The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-12-20
IN THE WORLD OF SPORT
GRADE SCHOOL
HOLIDAY TOURNEY
BIG ATHLETIC AND AQUATIC
GRADE SCHOOL TOURNAMENT
TO BE GIVEN DURING HoLl-
DAYS AT Y. M. C. A. FOR FARGO
MooRHEAD SCHOOL CHILDREN.

There will be a grade school, holt
day athletic and aquatic tournament
| held during the holidays, which will
include all the students in the Fargo
and Moorhead schools. To enter in
the contests the management an
| nounces that enrolment in the Y. M
G. A. is unnecessary as 1t is open to
all. Following are the particulars con-
corning the tournament:
Schools: Central, Lincoln, Haw
thqrne, Roosevelt, Longfellow, and
Moorhead grade schools.
Events: Fifty-yard dash, 100-yard
dash, 220yard dash, running high
jump, standing broad jump, rope
climb, relay twelve and one-half yard
swim, twenty -five-yard swim, fifty
yard swim, dive for distance.
Entrance requirements Each con-
testant must be a pupil in good stand
Ing for at least one month previous
to the Christmas holidays. Member
ship in the association not required.
Entries: The list of names of the
boys who wish to enter must be Ger
titled to by the principal and be pre-
sented to Mr.. Miller the boys secre-
tary of the association, not later than
Wednesday, Dec. 81.
Entrance fee: Before starting i'm
any event tournament entrance fee
of 10 cents must be paid by each con-
testant The 10 cent fee allowing a
boy to enter in any or all the events.
Time: Events will be held at $50
o'clock on the mornings of Dec. 27,
20, 20, 30, Jan. 2, 4, 5, and 6, or such
number of those mornings as will be
needed to complete the tournament.
Each school will be given one morn
ing In which to run off its events. The
day that each school will have will be
determined by the captains by lot aft
er the entries are in.
Conditions of the contest: Each
team shall have one morning in which
to run off all the events. Each boy
shall endeavor to beat certain stan
dards in time or distance in the vari-
Gus events. Points will be counted
according to the amount these stan
dards are beaten.
Points will be as follows: Fiftv
yard dash, twenty points for every
one-f fifth of a second under 9 2-5 Sec.
onds. 100-yard dash, ten points for
every fifth of a second under
10 2-5 seconds. 220-yard dash, five
points for every one-flfth of a second
under So seconds. Rope climb, five
points for every one fifth of a second
under 1S seconds. Running high jump,
four points for every inch above feet
inches. Standing broad jump, two
points for every inch beyond 4 feet.
Relay-ten men, two laps, one point
for everys one-fifth second under
minutes. Twelve and one-haIf yard
SWIM one lap, two points for each
one-fifth second under Is seconds.
Twenty fve-yard swim, one point for
each one-fifth second under 40 Sec
onds. Fifty-yard swim, one point for
each one-fifth second under 80 Sec
onds. Dive for distance, one point for
each inch beyond ten feet.
Banners: One championship banner
will be given to the school winning
the highest number of points in ath-
letics. Another championship banner
will be given to the school winning the
most points in the swimming events.
Admission: Ten cents admission for
spectators. Boys who enter the track
events win be admitted free to the
basketball game of the Sunday School
league on the day on which they COM
pete. Only one admission charge will
be made spectators for both the Sun
day School basketball game and the
track tournament.