The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-05-24
SCHOOL ATHLETES STRIVE
The Marshall Boys Get First,
Tracy Second, and Red.
wood Third.
TreddWell, Wilson and Johnson
of Redwood Score Very
Heavily.

Southwestern Minnesota Inter-
State Athletic League, composed Of
the pupils of the high schools at
Marshall, Tracy, Redwood Falls,
Pipestone, with Granite Falls as a
non-active member, occurred at
Marshall on Friday and Saturday
last. In the winning of points at
the meeting Marshall was first with
81 points, Tracy was second with 33
and Redwood was third with 29 and
Pipestone was fourth with only 6.
The attendance was unusually
large, the grand stand and bleach
ers of the Marshall base ball park,
being filled to overfowing on the
first afternoon. Marshall itself
turned out handsomely, and the
Marshall colors of orange and black
not only predominated but were
very much in evidence, not only
when the excellent young Mar
shall athletes scored their many
points, but on the coats, canes, and
umbrellas of the men of Marshall,
and the shirt waists, etc., of the
charming Marshall bellies, many of
the waists having been made for
the occasion. The Pipestone ath-
letes, although not in it from the
athletic standpoint, were reinforced
by two car loads of Pipestone en-
thusiasts, who wore the blue on
hats, caps, coat lapels, etc., until
the boys from that town were de-
feated and then the colors came
down. Tracy wore the pink and
green, and eight or ten carriages
and wagons loaded with Tracy
people drove into town about noon
Friday and made the Marshall well
kin ring with the Tracy school yell.
The Redwood boys were reinforced
by just four outsiders, but the red
ribbons tapped from the coats of
the Redwoodites and they were
never removed until after the boys
returned to this city Saturday
night
AS were Kennedy, McLennan and
lo1 90 ~l.,1
people. and Main the idol of Tracy,
so was Owen Treadwell the idol Of
the Redwood crowd. The young
man covered himself with glory
from the start, when he entered the
first event, 80 yard dash, and in
one of the most brilliant finishes
ever seen, won second place, and
opened the Redwood ball program
with two points. He entered the
| 100 yard dash and secured third
place. On the very next event. the
half mile run, he secured first
place, on the running broad Jump
he secured third place, on the 22O
dash ditto. On the 40 yard dash
he secured second place. and in the
hop, skip and Jump he won first
place, amid the wild plaudits of the
entire audience, as he easily made
distance of 40 feet, only feet and
I inches lower than the world s rec
ord, and foot of anything attempt
ed on the Marshall grounds.
Max Johnson made a record in
the pole vault, going 10 inches high
er than any record made. on the
Redwood grounds, he going feet
and 10 inches in the clear, just two
inches lower than McLennan of
Marshall, who won first and John
son second In the half mile walk
George Alexander was a leader
around to the stretch. when Dresser
of Marshall walked up and won.
The referee declared that Alexan-
der b roke just once-a break not
seen by the crowd, and he was de-
clared out, and Redwood conse-
quently lost two points that surely
belonged to its string. In the stand
ing broad jump Otto Wilson added
five points to the Redwood string
by jumping nine feet, eight and a
half inches and winning first place.
Otto was lucky, however, for in the
jump-of for second and third places.
young Sim. Burchard, a wiry little
athlete from Marshall, jumped nine
feet as cleverly as a jump was ever
| made, beating Ottos jump three and