Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-03-04
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
WINTER PLAYGROUND
Interscholastic Carnival Staged
There on Saturday, With Stu
dents from the College, Local
and Winooski High Schools
and st. Michael's, Contesting

Fully 500 people on Prospect street and
University place Saturday afternoon
watched the front car1pus of TIE Uni
versity of Vermont become n winter play
ground. There the first annual interschu-
lastlc winter carnival OF Vermont was
staged. with the Outing club of the uni
Versity. the department of athletics of
tho university. the Green Mountain cluL
and tho officials OF tho city co.operatinp
10 make the affair a SUCCESS. And their
cffor,s met with even greater success
than had beon hoped for. The carnival
attracted much favorable attention from
every quarter that there seems to be no
evont here, with high schools from all
doubt but that IL vii! become an ai,nual
over me state participating.
! such abort notice was given 10 the l,jeh
schools of Vermont this year that few OF
them had time 20 prepare for such q meet
nut tney VIII be given sLfficien. time in
future, ans they will know that this car
niNa' is coming at this time, so that II IS
expected that there will 3e n large mum.
Der or schools entered next year. As IL
was, four OF the local schools, Burlng-
ton nigh school, the Cathedral high school,
Ninooskl high and st. MichaelD entered
men in practically al. of the Junior events,
/
cclent material in these schools for de-
ve.oping crack teams of uhowshoe and
ski me-, in this vicinity.
! Headed by the crack University Of YER
mont outing team which brought honor
| 70 the Grco? ard Gold in the Dartmouth
meet. the ccl.cge snowshoc and SIX! ar
ttSts put w an excellent exhibition OF
what can be done in tn. line Of mid win
ter sports right hero in Burlington. Most
Of the participants in the senior events
were mon from the university. but the
/ Green Mountain club had one worthy rep
resentativa In A. II. Miller, who recently
came to Burlington from Montreal and
who has shown considerable ability on
skis.
| City officials took a great interest in
the carnival, the following men of prom
inence in the city assisting as judges:
, Mayor j. Holmes Jackson, Chief of Po-
lice Patrick j. Russell A. J. Canning, T.
/ ). Dean and Fred Laing. Other officials
were: Starter, Professor j. r. Donahue,
chairman of the athletic committee Of
the University Of Vermont; referee, James
( p. Taylor; announcer, f. Douglas Nc
Sweeney; clerk of the course, E. F. Crane.
w. =. Edmunds, athletic director at the
University, had general charge of the
arrangements for the carnival and super
intended Its program.
/ 1t was ideal weather for a meet Of this
nature, being cold enough to be exhlarat-
ing for the contestants, and yet not SO
cold but that the spectators enjoyed them
selves. There was good crust on the
enow. making travelling excellent on both
skis and snowshoes. This being the first
meet of the kind to be held in Burling-
ton, no records were kept of the time.
II being considered as a sort of practice
meet. but 1t was the opinion Of the judges
that some very good time was made, es-
pecialy in the senior events.
In tho junior events, Burlington high
school had the largest number of mon
entered and took the great majority of
points, securing five firsts. four seconds
and three thirds. The Cathedral high
school took one first, two seconds and
two third places. St. Michaels won the
sk-relay by a narrow margin over Bur-
| lington high school. Bassett and Platka
were the biggest individual point winners
for Burlington high school, while Robin
son and Burns did good work for the
Cathedral high school.
| st. Cyr. %, was high point man in the
senior events taking three firsts, while
| Walker n, was close second, with two
firsts. Edlund, 90 Schmidt, '21 and Bas-
SOW. NJ. Ct, We're consistent point gamers.
tween classes In this meet, the men going
in to win individually, but it may be
noted that, counting first place as five
points. second place as three points, and
third place as one point, the class of 1921
| took the greatest number of points. "A in
: all, while the other classes finished as fol-
lows: 1923. II points; 1922, IL points; and
1920 eight points.
The most interesting event of the pro-
gram was the ski-joring. in which there
were entered ten contestants. with horses
and riders requiring five preliminary
heats, two semi-finals and a final. In the
final heat, w. NJ Goldsmith. 20, won from
a H. Miller of the Green Mountain club.
Several of these races were hotly con-
tested requiring skilled horsemanship as
well as more than ordinary ability to
travel on skis. Walker, u, had hard luck
with his animal, which proved to have I'M
friendly heels. No serious damage was
done. except that the time lost in using
these heels at the beginning of the race
lost the events for Walker.
There We're some decidedly humorous
scenes staged in the obstacle races. e3-
pecally when the contestants attempted
to roll over with skis on. McAllistcr. the
camera man. was on hanH with NOV
ing picture machine, and got some Of the
choice Views. which will be offered To
FINLAND and may be seen here later IN
the Pathe weekly.
The events. with their winners, w"rs an
follows. Senior events; SKI dash. St. Cyr,
'23, first; Edlund. %, second: Goldsmith.
20. third. Snowshoa dash, Walker. 81
first; Schmidt. n. second; Spauidirg 81
third; ski Obstacle, st. Cyr, 90 first; Lord.
~, second Bassov NJ 81 third. Snow
shoe obstacle. L. II. Rand, 20. first. Way,
90, second; Schmidt, 81. third. Ski cross
country, st Cyr, ~. first; Bassow, M. 81
second; Edlund. '22, third Snowehoe cross
country Walker, ~. first, Schmidt, 81
second Spaulding. 20 third, Ski .,orinG,
Goldsmith, 20, first Miller, Green Noun
tain club, second. Wesley Smith rode the
horse for Goldsmith, while DR.. G. f.
Partridge rode MIXERS horse. -Four torscs
were loaned from Fort Ethan Allen fol
tho ski-JoriIg,
High school events: SKI dash. Hit
y. II 5. first; Whitney, p. IT, s.. second
O'Bren, &. II. G., third Snowshoe dash
Bassett, Il. II. q. first; Platka, Is. IL. s.
record Burns, L. H. G., third. SKI OBJ
stare, Robinson. C. II s.. first; Howe
b. II. s.. second; no third man to finish
Sno Eshoe obstacle. Platka, b II. s., first
Burns, c. II. s., second: Howe, r. IL. :.
third. Ski croos-country. Stevens, b IL
s., first; Robinson. ~. II S., second
Marvin, Il II. S., third. Snowshoe cross
country, Bassett, b. II. S., first: Hail, Is
H. S.. second; Pollard, b. II. S., third.
The SIX; relay race between Burlington
and Wnooski high S, hrols and st. MI
chael's was hard fought throughout. Eacf
team was In the lead ut some time dur