Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-21
high SCHOOL MEET
Overa Hundred Young Athletes
Have Entered For Tomor-
rows Contests
MANY ON THE GROUND EARLY
Advance Contingent Arrives in GrinneIl
and Are Preparing for the Events
Ward Field in Fine Shape-Contest
for Next Years Meet-List of Schools
Participating.
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first event in the preliminaries Friday
will be the day of days for the high
school athlete and Grinnell. With good
weather nothing can prevent the state
high school meet from being a success,
| for almost ideal conditions exist for
running off this great annual event IN
| q manner that will reflect credit on the
management. Last years records should
be bettered, as many of The old athletes
are back and will compete under even
better conditions than lest year. Every
thing being equal 1t VIII be a day Of
excitement for the oniooker, Of hard and
faithful work on the part of the man
and equally honorable defeats for 9TH
ers, but all this will be forgotten in the
pleasures of the evening.
So far as planned now reception
will be given the visitors in the mems
gymnasium and light refreshments
served. After 8 o'clock the Glee Club
made concerts on the steps of Blair hail.
Il is planned at present to have light
effects on the campus, Illuminating the
surroundings around the hall. Between
selections the medals, which are gold,
silver and bronze, will be awarded the
winners. probably by Attorney II. H.
Stipp, of Des Moines. For the one who
loves to trip the light fantastic enjoy
ment will be found at the armory, where
the Grinnell Citizens band will enter
tain the visitors and others with good
music. Grinnell's hospitality will be
wide open during the day and evening.
The management may secure the use of
the bowling alleys for Inc visitors and
all athletes will be allowed entrance to
the State University rinnell league
game. which will be played at Ward
field this afternoon.
Fifteen high schools are entered and
l15 athletes will contest for supremacy.
Ames. North Des Moiies, East Des
Moines, West Des Moines. Oskaloosa,
ottumwa. Waterloo, E.lora, Marengo,
Davenport, Council Bluffs. Harlan, Ida
Grove, Grinnell and CreSco will furnish
a quota OF. its best men. Cresco, North
Des Moines, Ida Grove and Waterloo
will be; voted on tonight, as these
schools havetnever participated. Other
schools which had winters last year
Will not be represented.
The athletes began to arrive yester-
day and from today till Saturday after
noon a variety of pretty girls, manly
men and youths. with an Understandable
number of colors. will overrun the city.
Six athletes arrived from Council Bluffs
last evening. Cresco vii! be represented
by eight men and few rooters. Nor
ton, the Iowa City Splinter and half
back, sstheir trainer. Nothing is known
about them save for Davis, their pole
vaulter, who has done better than ten
| feet. West and East Des Moines will
| send big delegations and all of the
| Drake track team will come down with
the crowd from Des Moines. North Des
Moines will probably bring their band
of twenty-five pieces to furnish music
during the day.
The business meeting Of the associa-
| ton Will be held next morning in the
society halls. The officers will be elected
and the location for next year deter
mined. Drake and the State University
will try to secure the meet. 1t is diff
cult to see how the State University can
handle the meet with their lack of Ia
cilities, having neither a good gymna
SUM nor an adequate track as the re-
cent dual meet SO palpably disclosed
1t Is expected that everything will
be run off like clock work. The pre-
liminaries begin promptly at $3.50 in the
morning and one price Of admission
enters one both in the morning and
afternoon. The GrinneIl athletes will
keep nothing waiting. Grinnell does
not care to have the meet located here
unless the school can carry 1t success
fully to the satisfaction of the high
schools. But under present conditions
she is able to care for it more adequate
ly than any other school. The Ward
field track is pronounced by those who
are competent to judge the best track
west of Chicago. The entire course is
cindered and perfect deuge is neces-
sary before a meet would be declared
off. The gymnasium offers ali its con-
veniences close to the field.
| The officials have been prominent in
| Iowa athletics and most of them won
laurels In the east. Rev. ]. P. Clyde
| for several years won the distance
events for Grinnell and later was a
member of the Yale relay team. F. e.
Spaulding was Fischer's running mate
| in the hurdles several years ago and
| later proved a winner at Princeton.
DOC" Harris was standby" in Grin
nell football and later was one of the
alumni coaches of the team.
| It is rumored that West Des Moines
will protest Beard, Of the East Des
Moines high school. on the ground that
he is a graduate student. Beard won
second to Kiesel in the half mile last
year and Is a good athlete. Principal
Guthrie. of West Des Moines, will prob
ably protest him.
Rates have been secured on all rail-
roads and a large number of excursions
will be run. The officers of the asso-
citation are II. G. Carson, East Des
Moines, president; Norman Vincent,
Davenport, vice president; Lewis Hop
kins. Grinnell, secretary; Phil Craig,
| West Des Moines, treasurer. The ex-
ecutive committee, Don Miles, Eldora:
liz. f. Hedges, Marengo: Charles
| O'Cammet, Council Bluffs.
The officials of the meat are:
Referee and Starter-F. e. Spaulding
| (Princeton).
Clerk of Course-R. NJ. Haines (Cor-
lnell University.
Assistant Clerks-W. P. Bair and
| Don Evans Uowa College,.
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