Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-15
TROOP 13HAS A
LIVE MEETING
Scribe Fenstemacher Tells of
Up-to-the-Minute Stunts
Committee Work

Troop Thirteen has a scout pro-
gram-that is, she has one scout
for the entering of new scouts, and
one evening for games. Well, the
troop has a stunt committee which
contains four members, Fenster-
macher, Keller, Harris and Jason
Snyder. This group of boys has
always shown lots of action in
scout activities and therefore had
good scout game program for last
Friday evening.
The troop had a short meeting
and after the regular exercises which
the troop always holds, the troop
adjourned to the gymnasium floor,
where the crab race was put in
use. This race was free for all
those present and as there were
! thirty-four scouts who participated
| in this race the floor was quite
| crowded but, however, the race was
a success and Joseph Hagar came in
first while Joe Hertzler won second
place. This was a fine race as most
everyone stepped on each others
hands and there was fine argument
afterwards, but this was finally set
tied as the next race was an
nounced.
Five large boys were chosen who
acted as leaders and they each had
turn to choose members for their
teams, and although some scouts
did not get in the following games,
the results show which teams were
chosen and who their leaders were:
Joseph Hagar acted as leader 'of
team number one, and Jim Byrem'
and Joe Hershey filled this team.
William Maglauchlin acted as
leader of team number two and the
following scouts filled this team:
Robert Keller, Foster Keller, Geo.
Whitman and William Heilman.
William McCracken also had
team, which came under name num-
Der three and the following hlled
this team: William zimmerman,
Joe Hertzler and Carl and Chrlste
Blumenstine.
Russell Huber was leader of team
number four and the followlns
scouts filled team No. 4: Louis
Krause, Charles Conner, klchard
Hertzler and Edgar Mes.
Jacob Eisenberger had charge or
the last team, which came under
name number five, and Norman
Hunter, Charles Gosney, Joe Geist-
white and Bruce Grunden filled
this team.
All the scouts had gym suits and
shoes on and the following results
show how the games were played
and who won them:
The over the Top Relay race was
held next and after a very interest
ing game and very much action on
the part of the contestants the re-
suits show that Maglauchlin's team
won this race, while Hagar with
his team came in second. This race
had to be run over several times
! because everybody disagreed as TO
who really won the race, but the
above teams finally came out with
! the results as above.
The Antelope race came next and
McCrackens team won this game
while Hagar with his team came
J in second place and MaglaughHn
| with his husky crew won third place.
Indeed Maglauchlin had to be sat
isfied because the other teams We're
I ready to claim the place Bills team
won.
The Relay race was next on the
program, and Maglauchlin's team
won this race but McCracken with
! his crew came in second and Huber
with his fated ship came sailing in
with all sails down and captured
| third place from the other two
| teams.
The stunt committee had other
games on their program but the
| time went very fast and it soon be-
came the hour for the scouts to stop
and skip home for bed and although
| the program was not finished out in
| one night the remaining games can
/ be played some other evening when
/ the troop can gather on the Boyd
| Memorial gym floor and tire them
/ selves out trying to defeat, each
other in the various games which
/ the stunt committee has arranged
| for them.
Most every game played was run
! over twice or in some cases three
! times but the above results are Of
| fetal as they come direct from the
| chairman of the stunt committee
! and the troop hopes to have many
other games like this not only
among her own scouts but between
other troops throughout the town.
or ell the games played on the
gym floor by the scouts of troop
Thirteen the Antelope race is voted
as the best and the scouts get more
fun out OF this game than any other
played not because of the game
itself as the many number of belts
which the scouts break in order to
play this game, and not a small
amount of boys went home last Fri
day evening without being minus a
whole belt and in some cases even
pants were torn which If they didn't
happen to be gym pants not many
scouts would have gone home last
scout meeting night without first
getting another pair from Home