The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-22
Carey School Wins the Loving Cup
With 57Ia Points-Torrence
Second With Scar
field Third.
GIRLS AND MAY POLE
Small Girls Perform the Old Folk
Dance and Grammar School
Gives Historical Events
In Pageant.

With ideal weather, a perfect field,
and everything run in perfect time,
the fourth annual public school athlet-
ic contests held yesterday afternoon
resulted in victory for the Carey
school athletes. They won the large I
loving cup with SIN points and took
it away from the present holders, the
Terrence school, witch was second, !
with 33 points.
The girls of the schools lent color
and novelty with the May pole dance
and the Grammar school presented an
entirely new departure in the histori-
cal pageant. Almost thousand in
terested spectators watched the
maneuyers.
May Pole Dance.
Promptly at las the band struck
into lively march and the contests
were on First to come was the Nay
pole dance by the girls of the upper
grades of the grade schools. The
teams danced in pairs, the girls of
one school coming onto the field elom
| the right side of the grandstand and
| The girls of the other team coming
from the left side, and in perfect
dance step advanced toward the mid
die of the grandstand, where they
met. Then advancing out onto that
part of the field used as the baseball
diamond and which Is as smooth as a
floor. they circled and counter circled
up to the May poles. Each school
had their own May pole, which was
decorated in their chosen colors, and
! with the streamers made a beautiful
sight, even as they stood alone, which
was tripled many times when the
small girls, each in white dresses,
/ with their school colors prominently
the ribbons. The little girls then start
ed in On the May pole dance proper
They circled the pole. all going the
same way, then alternated, one going
ito the right and the other to the left,
and ii pairs. Then they wound the
I
pole, one dancer going to the right
and the next to the left, weaving in and
i out, making perfect net work of lit
tie girls and ribbons. Then the most
difficult part came, the unwinding,
which was made in every case without
any mistakes, if made, being detected
iby the hosts of witnesses. With many
indescribable steps and movements,
all in perfect time, the dancers fin
iished and left the field in the same
manner of coming on.
The first schools to be represented
were the Garfield and Wells. Thirteen
girls from the Garfield each dressed
in white with a crown, girdle, stock
! ings and shoe ties of pink or green,
advanced and met the girls of TIE
Wells school, similarly dressed but
with colors of purple and gold. The
Garfield scholars We're led by Mary
Louise Huston and the Wells by Marie
+; Weimper.
The second teams We're the girls
of the Terrence led by Luella Har-
r'ngton, and dressed in gold and white,
and the girls of the Washington. led
by Geraldine Parsons, and dressed in
purple and gold.
/ The last teams to dance were the
Carey and Lincoln. The Carey team
was made up of little tots, some not
/ being nine years old. but this would
never have been guessed from their
perfect mastery of the movements.
The Carey team was led by Bernice
Wildman and each member of the
! team was girdled with a rope of flow
ers. The Lincoln was led by Manila
/ Haywood, with her teammates dressed
! in blue, yellow, pink or green.
There were no judges selected to
pick winners, which would have been
next to impossible, as each team was
perfect in it's Interpretation OF this old
and historic folk dance.