The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-17
|NNOUNCE STANDING
| OF BABIES IN CONTEST
Fany Difficulties, Arc Encountered
in Securing Accurate
Measurements. Is
AID TEETH DIsoUALIFY SOME

PIE Child, on REORGANIZATION, Shows
Perfect Score, but Is Not Awarded
Prize, as Whole Glass Could Not
BE Re-Examined.
Announcement was made yesterday
tho scores OF babies entered in tho
fttcr baby contest, at the Virginia
}ate Fair, only the prize winners hav-
IS heretofore been announced. Tho
Pntcst was held underline auspices OF
be Federation OF Mothers Clubs and
pc Parent Teacher Association, and lis
BEARDED as having been most sue
tssful.
In the final scoring. several children.
= tho otherwise made remarkably good
PORES. we're disqualified by defective
eth, In the second and third classes.
nd in the second CLASS, of children
rom one to two years. great difficulty
las experienced IN getting accurate
Measurement of height.
The awards were az follows:
First class: Robert Eugene Jacobs.
|x months. 100 per cent, plus. plus,
us; Conway Magee. nine months, 100
pr cent. plus, plus; Mary Walls.
ountcastle. Va, 100 per cent. plus
1ine months); Mary Dean Hoag, IA
fpollo Street, Petersburg, nine months,
~ Pcf Scut w iillaHl .. huSterer, Elk
onths, 100 per cent: George NJ. MoBe>
p. six months. 995 per cent: Leonard
feasley. eight months. 800 per cont;
gorge Cochran, eight months, 9s5 per
Fnt; John Gordon. nine months, 98.5
PR cent; Harry Kramer, eight months,
: per cent: Edna Hurst O'Bannon,
ne year, % per cent: Charles b.
hitehead. one year. 90 per cent; Cor
lelius Godsey, six months, 90 per cent;
Fargaret Halter. ten months, 80 per
3rnt; +. +. Jones, Jr.. seven months,
per cent; Robert Carter. eight
onths. 30 per cent; Collins D. White.
x months. 90 per cent; Ayeril Louise
lenton, one year. SO per cent; Paul c.
Pouch. six months. 90 per cent; Mar.
Pr NJ. Austin. ten months. 80 per cent;
PIN Dulse. ten months, 90 per cent:
pm IL. Lukhard. six months. 9S.5 per
snt: Evelyn Kessler. seven months,
8t.5 per cent; Elwood Perkins, six
onths, ss.5 per cent; Alma Pitman.
TX months, 9S.5 per cent; Ernest
owls. ten months. 9s per cent; Julia
onahue. ten months. sS per cent: Will
fm Mnrgerum. six months, 90 per
Fnt: Laurence Lauterback. eleven
onths. IS per cent; Virginia Dare
flelton. eight months, % per cent,
argaret Evans. six months, 9s uer
Rnt; Catherine Van Lloyd phillips. one
ear. eS per cent; Elizabeth Dunna-
mt, seven months, % per cent; Elsie
obcrtson. eight months. % per cent;
fary Anderson. eight months, % per
fnt; vernon Ely. one year. % per
snt.
iFFICULTE FOUND IN
SECURING MEASuREMENTs
In the second class, OF children from
ie to two years. II was impossible in
pine cases to secure accurate mcas-
ements. as was evidenced in the case
one child thrown out for being under
Eight. when later measurements
bowed his height TO have been perfect
proportion, and fall his tests equal
& child eight months older. This
ter, discovery, of course, could not
eange the awards. as all could not
re-sSamined. but the circumstance
mentioned In Justicc TO disappointed
,repts- The baby who showed up so
ell on examination was little
}iily. +, Mctcalf. Jr.. eighteen months
OF w. +. Metcalf, OF 20 South Elm
rect, who should have scored 100
r cent plus. plus. plus. plus. plus,
us-onc plus for each months de-
lopment In advance OF his age, where
tyelopment is uniform. In this second
ass the awards were made according
the following percentages:
Willlam Howard Ellis, Jr, fourteen
(opths. 100 per cent. plus. plus, plus,
us. plus: Cleveland Versal blackburn,
genty-one months. 1929 per cent, plus.
us. plus: Helen Hulcher, twenty -four
onths. 1895 per cent. plus, plus, plus;
lillian Price Turner. thirteen months,
@ per cent; Leonard Vaughan,
mt Paul Lichnor. fifteen months, COS:
iarlotte Monelle Wood iifteen months,
IS per ccntas Viola Merriam Goey,
yenteen months 800 per cent; Helen
pulse Nash, fourteen months. 99.5 per
mt; Louise Gertrude Throckmorton,
IN ton he
III q Carroll Nealc, twenty-five months,
per cent; BENJAMIN Hughes Duval,
Hventeen months. 90 per cent: Charles
@rinard, eighteen months, SO per cent;
erbert Schaaf. fourteen months, 90
;r cent; Lucy Ellen Andrews, fifteen
onths, SO per cent: Marguerite vir-
fnia Grimes, thirteen months, 90 per
mt Mildred Gertrude Grimes, thirteen
onthss 9S.9 per cent; Landon c. John
on. twenty-four months. 9S.5 per cent;
,arles sutton, eighteen months sS
cent; Alvey Bridges, fourteen
onths. 9S per cent; Nancy Elizabeth
oyle. fifteen months. eS per cent:
Hide Tuck, twenty-one months, SO
II cent: Sidney Stiger. twenty lone
onths, 98 per cent; Robert Molere,
teen months. 9s per cent, and Ber-
rd Frapcis Schultz, fourteen months.
per cent.
fiIitD CLASS FOR CHILDREN
FH0M TWO TO THREE YEARS
: The third class in order of percent
j. ses. was as follows: Gary A. Bousman,
rec years. 100 per cent, plus, plus, plus,
us; Annie Brooke Jones, two years
even months. 100 per cent, plus. plus.
US; Emma Virginia Batten, two years
;e months. 100 per cent. plus, plus;
ancy Wilson, two years seven months.
% per cent. plus, plus; Margaret Coul-
Iurne Valentine, two years eleven
onths, 9s.9 per cent; Margaret Ford,
20 wears six months. 99.5 per cent;
oberta Donati. two years six months,
20 percent; Doris Herndon, two years
even months, 09.5 per cent; Alexan-
n Raydin, two years two months. 99.5
n cent; Rogers AIusy, two years four
onths, 99.3 per cent: Mary Virginia
- avis, two years six months, 90 per
MT Marie Heye. two years nine
. onths. copper cent; Mabel ParseIy,
,enty-eight months. 9s.9 per cent;
o. aroian Elizabeth Fisk. Centralia, two
ears six months. 9S per cent; Aelise
lylor, two years five months, 9S.5
II cent; William Marshall, two years