Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-03-02
NOxubee County Field Day
WM Be Held at Macon, Thursday and
Friday April II and IS
RULES AND REGULATIONS

l. Only bona hde pupils will be al.
lowed to enter any contests. To be q
bona hde pupil means that one must
nave been In actual attendance In school
Tor the three months immediately preced.
ing the meet.
z. A school will be allowed two repre-.
sentatives in each contest, except in
declarations and readings, in which
every school may enter one contest.
). All pupils twenty.one years of age
and over are not allowed to enter any
contest.
=. All pupils who won first place in
any one of the last three Field Meets will
not be allowed to enter the same contest
this year.
). In athletics, Spauldins's Rules will
be authority.
3. The athletic contests will be ar
ranged in five divisions according to the
weight of the contestants. Glass A will
consist of all boys Of 145 pounds and
ouer; Glass B, all boys from l25 to l45
pounds; Class y, boys from 100 to l2s
pounds; Glass d, 80 to 100 pounds;
Class E, all boys under 80 pounds. The
contestants will be weighed in their
track suits at the grounds. Any pupil
may enter a class higher, but no con.
testant will be allowed to enter class
lower than his own. The last rule will
apply also to the literary contests.
Z. No school will be allowed to enter
any pupils in any contests without send
inS their names at least ten days before |
the meet. In athletic contests the weight |
must be sent along with their names. One |
alternative will be allowed for each con.
test, athletic and literary. whose names
must be sent at least ten days before the
meet.
8. In the literary contests Grammar
grade pupils are those who are below the
Ninth grade. All pupils in the Ninth
Grade and above are counted as High
School pupils.
9. Decla oations and readings must
not be over FIVE minutes in length.
10. The county superintendent shall
appoint managers for the different events
Of Field Day, select judges and secure
questions for all literary contests. Judges
shall be from out of the county, and in
NO sense interested in the schools par.
ficipatins.
AWARDS
/ |. Ribbons, badges and medals will be
tiven to winners.
| 2. A silver cup will be awarded the
school making the highest number of
points. All prizes, except the general
Exhibit, will count FIVE points for the
ltst prize and three points for the second
'p.ize. The school that keeps the cup
t,ree successive years will become its
permanent owner; otherwise it shall be
lhe property of the high schools making
Q the organization.
4 3. A silver cup will be awarded the
lne teacher school making the sreateat
aumber of points, which cup shall be-
come the property of the school that
Keeps it for three successive years.
CONTESTS LITERARY
l. Written spelling, high school first
points FIVE, second points three.
2. Written spelling, grammar school, :
irst points FIVE, second points three.
The words for the grammar grades will
be taken from the first sixty pages of
Hunts Speller part 2. The words for
lhe high school grades will be taken
rom the rest of the same book.
3. Arithmetic, high schools first points q
i've, second points three. =
4. Arithmetic, grammar school, first a
points FIVE, second points three. Prob .
ems for the high school pupils will be
aiken from the Stone-Mills Arithmetic II
Advanced. Problems for the grammar =
Trades will be taken from Colow, Duke
md Powers Practical Arithmetic. =
S. Composition, high school, first =
points FIVE, second points three. "
6. Composition, grammar school, first '
POINTS FIVE, second points three. v
7. First year Latin, any high school .
,upil, first points FIVE and second points -
hree.
I. Extemporaneons readings, high y
school, first points FIVE, second points