Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-20
STANDING OF THE SCHOOLS.

COIlOn DSil ...... ....s. .'s.
Bowling Green .......:.... 80. /.
Arcade school, Rock Hill ....... !
Bullock's Creek
X Grove ...... ............'. 4
Glendale ...... $500. 80. ........
BetneSQA ....S. ...... '..'''.'
Friendship ........ ...... ........
The foregoing is an unofficial sum.
mary Of the standing Of the vari.
GUS schools in the York County Field
Day competition held in Yorkville las
Friday. The calculation is made on
basis Of 3, 2 and !, which gives York.
Vile first place, Leslie second, ant
Rock Hill third. Calculated on
basis Of S, 3 and 2, Yorkville gets 81
points and Rock Hill and Leslie tn
with A points each, and the question,
at issue will be settled by the decision
Of the judges, Profs. Riddle and Holl
iday.
While not officially stated it Is prac
tically certain that the three troph!
cups will be awarded to the Yorkville
Leslie and Glendale schools
The judges Of the mental contest
were Misses Elizabeth Faris, Belle
Norris, Leila Russell, Mary Roach
Maude Williams, Messrs. ]. A. Barry
John B. Paysinger, Ebenezer Gettys
]. E. Latham and Rodney M. Love. Thu
the supervision of w. r. Timmons, r
c. Burts, B. C. Riddle, Lewis M. Grist
judges; H. R. Tucker, starter; w. D
McGinnis, scorer; Blakely Plexico
Mental Contests.
First grade spelling-Rebecca Nc
D--u-r u~-lflI4 H~aIA1 0nhnnl. Nar 4.
RE Earl, Bowling Green; Alma Whiso'
nant, Sharon, and Hoyle Maxwell, Clio
yer, tied for third place.
Second grade reading-Steven Col
yer, Winthrop Training school; Almet'
Ia Moss, Arcade school, Rock Hill
Amidas Link, Fort Mill.
Third grade spelling-Arthur Craw
ford, Guthriesville; Lille CRAWFORD
Stevenson, Rock Hill and John Steel,
Brice, Jr., Yorkville, tied for SECOND
place.. william Hafner, Fort Mil.
Third grade arithmetic-Powell Pat
rick, Yorkville; Virginia Brice, Rocl
Hill; Frances Carroll, Cotton Belt.
Fourth grade reading-Mount Holly
Yorkville, Fort Mill.
Fifth grade arithmetic-Alodia Sales
Leslie, SO; Howard Clinton, Eastview
95; William Hope, Rock Hill, 80.
First grade reading-Nannie Phillips
Central school, Rock Hill; Ethe
Brown, Yorkville; Della Carroll, Cot
ton Belt.
Sixth grade arithmetic - Winni,
Crook, Gold Hill; Margaret Miller
Winthrop Training school; Nellie
White, Central Graded school, Rocl
Hall.
Seventh grade arithmetic-Paulint
Oates, Yorkville; Pave Ford, Glendale
BECKER Lee, Massey.
In the composition contest, open t(
pupils of schools employing more thar
three teachers, Gary Windle Of For
Mill, was first; Elizabeth Law, Win
throp Training school, second, and LIE.
ona Moore, Rock Hill, third.
Ella Lee Byers Of Sharon, was frs
and Ollie Simpson Of Leslie, was sec.
ond in the composition contest among
pupils of three teacher schools, AND
Myrtle Hayes Of Newport, was first
Edna Clinton Of Eastview was second
and Marie Aycock Of Bethesda, was
third, in a similar contest among the
pupils of schools which have only two
teachers.
Herbert Smith Of Glover, was the
winner Of the defamation contest
among boys Of intermediate grades;
Fred Bryant Of Winthrop Training
school, vas second and Jay Graves oil
Sharon, was third.
James Sifford Of the Glover school
won first place in the defamation con-
test among high school boys. Ward
Mitchell Of Eastview, was adjudged
the second best declaimer in this %
test, and Frank Quinn Of Hickory
Grove, third.
Alice Anderson of Winthrop Train
ing school, was the winner in the dec
lamation contest for high school girls;
Eugenia Pratt Of Sharon, was second
and Mary Poe Of Mount Holly, was
third.
The number Of schools entering the
fourth grade spelling contest was
larger by far than were the number
entering any other contest in connec-
ton with the school meet. The fol-
lowing ten words were given out to the
contestants. to be written: silver, oys-
tiers, trowel, whether, school-room, re-
ceive, playmate, pencil, window, for
ward. The word 'trowel" seemed to
be the bette noir Of most Of the SPELL
ers. The representatives Of four
schools-Lesslie, Yorkville, Sharon and
correctly. The other schools repre-
scented in this contest were: Santiago,
Mount Holly, McConnellsville, Guth-
riesville, Bowling Green, Newport,
Rock Hill, Hickory Grove, Sutton
Springs, B%lairsville, Cotton Belt.
Blairsville won second place, and New
port and Rock Hill tied for third.
Third grade reading-Grier Kirkpat-
rick, Yorkville; Nancy Cherry, Win
throp Training school.
intermediate grade girls defamation
contest-Alice Gibson, Gold Hill: Mar
garet Mellow. Yorkville; Mary Hen
derson, Hickory Grove.
Athletic Events.
Leslie school won first place in the
athletic events Of the day, the school
making a total score Of 81 points;
Yorkville Graded school won second
place with a score Of 20 points, and
Rock Hill came third with a total of rs
points. The standing Of the other
schools represented in the various ath-
letic contests were as follows: Glover
II, Mount Holly Is, Hilbert 10, Guth-
riesville 8, Blairsville I, Bethany 5,
Fort Mill 3, Gold Hill 3. Sharon 3, Bull
locks Creek 2, Friendship l, Cotton
Belt /.
In the 25-yard dash, which was open
to girls Of intermediate grades, May
Simpson Of Leslie. was first, running
the course in I 1-5 seconds; Dove Ross
Of Mount Holly vas second, and Mary
Carroll Of Cotton Belt was third.
Janet Moore Of Guthriesville, won
the ball throw contest among high
school girls. Her record was 81 feet.
Wilma Quinn Of Yorkville. came sec
ond in this contest, and Olive Kirk
patrick Of Leslie, was third.
Walter Thomas Of the Filbert
school, won the 100-yard dash, which
was open to boys under Is years of
age. He ran the required distance in
10 rs seconds. MIN Horton Of Sha-
ron, won second place in this contest,
and Cecil Simmons Of Rock Hill, was