The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-07
SEVEN TRACK MEETS WILL BE
HELD ON MONTANA FIELD
THIS SPRING.
FIRST DATE THIS WEEK
Two lnt~erscholastic Meets, Two Inter
COLLEGIATE Meets and Three Local
Affairs VIII Be Held During the
Next Month.

This is going to be the busiest
spring Missoula has ever had, as far
as athletics are concerned. AS the
seat of the state university this city
has always been favored above all
others in this respect, The annual IN
t~erscholastic meet has been held here
every spring and lack Of interest ana
the eccentriCity Of the weather man
at Bo2eman have thrown more lhah
a majority of the. state i~ntercolleS ate
track contests onto Montana field.
This wear, however, will be better thar
any before and that despite tn" IN
yitation to hold the intercollegiate
meet in Bozeman lately extended by
the state college.
Between next Saturday and May 10
Montana field will be the stage upon
which high school and college athletes
will contest seven meets, one of them
the annual in~terscholastic in which
representatives of every high school
in Montana participate, Two Of these
meets will be intercollegiate AFFAIRS,
one will be a interscholastic meet and
the rest will be purely local IN char
acter. The schedule, not all of whose
dates are finally determined, is as
follows:
April 12-First annual inter-depart-
ment meet of the university.
April 16-Narsity freShmen-high
school meet.
Aprll 19-Missoula- Hamilton high
school meet.
Anril % (?)-AnnuaI university in
terclass meet.
May 7-Montana-Idaho interco!-
legiate.
May G-1O-Tenth annual inter
scholastic.
May tD-Montana Washington
state college intercollegiate. tNot yet
finally a~rranged(.
Consider hat all Of these meets will
be well worth while and that the sec
ond annual Ravalli county meet Will
be held in victor April &c and you will
see that this is going to be a mighty
busy splfng. The interscholastic meet
will be ths best ever held, ~undoubted-
" and the rnSets between the varsity
and Idaho and Washington state VIII
be the most interesting intercollegiate
affairs ever staged on Montana field,
bar o m
The season opens with the depart
ment meet next Saturday. Law, en-
gineering. scientific and cit" students
will tangle for the college champions
ship. This meet will be interesting be
cause Of the fact that it viii be the
first test of strength between the
athletes competing for place on the
varsity. The sprints, in which captain
OWsley, Jimmie Brown and Earl DoWd
will compete, will be particularly in
1oresting.
The second meet, in which tn" uni
versitv freshmen and the local SCho-
1aatics are to tangle will be fought as
bitterly as any this spring ana will be
as close. 1t is impossible to choose
ietWeen the teams. Both are strong
and confident. It will be a meeting
of real stars and some good records
IRE certain to be made when the
rr. .rt4an and nieN school stars meet
sTal. ls,t VIZ ~'.o 0Ti~e nuln a chance
10 observe the athletes who are to
wear the purple and gold in the spring
interscholastic and will show Jones,
who is picked by his admirers as a
coming record-brcaker. in action
against good men.
on Saturday Of the same week the
high school will meet the Hamilton
scholastics, prospective champions of
Ravalli county meet. Then comes the
llniversity's annUal interClass meet
which is looked forward to more thar
any other intercollegiate affair AND
which serves as a final tryout for
varsity candidates. The season vii
conclude with three big meets, one
the annual interscho1astic and the
Others contests between the University
OF Montana and two great western in,
stitutions. The varsity is trying hare
to break into the Pacific coast con
ference after having confined herself
10 Montana contests for seVcra
wears. Her chances If gaining ad-
mission to this big athletic organiZa-
ton depend, largely, upon her show
ing in these two big meets.
On the whole it is the best season
Niasoula has ever had. despite the fac
that the Ageies are going to entertain
the varsity this year.