Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-02
IOWA IN CLOSE RAGE
College Stock Judging Team at
Chicago Show Had Warm
Competition
COLLEGE YELL is HEARD
II. H. kiIdee, Of Ames, Secures First
Place in Individual Work-colIese
is Victorious in Several Other
Glasses in Cattle, Sheep and Swine
Some of the Winnings.
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I Chicago, Dec. 2.-The college DO!
has fixed place at the internationa
4 livestock show. It is not seat ava,
in the rear, either. 1t is a reserve
chair in a front row box. And every
one who had anything to do with plac.
ing him there is proud of his effort.
! When the long headed, far seeing
i founders of the International exposition
first discussed the establishment of the
livestock show they recognized TN;
work that was being done in the agri-
cultural institutions of this country
/ They agreed that it was their duty
| in their efforts at the education of the
livestock breeders and feeders to AID
in every way this coming feeder and
| breeder.
Thirty Schools in This Year.
There was a close contest among
the college boys this year. Teams rep
resenting eight institutions met IN
the race. This does not mean that
only eight agricultural Institutions in
the schools of the country Were
estedein the contest. There is a school
OF agriculture in every state and ter
| ritory of the United States, and Of
these there are thirty represented ut
the exposition, most Of them by stu
dents, all by either students or by
members Of the schools faculty.
Iowa State college led at the finish
And it was a contest worth while,
with no disgrace attached to the in
stitution running second, or third, or
fourth or fifth, or even last. Iowa
State college scored a total of 4,373
points. Nebraska university was sec
ond with 4,153 points. Texas Agri-
cultural college was third with 4.0S1
points. Missouri university was next
with 1915 points. Kansas Agricultural
college scored 4,075 points. Ohio uni
versity was next with 1895 points; On
tario Agricultural college had s,943
points, and Minnesota university 1889
and last of little more than 500 points.
lowan Leads individuals.
H. H. kildee of the Iowa State coll
lege took the first place for individual
work when he was given a score Of 949
points by the judges. c. W. Campbell,
of the Kansas Agricultural college was
second with 917 points j. H. Gram
Itch Of Nebraska university, with 900
points; j. H. Couke, Nebraska univer-
sity with S92 points; and r. F. Miller,
Texas Agricultural college, with $40
points, followed.
j. Ogden Armour this year, as last,
has given $4,000 for twenty scholar
ships, which will be distributed among
the winners. The college whose teams
did the best work in all classes will.
receive a scholarship, and each schoi-
arship amounts to $3.50, which will go
q long way towards paying the ex-
penses of a student during a years stay
at the college. In addition each insti-
tuition whose team received the hes.
grades in the judging of horses will
receive a scholarship. The same is
true in the cattle division and in the
sheep division. and in the hog division
and in the grains, feeding, and forage !
exhibit.
The remaining fourteen scholarships
will be distributed on the basis of cash |
prizes won by the colleges in the open |
classes for International exposition
money only
Out in the arena one Of the directors
IF the International exposition with a
announced the findings Of !
he judges who had passed upon the
work of the college boys.
III. II. Kildee Of Iowa State college
S awarded first in the list of those
Who contested in the students judg-
ng class, with a score Of $40 points,
'ame the voice from the trumpet.
Brings Out College YeIls.
"Rat! Rah! ,Rah!-Rah! Rah! Rah!
oval" burst from the crowds in the
Whats the matter with Kildee?"
Dared an enthusiast.
"He's all right" answered the
crowd.
who's all rightr' questioned the
enthusiast
"Kildee" came tho answer in
torn that might have been heard all
'ver the stockyards.
For mercy's sake!" asked one Of the
'oung women who was visitor at the
i've stock show for the first time, "are
hey going to start foot ball game?
What are those college boys doing
lere?"
The young woman was told that the
ollege yell was being given for the
tudent who had won first place in a
ontest with young men from all over
he United States and Canada on his
.biilty to Judge all classes Of live
took. And the one who gave her the
who was stockman who
WINS a couple Of millions Of acres in
he west and owns herds Of short
orns that for three years have swept
he platter clean of prize ribbons told
er that he would be more proud of
is son who had won in such compe-
ltion that If he had been hailed as the
ero Of foot ball game.
Colleges Enter Many Animals.
The colleges again proved their
Make Natures work easy with