The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02
BOYS COMPETE ON
CUMMINGS FIELD
Tiff MethodiSts Win Close
Fought Track and Field Meet
Between Sunday Schools.

= Eighteenth ward L. D. S.. So
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Nearly go youngsters. some of them
hardly out of their baby skirts. others
well developed lads. gathered at Cum
rnings field yesterday in the second an
nual track and field meet of the Salt
Lake Sunday schools 1t presented a
novel sight. these small boys using the
exact style and form used by the leading
athletes of the state in their annual on
siaughI on the records The sprinters had
the correct starting form. the jumpers
cleared the bamboo pole ike SO many past
masters in the game. and while the dis
tanceS ard times made were far below
what the college men do, it was inter
estinE-
These boys have studied the art of run
ming and jumping and some of them can
give older and wiser heads. points on the
game As On example conversation be
tween two of these kids watching the
starts of the fifty-yaFd dash will show
plainly that even at their age they know
their business One little slender youth
watching a bunch Of his rivals line up
for a start in one Of the heats turned to
his companion and said II tell you
there is nothing to it in these short
sprints- beat the gun and you win The
man who gets off his mark first at fifty
has the race, there is nothing to it
Just then the gun went off and one
youngsteF did beat it and started for
the tape with good lead What did
/ tell you there be goes and he wins
came from the wise kid just as the boy
who had beaten the gun. only fraction
of second, dashed home in front of
dozen youngsters who started IN the race
1t is an old trick and many Of the boys
tried II yesterday. but beating the gun
IS hard proposition for the oldest of
heads in the spTinting game
1t took many preliminaFies before the
boys got down to the finals but each
race, preliminary Or final. was close and
Interesting The showed the l9KPIIn
of the boys. and many youngsters seen
dashing down the cinder path yesterday
have that quality. +gameneSs- which
goes long way toward making sue
cess in life This determination to fight
II out. even when defeat was plainly in
sight. was one Of the chief features Of the
meet Boys OF all ages and descriptions
were there Each had his running suit,
some wore spike shoes and all liked the
sport
The race between the several Sunday
schools for first place was close and il
was not until the final events had been
-un off that the scorer announced the
diff Methodist as the winners. By the
margin OF one point they beat the First
Methodist, while the St PauTs were but
,ne point behind Many OF the Sunday
schools had their roofing clubs. in fact
L was big athlete meet on q miniature
IcaIe-
In the evening the winners were pre-
sented with The Herald medals at the
z NJ C A by Governor Cutler
The results:
The Summaries.
lOO-yard speciaEWhitney. Eighteenth
ward /. D. 8; Carmichael First Presby-
terrain; Bowers, East Side Baptist. Time,
10 Is seconds
sO-yard. newsboys under 1S-Iowell Ma
Ieese. John Anderson. Ernest Rolfe- Time.
3 seconds
75-yard. newsboys under ls-Frank Mey-
srs. Holden Settle. G. Kahn. Time, sec
ends.
50-yard. class A-George Orlob. Ilff:
Charles Davidson, First Congregational;
Robert Rich. East Side Baptist. Time,
5O-yard dash, class B-Val Steiffel, First
Presbyterian. Guy Tate, East Side Bap-
list; A Davis, First Presbyterian Time,
IS seconds.
iOo-yard. class C-B. Brown. First Meth
odist: Fred Woodruff First Baptist; c.
Weston. ST. Paul Time. u seconds.
1OO-yard class B-Val steiffel. First
PRESBYTERIAN. GUY Tate East Side Rap-
fist: A. Davis. First Presbyterian. Time,
II As seconds
loO-yard. class Al. Youndt ST Paul;
j. Roy. Tiff; George OrlOb. Tiff Time.
13 % seconds.
22O-yard. class &C. Weston, St Paul:
B. Brown First Methodist; r. Mcintyre,
First Presbyterian Time. q Is seconds
SSO-yard relay. special-F'irst Baptist,
First Presbyterian, First Baptist second
team. Time. 2?O5 As.
Y. NJ. c. A. A s s Boys clubs. $50
yard relay-Iliff. First Baptist. First
Methodist.
Special running broad jump under 20
years-Roy Workman, First Baptist;
Harold Bates. First Baptist: Allan Ans
ley First Baptist. Distance, II feet 1917
High lump. class CHI. George, st.
Paul: B. Brown. First Methodist.
Broad jump. class CT. Woodruff Firs1
Presbyterian: H. George St. Paul; Wes-
Ton. ST. Paul. Is feet Z inch.
IIfrH f1tr1p class A-C. GOSS. Tiff. n.
Rogers. First Congregational: Roy kerk-
wood. Tiff. Distance. 4 feet inch.
Broad jump, class B-LaProhon. First