The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-24
HG<ifeds of High School
uagsters Coming to Mis-
scuba for the Event.
REVIVED AFTER YEAR
Garden City Boys Hope to
Win First Honors as in
Previous Years.

VIII come to MisSOula again this spring
after an interval Of two years to COM
pete in the Fourteenth annual inter-
scholastic track meet to be held on
M1atana field May to IL.
Three hundred youngsters, from ev-
err Fart of the Treasure state, from
H1yte to Red Lodge and from Plains
to WibAux. gathered in the Garden city
to sAke part In the 1916 games, and the
un1xetsaty authorities in charge Of the
ce1oang event hope that nearly that
Mnny Will compete this year, though
the Mnalt Of players whose expenses
1re raad by the university has been re-
dueoa TO three from each school by
wartime needs.
Inruugh the efforts Of the fast, hus-
Ky. Gritty lads who have represented
11booula high school during the past
yea14 "a the track. the supreme honors
at ~ tS16 and 1915 meets were won
~ ~ Garden city team. During the
co(ning week, Coach Garrison will
seQ1 N athletes, but two Of whom
co1l1at61 in the 1915 meet, through the
py1Dll1iry PAGES Of another seasons
woe1k md hopes, IN spite Of the lack.
otter winning aeyrsgation.
1877 Msee caNss,isd.
rAst years track meet was called off
. ~ weeks before it was scheduled
to u hsad, the decision to cancel the
aIit6aGl event being reached after
n16inSg of tho schools throughout the
stffa Nd reported upset conditions
! - 10 r1f kn trV
ofstlh uhited states into the war. How
g. 4 being the Expressed desire OF
III pfps) dent and the war department
th2k "a sinterscholastic and intercolle-
gio4A Gt11ettcs be encoNraged to the
fuj16et p6GDlble extent, IN order to more
aSlly III the youths Of the nation Tor
stefIIsr service On the b&ttisfieids OF
Europe, It was decided to revive the
zeQse TIM sDfinG, and AL Indications
40 that ii will be 40 much Of success
. = former ysars. &
Nisssusa scored -.
twenty -four OF the high school teams
which competed in the 1915 meet were
toint. winners, Missoula leading the
laid with total Of 40, gained through
NJ winning OF first place by the Gar
den city athletes In the l00-yard DASH
~ l20-yard hurdles, the 220-yard
hurdles, the javelin hurl. and the TAX
Ing Of one second place, five third
nlAces, one fourth place and two fifth
h1Aces. Butte scored 81 points. the
Prrple and Whites representative
coming in first four times and second
once.
Helena scored q points, one first and
two seconds going to the Capital city
athletes, while Fergus county of Lew
istowh, with two firsts and second
totaled Is points. Gallatin scored II,
StevensvltIe, with two firsta third, a
1ourths and fifth, counted l6 times,
and Great Ealls IL. Anaconda and
Havre each scored 3 points, Victor
q due to the efforts Of Elmer Cowan,
who lost his life on the Tuscania, and
Hamilton Z. Other point winners In
the 1916 meet were as follows: Park,
Poison and Teton, 6 each; Flathead and
Ravalli. each; Laurel, Joliet, Butte
Central and Worden, each; Belgrade
Terry ana Glasgow, each.
Dutch" Molthen, the sturdy little
Butte star, won individual honors al
the 1916 meet with a total OF Is points
With Doty of Missoula, sullivan OF
Butte, MacGowan of Fergus, Parsons
OF Helena, Mckenna of Anaconda, May
OF Stevensviile. Goff of Havre. Obcrli,
of Gallatin. Cowan OF victor and Phil
lips Of Missoula ranking next.
Many Come to University.
OF the men who won points in tina
meet many subsequently came to tn
NJ lnr Str
dent at the Missoula institution whel
he enlisted In the Marines last spring
ana starred on the football and tracI
team; sullivan of Butte Is studen
there now, having played on the foot
ba1l and basketball teams; Phillips ,
Missoula was a student before enter
illa the service of Uncle San. wbii
Numerous others also entered the loo;
; School indirectly perhaps, as the re
suit Of the universities track meet.
Meets Of Other Years.
The 1915 meet was Won by John NJ
Coughs Missoula team which account
laxAd 50 points, while Flathead coun,
hfgh OF Kalispell scored S6 points al
Butte high 20. bud" Phelps OF But
Was the individual star Of the NEE
wslh . total Of Is points. while Rail-
otIcht OF Missoula made IA.
IN 1915 Gailatin. through the .effor
q Cort Howard, scored - points n,
noipd out Missoula, in second pla
6S(A total u ~. Howard was t
i(dlvidual prise. winner. with "Budd
fhelps close on his heels.
dallatin also won the 1919 gam
t3th Is points. Lewis Jolley. the
31pnde football star and Phelps
ilbese being tied for premier homo
1Gouia. won second place with
tl&ts.
ne 1918 meet went 70 0aiiatin W
Do1nts. while Anaconda grabbed
k&oef e Anaconda was individ
4-WtAner Of the meet. The !
IS Is .sasne two tea
llalin scoring - and Al
81 Niasoula, breaking b
e = Ny6Afs Iay-off. scored II poi,
81 80 Qo1laAin made ~ end Hell
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