The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-04-02
School News
STEWART F. GELDERS, EDITOR

The 440 yard dash was the prettiest
race the writer has ever seen. Elmer
! Waites and a little sprinter from Tiff
ton Just natchelly balled the lack"
the Triton boy gaining about ten feet
on the four corners and coming out
two feet in the lead The time of the
first two men was little over 81 sec
onds and the third Triton boy made it
in 50 second Ebert Murray was too
sick to run or we would have won
first place. In the broad jump only
one boy cntered-Elbcrt Murray, who
went in to keep third place from being
forfeited. The winner jumped 10 feet
4 inches, while Murray's practice rec
ord is 10 feet inches. In the relay
the track defeated Fitz again.
Fitzgerald was defeated but she
gained great deal of experience and
left splendid record for sportsman
ship behind. Although in one of two
Of the events our boys seemed hope
lessly defeated, they finished any,
way. Not one runner kicked about
the conduct Of an opponent and not
one has put up an alibi for his par
ticular defeat. The boys all showed
themselves true sportsmen on and off
the field and the whole school should
be as proud of them now, while are
defeated, as they will be on April 18th
when they will have achieved a glo-
rious victory.
1t would have done Fitz-Hi a great
deal of good to have seen the spirit
shown by the Triton High School on
Friday night at their district prelimi-
nary debate. The boys of the school
took part in the songs with vim and
led the yells.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. +. Turner present
ed the school with a volume Facts
About Georgia" recently published
by the Georgia Chamber of Com
merce. The volume will prove most
useful in reference work. We thank
them.
The Americas Times-Recorder an
nounces in its Sunday issue that the
Fitzgerald affirmative debating team
will meet the Americas negative team
in Americas and the Americas affirm
alive team will meet the Fitzgerald
NEGATIVE team in Fitzgerald
This is i'll violation or the constitu-
ton adopted by the state executive
committee to govern such events,
; which explicitly states that the win
ners in each triangle shall send ONE
team to the district meet to debate the
winners of the other triangles in pri-
vate session with the judges, with
other minor regulations.
Inasmuch as Fitzgerald has invoked
the constitution in order to obtain the
forfeit of the decision in the Fitz-
gerald, Ashburn-Cordele triangle it is
only consistent that we uphold the le-
gal side of the question concerning
the championship debate. No other
course can be considered just.
The contests in spelling and essay
were held today. The results will be
announced later.
The Senior Class is starting work
on class play to be given sometime
i'll May. The proceeds will be de-
voted to paying for the publication of
two hundred copies of the Fitz- Hi
Way. The play will be chosen and
the players trained by Mrs. Brown
and Misses Heuser and Sims.
1t seems that the only athletic event
which is not decided is the pole vault.
Cliff Miller and Lois Green are fight
ing Tor that.
Since we don't know what kind of
track they will have at Americas it
would be the wise thing, if in practice,
the 220 and $40 yard dashes were run
around the block, III order to accus-
tom the boys to the turns.
The boys OF the track team hereby
extend their thanks to the Triton A.
and NJ, for the courteous treatment
received while there Saturday: to the
merchants of the town for Offering
the many prizes which we might have
won-and the two we did win: and al
SO to Mr.. Dan Welchel. The con-
sensus of opinion among the track
squad is that a school with a bow like
Dan Welchel deserves to win ANYWAY.
Clear the decks for action and get
ready for the Americas meet. That
is the only thing that counts now.