The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-04-27
VICTORY FOR
THE PRAIRIE
Cottonwood Wins First-De-
Haven Star-Second In
Defamation Contest.

The Prairie country is to be
excused if it feels somewhat
swelled up over the results of the
highschool Track Meet and Dec
lamation contest held at Lewis
ton last Friday under the aus
pices of the Lewiston high
school.
5ttonwood high school which
has been doing faithful practice
work for a number of weeks, wei
earned first place which it took
in the matter of points in the
general contest, being eleven
points ahead of the next highest
competitor, which was Genesee
with 27 points.
Grangeville, which had not
been giving much attention to
the track contest, being more
deeply absorbed with theatricals
and baseball, came in for fourth
place in the contest; but when
it came down to long distance
sprinting, Earnest DeHaven, son
of our probate judge, threw dust
in the face of all of them, show
ing by far the cleanest pair of
heels that have ever capered
over the Lewiston track. In the
mile heat and the half mile as
well, he won the honors from all
competitors with ease, lowering
the mile track record IL As sec
onds. The Lewiston Tribune in
it's account of the racing says:
"The feature work of the day
was done by DeHaven of Grange
vile, who took the mile and the
half mile runs, the former race
being the classic of the meet.
And it was a great race, result
ing in the lowering of the track
record by many seconds. Stell-
mon of Nezperce took the lead
at the flash of the shot, and set
heart-breaking pace for three
quarters of al mile, that plainly
distressed the group. DeHaven
was running in third place at
that point and Case of Culdesac
was crowding up pretty close
Here the shot had just been fir
ed for the last lap, and the crowt
broke into exclamations of sur
prise, when DeHaven darted
around the outside, seemingly
with the speed of a man just of
the scratch for 50-yard dash
He fitted by Case and a seconc
later challenged Stellmon, whe
was still running strong. TIL,
strong young athletes raced side
by side for 100 feet, when thu
blue blouse of DeHaven S suit wa
seen to show to the front, per
haps a foot, perhaps two, bu
the race was still on. The lead
ers were now at the last eighth
and Stellmon, with surprising re
Operative powers, again challen
ged the Grangeville boy. Their
was another burst of speed, bn
DeHaven was not to be caught
and gradually as the tape was al
preached he pulled away to vic
tory. Stellmon had run a grea
fdce, but the limit had been play
ed, and he dropped back, givinl
second place to Case. DeHavel
had run the mile in 5.03 is, whil
the previous record was 5 :16, tn
latter time having been made b.
Lewiston high school boy, Met
calfe, who has always been class
ed as fast mile man.
"DeHaven took the half mil
in practically the same manne
of race as that which characte,
lied the mile run. He played
waiting game for the last quar-
er, but the crowd this time wa
watching the blue and there wa
no surprise when the slender La
with the crouched shoulders mo'
up to the front away from Gas
and won in 2 :23 2-5."
Orrin Riebold won first in til
javelin throwing contest, whil
belmont Day took third in tf
100 yard dash, and Ernest D
Haven took second in the hig
jump. This was much more tina
the boys expected to win, nj
having been devoting themselv'
to the work necessary TO fit the
for such a contest, therefore the
are not disappointed. Next YET
they expect to be strictly in it.
The points secured by ii
teams were as follows: