New Britain herald., 1930-06-16
Defending Champs Main tain Unbroken String of Victories in Face of the Keenest Competition in Recent Years-Standard of Work High.

Fighting of the strongest opposi-
 tion in recent years, Troop 4 suc-
 cessfully defended it's city champion
 ship at Willow Brook park Satur-
 day afternoon when it won the 16th
 annual field meet conducted by the
 New Britain Boy Scout council and
 ran it's remarkable string of conse-
 cutive victories to 16. The Yrs.
 Congregational church troop was
 forced to the limit throughout the
 afternoon as several others rose up
 from time to time to challenge it,
 and it was not until the meet was
 nearly over that it was able to as-
 sume a commanding lead while
 even then the closing rush of Troop
 20 of the Lincoln school brought it
 to within 1-2 points of the cham-
 pions; who have never been defeated
 since the annual meets were begun in 1915.
 Troop 4, which ran up 51 points
 last year and nearly doubled the to-
 tai of its nearest opponent, was able
 to score only 39 1-2 points Saturday, while Troop 20 finally emerged from
 wild scramble of second place seekers and won the runner-up kon- ors with 3l points Troop /, located at the South Congregational church. threw a surprise into the field when it kept in the running all the way and finally finished third with 27 l-2 points.
 Fourteen of the Is entering troops figured in the scoring this split-up Of points setting a new record in the council. The scoring, outside of the three cup-winners, was divided as follows; Troop, 21, Nathan Hale Junior High school. B points; Troop 9, First Baptist church. 20 1-3 points; Troop '. American Legion 14 points; Troop A. Church of Our Saviour of Plainville, points: Troop 1s. St. Joseph's church. 1-3 points; Troop IS, St. Mary's church, 1-2 points; Troop 1 of Plainville Plainville NJ. E. church. 3 points; Troop 33, Plainville American Le- zion. points; Troop 14. Stanley
 school. 1-2 points; Troop 13. East Berlin Methodist church, ? points; Troop 17, First Lutheran church, 1-3 point.
 Work of High Caliber The work done by the various troops was of a much higher cali Der. on the average. than in past years. every event presenting keen competition and perfection being the order of the day rather than the exception, whether it was in first aid signalling, knot tying, or any other event. A total of 253 boys took part in the contest.
 Troop 4 got away in the lead when it captured the scoutcrafc event. its six eagle. three life ani four star scouts enabling it to pile up s14 points, which, even when pared down to 472 because of the size of the troop. was larger than the undivided total of any other en- trant. Troop 20 started it's march in the compass relay and slid into
 a tie with Troop ? for second place, with Troop 4 keeping three points ahead by finishing third in this event
 HelW1g Wins Friction Fire Paul Helwig of Troop 2 then lifted his organization into tie for the lead by defeating the defend ing champion, Raymond Mainer of Troop 4, in the friction fire lighting His time was 41 seconds. Mainer met misfortune and had to try three different boards before he could produce a fire, but he took second place and kept his troop lev el with No. ? at Is points each. Troop 4 shot ahead with a victory
 In the knot tying while Troop was
 event. The members of the winning
 team were Gordon Ely, Leon Dick 1nson, J. Noxon Howard, Frederick Teich, Raymond Hainer, Wesley Films and William Baker. Every
 troop except one had perfect
 string of knots
 A new contender arose when Stan ley Gwozdz and Lucian Dombrowik
 of Troop 21 captured the Morse sig
 mailing contest and lifted the Ma than Hale school unit into second place, both Nos. 2 and 4 being ex- cluded from the scoring. Troop 21,
 20 and all had perfect messages in
 this event. Donald Holmes and
 Howard Johnson of Troop 3 won the
 semaphore signalling, but Troop 4
 increased it's lead when William Baker and Richard Hube finished
 second and Troops and 21 failed to
 finish within the time limit.
 Troop Consolidater Lead
 Troop. assumed a commanding
 lead when Gordon Ely and Wesley
 Films triumphed in the fire build
 ing and water boiling event, al
 though the high wind held the time
 down to eight minutes. Troop A of
 Plainville made its only point of the
 afternoon when John Marcham took
 pacing, being only three inches out
 of the way in estimating a distance
 of approximately IS feet. A fifth
 place by Troop 2 was the best any
 of the leaders made in this event.
 and Troop 4 had the meet clinched.
 The dressing race produced con-
 siderable trouble. After it had been
 finished the decision of the judges
 was questioned and the seven lead
 CTS were put through the, event
 again, Benjamin Taylor of Troop ?
 winning. The result was again pro-
 tested by several leaders on various
 accounts. but. though the protests
 were accepted by the judges, the de-
 cision was allowed to stand
 Fine First Aid Work
 The first aid race brought out the
 best work the council has yet seen | Al Benson, Paul Fletcher, Kenneth