Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
1O REVIVE IOWA EVENT
Plans Being Made to Hold State
Track Meet In Sioux
City
OLD SYSTEM NOT GOOD
o SYSTEM NOT GOOD
Idea of Y. M. C. A. Physical Director
of Sioux City, Is to Adopt the Inter-
collegiate System - Many Outside
Cities Will Be Represented by Teams
Time of Event Indefinite.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
revival of state track meets, and the
first event of the kind to be held for
many years, will be pulled off in Sioux
city during the coming winter or
spring, according to the present plans
of Physical Director ]. b. Modisett. of
the local Y Nj. c. A The latter wished
TO add this attraction to those of the
.. state Y. NJ. e. A. convention that Wtl.
be held here in February, but the prob
abilities are that the meet Will need to
be held at some other time. II it IS
held. 1t had been planned to pull the
events off in the gymnasium the night
before the active work of the conven-
ton began, but a conference of the
state workers is to be held two days
before the convention. making this
plan impossible.
Sentiment is reawakening for the
restitution OF the indoor meet to its old
place of honor The decadence of the
fact that all OF them in the old regime
were run off under the individual
championship system BY this method
the time of a man in the dashes. the
height he reached in the pole vault or
high jump. the distance he put the shot
and negotiated in the broad jump all
counted a certain number of points, all
of which were added to get the total
There were many disadvantages to
this system. The meet requires an un-
coEscionable length of time for its
completion and the teams of the diff
ferent association do not get a fair
rating, Directors of an indoor meet UNI
der the old regime have often stayed
up with the athletes until early in the
morning, when they succeeded in get
ting the dragging affair off their
hands.
Mr. Modisetts idea is that the in
tercollegiate system of running events
should be used, one team matched
against another,in every event. and the
results counting 5 for first, for sec
ends and / for thirds, just the same
as in intercollegiate meets. He be-
lieves that If a state meet is run off
under these conditions during the
coming winter that it will prove popL-
lar enough to become an annual af-
fair.
Altho no communication has beer
made with the other associations III
the state in regard to the matter 1t IS
certain that most of them, including
Des Mones. Council Bluffs, Ottumwa
Waterloo Fort Dodge and many others
would be represented by teams.
In addition to the track events the
usual ones in an indoor meet, a bas-
ketban championship will be held, in
which all the Y. NJ. G. A. teams of the
state would compete for the amateur
championship. This meet will be the
largest athletic event held in Sioux
City for some time if the plans go
thru.
The military in athletic training Of
boys, which has been slightly evident
in the training given them by the Y
M c. A. gymnastic directors before, has
been added to by the division of all the
classes in the boys department into
squads. and their direction in their
athletic exercises by the SQUAD leaders,
picked from among the boys.