Improving St. Paul Scouts Leave For Worlds Fair
By Jim Ward

DCN Aug. 8, 1962 issue

Winning two of four contests during the month of July, the St. Paul Scouts departed for the Seattle World's Fair on Thursday, July 26.

Copping first place money at St. Peter, Minnesota on July 8, and again at Fort Dodge, Iowa on July 17, the Scouts have shown tremendous and steady improvement through the summer. In additionto these two contests, the corps placed second in Dubuque, Iowa only 1.8 behind Madison - and again were right behind Madison at LaCrosse, Wisconsin on July 15, this time by a spread of four points.

Featuring a repertoire of "El Cid", "America The Beautiful", "Two Different Worlds", "Where or When", "Diana", and the concert of "Intermission Riff", the Scouts have a clean and powerful sound this year. The drum line, just recently rebuilt, has been improving with every contest and is now going with three and three. Mike Gordaneir instructs M&M, Corky Whitlock teaches horns, and DM Roger Broderson works with the drum line. Stan Thullen replaces Bill Arnold as corps director.

In their win at Fort Dodge, the Scouts completely outclassed all opposition, winning by nearly seven points. Their show featured a clean, moving drill, powerful horns, and a fine color guard. They were the favorites of the crowd, as well.

Austin, Minn., July 16 scores:
Madison Scouts ........................ 84.6
St. Matthias Cadets .................. 73.9
Eau Claire Boys ........................ 73.7
Argonne Rebels ........................ 64.5
Cedar Rapids Cadets................ 63.2
Fort Dodge Lancers .................. 56.8

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 18:
St. Matthias Cadets ................... 75.0
Argonne Rebels ........................ 73.9
Eau Claire Boys ........................ 72.3
Spamtown Lancers ................... 62.7
Royal Guard .............................. 55.8
Fort Dodge Lancers .................. 54.4

Unfortunately, we do not have the scores from LaCrosse. Of the Midwestern invasion by the Argonne Rebels we may say that they are definitely not ready for big time competition, but judging from the scores, are improved over the Legion Nationals when we watched them take a sixth, as the judges, and their "Intermission Riff" brought down the house. There was no doubt in anyone's mind as to the outcome of the show when the Scouts had finished.

St. Matthias was well back in second, "Moon River" being the highlight of their show. They tied for high M&M with the Argonne Rebels, 0.1 ahead of the Scouts; were second to the Scouts in drums by 0.4; and were 4.1 back in horns, also for a second. The Scouts topped St. Matt's in GE by 2.5 and this score plus the big horn spread, accounted for the seven points difference in final score.

Only 0.5 points separated the next three corps, five points behind St. Matt's. The Cedar Rapids Cadets presented a confident and clean show to nose out the Argonne Rebels from Great Bend, Kansas, and the Eau Claire Boys. Cedar Rapids topped Argonne by three in drums to offset small margins in the other three captions, while Eau Claire lacked the GE and horn scores to move into third place. Eau Claire's drums again came up with a respectable score, quite a bit above the calibre of the rest of the corps' show.

The Spamtown Lancers were 5.5 back of Eau Claire in sixth, while the young Royal Guard from Wisconsin Rapids took a seventh.

Only 1.2 points separated the seven corps in M&M, but the spread was much greater in other captions.

Scores were:
St. Paul Scouts ................................ 81.4
St. Matthias Cadets .......................... 74.6
Cedar Rapids Cadets ....................... 69.7
Argonne Rebels ................................ 69.3
Eau Claire Boys ................................ 69.2
Spamtown Lancers ........................... 63.8
Royal Guard ...................................... 55.7

In addition to the Fort Dodge show, three others followed the July 14th Madison show. They were LaCrosse, Wisconsin on July 15th, Austin, Minnesota on July 16th and Cedar Rapids, Iowa on July 18th. Madison won at LaCrosse by four over the St. Paul Scouts with St. Matthias in third. At Austin, Madison topped the St. Matt's by 11 points with Eau Claire only 0.2 behind Matthias. In the last show at Cedar Rapids, St. Matthias topped the Argonne Rebels and the Eau Claire Boys.