The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-04-22
MUCH INTEREST
IN BIG MEET
Twenty Schools to Send Rep
reSentatives Here
TRACK OFFICIALS SELECTED
MEET TO OPEN WITH BIG PAR
ADE ON THURSDAY
MORNING.

Twenty high schools throughout the
Inland Empire will send representa-
tives to the big tri-state interscholas-
tic track meet which is to be held in
the Walla Walla on Thursday and Fri
day of next week. Each school will have
the expenses of six men and a speaker
in the defamation contest paid. Be
sides these there will be several hun
dred visitors accompanying the ath-
letes, thus assuring a bigger meet even
than that of last year
The schools which have signified
their Willingness TO come are Baker
City. Boise, Davenport, IElensburg,
FOSSIL, Garfield Island City, LaGrande,
Lewiston, North Yakima. Oakesdale
Paiousa, Pendleton. Pomeroy, Prosser
| Rtzville Spokane, The Dalles. Waits
burg and Walla Walla. OF these
Davenport Fossil, Island City. Pros
ser and TIE Dalles are schools that dill
not enter last year. North Yakima en-
tered last year but did not send con-
testants. ColfaX is the only school,
that refused
Appointments of officials and heads
Of committees to handle the meet are
announced as follows: Programs and
sale of tickets, Prof H. S Brodr:
treasurer of the meet. Prof. f.. E.
Ruby; meeting trains and furnishing
guides, Prof w. d. Lyman: field track
and paraphernalia, Prof. g. F. Brown;
entertainment, Robert Carey, A. c.
Moore, Profs. Brubaker and Todd
marshall, w. A. Bratton; prizes and
cups, Prof. Dunmore: tents for con-
testants. Prof n. r. Coleman; public
schools. Prof. Jas. Cooper: assignment
of entries Dorsey Hill and B. F.
Brown; GOWN town sale of tickets, ].
c. Scott and w. H. Kirkman: news
papers and publicity, NJ. H. Ellis: dec
lamation contest. Prof. William
Worthingtor; special musical chapel
service. Prof. A. c. Jackson: athletic
exhibition Prof. D. V. Mitchell referee,
Dorsey Hill.
The defamation contest will be
given in the Whitman college chapel
this year instead of in the opera house
IS last year This is made necessary
is held on the last night of the meet
and after it is over the prizes will be
every contestant.
The meet will open with big parade
after chapel on Thursday morning. The
parade will be led by the Fourteenth
cavalry band after which will come
the tallyho bearing the speakers in the
declaration contest. Following these
will be the members of the delegation
from TIE different schools. each unde"
its own remnant.
on Thursday night the sophomore
class will give their play. The Gilded
Fool in the opera house This is 2
new feature and one which has been
added because it has been thought best
that the visitors should see something
of what is done by the local school,
rather than do all the entertaining |
themselves.
Friday morning in the gymnasium,
the gmy classes of Prof. D. V. Mitchell
will give an exhibition for the visitors,
including marches. dances, drills. in
dividuals and team apparatus work.
The meet is assuming mammoth
proportions and its financial end is
going to be somewhat of a puzZler for
the college. but no aid will be asked
from the downtown people, further
than that of closing the stores on Fri
day afternoon which it is thought will
be done with no opposition.