The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-13
MADE FINE SHOWING
High School Athletes Made Il Fine
Record at the Tri-Statc Meet in
Sioux City Friday.


Coach Teeter and Belts, Storer,
Aspinwall, Wilkins and Vassar, he
representative bunch oil the Mitchell
high school participating in the Tri-
State Athletic tournament at Sioux
City last Friday, came home Satur-
day evening. having remained over
a day to witness the track meet be-
tween Nebraska n Morningside.
In conversation with Nassar he
stated that the boys really did not
expect to secure a first place at Sioux
City, resting on the s%upposition that
the Iowa boys would step altogether
too fast for them in the speed CON
track the Mitchell boys seemed to
have a little more speed and staying
qualities than their adversaries. The
boys desired the experience as much
as anything else and their victories
We're mighty welcome under the cir
cumstances.
The Mitchell boys quit with %
points to their credit, and were
awarded second place. All the coach
es united in a protest to Foell, the
Storm Lake, Iowa, sprinter, and it
is claimed that he has been in at
tendance at the Storm Lake high
school department for a period of
seven years, and that his running
qualities are such that he is main
tanned in the school for that purpose
alone.
The Sioux City Journal makes the
following comment on the work done
by the Mitchell boys in the events
in which they We're winners:
In the half-mile run the Mitchell
athletes came to the front for the
first time. Morley, of Onawa, jumped
to the front at the start and held the
lead, bucking the heavy wind on the
back stretch, and held his place till
the last 100 yards, when Belts of
Mitchell crept up on him and in a
fighting finish that brought the
crowd to its feet, beat him out by
a few inches at the tape. Sioux City's
man. Gardner, by a struggle, passed
four or five mel in the last lap and
got third.
Mitchell high school again sprung
into the limelight in the mile run
when Wilkins, taking the lead at the
start, was not passed during the en-
tire distance, covering the course in
5 minutes and Z seconds.
The low hurdles were slow. being
rum in only % As seconds. but even
AZ that the race furnished one of the
most exciting finishes of the afternoon
when Belts. of Mitchell, made up a
lead of ten feet in the last forty
yards and wrested first place from
West, of Storm Lake by a few inches.
The Journal also makes the fol-
lowing reference to the protest that
was filed against Foell, the big Win
ner for Storm Lake, and what Mitch
ell will get out of the meet if the
protests are allowed:
Foell, the star Storm Lake sprint
er, has been protested in the 100
yard dash, 220-yard dash, 44O-yard
dash and the preliminaries of the
%220-yard dash by Coaches Teeter of
Mitchell, Townshend of LeMars, Will
Hanson, of Cherokee AMI Buck of
Sioux City.
The grounds for the protest are
that Foell crossed from his lane in
the dashes to the lanes of other
sprinters. Foell is an experienced
man in high school athletics, this be-
his fourth year, and it is not believed
that so experienced a runner would
accidentally cross from his lane. He
also jumped the gun twice in the
1OO-yard dash, and was set back but
once, but this matter was protested.
At the close of the meet Storm
Lake was awarded 80 points and first
place, but with the Is points d%etract-
ed which were made by Foell, Mitch
ell would secure first place and
Storm Lake would be put back into
third or fourth position. The matter
will be laid before the members of
the NJ. club, who had charge of the
meet, and action will be taken this
morning.
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