Arizona republican., 1908-12-02
COYOTES" DELIVER
 THEIR ULT|MATUM
Capt. Smith of the High School Track Team Says the Final Word in the Normal High School Controversy.

Normal High School Controversy.
 An interesting aftermath of the three track meets in which the Phoe- | nix high school and Tempe Normal | strove for supremacy is the contro- versy which has arisen as to which
 side won-that is. which side is the present champion of the territory. The Normals do not claim a tie. they de-
 mand the championship and the Coy l otes are naturally very indignant.
 The controversy has finally reached
 the class rooms. In Senior English % taught by Principal A. K. Satebler, the
 subject for an argumentative discourse
 today will be Resolved, that the
 Phoenix high school track team is
 champion of the territory All of the
 pupils in this class will hand in papers
 on this topic many of which will be
 read aloud. No one has yet been
 found willing to write on the negative
 side of the question.
 The paper which Herschel Smith,
 captain of the track team, will hand
 in is printed below. MT. Smith re-
 gently challenged the Normals to a
 fourth meet, which challenge was re-
 fused on the ground that Tempe all
 ready held the championship and for
 other reasons. The paper covers the entire situation and is the last word in
 the controversy from Phoenix. It is the Coyotes ultimatum:
 We merely want to mention a few
 facts concerning the Tempe Normal school claiming the championship of track work for the territory, and also concerning that part of the article in which the Tempe athletes refuse to clear all doubt as to which team is champion. At first a short history of the track season between these two schools is necessary.
 At the beginning of the season ar arrangements were made which were to control throughout the season. In the rules laid down by the representatives which met, one from each school, noth- ing was said as to the disqualified ton of post graduates or students whe had attended other schools. There are several students who have finished high schools and are yet going to nor nal. It was agreed upon that any contestant in athletics should have been in school doing satisfactory work for six weeks before he should be all lowed to compete in contest: but Stroud who had been in school only five weeks at the time of the first ta he. oil fn mi only two events. but after the first meet he was to be unlimited. This last clause was agreed to by Professor Aver himself. Before the last meet, however We were informed by Mir Aver that unless We would limit Strond as before he would fail to meet us. In order to carry out the schedule of the team and to have an other meet with Tempe. we conceded this point, which meant giving Normal 13 points. in the broad jump and S in the relay. as can be proved by com
 pairing the records of Stroud with those of Tempe athletes. Another con cession which we had to make before Normal would meet us was to count third place in six events one point each. which is not cunstomary. This was equivalent to giving five points to Normal This is all the rules that enter into this series of discussions.
 T wish now to state the results of the meets as put down in black and white. and not taking into considera- ton the juggling of points by Normal which is the principal feature of the arguments produced by them. Nor maj. is it not true that out of 3S first places in the three meets, high school took p and Normal 13? And did the high school boys not break nine terri torial records and Normal only three2 How about this, Normal As shown by the official scores of the three meets. high school won first meet 6115 points second 39, third 54h. while Normal won first meet 56lA, second 33. and third 63Ih. which makes a total of high school 155 points, Normal 153 points.
 "The above scores show what team is champion if the total number of points is to decide. as Normal seems to think it does. Again, the statement that the last meeting of teams always | decides which is chmapion shows ath- ltllt i5llble eAllNt bll Allt lleilN VI elll Nii' hold this idea. To prove this state ment. the author acknowleges that | Phoenix high school won the champi l onship last year, but this is the first | time it has been acknowledged and | the high school doesn't claim last | years championship but simply claims | a tie. which it really was.
 The high school has a silver cup | which she won over Normal and other | schools, which was given to the cham | pion track team of Arizona Has Nor | maj any medal, banner or cup that she | can produce to pOve that she is the | champion? l am from Missouri and l have to be shown
 Another thing that we don't under | stand is the juggling of poinis by the | Normal to make the meet at the fair a | tie. The facts are that high school | secured 39 points and Normal 33, mak | ing a total of 72 for both schools.
 Normal claims that had there been | no other schools competing, they | would have won seven points more | and the high school one. But who | knows that they would have won | seven extra points? The high school | has a habit of winning a point oc casionally and might have gotten one | of the coveted seven. But let it be | as they claim, what would have be-