Evening star., 1921-05-27
COMPANY CLEADS
| COMPETITIVE DRILL
Armstrong Cadets Nose Out
| Dunbar Contingent to
Wrest Honors.

Company c of Armstrong Manual
Training School. commanded by Capt
Claude Terrell. won the twenty
eighth annual competitive drill of the
Sd Regiment (colored) of the Wash
inston High School Cadet Corps. held
yesterday afternoon at the American
went to Company X of Dunbar High
School. in command of Capt. Clement
A. Wells. The latter company came
out victorious in the drill last year
and was only beaten this year by
twenty y-nine-hundredths of one per
cent. The score Of the judges credit
ed Company G with 99.45 per cent
! and Company K with 9s1S per cent.
Mrs: Cralle F.. Cook. member Of the
hoard OF education, presented the COW
pany and pinned on the breast of it's
| commander the teachers medal, first
given in 1898 to the leader of honor
Company of the NJ Street High
Schooi. She also gave to Capt. Ter
rell gold medal. and to each of his
lieutenants, Oscar Gay and George
Rlakey. silver medal. One silver
and two bronze medals were awarded
the corresponding officers of Com
pany X. Individual honor ribbons
were given each member of the COM
! panies, blue for the first and white
/ for the second.
1.1OO See Dual Contest.
The drill was dual contest be-
| tween Armstrong and Dunbar high
schools. and was witnessed by ap
proximately 1900 persons. who
crowded every point of vantage in the
ball park. Among the spectators were
Superinte ndent of Schools Frank w.
Ballou, Assistant Supt. Roscoe G..
Bruce and Lieut.. Wallace NJ. Craigie.
| L. S. A, retired, an assistant military
instructor of the High School Cadet
Corps.
Company d of Armstrong opened
the event at 1890 o'clock, and it was
brought to Il close with a regiment tai
review shortly after O'Clock: Fol
lowing Company A on the field were
Armstrong. of Dunbar. X of Dun
, bar. II of Junior High School which
; did not compete in the contest, but
gave an exhibition drill; b of Dun
bar. A of Dunbar, c of Armstrong and
! E of Dunbar.
| Maj. E L. Webster. retired. of the
District National Guard, was the Of
| fetal reviewing officer. The judges
! were First Lieuts. Benjamin D: Boyd,
Douglas J. Henderson and Walter n.
Mazyk. The drill was directed by
Maj. Milton T. Dean, military instruc-
tor of the Sd Regiment. and John +.
Taylor. Music for the event was fur
nished by the Sd Regiment band.
Roster Of Winners.
The roster for the winning Com
pany c of Armstrong is as follows:
Captain. Claude Terrell; lieute nants,
first, Oscar Gay, and second. George
Blakey: sergeants. Charles Williams,
John Duvall, Samuel Levi, Robert
Long. Arnold Williams, Peter Steven
son and Harry Nass; corporals. Je-
rome Browne. Leon Bush. William
! "inder and Joseph Wooton; privates,
Edward Ashton, Luvotta Allen, Harold
Alexander, Lorenzo Allen. George
| Brent. Earl Butler, Frederick Buck
ner. Joseph Brown. Theodore Bailey.
James Boyer, Lester Clarke. Joseph
Cherry. George Densy. Alfred Evans,
Rudolph Eglin, George Eskridge,
! Frank Guy. Jesse Green. Aubrey Gill
liam, Francis Gilbert, Henry Holmes,
Theodore Johnson, Leon Jane son.
Rudolph Johnson. Elliott Lloyd, Viii
liam Lonesome. Alfred Mitchell. Percy
Nash. Robert Parham, Reginald Paige,
Robert Queen. John Quander; Percy
Riley, Clifton Robertson. Theodore
Robertson, Thomas Robertson. Albert
Shaw, William Stewart. Dennis Tay-
lor. Theodore Taylor. Edward Wright.
Lester Wood and Laurence Young.