Newport daily independent., 1918-04-22
SWEEPSTAKES CUP
 GOES T0 NEWPORT
Searcy Win Greater Number of Indi- vidual HOnors In Northeast Ark
 ansas Association Meet.

The Fourth Annual School meet of the Northeast Arkansas Contest As- sociation closed Saturday afternoon when the athletic meet was concluded. It had been decided the night before that there would be no field meet on account of the heavy rains that had made the fair grounds and race track almost lake. But as about fifty contestants in athletics from the va- rious schools were present and were going to be sorely disappointed it was finally decided to have all field contests on the High School campus and all the races on Walnut street in front of the school building.s Batesville proved an easy winner of the Athletic Cup by winning fifty one points. Cotton Plant won second place with eighteen points; New port won third with fifteen points; McCrory won fourth with ten points
 and Newark won fifth with five points.
 Searcy won most of the individual cups, winning in voice, violin, de- clamation and composition. Newport won the sweepstakes cup that was offered to the school that made the best showing, winning two individual cups, in reading and spell ing; winning second place in de- clamation, piano, composition and map drawing and winning third place in voice, violin and athletics. In the spelling contest Newport won both first and second places with Miss Minnie Frank Hays and
 Miss Myrtle Farmer.
 The events in athletics were as follows: 100 yard dash---Bush, Cot
 ton Plant, first; Adams, Batesville, second and Chapel, of McCrory, third; Time 10 4-5 seconds. Shot Put Cantrell, Batesville, first;, Adams, Batesville, second; Hall, Newark, third. Distance B feet, 6 inches.
 220 Yard Dash Bush, Cotton
 Plant, first; Adams, Batesville, sc- cond and Arnof, McCrory, third.
 Time, 23 2-5 seconds.
 Pole Vault-Patton, Chase and Irby [ of Newport each vaulted 8 feet, 6 inches for the first three places. 40 Yard Run-Bush, Cotton Plant, first; Stone, Batesville, second; Ar
 nof, McCrory, third. Time 53 1-5 seconds.
 Standing High Jump-Sensabaugh,
 Batesville, first; Jones, Batesville, second and Scales, McCrory, third.
 Height feet( 10 inches.
 Running Broad Jump Cantrell,
 Batesville, first; Tharp, Newark, se- cond and Chase, Newport, third.
 Distance IF feet, 6 inches.
 S8O Yard Run Patton, Newport, [ first; Stone, Batesville, second and
 Brown, Newark, third Time 2:12.
 Batesville, first; Phillips of Cotton
 Plant and Ellington of McCrory tied for second place. Height 5 feet. tanding Broad Jump-Sensabaugh,
 Batesville, first; Cantrell, Bates vile, second and Rennau of McCrory, third. Distance 8 feet, 9 3-4 inches. Relay-Batesville first; McCrory, second and Cotton Plant, third. Time,
 8 minutes, 53 2-5 seconds.
 The Newport High School put on
 jubilee meeting this morning at the opening of school. All winners in the contests Friday and Saturday were marched to the rostrum in the High school auditorium, where they lwere given fifteen rah's for the win ners. The three cups occupied a prominent place on the platform.
 Mir. S. R. Phillips, secretary of the scnool board with Presiding Elder Milford of Batesville and Revs. w. B. Hays of the Methodist church and Flowers of the Christian church were present. The regular chapel exer- cises were conducted by Rev. Milford.
 Revs. Hays and Flowers each made inspiring addresses to the students.
 All Newport is proud of the re- cord made by Newport in scoring in each event and from the fact that it won the sweepstakes cup. The score made by Newport was 28 points with Searcy the nearest com petitor with total of 21 points.
 Hats off to the boys and girls!