honor will meet with
in the next two weeks to consider
any merit badge tests whicn the
Scouts have ready to present. II is
necessary that all Scouts desiring
merit badges must appear before the
court of honor and satisfy the mem
hers of this body that they have met
the requirements. Merit badge GER
tifcates may be secured from Mr..
,Mallery or Mr.. Watson.
The first matches of the year we're
held at the rifle range last Satur-
day afternoon and Troop No. 5 very
able demonstrated the fact that it
merely takes practice to bring home
the bacon. They did this by winning
four out of the six trophies offered.
There were two different matches,
each having three handsome bronze
and silver cups offered as prizes. As
one cup was offered to each class all
Scouts had an equal chance to take
home prize.
The most interesting was the ex-
pert Scouts match at fifty yards and
calling for ten shots slow and FIVE
shots rapid fire. This latter was most
interesting, the competitors standing
at the trail and dropping to the
ground the instant their targets ap-
peared. AS five shots had to be fired
in minutes time it can readily be
seen that there was no time to spare.
Notwithstanding the fact that this
type of fire had never been tried be-
fore, Patrol Leader Martin of Troop
made a possible on his first trial.
The winners of the expert Scouts
trophies were
Glass A-C. B. Lister. Troop 5.
Score 1856.
Glass B-L. s. Crew. Troop s, score
1922
Glass C-L. E. Diggins. Troop 5
score 80.
The tenderfoot match, for which
three trophies were also offered was
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for ten shots standing and ten prone
at 25 yards, and was open TO al
Scouts who had joined the organiza.
tion since November 1, 1914. Thi:
clause eliminated all the "old timers
and gave the youngest Scouts Z
chance to have ii out among them
selves.
The winners and their scores were
as follows:
Glass A-G. W. outten, Troop 3
Score 50.
Glass BIG. H. Andrews, Troop IA
score 79.
Glass C-P. A. Hutcheson. TrooI
"a. score rs.
Scout Dewitt Gunsolus lost ou
Glass B by one point. The Scouts
are beginning to realize that prac
tice in the standing position is full!
as essential as that in the prone
even though the results may not lOol
as big.
The trophies will be held by the
winners for one month when they will
again go up for competition. Mex
match will be an all day affair, helt
on July 4 and a large crowd is ex
pected.
A good sum of money was realized
from Saturdays matches and this will
be put into the Fourths prize list.
Range is open for practice Thurs
day afternoons and all day Saturday
Rifles are furnished and all Scouts il
good standing are entitled to use tn,
range.
Charles Runner. Jr.. assistant Scou
master of Troop No. 10 is plannins
for a cycle trip on this Saturda,
afternoon. Cyclists from all troops
arc invited to go with Mr.. Runner
Meet at Pennsylvania avenue and
Van Buren streets at o'clock sharp
The Scout play, Adventure of ,
Boy Scout" complete in five reels
will be shown at the Milford Nov
ing Picture Theatre, June II. Thi.
play is replete with exciting incident:
contains much valuable instruction il
Scout work and cannot fail to prov,
of interest to both old and young
alike.
The members of Troop No. % me
on Thursday evening for the regular
meeting. We had a good attendance
After the regular business was trans
end then plans for future work wer,
piyan ne haV, rr.of,--a -,