The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-30
PREPARE FOR A BIG DAY
UNIVERSITY AND B. Y. ACAD-
ENVY IN FRIENDLY RIVALRY.
Will Have Field Sports During Day
Next Thursday, Winding Up With
oratorical Contest at Night.

The Intercollegiate contest that has
been arranged between the university
and the B. Y. academy of Provo for
next Thursday will be the most import
ant educational event of its kind ever
held in Salt Lake. The entire day Will
be given over to sports and contests Of
both an athletic and a scholastic ma
ture. The people of Provo are enthu-
siaStic over the event, and viii be
down in large numbers. The university
students are expecting a great time.
and are making ample preparations to
entertain their guests.
The contest is the first of its kind
ever held in the state. Several years
ago the university students arranged
for a similar contest with the Univer-
sity of Colorado, selected debaters and
began work in earnest; but their plans
did not materialiZe. Two years ago
they tried to arrange for a contest with
the B. Y. academy, but failed aCain.
This time they have been successful.
and have completed all the arrange
ments for the day, next Thursday.
The athletic contests will take place
in the forenoon and afternoon, and the
contest in debate and original MARIA
tive in the evening. The sports will OF
cur on the university campus, the dc
bate in the Salt Lake theatre. The ath-
letics will include contests in basket
ball by the ladies, baseball and field
sports. 1t has been definitely decided
that the field sports will include the
fifty-yard dash, the 100-yard dash, the
half-mile race, standing high kick. rur-
ming broad jump, standing broad jump,
running high jump. throwing twelve
pound hammer, putting twelve-pound
shot, and the pole vault Each contest
ant must be a registered student in the
ne bp NJ
more than two men shall enter from
each school for any one of the field
sports. In each event two men viii
be awarded honors, the best scoring five
points, the second scoring three, re-
CARELESS of the school which they KEEP
resent
1t is probable that the basketball
game will occur in the morning. The
university students will then serve
lunch at he university for their friends
from the academy. At 1 o'clock the
field sports will begin, and as soon SIS
these are over, the baseball game will
be played. To these events an ad1uis-
sion of % cents will be charged.
The debate will occur at o'clock in
the evening. Held's band of seventeen
pieces has been secured for the occa-
sion. The leading educators of the city
and of the state will be upon the stage.
The board of regents of the university
will be present in a body: so also viii
the board of education of the academy
Invitations have been extended to the
faculties of all the institutions of hiSher
education in the state. All of these. in
connection with the teaching forces of
the contesting institutions, will occupy
positions upon the platform. Gover-c-'
Heber NJ. Wells will officiate as master
of ceremonies. Judge c. 5. Zane VIII
act as one of the judges. 1t is prob
able that Professor Z. y. McEwan Of
the Agricultural College will be an
other. The third has not YET been Sc
Iected. Joseph Nelson, principal of the
i. d. s. Business college will act as
time-keeper.
The Theatre will be divided into east
and west halves, the academy students
occupying the east half. and the uni
versity sympathizers the west. Goth
sections will be profusely decorated
with national and college cOlOrs. Tick
cts for the debate are being diStrU-
uted by the managing committee. The
lower part of the house will be OCcu-
pied by college students, fourth year
normals, principal educators and lead
ing citizens. The upper balconies will
be open to students of preparatory rank
and the public generally.
The contest will comprise a debate:
Resolved. That the United States
Ought to Retain the Philippines" and
two original stories. The affirmative Of
the debate will be argued by Edward
Rowe and Leo Bird for the academy.
and the negative by n. II. Porter and
j. ]. Cannon for the university. Miss
Annie Pike will represent the academy
in original narrative and Mr.. s l..
Richards the university.
The spirit with which the students OF
both institutions have taken up the
work indicates that the event will be
most successful. The academy students
have received 800 seats for the Theatre,
and expect to swell their number to
500 The university students are en-
thusiastic; they are hard at work in
the field and in the library. Already
they are at a loss to know what to dO>'
for seats for the debate, even for Them
selves. Everything points to the best
and most vigorously contested educa-
tional event our city has ever seen.
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