The daily sentinel., 1905-05-13
FIELD DAY
The Sports Yesterday at
The Fair Grounds Well
Attended

There was not Il very large
crowd ut the fair grounds ycster-
day to witness the Field day sports
of the high school, but the day
could not have been better atlapt-
ed to such sports, and everything
tranSpwed smoothly and TO the en-
tire satisfaction of everybody pres
Cnt.
The Young athletes. who had
trained as best they could consider
uE the weather of the past two
weeks. made their Appearance at
about 2:15. They were au i'm the
regulation athletic garb. and seemed
to bc in fine fettle
The first event was The standing
broad jump. Won by RE Kennedy.
who cleared 9 feet inches. beating
last years record by inches He
showed fine form and cleared 9 feet
@ = inches in his last trial but was
disqualified because he fell back.
Graham was second; Chester secured
third. Miller fourth.
The second event was the running
broad jump, and Kennedy carried
away the honors in this event also.
clearing is feet / inch, very good
jump, indeed. Wells was second
Chester third; Graham fourth
In the girls shot-put, which, need
less to say, was an interesting event.
Miss Arminda Perce hurled the iron
lG feet Z inches. Anna Gourley was
second; Bess DeLong third; Sadie
Erickson fourth.
The standing hop. step and jump
was taken by Hunter, with - feet
inches to his credit. Kennedy sec
ond Graham third; Chester fourth
The running hop, step and jump
was also won by Hunter. with the re-
markable distance of 40 feet inch
es Kennedy was again second. with
IS feet y inches, and Chester was
third; Graham fourth.
In the strength test. the shot-put
Chester won with 81 feet 2 inches
Miller was second with 20 feet SA
inches, Graham third.
In the hammer throw. the boys did
not make good records being tired
from the other events. Miller won
with 5S feet inches; Matlack sec
ond: Chester third. The boys were
handicapped by having to use a rope
instead OF the regulation two-grip
handle,
In the GO-pound weight put Ches-
ter was the victor, putting It / 2 feet
! inch Miller was second with 9
feet S inches. Both boys put the
heavy iron weight from the shoulder
In the class relay race, which was
not as exciting as IL should have
been. the juniors won; sophomores
second.
The 1O0-yard dash was a fine race
and the time made was but 10 of "A
second slower than the state inter
collegiate record for this year. Hunt
err won the dash in the remarkable
time Of 10 3-5 seconds. Kennedy "A
very close second. and Matlack third.
The y mile bicycle race was won
easily by Rex Barber; Blackstone sec
ond
In the 1-mne bicycle race Barber
won in easy fashion. not exerting
himself in the least: Chester second
In the 22O-yard dash Wells was
the winner, with Kennedy and Bar
her tfeing for second place, and Ches-
ter third.
The best performances were made
in the running broad jump, the run
ming hop. step and jump, 1O0-yard
lash shot put and standing broad
jump.
The sophomore class were the vic
forious ones winning the day and all
its accompanying honors with 5S Y
points The juniors came up second
with Is points, seniors lhird win 10
points. freshmen last with II la
points.
1t was impossible to carry out all
the events advertised on account of
a lack OF time The high school boys
are elated over the showing made,
and say they will beat it again next
year.
The following records were broken
this year compared with last years
performances1 Standing jump,
broken 6 inches; running jump, /
foot . inches. standing hop, step and
Jump. 3 feet inches running hop.
step and jump. feet 1 inch: shot
put. feet 9 inches, l0O-yard dash,
] second; G0-pound weight put, .
feet inch
S. C. Wray, the well known pho
tographer. took some splendid snap
shot Of some of the events. and they
win appear in the Commencement
number of the High School Record.
published at this Office.