Evening star., 1937-07-06
SEA SCOUTS PROVE
SKILL IN REGATTA
Comets Race In Stiff Breeze.
Health at Jamboree Re-
ported Excellent.

boat, oar and canoe races off Hams
Point and demonstrating the efficiency
Of their training with life-saving and
seamanship tests.
An appreclative gallery braved an
afternoon downpour and crowded the
shore about the Sea Scout base on the
Anacostia River of the point.
The various types of sailing craft
started racing in the rain, with
stiff wind bending them at sharp an
giles and sending them scudding along,
but they slowed later as the rain
stopped and the breeze fell.
Feature sailing event was a comet
race-l6-foot sloops-of IL local boats
manned by Sea Scouts. 1t was won by
Mac Iamborne'S Freya with Scouts
Dick Kitchen and Delbert Harris as
crew.
In the handicap sailing race the
winner was an 18-foot sloop manned
by group of Sea Scouts from ST.
Louis and Omaha. The course was
approximately mile, from the mouth
OF Washington Channel around the
point and around stake boat sta
toned In Georgetown Channel.
The single-paddle canoe race went
10 the New York-NeW Jersey entry.
The tWo-paddle canoe event was won
by the entry from the region of Min
nesota and the Dakotas. The Cali
fornia-Ar contingent triumphed
N the four-man canoe race.
Rowing Races Held.
IN the rowing races, the four-oared
event also went to the Scouts from
California and Arizona, the f1ve- cared
race to the New England boys and the
dash for 10-oared boats to the group
from Ohio, West Virginia and Ken
lucky.
Some of the craft used in the re-
gatta were brought here by the Sea
Scouts by their home bases. The comet
sloops were furnished by the Capital
Yacht Club, whole row. boats were pro-
vlded by the Coast Guard The Navy
contributed floats and motor launches.
Commodore Chester Wilson of Wash
ington was in charge of arrangements.
Ashore the prolonged showers which
fell at intervals Sunday night and
yesterday turned portions of the huge
camp into mires. Mud-encased shoes
and spattered uniforms replaced the
spic perfection with which the Scouts
welcomed visitors to camp yesterday
Midwestern Pageant Tonight.
Folklore Of the Middle West, from
Indian ceremonies to the fabulous ex-
ploits of the giant lumberman, Paul
Bunyan, will be featured in the Scout
arena show at o'clock tonight. The
general theme IS Scouting Trails to
High Adventure" and the show will
be staged by boys from Michigan, Wis
consin, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota
Montana, North and South Dakota.
The pageant will include a block
house fort, model logging camp and
scenes of pioneer days. The Indian
story will be directed by Ralph Hub
bard, nationally authority on
the subject.
Lord Baden-PoWell, founder of
scouting and universally acclaimed
chief Scout of the world, will broad
cast message to the 25 900 or more
Boy Scouts attending the National
Jamboree between 6:45 and pm.
today.
His message will be broadcast by
short wave from London 10 the RCA
ehort-Wave receiving station at River
head. Long Island, relayed from there
by telephone line to the National
Broadcasting Co.'S master control
room at Radio City, where it will be
rebroadcast by the N. B. e. system
and sent by pipe line to the public
address system in the jamboree camp.
Health Continues Good.
The health record of the jamboree
camp is continuing exceptionally high.
During the last two days there have
been only seven admissions to the
hospital from the camp. Two of them
yesterday were for mumps and were
from widely separated parts of the
oamp. There have been six mumps
eases all told, far below the normal
rate for population of $4,000
OF the five cases Sunday, two were
broken collar bones-Scout Don Weiss.
the result of a foot ball injury, and
Leon Payne, who fell while climbing
a fence. One was for observation for
possible appendicitis which failed to
ceVelop; one for catarrhal fever,
treated and discharged, and one for
tetanus injection following a scratch
In fall on bride path.
There have been SO hospital admis-
sions from the jamboree camp since
the Scouts began to arrive, according
to the records of Surgeon w. L. Smith,
Public Health Service, chief medical
ofiicer OF the jamboree. There have
been 54 Of these cases "closed out"
Mai. Smith emphasized that many of
the cases were 80 minor that had the
boys been home, physician would
not have been consulted-no chances
are being taken at the jamboree.
Recovering After TRANSMISSION.
The most serious of the jamboree
cases is that of Stanley Buddy"
Brown, jr., Scout from Marblehead,
Mass. who slipped and fell against a
ladder at the Airport Pool July /. He
was taken to Naval Hospital for OBJ
servation for internal injuries. His
spleen ruptured Sunday. The abdomen
was opened by Navy surgeons and the
boys father, Stanley Brown, who had
been summoned from Marblehead,
supplied blood for TRANSMISSION. The
ecout. Maj. Smith said, lis doing
very WELL indeed"
Scout Bill Braley, operated on at
Naval Hospital June q for removal
OF ruptured appendix, is making an
exceptionally rapid recovery and is ex-
pected to be back in camn today