The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-04-23
Man Auditorium, Balcony. Rear Isles
and Doorways Jammed as
Events Open; Many Are
Turned Away
INTELLECTUAL MEETS
TO BE CLOSED TONIGHT
Winners to be Announced: Many
Entered In Final Tits; Must
Have Larger Auditorium
Next Year, Allen

Before an audience that packed
the Chickasha high school auditorium
TO capacity. the annual Grady coun'
" intellectual contest opened last
night.
All seats on the main floor and
IN the balcony were occupied. the
back isles were filled. the doorways
jammed and many were turned away.
Events last night were: high school
vocal solo. defamation. violin solo
boys glee club. reading, piano solo,
and girls glee club.
Verden, Pocasset. Amber Acme,
Tuttle and Rush Springs made bids
for the girls glee club honors, while
Rush Springs. verden. Tuttle and
Amber competed for the boys glee
club medal. The schedule for last
night was finished after midnight.
Resumed This Morning.
The intellectual contest was re-
sumed this morning when the writ
ten work events. geography, arith-
metic, Z. S. history, algebra, spell
ing and penmanship events were dis
posed Of. A large number Of con-
testants participated in these events,
staged in the junior high school
building.
Either high school or public school
students who had been entered were
eligible to compete in the written
work contests.
A special penmanship examination
was conducted this morning and the
winner will be given a scholarship in
the Chlckasha business college. r.
7. Denbo. president of the college,
conducted the examination. Any Gra.
dy county student was eligible to
enter
ht iHNtiitNtudt DlOHl dii Will Dt
concluded this evening. beginning at
1880 o'clock, in the senior high
school building. Winners of the va
rious intellectual prizes will be an
nounced tonight and the medals and
loving cups Wilt be presented. Me-
dals offered in the track meet also
will be presented tonight.
Primary story telling, grammar
school piano solo, grammar school
defamation, grammar school vocal
solo, grammar school reading and
grammar school orchestra are the
contests scheduled for this evening
Track Meet Begins
In charge Of o. A. Gasaway, as
sistant county superintendent, and a
staff of officials, the track meet op-
ened this afternoon on the Eighth
street athletic field. More than $50
athletes representing large num-
Der of schools in the county were
in uniform and ready for the ath-
letic events this afternoon.
Events Of the track meet this az.
ernoon are: 5O-yard dash, shot put,
SSO-yard run, pole vault, 1OO-yard
dash, standing broad jump, 44O-yard
dash, discus throw, 220-yard hurdles,
high jump, 220yard dash, running
broad jump, 120-yard low hurdles and
mile relay.
Superintendent Allen stated last
night the contest was showing a big
increase as to numbers over last
year. He pointed out the high school
boys defamation contest as an ex
ample.
I'VE had five declamers competing
last year" said Superintendent Allen
This year we have nine and | pre-
dict that next year we will have
from Is to 20' The increase j n the
number of entries is fairly Uniform
throughout the tournament. We sim
ply must have larger auditorium
by next year. This high school au
ditorium will not house the contest.
next year. People come here from
the far corners Of the county t,
see their children appear in the con
tests. Some of these who arrived
late were unable to get into the au
| ditorium last night"