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Badminton at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's singles
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Badminton – Women's singles
at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue
Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre, Gold Coast
Dates
10 – 15 April 2018
Medalists
Saina Nehwal India
P. V. Sindhu India
Kirsty Gilmour Scotland
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The women's singles badminton event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held from 10 to 15 April 2018 at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre on the Gold Coast, Australia.[1] The defending gold medalist was Michelle Li of Canada.
The athletes were drawn into an elimination stage draw. Once a player lost a match, she will no longer be able to compete. Each match was contested as the best of three games.
The draw for the competition was done on 2 April 2018.[2]
Contents
1 Seeds
2 Results
2.1 Finals
2.2 Top Half
2.2.1 Section 1
2.2.2 Section 2
2.3 Bottom Half
2.3.1 Section 3
2.3.2 Section 4
3 References
Seeds[edit]
The seeds for the tournament were:[3]
01. P. V. Sindhu (IND) (Silver medal)
02. Saina Nehwal (IND) (Gold medal)
03. Michelle Li (CAN) (Fourth place)
04. Kirsty Gilmour (SCO) (Bronze medal)
05. Soniia Cheah (MAS) (Quarterfinals)
06. Rachel Honderich (CAN) (Quarterfinals)
07. Brittney Tam (CAN) (Quarterfinals)
08. Gadde Ruthvika Shivani (IND) (Quarterfinals)
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.
Results[edit]
Finals[edit]
Semifinals Final
1 P. V. Sindhu (IND) 21 21
3 Michelle Li (CAN) 18 8
1 P. V. Sindhu (IND) 18 21
2 Saina Nehwal (IND) 21 23
4 Kirsty Gilmour (SCO) 14 21 17
2 Saina Nehwal (IND) 21 18 21 Bronze medal match
3 Michelle Li (CAN) 11 16
4 Kirsty Gilmour (SCO) 21 21
Top Half[edit]
Section 1[edit]
Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals
1 P. V. Sindhu (IND) 21 21
Andra Whiteside (FIJ) 6 3
1 P. V. Sindhu (IND) 21 21
Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu (AUS) 15 9
Zoe Morris (FAI) 3 2
Eyram Migbodzi (GHA) 2 3 Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu (AUS) 21 21
Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu (AUS) 21 21 1 P. V. Sindhu (IND) 21 21
7 Brittney Tam (CAN) 14 17
7 Brittney Tam (CAN) 21 21
Palwasha Bashir (PAK) 18 12 Nicki Chan-Lam (MRI) 14 13
Nicki Chan-Lam (MRI) 21 21 7 Brittney Tam (CAN) 21 16 21
Kate Foo Kune (MRI) 16 21 16
Kate Foo Kune (MRI) 21 21
Hasini Ambalangodage (SRI) 21 21 Hasini Ambalangodage (SRI) 12 12
Emily Temple Redshaw (JER) 18 11
Section 2[edit]
Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals
3 Michelle Li (CAN) 21 21
Everlyn Siamupangila (ZAM) 11 9 Kimberley Clague (IOM) 7 7
Kimberley Clague (IOM) 21 21 3 Michelle Li (CAN) 21 21
Katherine Wynter (JAM) 10 7
Aisha Nakiyemba (UGA) 18 15
Katherine Wynter (JAM) 21 21 Katherine Wynter (JAM) 21 21
Chloe le Tissier (GUE) 18 16 3 Michelle Li (CAN) 21 21
5 Soniia Cheah (MAS) 12 19
5 Soniia Cheah (MAS) 21 21
Rachael Darragh (NIR) 21 21 Rachael Darragh (NIR) 5 12
Stella Ngadjui (CMR) 6 3 5 Soniia Cheah (MAS) 21 21
Grace Chua Hui Zen (SGP) 11 12
Michelle Butler-Emmett (RSA) 5 12
Cheryl March (FAI) 1 0 Grace Chua Hui Zen (SGP) 21 21
Grace Chua Hui Zen (SGP) 21 21
Bottom Half[edit]
Section 3[edit]
Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals
Karyn Gibson (FIJ) 6 6
Yeo Jia Min (SGP) 21 21 Yeo Jia Min (SGP) w / o
Shamim Bangi (UGA)
Yeo Jia Min (SGP) 10 23 10
Grace Atipaka (GHA) 21 21 8 Gadde Ruthvika Shivani (IND) 21 21 21
Juliette Ah-Wan (SEY) 17 19 Grace Atipaka (GHA) 5 7
8 Gadde Ruthvika Shivani (IND) 21 21
8 Gadde Ruthvika Shivani (IND) 5r
Chloe Birch (ENG) 21 21 4 Kirsty Gilmour (SCO) 9
Johanita Scholtz (RSA) 5 8 Chloe Birch (ENG) 21 21
Elise Dixon (JER) 2 5
Chloe Birch (ENG) 20 12
Aurelie Marie Elisa Allet (MRI) 21 21 4 Kirsty Gilmour (SCO) 22 21
Alana Bailey (JAM) 7 12 Aurelie Marie Elisa Allet (MRI) 3 4
4 Kirsty Gilmour (SCO) 21 21
Section 4[edit]
Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals
Alissa Dean (FIJ) 12 3
Mahoor Shahzad (PAK) 21 21 Mahoor Shahzad (PAK) 21 21
Cristen Marritt (IOM) 14 10
Mahoor Shahzad (PAK) 17 10
Mercy Joseph (KEN) 6 Rachel Honderich (CAN) 21 21
Allisen Camille (SEY) w / o Allisen Camille (SEY)
6 Rachel Honderich (CAN) w / o
6 Rachel Honderich (CAN) 8 13
Ogar Siamupangila (ZAM) 21 21 2 Saina Nehwal (IND) 21 21
Stella Koteikai Amasah (GHA) 6 12 Ogar Siamupangila (ZAM) 9 13
Jessica Li (IOM) 21 21
Jessica Li (IOM) 4 0r
2 Saina Nehwal (IND) 21 2
Elsie de Villiers (RSA) 3 1
2 Saina Nehwal (IND) 21 21
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Badminton". gc2018.com. Gold Coast 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
Jump up ^ Draw
Jump up ^ Seeding List
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List of the oldest Scout groups
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Many Scout Groups claim the title of Oldest Scout Group in their respective countries.
Due to the rapid growth of Scouting, it took some time for central organisations to be established, and the earliest groups were only registered some time after their first meeting. Some groups first met under the banner of other organisations, including the Boys' Brigade, Church Lads' Brigade, YMCA, churches or schools, and only later registered with central Scout organisations. Some maintained dual registrations. This makes it impossible to establish which groups started first. Today, national Scout associations often do not take a stance as to which was the first group in their country.[citation needed]
Eerste Nederlandsche Meisjes Gezellen Vereeniging (First Dutch Girls Companions Society), 1911, first Dutch Girl Guides
Contents
[hide]
1 Birth of Scouting
2 United Kingdom
3 British Empire
3.1 1908
3.1.1 Australia
3.1.2 Canada
3.1.3 Gibraltar
3.1.4 Malta
3.1.5 South Africa
3.2 1909
3.2.1 India
3.2.2 Isle of Man
4 Outside the British Empire
4.1 1908-1910
4.1.1 United States
4.2 1909
4.2.1 Chile
4.2.2 Norway
4.2.3 China
4.3 1910
4.3.1 Finland
4.3.2 Philippines
4.4 1911
4.4.1 Japan
4.5 1913
4.5.1 Greece
4.6 Mafeking Cadets
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Birth of Scouting[edit]
There are records of Boy Scouts and Scouting groups from 1900. The Boys' Brigade began its Scouting scheme in 1906. Scouting is usually considered[citation needed] to have started on 1 August 1907 with a camp run by Robert Baden-Powell on Brownsea Island. Thereafter the publishers C. Arthur Pearson Limited and Baden-Powell began promoting Scouting in Britain, and Scouting for Boys was published, initially in six fortnightly installments from January 1908 and then in complete book form. The book was followed by The Scout magazine from April 1908. Boys began forming Scout patrols and flooding the C. Arthur Pearson Limited's Scout office and Baden-Powell with requests for assistance.
The Scouting movement developed rapidly from here, in Britain, the British Empire, among English speaking people and the rest of the world.
United Kingdom[edit]
The first Scout Patrols and Troops were formed in the United Kingdom in 1907[citation needed]. There are a number of claimants to be the first troop. As Scouting was a movement and not an organisation, there was initially no central organisation. The publishers, C. Arthur Pearson Limited sold registration cards to subscribers of its magazine. Numerous local or regional Boy Scouts Associations were formed and several national Scouting organisations were formed in the United Kingdom including the Boys' Brigade Scouts, Chums Scout Patrols, YMCA Boy Scouts, British Boy Scouts, Church Scout Patrols, London Diocesan Boy Scout Corps, Boys' Life Brigade Scouts, National Peace Scouts, The Boy Scouts Association and Salvation Army Boy Scouts (re-organized in 1914 as the Life-Saving Scouts of the Salvation Army). The Boy Scouts Association was formed in 1910 and does not acknowledge any single troop as being the first. Unfortunately, The Boy Scouts Association issued backdated registrations. The Scout Association maintains a list of all the Scout Troops who claim to have started in 1908.[1]
The Scout Troops with the strongest claims are listed below:
The 1st Glasgow Scout Group in Scotland holds the earliest known registration certificate, dated 26 January 1908, issued by The Boy Scouts Association. The Group was formed from the Glasgow Battalion of the Army Cadet Corps; its Adjutant was Captain Robert E Young. In June 1907, they formed the 'Cadets' Winter Recreation Training Club'. The club was a success from the beginning, as 'Boss' Young related: "At first we met at my house, signalled up and down the stairs, tied knots around the banisters and always finished with a good tuck-in." 'Boss' Young met B-P during Autumn 1907 who suggested that the Club could experiment with the ideas contained in 'Scouting for Boys'. On 16 January 1908, the Club was formally disbanded and the First Glasgow Troop of Boy Scouts was registered with Scout HQ in London.[1][2]
The first Scout Troop to receive a visit from Baden-Powell was the Vaux's Own Scout Troop in Sunderland. This visit was made on 22 February 1908, so it is assumed by The Scout Association "that it had already been in existence for some days at any rate".[1] This was also the first Scout Troop listed in the Imperial records. The 1st Crystal Palace Patrol (now known as the 2nd Croydon, 1st Crystal Palace) is documented as being in existence on 28 February 1908. The group is still in existence.[3]
In 2007, 1st Henfield Scout Troop was named as the oldest surviving Scout Troop in the world for the centenary of Scouting[citation needed]. They were the hosts of the only place that the centenary flame stopped in England for the night before reaching its goal of Brownsea Island. However, it is not the oldest Scout Troop, as others were set up before Henfield. It is said[who?] that the boys that went to Brownsea Island on the first ever Scout trip were from Henfield.[4]
The 1st Birkenhead (YMCA) has a claim to be the oldest Scout Troop as it was founded on 24 January 1908 when B P attended a meeting at the YMCA. Documents at the District Headquarters confirm this fact. Baden-Powell at the 1929 Coming of Age Jamboree in Birkenhead said "Here in Birkenhead that I first mooted the idea of Scouting".[citation needed]
The 1st Croydon Scout Group (Addiscombe) were founded in the latter months of 1907. The Group was officially registered by Imperial Scout Headquarters on 16 June 1908 and can claim to be one of the earliest Groups.[citation needed]
1st Church Kirk, Church near Accrington Lancashire. Formed 1907. Baden Powell formed a link with Accrington during his opening of the Ambulance Drill Hall in 1904.[citation needed]
The 1st New Cross (The Greys) Scout Group was formed 17 January 1908 but was not registered until May 2008.[5]
There is an entry in Baden-Powell's diary on 4 February 1908 which mentions a Scout Troop in Nottingham.[citation needed]
1st Alsager, Cheshire were formed before 24 February 1908.[citation needed]
A troop from Hampstead was involved in various events in the first half of 1908.[citation needed]
The 1st City Of Aberdeen Scouts existed in 1908. 1st Arbroath Scout Troop (2nd Angus) dates back to June 1908.[6]
The 1st Norwich "Capt. Bower's Own" Sea Scouts started in January 1908.[7] The group is one of few which has continuously run for 100 years and, remarkably, had just 4 Group Scout Leaders during that time. To celebrate their centenary year, the group published a book entitled, "It Can Be Done: The Hundred Year History of the 1st Norwich Sea Scout Group." drawing from their extensive archives.[8]
In Poole, Dorset, there are strong claims from 3 current Scout Groups, that all have separate newspaper articles back to 1908 listing Patrols or Troops practicing Scouting. 1st Parkstone has got a registration number back to February 1908 for a Scout Troop. Hamworthy are listed as having a Boat patrol at the Local Church in November 1908 and Broadstone having an Ambulance Scout at the Gathering on Brownsea Island in December 1908.[citation needed]
Wycliffe Scout Group (Gloucestershire) claims to be the oldest continuously active school-based Scout group in the world (active September 2013). It is listed in the Scout Association database with a registration date of 1 February 1909, although the Group celebrated their centenary in 2008, implying that there had been Scouting activity at the school before the Group was registered.[citation needed]
British Empire[edit]
1908[edit]
Australia[edit]
Scouting appears to have started as early as 1907 in Victoria in an informal way when a boy in Caulfield received from a friend, who had been a member of the experimental camp at Brownsea Island, some pamphlets which had been issued by Baden-Powell.[9] The first Scout Group in Australia may have been founded in Northcote in Melbourne in early 1908, but the Victoria Scout Heritage Centre states that "It is very difficult to name the first Troop to start in Victoria".[9][10] However, by the end of 1908, there were 11 Scout Troops in Victoria.[9] One of those 1908 Groups, 1st Ivanhoe Sea Scouts, is the only Scout Group which has been continuously operating since 1908.[citation needed]
In New South Wales, 1st Toongabbie Scout Group in the western suburbs of Sydney was founded in 1908 by a member of the Sydney University Scouts, Errol Galbraith Knox (later Brigadier Sir Errol Knox, MBE), and is still operating.[11] Other Sydney groups founded in 1908 and still operating include 1st Hurstville, 1st Petersham, 1st Mosman, 1st Leichhardt, 1st Parramatta, and 1st Paddington (now Paddington-Woolhara).[citation needed]
Canada[edit]
In the spring of 1908, Canada became the first overseas Dominion with a sanctioned Boy Scout program.[citation needed] The 1st Merrickville Scout Troop, founded in 1908, is the oldest Scout troop in North America. Reference "75 Years of Scouting in Canada". The 1st Port Morien Group claims to be the first Scout Group in North America.[12][13] The Nova Scotia Council of Scouts Canada recognized the centennial of the Port Morien Group by providing a crest to all Nova Scotian Scouts Canada members.[citation needed]
Gibraltar[edit]
The first recognized overseas unit in a country controlled by the United Kingdom was chartered in Gibraltar with the establishment of the 1st Gibraltar Scout Troop on 27 March 1908. The group is still active and has a membership of around 140. It is expect to open a new troop and pack this coming year. The group celebrated its 100th anniversary with a parade along Main Street and received the Freedom of the City of Gibraltar on 2 October 2008. To commemorate the conferment of the title Marquis of Milford Haven one hundred years ago, the present marquis visited the Group during the celebrations.[14]
Malta[edit]
The Malta Boy Scouts Association applied to become a member of the British Movement on 9 November 1908 and was officially recognised, as was the procedure then, exactly a year later.[15] The 1st Sliema Scout Group in Malta was founded in 1909.[16]
South Africa[edit]
The first Scout Group in South Africa was formed 3 March 1908 at Claremont Public School by George French. It is still running, as 1st Claremont Scout Group, as are several other groups founded in 1908.[17][18]
1909[edit]
India[edit]
The Scout Movement arrived in India in 1909. A troop was formed in Bangalore by a Captain Baker, a retired naval officer. The troop had boys from St. Joseph's, Baldwin's, St. Andrew's, and Bishop Cotton's. The troop was registered with Boy Scout Headquarters in London in November 1909 and, according to records, was the first Scout troop in Asia.[citation needed]
Sethna's 18th West Bombay Scout Group[19] was established in 1914, after Rustomji Edulji Sethna (1898–1954) came across Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys. Sethna was enamoured with the book, and formed India's first Scout group for native boys. (Prior to this, there were some Scout groups, but they were primarily for British expatriate youth.) The group today is India's oldest continually running Scout group. Since its first day on 14 August 1914, the troop remains continuously active.[20]
Isle of Man[edit]
The 1st Douglas Scout Group,[21] on the Isle of Man (a Crown Dependency of the UK and not technically part of the UK) was also founded in 1909.
Outside the British Empire[edit]
1908-1910[edit]
United States[edit]
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There are numerous troops which claim to be first Boy Scout troop in the United States. There appears to be several Boy Scout troops that were operating prior to the establishment of the Boy Scouts of America.
A claimant for first Boy Scout Troop in the United States is Burnside, Kentucky in 1908.[22]
Bala One is another claimant for first Boy Scout Troop in the United States in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. It was started by Frank H. Sykes prior to the founding of the Boy Scouts of America.[23]
A claimant for first Boy Scout troop is Troop #1 of Barre, Vermont in 1909. It was formed in Barre, Vermont by William Foster Milne, who moved to the United States from Aberdeen, Scotland.[24]
In 1907, William Foster Milne, a stonecutter immigrated to Barre, Vermont from Aberdeen, Scotland, where he had been active in the early Scouting movement.[25] He is referred as the "First Scoutmaster in America" by Sir Francis Vane.[26] Sir Francis Vane was London Commissioner of Scouts in Baden Powell's organisation and also became President of the British Boy Scouts.[27] In 1909, "Billy" Milne learned of a small group of boys at the First Baptist Church in Barre, who were already members of the Boys Brigade, he offered them an alternative to their routine of marching and drills. By re-organizing into a new "Boy Scout Club" (Troop #1 in the United States) these Scouts learned first aid, new outdoor skills and being helpful to others. "Billy" Milne went back to his native Scotland and brought back the books and materials he needed along with a British Charter. By 1910, Barre's Troop #1 joined the Boy Scouts of America.[28]
By March 1910, the Boy Scouts in Vermont had expanded to such a degree that the girls of nearby Thetford became interested. These girls along with William Chauncy Langdon, Dr. Luther Gulick and Charlotte Vedder Gulick formed the Camp Fire Girls which became the sister organization of the Boy Scouts of America on 17 March 1910. The Camp Fire Girls preceded the Girl Scouts of the USA by 2 years.[29] (The Boy Scouts of America has always regarded the Camp Fire Girls - not the Girl Scouts - as its sister organization. Up until the 1970s there were suggestions to merge the BSA and the CFG.)
The original group of boys that made up Troop #1 were Charles Booth, George Booth, Gerald Brock, Carl Burgess, Earl Burgess, Stanton Burgess, Raymond Cave, Clarence Geake, James Grearson, Walter Grearson, Douglas Inglis, Harry Kent, George Murray, Milton Rollins, Craig Rollins, Cecil Watt and Wallace Watt.[30] Dr. Wallace Watt moved to Clinton County, Michigan to attend college and remained there as a Scout leader for his entire life. He received the Silver Beaver Award in 1981 and in 1984 a 75 year Diamond Jubilee service pin from the Boy Scouts of America. Upon his death his widow donated his Barre, Vermont Troop 1 artifacts to the Paine-Gillam-Scott Museum[31] in St. Johns, Michigan.[32]
Governor Deane C. Davis was an early member of Barre, Vermont's Troop #1.[33]
Another claimant for first Boy Scout Troop in the United States is in Pawhuska, Oklahoma in 1909.[34]
Another claimant for first Boy Scout troop in America was organized in Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma, in May 1909 by Reverend John F. Mitchell. Rev. Mitchell was a missionary priest from England sent to St. Thomas Episcopal Church by the Church of England. Rev. Mitchell, who had been associated in Scout work with Lord Baden-Powell in England, organized the troop of Boy Scouts under English charter and equipped them with English uniforms, manuals, and badges.[35]
On 10 September 1910, S. F. Lester of Troy, New York, became the very first person to hold the Scouting leadership position of Scoutmaster (approved by the BSA). He received his certification from the BSA headquarters in New York City. In 1910 he led a group of 30 Scouts at Camp Ilium, in Pownal, Vermont. Camp Ilium was the starting point of the Boy Scout Movement for Troy, and Pownal. Pownal is only 35 miles (56 km) away from Troy.[36]
Troop 5 of Denver holds claim to be the oldest continually chartered Boy Scout troop in the United States, west of the Mississippi River, having been chartered continuously since 1910.[37]
In November 1910, Troop #1 of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey received the first charter from the newly organized Boy Scouts of America, with Pastor E. C. Murphy as its first Scoutmaster, with 25 boys registered as charter members and the First Baptist Church as its sponsor. Scout William Orth of Troop #1 received Scout Certificate No. 1 from Washington D.C.[38]
Troop 1 of Brentwood, Tennessee also holds claim to be the oldest continually chartered Boy Scout Troop in the United States, having been continuously chartered since 1910. Troop One holds the distinction of only having three Scoutmasters in its over 104-year history.[39]
Troop 1, Park Ridge, Illinois was formed in 1910 and chartered on 22 June 1912. Charles Morison Dickenson was the first Scoutmaster from 1912 to 1914.[40] Troop 1 has been continuously chartered by First United Methodist Church in Park Ridge since its inception.[41]
1909[edit]
Chile[edit]
Robert Baden-Powell visited Chile and gave a speech, that inspired the founding of the first Scout Group, Brigada Central. Some time later on 21 May 1909 the first Scout Camp was held.[42]
Norway[edit]
The first recognized troop in Norway is "1. Kristiania (NGSK)", established 15 November 1909. This was a troop in Oslo, connected to an athletic organisation. This troop became a part of "Norske Gutters Speiderkorps", which was established by a national sport organisation. But there were single Scouting patrols earlier than this in some Norwegian cities.[43]
China[edit]
In Shanghai, a Troop of "Boy Scouts" was formed, as a branch of the then existing (British) "Boys' Brigade" whose members were representative of the cosmopolitan but culturally Western population of the city. The 1st Dragon Troop, run on actual Baden-Powell lines, was also formed in early 1909, in Shanghai. These were mostly British boys. The first native Scout troop was organized by Reverend Yen Chia-lin in Wuchang on 25 February 1912 and the Scouting movement spread rapidly all over the country.[44]
1910[edit]
By 1910 Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy,[42] Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Suriname,[45] Sweden and the United States had Boy Scouts too.
Finland[edit]
Toimen Pojat (Unga Fribyggare in Swedish), a Scouting troop in Kauniainen, Finland was established in 1910. Toimen Pojat is the oldest continuously operating Scout troop in Finland. During the Russian ban on Scouting in the 1910s before the Finnish independence in (1917), the troop operated underground. Many traditions that distinguish the troop formed during that period.[citation needed]
Philippines[edit]
Elwood Stanley Brown, Physical Education Director of the Manila YMCA, founded basketball, volleyball,[46] and Boy Scouting in the Philippine Islands (then a territory of the USA) in 1910. Hence the first Boy Scout unit in the Philippines was the YMCA troop organised by Brown.
In the official Handbook for Boys of the Boy Scouts of America, First Edition, August 1911 (still in print today![47]), page 354 (page 222 of PDF copy[48]), in a letter from BSA Honorary Vice President Theodore Roosevelt (former US President) to BSA Executive Secretary (later[49] Chief Scout Executive) James E. West, dated 20 July 1911, Roosevelt mentions a letter from a Scoutmaster in the Philippines narrating the noble work of "boy scouts of the Philippines" in rendering assistance during a big fire that hit Manila and in serving at the ten-day Manila Carnival. This is the earliest available documented mention of the phrase "boy scouts of the Philippines" in print.[50] The Manila Scoutmaster's and Roosevelt's letters prove beyond doubt that there were Boy Scouts in the Philippines as early as 1910 - the same year that YMCA International Secretary for Boys' Work Edgar M. Robinson started actively organizing the Boy Scouts of America in the US mainland. Portions of Roosevelt's quote of the Manila Scoutmaster's letter were also printed (before and after the Handbook for Boys edition) in New Castle News (26 May 1911), The Corsicana Daily Sun (31 May 1911), The Washington Post (8 August 1911), The Youngstown Daily Vindicator (23 August 1911), and The Miami Metropolis (20 September 1911). According to The Miami Metropolis article "Boy Scouts Work with the Firemen Just Like Heroes" on page 3, it was "Elwood E. Brown, organizer in the Philippines" who had written to Roosevelt.[51][52]
During his world tour in 1912, Lord Baden-Powell sent back articles for publication in The Scout. In issue no. 224, 27 July 1912, in the article "In the Cannibal Islands," he made a brief narration about Philippine history and culture and his trip to Manila, illustrated with his own drawings. He mentioned "Boy Scouts of the Philippines" and that he was met by a "Guard of Honour." He also quoted from Roosevelt's letter about the Manila fire and the Manila Carnival in which Scouts rendered valuable service. In the article, Baden-Powell urged readers "to get into correspondence with your brother Scouts in Manila… The Chief Scoutmaster is Mr. Elwood Brown, Y.M.C.A., Manila."[53]
1911[edit]
Japan[edit]
The first Boy Scout troop in Japan was organized in Yokohama in 1911 by Clarence Griffin. The boys of the troop were mostly British students of St. Joseph College, a boys' school in the Bluff area of Yokohama, and Clarence Griffin organized the troop under English charter. Clarence Griffin is recognized by the Scout Association of Japan as Japan's first Scoutmaster and is honoured with an inscription as such at his final resting place in the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery. In 1918 Marianist Bro. Joseph Janning, a missionary teacher of St. Joseph College, assumed the position of Scoutmaster at the school and opened the Troop to boys of all nationalities. The Group subsequently became the first directly registered group of the newly formed Boy Scouts International Bureau, receiving a Charter signed by B-P formally allowing the group to accept "Scouts of mixed nationalities". The group was registered by the World Scout Bureau as "Troop 1, International Boy Scouts" and has remained continuously active in Yokohama since its formation.[54]
1913[edit]
Greece[edit]
In Greece, Mark Mindler established in 1913 the third Sea Scout troop of Athens (3η Ομάς Αθηνών Ναυτοπροσκόπων) as the first Scouting group of the country. (The first and second Scouting groups were to be established later for training Scout officers.) The group operates to this day.[55]
Mafeking Cadets[edit]
During the Siege of Mafeking (1899–1900), boys in the town formed the Mafeking Cadet Corps, made famous by Baden-Powell in the opening chapter of Scouting for Boys. However, the cadets were not themselves Scouts.
See also[edit]
Scouting portal
Scouting memorials
Scouting museums
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c "The First Troops" (PDF). The Scout Association. August 2006. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
Jump up ^ The First Glasgow Scout Group, Registration Certificate
Jump up ^ http://croydonscouting.org.uk/?option=com_content&view=article&id=62:2nd-croydon-1st-crystal-palace-scout-group&catid=45:find-group&Itemid=64 2nd Croyden (1st Crystal Palace) Scout Group
Jump up ^ http://www.1sthenfieldscoutgroup.co.uk/history.html History of Scouting in Henfield
Jump up ^ 1st New Cross (The Greys) Scout Group
Jump up ^ Arbroath Herald
Jump up ^ 1st Norwich Sea Scouts
Jump up ^ It Can Be Done: The Hundred Year History of the 1st Norwich Sea Scout Group.
^ Jump up to: a b c Victoria Scout Heritage Centre - How Scouting began
Jump up ^ Those Boy Scouts: A Story of Scouting in Victoria, Victorian Scout Archives, 1987
Jump up ^ Sargent, Doris (1964). The Toongabbie Story. Sydney: Toongabbie Public School.
Jump up ^ 1st Scout Group in North America
Jump up ^ 1st Scout Group in North America
Jump up ^ http://www.gibraltarscouts.gi/history.html
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
Jump up ^ 1st Sliema Scout Group
Jump up ^ 1st Claremont Scout Troop
Jump up ^ "South Africa's First Scoutmaster" (PDF). Cape Western Scouter. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
Jump up ^ Sethnas 18th West Bombay Scout Group
Jump up ^ "The Group". Sethna's 18th West Bombay Scouts. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
Jump up ^ 1st Douglas Scout Group
Jump up ^ "First Boy Scout Troop Historical Marker". Retrieved 8 July 2012.
Jump up ^ Troop Bala One History
Jump up ^ name="http://www.aldrich.lib.vt.us/Guide.htm#P16" See Cameron papers, and 1907 Barre City Directory at Aldrich Library
Jump up ^ http://www.timesargus.com/article/20091026/NEWS01/910260350/0/MEDIACENTER
Jump up ^ http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/resolutn/HCR244.pdf
Jump up ^ Order of World Scouts
Jump up ^ http://FirstBoyScout.com
Jump up ^ http://alicemariebeard.com/campfire/history.htm
Jump up ^ http://framemaster.tripod.com/members.htm
Jump up ^ http://miserybay.usanethosting.com/wordpress/2009/10/now-12/
Jump up ^ http://www.ci.saint-johns.mi.us/community%20info/2009museum%20opening.pdf
Jump up ^ Deane C. Davis
Jump up ^ http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/S/SC011.html
Jump up ^ http://newsok.com/pawhuska-museum-evokes-boy-scouts-state-origins/article/3419655
Jump up ^ Gilbert, Kevin. "This Day in 1910 in The Record: Aug. 10, 1910". troyrecord.com. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
Jump up ^ http://www.troop5denver.org/history.html
Jump up ^ this information was obtained from the Troop 1 BSA Ridgefield Park, NJ 75th Anniversary booklet from 6 May 1984.[unreliable source?]
Jump up ^ http://troopone.org/Info/About%20Troop%20One.html
Jump up ^ http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HR/PDF/09700HR0879lv.pdf
Jump up ^ http://www.parkridgeumc.org/about/
^ Jump up to: a b "Short history about Chilean Scouting". SCOUT+CHILE <http://scoutchile.blogspot.com>. Retrieved 2008-08-13. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "OWS_REI" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
Jump up ^ http://leksikon.speidermuseet.no/wiki/Tidlige_speidergutter
Jump up ^ "SCOUTING IN CHINA-SCOUTS OF CHINA". N2ZGU. Archived from the original on 16 July 2009. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
Jump up ^ Dagblad Suriname Boy Scouts 84 jaar Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ The History of Volleyball in the Philippines The Volleyball Story London Olympic Media Guide Volleyball Early Development Archived 11 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Volleyball: Striking the interest of Filipinos since 1910 The Volleyball Story Archived 11 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Vball Trivia History of Volleyball Memorandum to Colonel Bruce Palmer Giving the Game Away Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ reprints include those of Applewood Books (1997, ISBN 9781557094414), Dover (1969, 2005, ISBN 0486439917, ISBN 9780486439914), Skyhorse (ISBN 978-1-61608-198-0) and the Boy Scouts of America
Jump up ^ Handbook for Boys
Jump up ^ November 1911
Jump up ^ The organization named Boy Scouts of the Philippines was inaugurated much later, on 1 January 1938.
Jump up ^ Unfortunately, the Miami News / Miami Metropolis archival site, formerly here, was removed or closed in 2015. Hence citation of this article can no longer be accessed online.
Jump up ^ Roosevelt's letter has been reproduced in Scouting historian David Scott's book about Roosevelt, We Are Americans, We Are Scouts, 2008, but with Elwood Brown's letter about the Philippine events (rendered irrelevant by Philippine independence in 1946) excised.
Jump up ^ The article was reprinted in Chapter 6 of Baden-Powell's compilation Boy Scouts Beyond the Seas: "My World Tour", 1913, but with BP's date-dependent reference to Brown excised. Boy Scouts Beyond the Seas
Jump up ^ http://www.troop1.net/history/history.html
Jump up ^ http://www.3oan.gr Book on the 25th Anniversary of 3rd Sea Scout Troop of Athens, 1913-1938
External links[edit]
Sethna's 18th West Bombay Scout Troop, claimant to be India's oldest Scout group
1st Claremont Scout Troop, claimant to be South Africa's oldest Scout group
Troop 20 in Brookyn, New York, claimant to be the oldest Scout group in the United States of America
1st Merrickville Scout Group, Ontario, Canada, claimant to be North America's oldest Scout group
1st Sliema Scout Group, Malta, claimant to be the oldest Scout group outside the United Kingdom
3rd Athens Seascout Group, claimant to be Greece's oldest Scout group
Wr. Neustadt 1, claimant to be Austria's oldest Scout group
I.B.S, Troop 1, claimant to be Japan's oldest Scout group
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"Riders on the Storm"
Single by The Doors
from the album L.A. Woman
B-side
"Changeling"
Released
June 1971 (1971-06)
Format
7-inch single
Recorded
December 1970
Genre
Psychedelic rock[1]
Length
7:09 (album version)
4:35 (single version)
Label
Elektra
Songwriter(s)
John Densmore
Robby Krieger
Ray Manzarek
Jim Morrison
Producer(s)
Bruce Botnick
The Doors
The Doors singles chronology
""Love Her Madly""
(1971) "Riders on the Storm"
(1971) ""Tightrope Ride""
(1971)
"Riders on the Storm" is a song by American psychedelic rock band the Doors. It was released as the second single from their sixth studio album, L.A. Woman (1971), in June 1971. It reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S.,[2][3][4] number 22 on the UK Singles Chart,[5] and number 7 in the Netherlands.[6]
Contents
1 Background and composition
1.1 Heidegger's influence
2 Post-release
3 Chart history
4 Cover versions
5 References
6 External links
Background and composition[edit]
"Riders on the Storm" is a psychedelic rock song.[1] According to Robby Krieger, it was inspired by "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend". Also, Jim Morrison mentions spree killer Billy Cook, in passing, during at least one interview. Cook killed six people, including a young family, while hitchhiking to California. In all likelihood, the Cook murders were inspiration for the song's lyric, "There's a killer on the road / His brain is squirming like a toad...if you give this man a ride/sweet family will die ..."
"Riders On the Storm" is played in the E Dorian mode, and incorporates recordings of rain and thunder, along with Ray Manzarek's Fender Rhodes electric piano playing, which emulates the sound of rain.[7]
The song was recorded at the Doors Workshop in December 1970 with the assistance of Bruce Botnick, their longtime engineer, who was co-producing the recording sessions. Jim Morrison recorded his main vocals and then whispered the lyrics over them to create the echo effect. This was the last song recorded by the members of the Doors, according to Manzarek, as well as Morrison's last recorded song to be released in his lifetime. The single was released in 1971, shortly before Morrison's death, entering the Billboard Hot 100 the week ending July 3, 1971, the same week that Morrison died.[2][3][4]
Many incorrectly believe that this is the song longtime Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild disparaged as "cocktail music", precipitating his departure from the project. Rothchild actually applied this moniker to "Love Her Madly". Engineer Bruce Botnick was selected to produce the album instead.
Heidegger's influence[edit]
Speaking with Krieger and Manzarek, the philosopher Thomas Vollmer argues that the line "Into this world we're thrown" recalls Heidegger's concept of thrownness (human existence as a basic state). In 1963 at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Jim Morrison heard an influential lecture for him, in which were discussed philosophers who critically addressed the philosophical tradition, including Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.[8]
In 2009, Simon Critchley dedicated his column on The Guardian to Heidegger's thrownness and explained it using the aforementioned verse of the song.[9]
The connection between the thrownness into the world and a dog's life was anticipated by the anti-Heideggerian author Ernst Bloch[10] in his main work The Principle of Hope (1954–9).[11]
Post-release[edit]
The band's drummer John Densmore wrote a 1990 book called Riders on the Storm,[12] detailing the story of his life and his time with the group.
Ray Manzarek and guitarist Roy Rogers covered this song as an instrumental duet on their 2008 album Ballads Before the Rain.
In November 2009, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame under the category Rock (track).
The song was among the first songs released for Rock Band 3 as downloadable content.[13][14]
The song, according to an interview with Ray Manzarek, was only performed live twice: on the L.A. Woman tour at the Warehouse in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 12, 1970, and in Dallas the night before that. Ray said playing those songs was "magic". This was The Doors' last public performance with Jim Morrison. It was only the second date of the tour, but was also the last, as the tour was cancelled after this concert.
According to the book FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio by Richard Neer, legendary overnight disc jockey Alison Steele would always play this song on Monday nights if it was raining in the city while she worked at New York City's WNEW-FM through most of the 1970s.
Chart history[edit]
Chart (1971)
Peak
position
Canada RPM Magazine 5
Germany (Official German Charts)[15] 28
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[6] 7
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[16] 7
UK Singles Chart[5] 22
US Billboard Hot 100[2][3][4] 14
US Billboard Easy Listening[17] 11
Chart (1976)
Peak
position
UK Singles Chart[5] 33
Chart (1991)
Peak
position
UK Singles Chart[5] 68
Ireland (IRMA)[18] 12
Cover versions[edit]
Annabel Lamb covered the song in 1983.[5] It peaked at 27 in the UK Singles Chart of 17 September.[19]
Cameo covered the song in 1990 as an homage to Jim Morrison's influence on the band.
The Jacka sampled most of the song in 2008 for the single "Storm" featuring Cormega for his album "Tear Gas".
Creed also covered this song in 2000 for the album Stoned Immaculate: The Music of The Doors, they also performed this song live at Woodstock 1999 alongside Robby Krieger.
Infected Mushroom remixed the song, and it appears on the 2009 album, Legend of the Black Shawarma.
Escape with Romeo covered the song on their 2001 album Come Here White Light.
Living Legends sampled the song in their song "War Games" from their 2001 album Almost Famous.
Nightmares on Wax remixed the song for the limited edition of The Best of The Doors, which appeared in 2000. Three other remixes are on the bonus cd by Baez & Cornell, Ibizarre and SpaceBats.
Señor Coconut plays a merengue remix of this song on the 2003 album Fiesta Songs.
Snoop Dogg covered the song for the 2004 game, Need for Speed: Underground 2, in a remixed version produced by Fredwreck. The cover was dubbed over the original track.
New age/electronica music group Dancing Fantasy released a cover off their 1991 album California Grooves.[20]
Rapture Riders, a 2005 officially-released mashup version of the song produced by Go Home Productions, featured Jim Morrison's vocal combined with music and vocals from Blondie's 1981 single "Rapture".
Ray Manzarek & Bal collaborated on an electronic jazz version for their Atonal Head CD, 2006.
Dezperadoz covered the song in 2008 for the album An Eye for an Eye.
Wolfmother covered the song live from 2010 to 2011, blending it with their own "White Unicorn."[21]
Yonderboi used a sample of the song for his track Riders On The Storm / Pink Solidism, found on the album Shallow And Profound.
Carlos Santana covered the song on his 2010 album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time. This version features Chester Bennington (of Linkin Park) on lead vocals and Ray Manzarek (of The Doors) on keyboards, as he did on the original. The lyric "sweet family will die" is changed to "sweet memory will die".
Incubus is known to medley into the song while playing "Are You In?" during their live shows.
Wednesday 13 covered the song with altered lyrics and an original chorus, retitling it "Welcome to the Strange", on the 2000 Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 album Songs from the Recently Deceased.
Bob Sinclar used a small but highly-recognizable portion of 'Riders on the Storm' for his song 'For You' on his Western Dream album.
Megan Washington's cover of the song was featured in a trailer for season six of the Lifetime series Army Wives.
Kamyaniy Gist covered this song in Ukrainian (album «70/80», 2015).[22]
Lisa Bassenge covered the song for her 2015 album Canyon Songs.
Jazz vocalist Kama Ruby covered this song as a mash-up with Stan Jones' classic western song "Ghost Riders in the Sky" on her third album release, 2017's "Mind's Eye."[23]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Forty years on, Jim Morrison cult thrives at Paris cemetery". The Independent. July 1, 2011. Retrieved September 14, 2017. ... The Doors, who broke fresh ground in psychedelic rock with such hits as 'Riders on the Storm,'...
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^ Jump up to: a b c Planer, Lindsay. "'Riders On The Storm' - The Doors: AllMusic review". Allmusic. All Media Network. Retrieved July 28, 2013. It peaked at a respectable No. 14 shortly after Morrison died in July 1971.
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External links[edit]
Riders on the Storm at Discogs (list of releases)
Usage in film and television: see "The Doors - Soundtrack. 'Riders on the Storm'" at IMDb
Song lyrics at thedoors.com
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