Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-17
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Galesburg Takes Big Eight
Track Meet from Moline
by a Single Point.
LOCAL BOYS FALL DOWN
Are Outclassed in Nearly All Events,
Securing But Nine Marks in
Athletic Contests.

The big Eight" track meet at Mon
mouth Saturday afternoon was won by
Galcsburg by the narrow margin of
one point. The meet was the fastest
high school meet seen in this locality
for some time The standing of the
teams at the close of the meet was:
Galesburg, 80; Moline, 81; Monmouth,
%; Princeton, II; Kewanee, 10: Rock
Island, .. All of the contests were
close and college records were equaled
in all of the races. In every event
except the high jump. the contests
were marked by ability of the con-
testants. The star performer of the
meet was Wyland of Moline, who
coming up to his usual standard took
first in all of the events in which he
with 80 points and Moline was a close
second with 81 points. The result OF
the meet hinged on the winner of third
place in the running broad jump. Had
Moline been able to take third place,
| they would have tieu Tor first place.
| There were three men tied for third,
Olson of Moline, Williams of Mon
mouth and Quigley of Princeton.
Quigly took third and Moline lost
out on the total The points of the
meet were very evenly distributed and
the races and weight events were so
close that no team was ever sure uf
winning the meet
/ Local Boys OutcIassed.
Rock Island was outclsssed in nearly
every department of the meet. In the
so and 100 yard dashes, Wyland led
every one by several feet and estab-
liShed the excellent records of and
2-5 seconds for the so and 10 and 2-5
a foul by Galesburg man. Steenburg
who finished fourth in the 100 yard
dash, was awarded third place. Steen-
burg also took third place in the 220
yard dash. Larkin was leading thu
crowd in the 900 yard hurdles when le
caught his knee on one of the hur
dies, which caused him 10 lose his
stride and therefore first place. In the
mile run Drips took second place, 10 /;
ing first place by narrow margin &c
Yates of Galesburg. Drips ran the
mile in 4:57 Yates is the most sen
Sational mile runner seen for Ions
time in high school athletics Start
ing with dash which placed him sew
eral yards ahead of the field, he main
tanned that lead throughout the en-
tire distance, never allowing a man K
pass him. In the half mile run Skin
ner OF Princeton followed the tactic
of Yates and try as they would tn,
other men could not overtake him
He finished the event in the fast tim
of 2:07, a fair college record.
Rock Island stood very little sho7
in the weight events. Wyland putting
D the shot IL feet. inches Hoy :
: Monmouth threw the discus 100 feet
p s inches. Lift took second place il
the pole vault for Rock Island. vault
. ing 9 feet II inches. In the high jun
s his ankle gave out and he was unabl
v 10 clear feet. inches. At the elias
v meet he easily jumped 5 feet, inche,
T CLAIR of Moline won this event b
clearing 5 feet 2 inches. This was
, great surprise. Wyland of Moline wa
the high point winner of the day, NAL
=. ing total of 20.
~ The results of the events are:
Results in Detail.
50 Yard DaSh-Wyland, Molin
first; Smith. Galesburg, second: Woo,
It Gaiesburg, third. Time. 25 second
,, 100 Yard Dash-Wyland, Molin
h first: Radmacher, Monmouth. second
IS Steenburg, Rock Island, third Tim
l. 10 2-5 seconds.
ri Mile Run-Yates, Galesburg. frs
A. Drips, Rock Island, second; Hic
man, Princeton, third. Time, Asa 2
minutes.
n 440 Yard Run-G. Skinner, Prime
ton, first; Schnert. Moline, secon;
Jordan. Galesburg, third. Time 53 4
seconds.
220 Yard Hurdles-Wood, Galesbur
first: Grier, Monmouth, second; Id