The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-02
PRELIMINARY CONTEST

contest held at the courthouse. nose
who will represent Fitz- Hi in the two
branches of expression and music
were picked by Rev. r. +. Deese, of
Abbeville, Rev. A. c. Pyle, of DELLA,
Prof Nelson, Of Ocilla, Mrs. Shu-
make, of Ocilla, and the music teacher
in the Della public schools.
The first place in music was award
ed to Miss Mildred Shafer, who rep
resented us last year. Miss Shafer is
a really fine pianist and with her one
year OF experience at a district con-
test, she should be able to win at least
several points for the school. Miss
Lily May Hughes was winner of sec
ond place All four OF the other con-
testants showed very fine ability and
elected much favorable comment
In Reading Miss Hazel Mayes was
winner She has much histrionic tai
cnt and her friends are countig on her
to hplc win the meet. Miss -Ekyne
Alberson took second place. Misses
Madeline Davenport and Corrine Nc
Phail, the other two who tried out,
both showed much ability, that we
are given good reason for believing
that the Fitzgerald High School will
win at the district in 1918 and 1919 as
well as 1917.
In Defamation only two were en-
tered: Harold Kassewitz and Ralph
Cohen, Harold being the visitor This
speaker is a brother Of Sam Kassc-
WITT who won first place at the state
contest few years back, and many
believe that Harold will equal his
, brothers record He is indeed a
. splendid speaker. Harold has had one
: years experience in defamation while
/, Ralph Cohen made his debut Friday
. into the forensic limelight Since we
:, are sure that Harold will win at til,
E district it is matter of satisfaction
: to have Ralph to fall back on mex
year.
1t seems that everyone who was a
the courthouse Friday lHgnt is salts
> fed with the decision Of the judges
an unusual thing and creditabl
9 thing While from financial stand
{ point improvement could have bee
c made, the affair at least paid ex
i penses.
Triton TRACK MEET
f A matter of secondary consequence
to the school was the Triton Trac
s meet Saturday. Although Fitz-Hi los
:. 90 to 20 points, the team gained
= great deal in experience, and that wa
r the primary object Only one of tn
G ten entrants in track and field event
f had ever been in that kind of contes
t before so the experience gained-eve
r at the cost of win invaluable Al
l though almost every man exceeded
! all marks set in practice, unfavorabl
conditions worked against the team t.
great extent. Our athletes are no
familiar with a circular track such a.
Twas used and in the hurdles and pol,
vault the apparatus was of such diff
fcrent character than what our boy!
had used that it was quite a check.
The hundred yard dash was the frs
event and was won by ]. l.. Pittmar
i'll 10 seconds flat. Triton scored sec
ond and third because Elmer Waite.
was forced off the ten foot track anC
crawled i'll at very slow pace--onlS
lO3-5 seconds. Very Slow In the
shot put Fitzgerald had two misfor
. fortunes, Ebert Murray our secont
putter, was i'll, and Dan Welchel wa:
: not i'll. Big Dan" tossed the bal
over IS feet. Another hefty farmer
boy put it almost 40 feet. Dean Hop
kins heaved it about SO feet That i.
certainly a good record, too, sine,
Dean has only been practicing on tn,
shot for two months. In the 22t
, dash the start was on curve an,
although !. l.. Pittman got the jumI
on his opponents he was forced t,
pace about $50 yards because of hi
unfamiliarity with a curved track.
long-legged lad by the name of Kin,
was king OF the road" in that even
| and ]. l.. took second honors. Elber
Murray showed great deal of plucl
i'll trying to run and. sick as he was
pushed Dan Welchcl who won thir,
place, great deal harder than tn
jolly giant had been pushed in Ions
time. In the high jump Lee Ricket
son tied for second place with
spring jointed aggie while Pat Fret
we'll took third place. Lee jumpe,
fifteen times while the two Tiftoi
boys jumped only about half tina
number of times-resting wheneve
they felt like it, Lee was plumb ex
haustcd on the Hurdle race. which
came next, and neither he nor Tedd,
Justice could beat TiftonS Is second
man. In the pole vault the spring