Putnam patriot., 1924-07-11
AWARD PATRIOT CUP TO MANCHESTER BOY
Sherwood Mercer Is First Hart ford Boy to Receive High
 Honor
Three Get Honorable Mention.-See-
 ond Period Opens Today

The Putnam Patriot Cup, the high est honor at Camp Woodstock, was awarded last evening to Sherwood Mercer of South Manchester, Conn, voted the best all-round camper and the one who has best reflected the spir- it of the camp during the two-week period closing today. The award was made at the final campfire of the peri od by F. T. Thiennes of Hartford, camp director, and met with the enthu- siastic approval of the campers assem- bied.
 The winner of the cup Is the son of Mrs. Robert Mercer of 23I Center street. South Manchester. Hartford County. and is the first Hartford Coun- tv youth to win the honor. Four pre- viousiy awarded cups, two for each year of the camps existence, have gone equally to Holland and Windham Counties. Mercer is a student at South Manchester High school, and will en- ter his senior year in September. Be- fore the close of the last term he was chosen editor-in-chief of the South Manchester school paper for 1924-25
 Editor of Camp Paper
 During the period Mercer has been the editor of the Camp Woodstock pa- per, has progressed SO far on the camp honor system as to become candidate for the bronze medal, a very high camp award, and has been leader in other camp activities. specializing, however, in the field of literature.
 Though Mercer was the choice of the councillors and camp directors as the winner of the cup and the beautiful gold watch fob also given by The Pa triot. several other campers were con- sidered for the honor. and honorable mention given three boys. Frank Woodwork of Thompsonyille, Allan Gray of New York City. and Orville MeCaw of South Manchester.
 The closing day of the period was celebrated with water sports in the morning, ball game between the boys and the leaders in the afternoon. and the banquet followed by campfire in the evening.
 Another silver loving cup will be awarded by The Patriot to the camper with the highest standing for the sec ond camp period. This token of ex- cellent camp service is well worth while for any camper te work for.
 Putnam Boys af Lamp
 The majority of the hundred boys at eamp left for theri homes this morn ing. The enrolment for the second period which opened today. was in ex- cess af one hundred, aud included tairtv=thfee Windham County boys, of whom seventeen were from Putnam. The Windham boys who today became campers in the second two-week per i0d at Woodstock are the following
 Philip Maynard. Leonard Gilman. Stewart Sahin. James l. Sheppard, Russell V. Sherman. George Wheaton, Myron A. Perry, Nelson Y. King Au- gustus M. Wilson, Walter Wheaton. Jr.. leonard 4. Sheppard. James Mansfield. Clayton Hurlbut, William and Thomas Jones, and John C. Stod- tiard. IT,. of Putnam: Stanley OZog and James V. Eastman of Goodyear; Lyman Lyon. Richard Tillinghast, Thomas U. Day, Stanley Allen and El- wood Spencer of Danielson, Arthur W. Valentine and John F. Ash of Pom fret: James A. Maitland and Frank D. Lynch. Thompson; and five out-of- state boys, Ernest and Carlton Boys of Holyoke. Mass; Allen and James Wambolt of Mills. Mass, and Robert B. Hopkins of Brighton, K. l. who sent their applications to Secretary John T Corbett of Windham County.
 Windham County will also be well represented this period in the matter of tent leaders. Minot Horne and Harvey Delorme are the two Putnam boys serving in this capacity, and De- lorme in particular is making an ex- traordinaTy success as tent leader. William Dutemple of Whiinsville, Mass. who has been instructor in swimming and life saving at the camp for two years, will return this sum mer.