Evening star., 1932-02-10
COLUMBIA TEAM
; WINS DRILL TITLE
Knights TempIar Stage Bril-
liant Competition as Grand
Ball Feature.

With more than 5000 persons in
attendance, team representing Co.
lumbia Commandery, No. 2. won first
prize in the third annual competitive
drill of Washington Knights Tenn
plar, staged last night in the Wash
ington Auditorium in conjunction with
a grand ball.
Columbia was the third Of the six
competing teams to go c;n the floor and
perform the intricate movements re-
Quired by the judges. The crowd en-
Enthusiastically applauded each team OF
strikingly uniformed Knights when 1t
finished its maneuvers.
The first prize was SIPS in gold and
a purple pennant. Second prize Of $75
in, gold and golden pennant was
awarded to Washington Commandery,
No. l, while honorable mention went
to- Orient Commandery, No. S. The
three drill team captains in the order
of the team rankings were Charles D.
Shackelfo1d,f Edward A. Poynton and
OTTO B. Reepke.
Three Others Compete.
Other communicates competing were
De Molay. No. 4, captained by j. Fred
Huber: Brightwood, No. 6, Knute l.
Nilsson, and Potomac, No. 3, Jefferson
E. Moulton.
Columbia Commandery also won the
general prize based on attendance and
inspection rating and was awarded
S100 in gold Honorable mention in
this class was given Orient Com
mandery.
Brightwood Commandery was placed
first in the inspection and was awarded
a blue pennant. DeMolay was second
and received red pennant and Orient
was given honorable mention.
Guide Wins Sword Drill.
A sword competition following the
team drill was Won by Ernest F. Guide
of DeMolay Commandery. Second place
went to J. c. johnson, Brightwood
Cdmmandery. and third to William J.
Hill, Columbia Commandery George
Brown, Orient Commandery, was given
honorable mention.
The prize winners were announced
by DR.. Frank E. Gibson, chairman of
the Prize Committee, and the winners
were congratulated by Eugene E. Thomp-
son, grand commander of the District
jurisdiction of knights Templar.
The affair got under way promptly
at 7:30 o'clock and the competitions
continued until almost 10. Following
the drill and sword contests, all the
uniformed knights and visiting Templar
officers maSsed on the floor of the Au-
ditorium and were welcomed by Grand
Commander Thompson. The prizes were
awarded and the knights passed in re-
view. The grand march and dancing
followed.
Six States Represented.
past commander, Kadosh Commandery,
No. 20, Of Philadelphia; Charles Mac
Bride, past commander, st. Johns
Commandery, No. 4, also of Philadel-
phia; O. Byron Lear, deputy grand
commander of the State of New Jersey,
and Leon Earle Stimson, past COM
mander, Columbia Commandery, No.
63, of Chicago.
Sixteen high Templar officers from
other Jurisdictions, representing six
different States, were present. Besides
the judges, they included Thomas c.
Bowling, past grand commander of
West Virginia; Claude w. Fletcher,
deputy grand commander of Virginia;
Byrd Leavell, grand generalissimo of
Virginia; Joseph H. Haas, grand high
priest, Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Ma
sons. of Mount Rainier, Md; Frederick
w. Page, commander of Montgomery
Commandery, No; 10, Chevy Chase,
Md; John H. Duncan, grand COM
nander Of Maryland; r. S. Luckett,
commander, Old Dominion Command
cry, No. II, Alexandria, Va, and the
following Maryland State officers, all
Of Baltimore: John H. s. Lane, grand
generalissimo; j. Harry Ullr1ch, grand
captain general; j. Milton Langrall,
sword bearer; Edwin S. White, grand
captain guard, and Martin Wright,
grand senior warden.
Special guests representing allied
Masonic orders in the District included
Luther H. Waring, grand high priest,
Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons:
Rolen Painter, grand master, Grand
Council, Royal and Select Masters; ELL
wood P. Morey, deputy, A. A. S. R.; J.
@. Havell, grand tall cedar, Tall Cedars
OF Lebanon; j. T. Prendergast, poten-
tate of Almas Temple; o. A c. Oehm-
Ter. monarch OF Kallipolis Grotto, and
Miss Edith A. Williams, worthy grand
matron, Grand Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star. Reuben A. Bogley, grand
master of Masons in the District, Is
Knight Templar and was present.
Coal mines and cotton, silk and glass