Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-04-22
.F0UR-DAY CONTESTS
AT STATE school,
interscholastic Meet Comprises 2S
Numbers; Range from High
Art TO Athletics.

Special 10 The word
NORMAN, Okla, April sl---
Twenty separate contests for
high school students OF Oklahoma
will be held at the fourteenth annual
intersc h elastic meet which takes
place April 20, 25. 26 and 81 at the
University of oklahoma All indi-
cations point TO the shattering OF
recogsls In both number OF entries
and attendance this year.
The events include six athletic
speaking, nine In fine arts, two In
tlonal training and state high school
and publication conferences.
The meet opens Wednesday night
with the finals In the Oklahoma high
school debating league. Contestants
will be shawnee, Iaileyville, Edo
RADIO and either ldabel or Walters
The last two are district winners and
will compete Monday night In an in
ter district contest. The others al
ready have won inter district con-
tests, the state originally having been
divided into eight districts cor
responding to congressional districts
On Thursday win be held art and
mechanical drawing contests. Voice,
piano, dramatic reading. stem
oRraphy, standard grafton, violin,
glee club. orchestra, original grafton,
current publication, domesti science,
tennis and baseball contests will be
held Friday. Also the high school
conference.
on Saturday. the last day of tn.
meet the publication conference and
the finals In baseball and tennis will
be held In the morning and the track
and field meet In the afternoon
since the spring Of 1908 when the
lnterscholastic meet was establish ed
II has grown steadily until now II
brings to the uniyerity many times
the number Of high school students
who contested at that time. In 1905
the only contests were track, field
and tennis The baseball series was
added in 1907. and the first of non
athletic contests In 1913. These
finals In the high school debating
were plano, voice, violin and the
finals IN the high school debating
league. In 1914 gles club, drawing
dramatic and oratorical defamation
contests were started and in 1915 the
orchestra and standard oration con-
tests.
A girls tennis tournament was
publication contests, one for current
publications like weekly and month
ly papers and one for ANIMALS and
year books Manual training, me-
chanical drawing and domestic
science contests also-were added
that year
The lnterscholastic meet gradual
ly Is assuming the characteristic OF
a state exposition OF high school
work. In 1917 more than 500 sta
dents were entered in various c6cA
tests, more than 400 in the athletic
division. 3I5 in the fine arts con-
tests and the others scattered.
In addition TO the competing stu
dents many other students high
school teachers and visitors come to
the university for this meet. Last
year the estimated attendance was
about 5000
Winners last year included Chero-
kee In Class A track Hennessey,
Hugo, boys tennis singles and
Glass u track; Drumrlght, baseball:
doubles; Norman. girls tennis
singles. Oklahoma City. girls ten
nS doubles; Guthrie, piano: Musko-
gee, violin. Guthrie. girls voice:
Ponca city. girls glee club; Black
well. boys voce: Guthrie. orchestra:
Elk City. art; walters, dramatic
reading; Norman. standard grafton;
Norman. debating; Oklahoma City,
Ei Reno and Guymon. current pub
locations, Enid, Pawhuska and Ada
annual publications; Oklahoma City.
drawing. and Tulsa. do
NESTLE science.