The interior journal., 1915-05-18
SAM EMBRY THE STAR
OF intersehoisstie Athletic Meet at
Lexington Saturday.

The athletic team of the Stanford
High School covered itself with glory
at the interscholastic track meet held
at Lexington under the auspices of
state University Saturday. Out Of
% schools participating, only three
finished ahead of Stanford, and all
three were from large cities, Louis
vile, Lexington and Paducah. And
while surpassed in the number of
points made by these three schools,
Stanford furnished the individual
star of the meet in Sam Embry, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Embry, of this
city. who scored the highest individ-
ual number of points and won the
medal for the individual star of the
meet. Supt. W. c. Wilson took over
only four men to the meet, Sam and
Joe T. Embry, Clinton Coleman and
Will Woods, and they deserve great
credit for the splendid showing they
made. The Lexington Herald gave
this summary of the meet:
That the meet was very close is
shown by the fact that the winner of
the individual medal, S. Embry, of
Stanford, had a total of only ten
points out of total of III, he being
the only man to win two first places.
Simmons, of Richmond, who was the
only man representing his school, was
second in the individual contest with
nine points.
Only one disqualification was given
in the meet, Joe Embry, of Stanford
being the unfortunate one. He turn.
ed over three hurdles in the 220 hur.
"A IL k, g., 4
was disqualified on this account.
The score of the different high
schools taking part in the meet Sat
urday follows:
Louisville Male, 81 1-5; Lexington,
l9 1-5; Paducah IS; Stanford IA;
Richmond 8; Springfield 8 1-2; An
derson county, 6 1-5; Hardinsburg,
5; X. NJ. l., 5; Bellevue, 4 1-5; Som
erset, 40; Ashland, /. Total III.
The leading individual stars and
the scores they made were:
S. Embry, Stanford, 10.
Simmons, Richmond, 8.
Rhodes, Paducah, 8.
Kimball, Louisville, s.
Joplin, Louisville, 7.
Following is the summary of the
different events:
100-yard Dash-Hhodes, Paducah
Bobbitt, Springfield; Prewitt, Lexing-
ton. Time-:11.
220-yard Dash-Smith, Louisville
Male; Rhodes, Paducah; Simmons,
Richmond. Time-;23.
440-yard Dash-Joplin, Louisville
Male; Morris, Lexington; Mcclure,
X. NJ. /. Time :57 20.
OSn ,,axI ,-,,, K,r,han l.
High, Planck, Lexington, Simmons, of
Springfield and Gregory. Somerset,
tied. Time-2:13 1-5.
Mile Run-Kincheloe Hardinsburg
Kimball, Louisville Male; Mckee, An
derson county. Time-5:06.
120-yard Hurdles-Sam Embry,
Stanford; Joe Embry, Stanford; Will
helm, Paducah. Time-:lS.
220-yard Hurdles-Sam Embry,
Stanford; Simmons, Richmond; Roark
Paducah. Time-:27 1-5.
Shot Put-Vaughan, Anderson
County; Caron, Louisville Male
Coleman, Stanford. Distance-For-
ty feet, nine inches.
| Broad Jump-Simmons, Richmond
Shaw, Paducah; Lowenthal, Somerset
Distance-Nineteen feet.
High Wilhelm, Paducah
Gay, Lexington, and Joplin, Louis
vile Male, tied. Heighth-five feet
three inches.
Pole Vault - Bickel, Louisville
Male, and Shoptaugr, Bellevue, tied
Lambert, Lexington, Often, Bellevue
Converse, Somerset; Hollis, Ander-
son County; and Smith, Louisville
tied. Heighth-Nine feet, inches
Tennis Singles-Anderson, Lexing-
ton; Park, X. NJ. l.; Zerfoss, Ash
land.
Relay Race - Lexington, first
Springfield, second; X. NJ. l., third
Times :5S.