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

, have a short argument with the Mis-
soula boys and hat no school should
expect to make a dress parade of it
if they We're looking for honors. And
then they made good their word; they
argued to the last ditch and won.
This is not vain growing; it is the
laurel wreath of victory which comes
after hard and consistent practice and
a persistent determination to bring out
every ounce of good that is in every
athlete. Every Missoula boy who con-
tributed to those % points has received
his pay already, with round interest.
For those nights after school hours
when the little crow of high school
boys went across the tracks and
worked hard and faithfully in putting
the grounds into shape and went
through their practice with determine
alton to win, that hack ride through
the streets of the city yesterday after
noon with the purple and gold stream
ing in every direction, drawn by scores
of their boy admirers and the center of
their plaudits-What better pay could
they have received? Dinsmore, Dem
ers, Forbis, Jones and Ambrose. Those
are the names, and it is safe to say
that nc Missoula school boy will ever
forget them. They did noble work;
they brought honor to their school,;
they Won"
!Piggott of Helena, who won the
sprints, carried away tho individual
prize that year. He was the first of
the long string of champions whose ef-
forts brought glory to schools other
| wise unrepresented. More than half
of the individual champions of the in
terscholastic have come from schools
without other representation.
In the list of winners appear many
names that have since won further
athletic fame. Hugh F'orbis and Keith
Ambrose of the Missoula team are re-
membered as university athletes. Sam
Dinsmore later exceeded his first eff
forts and established a record in the
120-yard high hurdles which still
stands in the books. Coffey of Teton,
later a university athlete, 0 part in
the meet. King of Park county, an
other University of Montana man, al
in the dashes. Bill Maloney of Butte,
who went to Michigan and won hon
ors as a miller and a member of the
four-mile relay team and later COM
peted for the University of Montana,
won the quarter mile that day and
placed in some Of the shorter dashes.
Belden of Fergus, later to establish
the in~terscholaStic record for the cen
fury dash, ran in the meet, though he
won nothing. Horn of Anaconda, one
of the most remarkable athletes the
meet has ever produced, ran in the
sprints, but was beaten. Third place
in the hammer throw went to a big,
clumsy fellow from the ranges of Te-
ton county. +. Ryan, was the name
on the program. 1t didn't look very
impressive that day, but it will be a
good many years before it is forgotten
on Montana Field. Ryan came back
to establish a record in the shot put
! and later entered the university. There
he was a star in football and in the
| weights. He won his letter in foot
ball for four years, and was elected
captain of the track team in his senior
| year. There We're a good many in
conspicuous figures on the field that
day who later returned as stars.
Butte was only five points behind
Missoula in this first meet, and the
rivalry betWeen the two schools
reached a high pitch before the second
games We're held. In 1905 the Butte