Yankee Rebels Best Reilly
By Joe Price
DCN Aug. 29, 1962

WAVERLY, N.Y., Aug. 4 - The High Flying YANKEE-REBELS from Baltimore continued to let everyone know how really good they are this year by capturing the 10th Annual Legion Tournament of Drums with a powerful 84.51. This was one of the best and closest contests of the year, as is evidenced by the following scores:

YANKEE REBELS, Baltimore, Md. - 84.51
REILLY RAIDERS, Philadelphia, Pa. - 82.84
SKYLINERS, New York - 81.87
ROYALAIRES, Guelph, Ont. - 81.00
MATADORS, Cortland, N.Y. - 72.50

You can't get much closer or better, so once again John Cocco, Contest Director can be proud of his fine record here at Waverly.

For REILLY the second place finish was definitely a moral victory, especially when you look at the third and fourth place groups. Both the SKYLINERS and the ROYALAIRES were fabulous but this was a tight show.

A lot of credit must be given to the great MATADORS of Cortland, N.Y. This is only their third year but they have been traveling in fast company all season. Despite all the top corps they have faced, they have come out of each big contest with a lot of praise heaped on them, and victories over the big units in some of the individual categories.

Once again the Waverly contest was strictly first class as amplified by the "standing room only" crowd.