Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
CO. B Of CENTRAL
IS JUDGED BEST
IN CADET CORPS
Capt. SpiIman's Unit Brings
Honor to School for First
Time Since 1881.
K AND H OF WESTERN
ARE SECOND AND THIRD
D of Woodrow Wilson High Is
Awarded Prize for Best O.
Rookie" Company.

For the first time since 1881, Central
High School yesterday won the annual
drill competition of the Washington
High School Cadet Corps, when Com
pany B, commanded by Capt. Robert
B. Spilman, scored GIT points out OF
q possible 100.
Second and third places went to
Western High School, Company K
scoring 902 points and Company H,
last years winner, scoring 899 points.
When Company B of Central won,
Capt. Spilman was awarded the ALI
son Nailor diamond-studded medal,
which has been in competition since
1895. He defeated Capt. Joseph A.
Bailey, a granddaughter of Allison
Nailor, by only Is points. Bailey is
the first relative of the donor ever to
compete for the prize.
The Western companies continued
record begun in 1921. That year a
Western company won second place
and every year since Western has had
at least one of the three winning COM
panies, six of them finishing first
Bailey commanded Company K and
Capt. James R. Leech commanded
Company H.
Wilson Among Winners.
Western also shared in the victory,
when Company D of Woodrow Wilson
High School was judged the best
''rookie" company, formed last Feb
ruary. Since this is woodrow Wilson's
first year, the school has no senior
class. Cadet officers must be seniors,
SO arrangements were made at the
beginning of the year to have Wilson'S
officers chosen from the eligibles at
Western. Capt George Flather COM
manded the company.
Other officers of the winning COM
panies were: B of Central, First Lieut..
Harold E. Francis and Second Lieut..
Calvin c. Davis; K of Western, First
Lieut. Howard Jeans and Second
Lieut. John Hatch; H of Western, First
Lieut.. Richard Mayo and Second Lieut..
William Calnan, and D of Wilson,
First Lieut.. Charles B. Lingamfelter
and Second Lieut.. Richard Wheeler.
In addition to medals awarded the
officers, each member of the winning
companies was given ribbons signify
ing the honor and the guide sergeants
were given silk streamers.
Merrill Wins Medal.
Sergt. Albert Merrill, Company H,
Western, also received a gold medal
as the best drilled commissioned
officer in the brigade and Sergt. G.
Oliver Atkinson, Company G, Roose-
welt, a silver medal for second place.
The awards were attended by the
usual pomp of military ceremony and
concluded with a brigade review be-
fore a crowd estimated from 10000 to
$4,000, most of whom were students
representing cheering sections for the
six competing schools.
There were really three climaxes
to the ceremony. When Cadet Col.
Edwin A. Halsey. brigade commander.
presented the troops, he was given
the name of the winning company. He
passed this on to Maj Fred L. Frey,
brigade adjutant, who marched d.
rectly to the center of the forma ton,
hesitated for several seconds, and
then marched to Company B of
Central.
other two companies.
Gen. Roberts Presents Awards.
As the winners were thus announced
they were marched to the center of
the field, where Brig. Gen. Charles
D. Roberts, acting commanding gen.
eral of the Sd Corps Area, presented
the awards.
Gen. Roberts then reviewed the
corps. With him were Lieut.. Col. D. S.
Wilson, a member of his staff; Lieut..
Col. Wallace NJ Craigie, United
States Army, retired, commandant of
the corps; Mrs. Marion Wade Doyle,
president of the Board of Education;
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, board
member; DR.. Frank w. Ballou, super
tntendent; DR.. Stephen E. Kramer,
assistant superintendent, and other
school officials.
The military display yesterday was
delayed from Tuesday because Griffith
Stadium had been left a quagmire
by the rain Monday. 1t was the
first postponement Of the annual
drill within the memory of present
officers of the school system.
The 80 companies competing in
the drill were graded by First Lieut..
Howell H. Jordan, First Lieut.. Robert
II. Chard and Second Lieut.. D. Murray
Cheston, 3rd, all of the 34th In
fantry Fort George q Meade Md