The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-04-17
SC CONTESTS
ATTRACT HUNDREDS
TO:THE CITY TODAY
STUDENTS FROM THROUGHOUT
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ARE IN
HATTIEsBURG.
ATHLETIC PROGRAM IS
GIVEN AT HAMPER PARK
Four Competitive Tests Are Engaged
In by lnter-Schooi Representatives
out-oftown Contestants Take Most
of the Prizes in indoors Exercises.

of the Prizes in indoors Exercises.
With students from practically every
high school in South Mississippi in at
tendance, one of the most elaborate
inter-scholastic contests ever attempt
ed in this section of the state, was CIV
en- in Hattiesburg today.
Field meet, oratorical, musical, and
spelling contests were engaged in,
each of the Mississippi schools sending
the most perfect contestants series
of rigid examinations could bring out.
The affair was held under the SUI
peryision of Prof. w. c. Strahan, prin-
cipal of the Hattiesburg High School,
assisted by officials Of the Commercial
Club, and of the schools of the city.
An ideal day was that selected for
both the indoor and the field events.
Hundreds of visions accompanied the
contestants in the various classes. to
Hattiesburg, and spent the day sight
seeing. taking only enough time from
this to witness the competitions.
An AII-Day Affair.
=. The program. which was an all-day
ffair, began at 10 o'clock this morn
1Mhg. At the Lomo Theatre and at the
Auditorium. at that hour. the contests
were begun. An hour later, the SPELL
ing contest for the Commercial Clubs
certificate. was engaged in. The ath-
letic program was begun at Hamper
Park, at 12:45 o'clock. 1t will not
conclude until late In the afternoon.
All grammar schools and high school
students over IL years of age, were
eligible to participate in the contests.
AS early as yesterday afternoon, the
students began pouring into Hatties-
burg. and this big inflow continued
until IL o'clock today. Meridian and
Ellisville. sent the largest delegations.
they arrived just before the curtain
at the Auditorium and the Iomo were
raised.
A complete list of the winners in the
athletic events will appear in The
News Monday.
Contest In Music.
The biggest attendance at the morn
ing events was that which packed the
Auditorium at 10 o'clock, where con-
tests in girls expression and in piano
solos were given. Mrs. E. E. Conner
presided at this meeting, and was as
sisted by Miss Houston, of the Satties-
burg High School.
In the music contest there were eight
entrants, two of them being boys. The
winners were:
Hillman Oliphant, of Poplarville, 1st.
Katherine Donald, of Hattiesburg.
ID.
Leah Ruble, of the Perkinston A. H. |
S.. 3rd.
The other entrants were: Myra Gay, |
Brooklyn A. H. S.; Forrest McGehee,
Carnes; Katye MCGOWAN, Jones coun-
ty A. H. S. Annie Louise Williams,
Prentiss, and Louise Simpson, of Me-
ridian. The winner was awarded the
gold medal of the Bank of Hattiesburg. |
In the girls expression contest for
the Citizens Bank gold medal, there
were FIVE entrants. Xer Davidson, of
Sumrall. was awarded the medal;
Eathel Lee. of Brooklyn, was given |
second honors, and Irene Lott, of Pur-
Wis, third The other contestants were:
Mamie Myer of the A. H s. of Ellis |
vile, and Virgil Rowel, of Richton.
Movie House Packed.
representative of the Seminary
school, r. Barwick, was awarded the
First-National Bank of Commerces
gold medal in the boys defamation
contest, conducted at the Lomo,
The moving picture theatre was
packed and jammed during this con-
test, and the applause received by
each OF the participants could be
heard in the streets.
A Hattiesburg boy. Charles Rinns,
got second honor. while third honor
went to Wesley Cragin. of Purvis.
The other contestants were: VIII
Iiams, OF Meridian: Ira Cochran. OF
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