The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-04-23
field DAY hT
the INSTITUTE.
All Arrangements Made for Success
full Meet. High Schools Which
Will Be Represented.
CONTESTS IN ATHLETICS, ORA
TORY AND VOCAL MUSIC.
Reception of ncipaIs-Basket Ball
Game. Program For Day-Names
Of Various Contestants.

Inc nnlShing touches have now bee n
made to all Of the arrangements fer
the Sixth Annual Meet Of the High
Schools of Southwest Louisiana with
the Industrial Institute here upon a
handicap basis. to contest for the
school championship in athletics,
west Louisiana. This Association
was organized and held its first Meet
in 1904 and has been very successful
and proved of great value to the
schools and pupils participating in it..
IT has also done great good by set
ling the example which is ow being
followed in all parts of the State
1t is the first organization of its kind
in the field. Among the High schools
which will meet with the Industria
Institute tomorrow are Abbeville
Crowley, Franklin. Jennings, Lake
Charles, Leesville, New IBERIA and
St. Martinville. There will be eight
quartets, and eight orators. DR..
+. E. Girard, of Lafayette, will give
a Silver Medal to the winner of
the hundred yards dash and Cold
Medal to the best all round athlete
A valuable prize of books will be
given to the best orator, and the L.
M. Biossat Championship Cup No.
2 will be awarded for one year to the
school whose team wins in athletics.
An ad iitional contest in vocal quartet
singing will be inaugurated at this
Meet and as a prize for the winner of
this, Mr.. Philip Werlein of the we'll
known New Orleans Music House, has
given handsome Silver Champion
Cup also to be awarded for one year
to the school whose quartet wins the
contest. When these Cups shall have
been won by the same school three
years in succession they are to be-
come the permanent property OF that
school. This has already happened
in the case of the Biossat Cup No. l,
which was won three times in sue
cession by the Industrial Institute
Team, notwithstanding handicaps,
but Mr.. Biossat, being ''game"
came forward with an
equally handsome cup to be known as
No. 2. The day of the Meet will be
filled with very packed and a very |
interesting program. First, it will be
preceded by free stereopticon lec-
ture on Natures Wonder Worker"
by Assistant Supt. Nicholas Bauer of
the New Orleans Public Schools to be
given at the Industrial Institute to-
night Tomorrow morning at $3.50
there will be held at the Gordon Hotel
q meeting of the principals of the
High Schools participating, with the
officials of the various contests. At
this time a reception Of fifteen min
utes duration will be rendered the Wis
iting principals and officials by the
Mayor and the Mayor-elect of Lafa-
yette with a committee Of citizens. At
11:OO o'clock a match game Of basket
ball will be played between the girls
Of the Industrial Institute and the girls
Of the Lake Charles High School.
Promptly at two o'clock the grand pro-
cession of all athletes will start
around the track in front of the grand
stand, headed by the Industrial Insti-
tute Cadet Brass Band and the hundred
yards dash will start Immediately
At 1880 p. M, the Oratori-
cal and Vocal Quartet Contests will
be held, in the Auditorium of the In
1ustrial Institute. At 11:15 p. m, three
special excursion trains will leave La
,ayette for Morgan City on the east
vinton on the west, and Cheney
Vile on the north to take the
crowd home. It is thought by the
that this return excur-
sion trains, together with the liberal
railroad rate of one fare for the round
rip and the guarantee of the associa-
ion to pay the expenses OF all par
.icipants in any of the contests, will
make 1t practically certain that more
han two thousand visitors
will come into Lafayette for
his occasion. Besides this, each
# the contests will be conducted and
,fIicered by able and prominent tai
mt. giving assurance of correct and
'ficient action and snap in the vari-
BUS events. The basket ball game
vill be conducted by Miss Clara G. !
Baer, Director Of Physical Educa-
ION in Newcomb College and author
y the rules Of the game as played