The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-05-17
HIGH SCHOOL IN
FIELD MEET

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First Annual Crawford County FieIe
Meet Held in Denison Last Fri
day Afternoon Success.
FOUR SCHOOLS IN EVENTS
Best Of Spirit Shown by Participant.
and a Good Crowd Was Present
to Cheer tire Winners.
The first annual Crawford county
field meet was held Friday afternoon
at the athletic park on the college
campus as announced in last weeks
Review, and four high schools in the
county participated in the different
events. The silver loving cup donat
ed by the commercial club, which Is
to become the property OF the schoo
winning it for three years in success
sion, goes to DenisOn the first year
as they managed to score 81 points
1t is not surprising, however. that the
local school boys managed to bag sc
many of the points for they have been
holding track meets for the past two
years. while the other towns have not
devoted much attention to this branch
of high school athletics until just a
few weeks ago. Schleswig, Vail and
Manila had representatives present
to participate in this meet and the
showing made by them was a surprise
to the Denison folks who have been
taking an interest in athletics.
1t was an interesting meet and the
best of spirit was shown by those con
testing in the different events. Not
withstanding the threatening weather
there was good crowd in attendance
which was made up of scores OF peo'
pie who had never witnessed an event
of this kind The fact that it was
the first Crawford county inter-schol1
astic meet attracted considerable at
tention and it was so successful that
everyone has hopes that it will be-
come an annual affair for years to
come.
Schleswig sent five representatives
to the meet. they being Schwartz, Jen'
sen, Ehler, Wetzeler and Pipgras. Vail
had five representatives at the meet,
Watson, Mccormick, kral, Wahlin and
Sheridan, while Manila had but one.
that being Barrow. Denison's team
was made up of Strahan. Cavett,
Wearmouth\ OTonnor, Gary. Poole.
Locke, Teut and Rank. Locke, OF
Denison.. carried, of the hOnors, win
ming Is points himself and Barrow, OF
Manila, the only representative OF
that place, walked away with 9H,,
points made in the three events in
which no nortipinated
Teut. of Denison, won the 100 yd.
dash in IL seconds flat, Locke. OF
Denison End. Barrow of Manila. Bird.
and Watson, OF Vail. 4th. The 100
yd. hurdles was won in 20 3.5 Sec
onds by Poole, OF Denison, with Gary
End and O'Connor 3rd. The shot put
proved an interesting event, this go.
ing to Locke, of Denison, who heaved
the big iron weight distance OF
81 #. in. Wearmouth, OF Denison'
was End, Wetzeler. of Schleswig, 3rd,
and Mccormick, of Vail, 4th In the
discus throw Wearmouth, OF Denison,
won 1st, the distance being SO it.
Locke End, Mccormick 3rd. and Ehler
Atli. Cavett, of Denison, won the mile
run in minutes, 42A seconds. with
Strahan End and Kral Bird. The broad
lump was won by Locke. the jump be-
ing 10 it. Watson, OF Vail. End. Bar
row, OF Manila, 3rd, and Teut OF
Denison, 4th. The 440 I'd. dash was
made in GO seconds by Wearmouth,
O'Connor being End. Jensen. OF Sch
leswig 3rd and Schwartz. of Schles-
wig, 4th. The honors in the pole vault.
ing event were divided evenly between
Gary and Locke, who tied for LIST place
and Mccormick and Wahlin, of Vail,
being the other winners in this event.
Poole was victor in the $50 yd. race
Schwartz End and Rank. of Denison.
3rd, the time being 2 minutes and
30 seconds. The high jump was won
at S It. 2 in. by Locke. and who by the
way, had to beat his highest record
in order to Guido Barrow and Pipgras,
who tied for End honors, while Rank
received 3rd place. The 22O yd. dash
went to Wearmouth, who made the dis
lance in 26 seconds, Barrow getting
End place, Teut 3rd and Wetzeler 4th.
The 220 I'd. hurdles was made by Teut
in Just 80 seconds and won the silver
loving cup for the local school, which
was offered for this event. Poole won
End and Ehler 3rd.
Individual Points Made.
The points made by the individuals
%oL;nU mart in the meet are as follows: