Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-17
RAISE STANDARD
OF ATHLETICS IN.
MIDDLE GEORGIA
Association Formed AT Vienna
Meet To Weed Out Ringers
Cordele Wins Meet


meet held in Vienna last Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, was the rails
ing of standards in inter-scholastlc
athletics. With the object chiefly of
wedding out the all too prevalent
ringer" and of allowing no student
of any school whose scholastic rec
ord and department standing are be-
low a certain prescribed standard to
play in the inter-scholastic games,
the Middle Georgia Athletic associa
tion was formed at the meet. Of
ficers of this association elected were
w, j. Bennett, president, and II. N.
Stephens, secretary and treasurer, of
president, Dawson; H. c. Cults, sec
ond vice-president, Ashburn, j. g.
Hoist, third vice-president, Americus.
The vice-presidents are to exercise
a sort of "Jude Landis-ship' over
football, basketball and baseball re-
spectively.
Membership in the association is
not compulsory, but a school black
listed by the association for playing
ringers, or for any other reason, will
not be able to schedule a game OF
any kind with any school that is
a member of til organization.
The next district high school meet
is to be held at Cuthbert, and Super
intendent Hall, of Cuthbert, was
elected secretary of the Third Dis
trict High School association for
1929, while Superintendent G. G.
Singleton, of Cordele, was elected
president
Cordele Winner
Cordele won the highest number of
points, Ia, in the meet, having first
place in athletics, and boys essay;
second place in girls essay, and third
place in spelling. Dawson, with first
place in girls essay and spelling, won
second place in the meet, with IL.
Fitzgerald, with first place in debate,
second place in athletics, and third
place in boys essay, won third place
with 1-2 points.
First places in other events were
as follows: music, Montezuma; decla-
nation, Vienna; recitation, Ashburn.
The Americus high school was not
represented in the boys essay con
test; while Miss Agnes WooteE, who
volunteered to take the place Of the
first appointee in the girls essay, Ut
q late hour, was under the handicap
Of having to make her reputation
by forced marches.
uo,,,nnopd nJ
Americus in defamation; and did 1t
creditably. His speech, however, was
not considered for prize because IF
Inc fact that it was poetry. The
defamation that won the medal was
Patrick henry's Liberty or Death"
speech delivered by Abe OroWitz, of
Vienna, in a manner that would have
been credit to old Patrick Henry
himself.
Long Program.
Miss Ann Heys and Miss Kathryn
Harris represented Americus in mu-
sic and in recitation respectively, in
program that breaks the record
for length. There were thirty par
ticipants on this program which be-
gan at 8 80 Friday night and lasted
till o'clock Saturday morning. Miss
Heys played her number perfectly
and was easily among the best on the
program; while Miss Harris, who was
the youngest on the program, deliver
ed her reading excellently.
No announcement was made as to
the result of the contest in cooking,
in which Miss Hazel Prather repre-
sented Americus. This event was not
allowed to figure in making up the
score.
In athletics, Americus did not fig
ure in the distribution of The bacon.
Lawrence Physioc, star hurdIer and
runner, while at practice on Friday
afternoon struck his right patella
against a hurdle, knocking himself
out from participation in the athletic
events of Saturday morning. James
Collins, captain of Americus' track
team ran the 100-yard dash, and did
the shot put. Collins was in good
form, but in the dash he was under
the disadvantage Of having to run
on a soft sandy track in tennis shoes,
against competitors equipped with
spiked and cleated shoes. In the
shot-put he out threw his competitors
on the last round but touched the
board with his toe, and was ruled out
by the director of athletics, who was
the coach of rival school.
Out of Three Events.
Gilbert Purvis, a sophomore of
Americas high, ran the 220-yard dish
and substituted for Physioc in the
hurdle race. Albert Harris did the
jumps for Americus, failing to get
line on the broad jump, but show
ing up splendidly in the high jump,
being among the best five, but not
among the winning three. Ameri-
Gus did not contest in the 440-yard
run, the pole-vault or the relay.
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