St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-16
HIGH SCHOOL FIELD DAY.
Keen Contest and Excellent Time
Made by Amateurs.

Keen Contest and Excellent Time
Made by Amateurs.
The first field day exercises ever given
by the st. Paul High school occurred
yesterday afternoon at Midway. The
events. which had long been anticipated
by the high school students, proved a
great success. In the old, rickety at
fair which so we'll served as a grand
stand in the days when Commodore
kittSOn had his wonderful races there
were assembled between 600 and 700 OF
the students of the high school, who
gave their class yells as members of
their respective organizations came off
victorious in the contests, viii
stretched over the course there were
from 1000 to 1000 people, who had
come in all kinds of conveyances to see
such rare thing in this part OF the
country as good field day exercises.
The first event was the 100-yards dash
which was holly contested. and which was
won by j. King in the excellent time of 10I-5
seconds. ii. Boyer second. ;
Second event. throwing hammer, won by
III. Jefferson, who threw So feet inches. 5.
Joy came second. throwing q feet.
Third event. running high jump, won by
K. jefferson, 4 feet inches.
Fourth event, 220-yard DASH won by j.
King III 25S4 seconds G.. Slater second.
Fifth Eyent-Throwing base ball, won by
G.. Overton, 269 feet: A. Alness second.
Sixth Event-Three-legged race, 100 yards,
won by T. Ninton and E. Alden; G. Slater
and G.. OYerton second
Seventh Event-Quarter mile pony race.
won by r. Heard, 32t2 seconds; second, ii.
Grant
Eighth Event-Running broad jump, won
by G. Slater, is feet inches; P. Benz second.
IA feet inches
Ninth event, quarter-mile run, won by j.
King, X. Youngman second. No official time
was taken, nut it was about 81 seconds.
The tenth event was the Faculty contest,
which consisted firstly in an Indian wrest-
ling match by Prof. Carman and Prof ".
Williams. Prof w. Williams won, getting
the best two out of three. There was also
ten yards dash, in which Profs. Carman,
Williams and Wilson took part. Prof. w,
Williams again winning This was probably
one OF the most interesting events of the day,
but all the scholars seemed to be very disap
pointed that their beloved principal did not
win in some of the events.
Eleventh event, putting shot won by S
Joy, 3Il2 feet; second W. Dalrymple, 1854.
Twelfth event, wrestling match was very
exciting, f. Songield winning the first fall
between Songfield and d. O'Brien; B. Max
well and S. Joy had the second bout; B.
Maxwell won, and also carried the third
bout with A. Jordan, thus securing the prize
Thirteenth event half-mile run. won by G.
Overton; time, 2:2S; second, II. Songfield
Fourteenth event, mile Dycicle race. won
by X. Deters; time, 3:23l2; second, p. Weed.
Fifteenth event, wheelbarrow race, won by
Ernst and Maxwell.
Sixteenth event. mile run, won by r. JEFF
ferSon; time, SIS; second, B. Maxwell.
The greatest features of the contests were
the running races, in which exceptionally
fast time was made for amateurs All of the
events proved exceptionally interesting. and
great praise should be given TO the Field day
committee who had the affair i'll charge, and
also to James Deneagre, who acted as referee,
TO W. Thompson, starter, and II. Brown
timekeeper.