The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27

forenoon in the so, 100 and 220-yard
dashes. These trial heats We're all
exciting events, and We're closely con-
tested to the finish line. In the first
heat of the short sprint "three men
qualified for the afternoon final,
breasting the tape in the following or
der: Waters (Victor), first; Cooper
(Hamilton), second; Johnson (Ste-
| v%ensville), third. In the second heat
three men qualified. finishing in the
following rider: Selleck (Stevens-
ville), first; Peterson (Hamilton), Sec
ond; Puyear CVictor), third .
The preliminaries in the 1~00-yard
dash resulted as follows: First heat
Cooper (Hamilton), first; Waters
(Victor), second; Sappington (Ste-
~vensville), third. Second h~eat-Peter-
son (Hamilton), first; selleck (ste-
vensville), second.
In the preliminaries in the 2~20-yard
dash the results were as follows:
First heat-Peterson Hamilton),
first; Bresee (S~tevensville), second.
Second heat-Cooper (Hamilton),
first; Preston (Stevensville), second.
Officials.
Referee, clerk Of course and starter
w. Fl. H. MUSTANG.
Field iudges-Dr. J.. F. Marshall,
Willis Wood. Thomas Martin.
Judges at finish-"king" Cole
(Michigan), E. F. Mills (Purdue),
Barry Nash.
Measurers-C. Fl. Bowman, r. II.
Madison.
Timers-J. F. Sharp, J. w. Edge
mond.
~Scorer-John Laemmle.
Spelling Matches.
The meet opened yesterday AFTER
noon at the Victor opera house with
the sixth and seventh grade spelling
contests. In these contests, as we'll
as the eighth grade contest in the
evening. the Victor, ~Stevensville and
Hamilton schools were eliminated by
agreement. In the evening the eighth
grade and high school contests were
held. The winners in these contests
were as follows: Sixth grade, Joe
Shivel of Holden school; seventh
grade, Madeline Carlson of Grantsdale
school; eighth grade, Irene Voss of
Florence school; high school, Lillian
Bastard and Mary Rowe Of Victor
school,.
In the high school contest the two
Victor contestants Were still in their
places when all other competitors
had been eliminated. Lillian BASTARD,
one of the Victor winners, has a most
enviable record as a speller, having
captured four gold medals in the
spelling contests of four years. This
girl has in successive years won
medals in the SIXTH seventh and
eighth grades, and his year wins in
the high school contest.
The spelling contests yesterday We're
attended by large crowds, Doth in the
afternoon and evening. Music for the
contests was furnished by the popu-
lar Hamilton high school band, which
arrived on the afternoon train.
Great Crowds.
The entire town of Victor was
turned over to the school children OF
Ravalli county. Large representations
: from Darby, Grantsdale, Corvallis,
Hamilton, Victor. Stevensville and
Florence came into town today, their
rigs and automobiles bedecked with
the colors of their respective favorite
school,. With the arrival of the morn
ing train, which brought in most of
the officials and the S~tevensville ath-
letes and r%ooters, all of the delegations
We're on hand. The Hamilton high
school band added spirit to the gath
ering, it's music being much appre-
ciated by the throng of enthusiastic
scholastics.
Today's meeting was attended by
the largest and most. representative
crowd ever assembled at a Ravalli
county athletic meet. Rivalry between
the competing schools was never
keener than at today's meet, each
school being confident, before the
meet, that it's bunch of athletes would
bring home the bacon. The conf
dence of Victor was somewhat shaker
by h poor showing made by Puyeal
in the forenoon preliminaries, while
Hamilton's supporters gained conf
dence by the showing of Peterson anG
Cooper, both of whom showed splen-
did form in the so and 1OO-yarC
sprints and in the 220-yard run.