Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-27
NEW STARS TO APPEAR WHEN
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES
MEET At DRAKE STADIUM.
PACKER AND ToMSoN
ONLY REMAINING STARS
Several Schools Whose Teams Showed
Well at Relay Contests Have Chance
to Carry OF Observation-Disclosures and
Not Teams Doped to Win For Re-
spective Schools.
Special to Times Republican,,

Special to Times Republican,,
Des Mo!aes. April 37-F'inal arranse-
ments for the 1915 track and
field meet of the Iowa State high
School Association have been com
peted. The event will be held on the
Drake stadium track and field on Fri
day, May y. Preliminaries as usual
will be neld in rho morning with the
finals in the afternoon. With the
afternoon events will be held the pre-
liminares of the Iowa State College
meet. the finals of this event TO be
staged Saturday II is the FIRST tint
the meets have been staged in this
way, the two events having been held
on the same track the same afternoon
for the last two years.
The dope of the men who think they
know is that the 1915 meet will be the
best ever battled by the high schools
of Iowa. But two known stars, Packer,
of Marshalltown, and Thompson, Of
Davenport, return for this years con-
tests. The west high team which won
easily last year is riddled. The west
team this year is handicapped by lack
of material and an inefficient coach
and to date looks anything but a
winning aggregation. In the Drake re-
lays, where practically all the track
men had a chance to show, Fort Dodge,
Cedar Rapids, Newton. Marshalltown,
east and north Des MoineS all looked
better than did west. These teams all
competed here while Sioux City and
Davenport, not here, must be consid-
cred as better than some of the teams
in the relays. This Will be especially
true of these teams in the wider field
of competition of the state meet
Old Stars Not Missed.
The Drake relays, however. demon
strated the lack of the old-time stars
was not a serious handicap 10 the
competition of this year. The men
were so fast that in the events in
which records were not broken the
previous mark was missed at most by
but 50 of a second. That is the slow
est team to win a first in this meet
was only So Of a second slower than
the best team represented at all the
previous meets. The relays demon
strated that East Des Moines and Fort
Dodge have the sprinters, MARSHALL
town and Cedar Rapids the distance
men, NNlle New lDll ii new conner lltt
material which enabled il to place in
the four events in which it was en-
tered. Davenport is known to have a
fairly we'll balanced squad TO build
around Tomson. while the material al
Sioux City should be developed into a
fair team. although lacking the known
stars at this time.
Individually Hart, Of LeMars; Byers
of East High; Byers, of West High
these youths being cousins Horsburg,
of North High; Fleck. of Newton;
Little, of Hampton: Paige, OF Fort
Dodge: Hampton, Of Ottunlwa: Packer
of Marshalltown; and Franks. of Cedar
Rapids. looked as good as any of the
high school men of the past years. In
addition to their ability as sprinters
Packer, of Marshalltown, and Paige, OF
Fort Dodge, can enter the hurdles and
spirits respectively and give a good
account of themselves.
Stars to Win Points.
The meet will be won and lost, how
ever, not by the balanced teams which
have been named but by the one-mar
teams the individual stars who
promise to be more numerous this veal
| than before. Almost every one of the
| larger schools Of the state will senC
fairly we'll balanced teams this yea
but the smaller schools will send ont
or two men and the performances o
| these men will determine the Standint
of the teams. If it should happen tina
these one man teams should take al
| the points on the track in the event
| up to the half mile, Fort Dodge. Daven
| port and East Des Moines might b.
considered out Of the running. If tn
one-man stars should concentrate 0!
| the field events as they seem certain
| to- it means that many less points 70
| the all around teams with Davenport
and Sioux City as the losers of man,
points. If it should happen, an even
almost beyond the possible, that tn
| individual teams should take all tn
points in the hurdles, Marshalltowl
| would lose it's chance.
| Certain it is no team will make tn
total of points amassed by the leader
Of the past. In the Drake relays, wher
! the state meet winning teams Away
have taken a majority Of the honors j
the past, FIVE teams won frstS, III
teams being Fort Dodge, Cedar Rapid!
| North Des Moines, East Des Moline
and Hampton. The seconds also wer
distributed, North Des Moines, Mar
shalltown, Newton, Cedar Rapids an
West High placing. Third places wer
to Newton West High, Cedar Rapids
Marshalltown and Clarion and tn
fourth places were annexed by LeMar
Fort Dodge. Clarion, with Newto
placing twice. Apparently honors wi
be divided in like manner and it ma
be the prowess of one man, Packe
or a Tomson, or one of the unknown
the one man teams, who will be tt
winners Of the meet.
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