Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-12
VICTORY PERCHES
ON NORTH 0 R BANNER.
I. D. S. Church School Teachers
Pull Off Some Weird Ath-
Ietic Stunts.
MANY vocIFERous JUDGES.
Some Really Sporty Events Wearing
Bells Are Disclosed Amid Vigorous
Roofing from Grand Stand.

| The teachers OF the Latter-d aysSaints'
Church schools We're at wandaniere
yesterday afternoon, testing their
strength and speed on the athletic field.
All the week they have been har1
at work on the problems of corrlating
practical theology with all other prac-
teal things under the sun; but they
left to the last day to demonstrate 10
the world that sports also were NOT
outside their sphere Of action, and that
an education was note complete with
out knowing how to jump and run and
pull at tug-of-war.
The day, before, the south had issued
a challenge to the north. which cl,nl-
5lenge was accepted and terms and
events arranged by the sporty mem
bers Of the convention. In the south
were included all teachers south of Salt
Lake City, which. of course included
Provo The north side embraced All
schools north Of Salt Lake, including
this u! city. Supt. Horace n. Cummings
offered a prize to the winning side--a
set OF works in 10 finely bound volumes
The schools OF the winning side should
draw lots for the prize.
PSYCHOLOGY OF BOWLING.
The first place of attraction was the
bowling alley. 1t seemed such an easy
thing to roll a big ball over a smooth
floor and knock down the pins at the
other end, but somehow 1t wasn't and
1t may be that Prof. Wilson is still fig
uring, how, even with his coat and cuffs
off. he couldn't knock over ten pins
with 10 balls. The psychology OF 1t was
put 70 Prof. Peterson, but the difficulties
of the problem have driven him to
Provo. The lady professors were not
equal to the ten pins. so they resorted
to the shooting gallery where, between
giggles, they tried to hit the jumping
rabbit.
SOME REAL EVENTS.
But all this was only preliminary.
The real events came off on the race
course in front of the grand stand
with the ragged daylight remains of
Pains Vesuyius as a background. The
ladies and the "old men" sat on the
grand stand while the boys took
the arena.
Prof. John Henry Evans was elect
ed official scorer; the judges were
so numerous that space forbids their
mention. As each event came off,
there was a general scramble into a
we'll gesticulatng, yelling group, with
at each other in good old boy fashion.
Supt, Horace Il g. Cummings, Prest.
Geo. Fl. Brimhalf and Prest. Willard
Young. as fathers Of the company
had taken their seats demurely in the
grand stand with the ladies, but by
the time the games We're well under
way. they were down with the tboys"
as youthful as any of them. The Of
fetal scorer sometimes forgot to put
down the proper credits; after this
memorable event, he, no doubt was
thinking that he would have to add
another chapter to "One Hundred
Years OF Mormonism."
HEAVY WEIGHT MERCURY.
First came the high jump, for those
under 30 years of age and those over
thirty, Stephenson, easily won as he |
holds the state record but 1t was a |
marvel to see how easily Professor |
Hickman lifted his two-hundred |
pound tabernacle OF flesh and bones
over the bar.
The 4,40 dash was great race. |
1t seemed that Scott, of the north |
had it easily, but at the last few rods |
Glade from the south made a splendid |
squirt and came up tie. Then there
were the broad jump, the running |
broad jump, the $40 dash. |
the shot-put, and the hundred yard |
dash. BY this time the north had ga
points and the south 54. The old |
mems hundred yard dash had to be
run over. which showed that the fleet |
aged pedagogues live in the south. |
Eight points were added to their side, |
which nearly tied the score. At this
critical juncture 1t was learned that