The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-05-12

The local high school students are
looking forward with great interest
to the coming Northern Indiana track
meet which is to be held in this city
next Saturday. The day of the meet
will be a gala one for them and it is
expected that the city will be crowded
with brawny muscled athletes, bulge
browed orators and gay high school
girls and boys.
The young people of the city are
greatly pleased over the prospects of
having settled weather for the meet
and if the day is fine it is expected
tests will be attended by record
breaking crowd
A large number OF entries from each
of the cities represented in the ath-
letic contest indicate a greater interest
than has been in evidence for a num-
Der of years
The meet will be HID in Harrison
park in Hammond and will be the fifth
event of the kind which has been held
under the auspices of the Northern
Indiana schools. The board of pub
lie works has granted the use of the
park and horses will not be allowed
on the speedway.
On next Saturday evening in Towle's
optra house the annual contest in ora
tory will be held The orators who
have been entered in the contest are,
Miss Edith Carter. Hammond, subject,
wendell Phillips, Herbert Laut-
mann, Michigan City, Our New Pa
triotism;';'' Miss Hazel Smith, Crown
Point. More Regard of Law" Miss
Madge woodward. South Bend, Joan
of Arc" "A Remedy for Anarchy" Earl
Porte, "A Remedy For Anarchy" Earl
Reeder, Mishawaka.
In the athletic contest LaPorte has
the biggest entry list, having entered
eighteen of it's stars. Elkhart, Goshen,
and Crown Point will each have eleven
men in the meet while Hammond will
be represented by Thirteen aspirants.
The complete entry list in charge of
Professor NJ. G. Murphy, secretary of
league is as follows:
1O0-yard dash-Heitschmidt Mich
igan City; Freese, Long, Rummell, La
Porte; Hollis Hunter, James Vedder
Hammond Earl Reeder, David Doxta-
tor, Raymond Poyel, Mishawaka; Har-
ry Rockwell, Murray Bailey, James
Burge, Crown Point; Leo Bedenkop
Howard Maxom, Frank Hauenstein
Elkhart; Orlo Deahl, Jack Franken-
stein. Charles Wagner, Goshen; Koenig
Homer, South Bend.
220-yard dash-Leon Heitschmidt
Joseph Rosenberg, Michigan City;
Long, Bunnethum, Rummell, La Porte
Julius Meyn, Hollis Hunter, William
Evers Hammond; Earl Reeder David
Doxtator. Hugh McKindley, Misha-
! waka; Harry Rockwell, Edward Fedler
James Burge, Crown Point; Leo Bed
| enkop. Forest Mitchell, Ronald Maxon
Elkhart; Orlo Deahl, Jack Franken-
stein, Charles Wagner, Goshen; Koenig
South Bend.
44O-yard run-Long, Frankenburger
Rummell, LaPorte; William Evers, Hol-
| lis Hunter. Elston Elliott, Hammond
Raymond Powell Eugene Gartner
Mishawaka Edward Fedler James
Burge, Harry Rockwell, Crown Point
Leo Bedenkop, Forest Mitchell, Donald
Maxon, Elkhart; Elmer Culp, Bert
Vance, Charles Wagner. Goshen.
Half Mile Run-Captafn Blick, Park
house, Farmhouse, Bradbury La Porte
Edwin Gavit, Wesley Burwell, Robir
Amoss Hammond Eugene Gartner
Hugh McKindley, Raymond Powell
Mishawaka; Arthur Palmer, Plymouth
Edward Fedler, Herbert Johnson, Rob.
ert Benjamin. Crown Point; Claut
Lehman, Edward Hilfer. Howard Max
on. Elkhart; Bert Vance. Charles Wag
ner. Elmer Culp. Goshen; Kirby, King
ley, South Bend
| One Mile Run-Ernest Dunn, Mich
| igan City; Blick, Farmhouse, Reed, LIZ
Porte; Raymond Powell, Eugene Fart
ner; Hugh McKindley, Mishawaka; Ed
ward Fedler, Roger Benjamin, Franz
McWayne, Crown Point: Claude Leh
man, Howard Mason, Donald Maxor
Elkhart; Bert Vance, Elmer Culp
Charles Wagler Goshen
12O-Yard High Hurldes-Ernest Dunn
] Michigan City; Frankenburger, Hoov