Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-06-10
SOME PROMISING ATHLETES.
Boys Of Grades Six to Nlne Made Fine
Showing in Track and Field Events
Last Saturday.

showing in Track and Field Events
Last Saturday.
Promising material for future high
school track teams showed itself Satur-
day afternoon on the Valley fair grounds
where the boys of grades six to nine had
a track meet. The boys showed decided
Improvement this season in the quality of
their work and in the spirit in which they
entered into the contest. The ninth
graders were few in number but they
more than made up, in the quality of their
work. They contested against the eighth
grade boys and won by a score of a to
10.
Raymond Harris was high man. TAX
ing first place in the 100 yard dash. the
high jump and the broad jump and second
place in the low hurdles and the pole
vault. Robert Angler is another boy who
will get a place on future high school
teams. He won the low hurdles ana the
quarter mile run in fine form and took
second place in the l00-yar dash and
the broad jump. Harold Miner took the
pole vault, going over the bar at seven
feet and four inches without getting into
his track suit I'm the eighth grade VII
liam Gibbs was the Individual star, taxi
ing second place in the quarter mile and
third in the 1oO-yard dash, high jump and
broad jump. This was a good showing
considering the fact that he was COM
peung with boys in a grade above him.
The seventh grade has another natural
pole vaulter and broad jumper I'm Alvin
Boman, who took both events easily In
the sixth grade Dennison Cowles tr, was
the star athlete, winning the high jump
the low hurdles and the pole vault. Cas-
sius and Willie Cudworth of the sixth
grade carried off their fun share Of med
ais, taking first and second in the quarter
mile, first and third in the 100 yard dash
and third in the high jump. the broad
jump and the low hurdles. In the con-
tests between the Canal street and Main
street schools the Canal street school
won, the scores being: Canal street sixth
grade Al points, Main street sixth grade
b. Canal street seventh grade %, Main
street seventh grade % The summary:
SIXTH GRADE.
1OO-yard dash-Won by W. Cudworth,
Canal street; Burnham, Main street. 2d
c. Cudworth, Canal street, Sd. Time 10
3-5 seconds.
High jump-won by Cowles. Canal
street; Chamberlain, Canal street, I'd: W.
Cudworth, Canal street, Sd. Height feet
10 inches.
Broad jump-Won by Chamberlain, Ca
nal street; Thayer. Main street. I'd: c.
Cudworth, Canal street, Sd. Distance 70
feet So inches.
Low hulhltS-N On DN CORleS, Canal
street; Durham, Main street, I'd: W
Cudworth, Canal street, 3D. Time 20 3-5
seconds.
Pole vaut-won by Cowles, Canal
| street; Burnham, Main street, I'd; Stow
ell. canal street, Sd. Height feet 5
inches
Quarter-mlle run-won by c. Cud-
worth, Canal street; w. Cudworth, Ca
nal street, I'd; c. Johnson. Main street,
| mi *
SEVENTH GRADES
100 yard dash-Won by H. Smith. Ca
nal street; r. Whitney Main street. %:
F. Howard, Main street, Sd. Time IL LIS
seconds.
High jump-Won by Halliday, Canal
street; Snow, Canal street, I'd; Whitney,
Main street, Sd. Height feet l inch.
Broad jump-Won by Boman, Main
street; Howard, Main street, I'd; Whitney,
Main street, Sd. Distance 10 feet liz
inches
Low hurdles-won by Halliday, Canal
street; Whitney, Main street, I'd; Rich
mond, Canal street, Sd. Time is seconds.
Pole vault-Won by Boman, Main
street; Whitney, Main street, I'd; Chand-
Ter, Canal street, Sd. Height feet 6
inches.
Quarter-mile run-Won by Smith, Ca
nal street; II. Dahlstrom, Canal street,
I'd; Richmond, Canal street, Sd. Time l
minute 10 10 seconds.
EIGHTH AND NINTH GRADES.
1OO-yard dash-Won by Harris, 9Th
grade; Angler, 9th grade, I'd Gibbs, sth
grade, Sd. Time II 2-5 seconds.
High jump-Won by Harris, 9th grade;
Haskell, sth grade, I'd; Gibbs, Sth grade,
Sd. Height feet inches.
Broad jump-Won by Harris, 9th grade;
Angler, 9th grade, I'd; Gibbs, sth grade.
Sd. Distance l6 feet 10h inches.
Low hurdles-Won by Angler, 9Th
grade, Harris 9th grade, I'd Horton, 9Th
grade, Sd Time 16 As seconds.
Pole value-Won by Miner, 9th lie;
Harris, 9Th grade, I'd Thayer, 9th
Cd. Height Z feet inches
Quarter-mile run-Won by Angler, 9th