The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-03


possible for i man to enter school IN
March and play baseball and be a mem
Der Fl he*track team, or enter in Septcm-
Der and play football and then his cduca-
ton ended
"The schoolmasters decided to have
some eligibility rules for they said il was
not fair for the private academies like \
Goddard, Troy conference and Vermont.
where athletics play a very important +
part and where there arc older boys than .
in the high schools. to enter them to com
pete against the high school pupils. / T
stood at that time for a 20-year aye limit. !
but we passed the 21-year limit and re-
quired all contestants to be up in their
studies. At first it was required that
each contestant must have at least five
periods week. but that was ridiculously
easy and later IL periods week were re-
quired. These rules have not been
| changed. but this year Goddard seminary
objected
Mr.: Smith then sketched the conditions
governing the meet last Saturday as given
in his open letter published in The Re
former and concluded:
Il am under no deltsion as 10 whom
i the success Of the team is due. There was
/ good material to work with but the real
/ credit for the success is due to tins gen
1 lAcHidii WHO - stdtttl on the lildAtUflu
with me Mr.. Diedrich Stolte We clean
ed up points IN the two hurdles there
because the only man in the state who
can teach hurdling is in Brattleboro.
Wild applause followed as Mr. Smith
| concluded He then began with those who
had been on the track team but who
had not gone to Burlington, and ono By
one they stood and were roundly APP
plauded, the applause increasing in ferv1r
and duration as the cracks OF the team
were reached Fits and Rice who were
not present, received as generous APP
plause as the others Of the team.
Coach Stolte found 1t hard to wait for
the applause 10 subside when he was iIi-
troduced. II did seem a. if the boys had
| decided to discourage any attempt On his
part to speak, So long did they continue
their demonstration. in which they aided
and Allotted by the handelapping Of the
{ feminine portion Of the audience.
The coach. once reasonable quiet WA,
restored. lost no time in taking advantag,
t of the ul He said that though III
} could not be point winners he wanted al
2 to understand that il was those who com
petcd against their faster comrades. max
1 ing pace aud forcing them on VII,
i brought the victories They are a big tac
0 tor IN the making OF a championship team
T / even # they are not actual competition
! in the finals He wanted the boys Of tn
i school to come ont in greater number
: than they had in the past With thos
n we shall have left of the team afte
g graduation and with the material comin
e To Us he said he saw 10 reason why th
i cup should not be Won three years il sue
ecssion
n DR. A. I Miller Of the committee ia
e clined the invitation TO speak Mr. Hay
y ward Of the faculty had no reason /
Ie think he was not popular when IL va
q called upon. He could see nothing Iii
l. success for the team in years to come .,
cause every boy was filled up with iii
II emulsion that Coach Stolte deals out ii
Is promised that lie would come back fror
1t his new position two or three times mes
N year and he expected "a the season wer
ID on To read of the success of the athlet
Is teams
The meeting closed with the singing
at the school song Later some OF the 30,
Il lighted small bonfire in the yard at ii
n rear of the school, even though Princilt
as Smith said that there was not enoug
FL material there 10 properly celebrate ,ul
victory and desired that the one barn
ol and one box that had been gathcrs
ed should not be sacrificed