The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-05-26
Scout Area
Contest Won
By Troop Is
Sank Centre Lads Attend Big
Demonstration at st.
Paul Saturday
HAD KEEN COMPETITION
Swanville Was Close Second
Individual Standings of
Local Boys
HAD KEEN COMPETITION

AS a fitting climax to a highly
successful scouting season, Sank
Centre Scout Troop No. 25 placed
first in the Central Minnesota Area
Spring Roundup contest, amassing
the grand total of 42,845 points GER
tain, against some $4,000 points re-
ported as the total of Swanville, the
runner-up troop. With 81 boys in
Troop Is, against 81 boys in Troop
80, of Swanville, Troop 25 still has
a substantial lead on percentage
basis.
The boys left here last Saturday
at 2:30 P. M. in a chartered bus
furnished by the Central Minneso-
ia Council, arriving at the st.
Paul Hippodrome at $50. The eve
ming program started at 7:2O and
was an event which will always be
remembered by the boys. The
most colorful number of the pro-
gram was the Grand Entry which
was led by "The Spirit of '76"-
representing George Washington
on white charger and the fife,
drum, and flag bearer. Then came
the st. Paul Scout Troops, over a
hundred of them, most of them in
full Scout uniform, each troop led
by its flags, marching in a clever
criss-cross system so that they
were all in motion until all had en-
tered. Fully 5000 of them in all.
With the bright vari-colored neck
erchiefs and the flags this spectacle
presented most beautiful and ever
to be remembered sight. The vast
hippodrome was comfortably filled,
in all there were fully ten thousand
present, making it doubly impress
sive.
This was followed by a pep and
whistle drill, the twelve Scout Laws
written with rope; rope work and
games, evolution of the United
States flag, artificial respiration
drill, water boiling contest, wall
scaling, fire by flint and steel, sea
scouting demonstration, air derby,
and pioneering. This program was
interpreted by funmakers, over a
hundred scouts being dressed as
clowns. Most of the 5000 scouts
participated in this program, so
that most of the numbers repre-
sented the united efforts of several
hundred scouts. For instance, the
artificial respiration drill by prob
ably 200 sets of boys with three
boys in each set. In fire by flint
and steel upwards of 200 boys, well
scattered over the vast floor, were
attempting this simultaneously.
The same with the water boiling
contest-fires were built right on
the floor, which is dirt. Each num-
Der therefore offered an impress
sive sight.
The clowning was of highly en-
tertaining order and added much
to the program. The Sea Scout
work was most interesting, es-
pecially the rescue from ship, US
ing the breeches bouy. The num-
Der bringing the most applause
was the Air Derby, participated in
by Is troops. All sizes of miniature
planes appeared, but when one tiny
model flew gracefully clear around
the enclosure and up into the spec
tator's seats, the applause was:
defening. The pioneering number
was the greatest single effort, a
dozen troops participating. Many
towers were erected, many Indian
wigwams, a pioneer family drove
in with an old fashioned prairie
sooner, built their evening fire
and settled themselves comfortably
for the night, only to be overpow-
cred and dragged away, after much
shooting, by band of fifty red
skins, the latter holding regular
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