Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-05-17

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| Points, Wausau Gets Second Place,
| With 2 Points, and Kaukauna Third,
| With / 2 Points, in the Field Meet
A Muddy Track and Rain Soaked
Field.-Budd Silverthorn the Star
Man of the Meet Wv Is
On last Saturday morning, the Wau-
sau high school track team, consisting
OF Capt. ID. Wilson, B. Silverthorn, f..
Viele, r. Miller, S. Burek, b. Young,
0. Bromberg, A. Bugbee, and Geo.
Wilson, accompanied by Supt. Kari
Mathie, Prin. c. C. Parlin, Miss Anne
C. Rankin, Mr.. John F. Murray, Alfred
Zimmerman, Edwin Sipes, James Colby
Oscar Larson, Leander Ringle, Perry
Wilson, Fred Wartman, Karl Kraft,
Arthur Minton, Misses Irene and
Frances Albers, Edna and Bonita
Shatto, Winifred Ryan, Elizabeth
Mathie, and masters Karl Mathie and
Norton Kelly, departed for Appleton,
confident of victory, but through con
bination of misfortunes the team Sc
cured only second place.
The weather was very cold and the
track and field so muddy from the re-
cent heavy rains, that the meet as an
athletic contest, proved very unsatis-
factory to the large audience assembled
at the Appleton fair grounds. The
management of the meet had directed
the track to be dragged with harrow,
in order to let the air in, and then
failed to secureaa roller to again give
the boys smooth track; consequently
the boys had to shoe their way in order
to keep out of the mud In the field
events similar disadvantages were en-
countered. The ring in which the boys
stood to throw the hammer, was so
soaked with rain, that it was impossible
to secure foot hold and do creditabIe
throwing. In the broad jump, part of
the course over which the jumpers ran
was a quagmire filled with sand, thus
| rendering all calculations erroneous.
The vault in the field had finally to be
moved to the track, in order to do any
thing with it, while the high jump was
attempted under such poor conditions
that the best record was Aft. lin.
In spite of the adverse conditions
enumerated, Geo. Silverthorn ran the
220 yard dash in the remarkable fast
time of 10 2-5, and won the 22O yard
dash while the snow was falling, in %
3-5 seconds. He also won second place
in the broad jump, thus giving him
thirteen points. n
! While every member of our team did
splendid work, special mention should
be made of the magnificent running
vi Don Wilson, Edgar Viele, and Robt.
Miller. Abel Bugbee also showed up
in splendid form, winning his trial heat
easily in the 100 yard dash, and being a
very close third in the final, some felt
that he was entitled to third place.
Elmer Young did good work in the
hammer throw, when conditions are
taken into account.
The records are as follows
ITO yard Dissatisfaction wausau, nrst;
lirwan, Kaukanna, second; Keek, Fond du
| Lac, third; time, 10 2-5.
20 yard dash-Silverthorn, Wausau, first
| Woods, Fond du Lac second; Kirwan, Kan
kauna, third time, % 35.
| 30 yard hurdies-Morarity. Fond du Lac
| first Natwick, Grand Rapids, second: Scheid
| Fond du Lac, third; time, rs as.
| one half mile run-Mueh Berlin, first; Dana
| third; time, 2:l3 3-5.
$40 yard dash-Scheid, Fond du Lac. FIRST
| Wilson, Wausau, second Tanner, Berlin, third
| time, 50 40.
one mile run-Dana, Fond du Lac, first;
| Welsoh' Sheboygan, second; Hopkins, Apple
ton Ryan, third time, 300 S5.
Helay-Fond dn Lac first; Wausau, second
| Appleton, Ryan, third
discus throw-McNerney, West Green Raw
first; Surplice, East Green Bay. second; Wood.
Appleton, Third ward, third; distance, 95 feet
slPt put-Graas, Sturgeon Bay, first: Sur.
plce, East Green Bay second; Spencer, Wau-
paca, third; distance. 3s feet 81 inches
Hammer thr7Y-CO0k, East Green Bay. first
| Wood Appleton. Third ward second: Young.
Wausau. third; distance 1913 feet.
High jump-Taylor Marinette, first; Van
| Buren,, seymour, second; r. Cas4on. Mar.
inette, third height, feet II inches.
Broad iumY-Klein, Appleton, Ryan. first:
Silverth9,rn Wausau, second; Langd6n, Rhine
| lander. third; distance. 10 feet inches
Pole yault-KiFwin, Kaukauna, first; Weston
| kaukauna, second, Bowen, Oshkosh, and
schmidt, Appleton, Third ward tie; height. {
100 yard hurdle-F Casson. Marirette first:
Natwick, Grand Rapids, second Btrek, Wan.
sau, third time. ~ 3-5
As Wausau has won the cup twice, il
was Wausau against the field, and OF
course every other school was working
first of all to prevent Wausau from get.
ting the cup at that time, as that would
have brought it permanently to our
city. Under such circumstances our
school could not hope to get the benefit
of any close decisions, and it did not.
1t was ielt by many that Donald Wilson
had tied for first in the 40 yard dash.
The cup has now been won twice by
Wausau, once by Marinette, and once
| by Fond du Lac, and our school is still in
the lead. and has at least two years to
win it in, and thus make it permanent
trophy. II now remains for the boys
OF our high school to so perfect them
selves in their specialties, that the cur
will be wen third time before either
of the other two schools wins it twice
OF fourth school win it three times
The team and those who accompanied