Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-01-20
COUNTY FIELD MEET
Big Day Promised for All Schools
of the County.

NNAihS 4oE the county 1eacnerS
Association, the following school
principals met at the office of the
county superintendent on Saturday
the fourteenth of this month. and
worked out the program for the an
nual school meet of the county. The
teachers of the county ask the whole
hearted cooperation and interest of
the people in making this school meet
of the greatest value to our schools
generally.
Macon, Mississippi, Thursday and
Friday, March 30th and 31st, 1922.
Rules and Regulations
l. Only bona fide pupils will be al
lowed to enter any contest. To be
a bona fide pupil, one must have been
In actual attendance in the school he
represents for the three months i'm
mediately preceding the meet.
2. A school will be entitled to two
representatives in each contest ex-
cept in defamation, reading, and ex-
preston in which every school may
enter n pupil.
8. Pupils q years old or over will
not be allowed to enter any contest.
4. In athletics Spaulding's rules
will be authority.
5. The athletic contests will be di-
vided into three divisions according to
the weight of contestants. Class A,
will consist of all boys of 1875 pounds
and over; class B, of boys from 100
to 1875 pounds; and class c, of boys
under 100 pounds. Contestants will
be weighed in their track suits at the
grounds. In both athletic and liter
airy contest, contestants may en-
ter a class higher but not lower than
his own.
6 Declarations and readings must
not be over ~ minutes long.
Awards
1. Ribbons and appropriate prizes
will be given the winners.
2. Books or appropriate prizes will
be awarded to schools as follows:
Ga The grammar school depart
ment winning the greatest number
VI Literary polhIo.
(b) The school department winning
greatest number of literary points.
(c) The school winning greatest
number of literary points in both
departments.
(d) The school winning greatest
number of athletic points.
(e) The school winring greatest
number of points both athletic and
literary.
3. All first places will count five
points and second places three points
towards prizes.
Literary Contests :
/. For high schools. Written spell
ling, arithmetic, composition, ele-
mentary algebra, extemporaneous
reading, ard expression, and plane
geometry. Words for spelling will
be taken from Chew's Practical
Speller. Arithmetic problems will oe
selected by the Judges. Algebra
operations or problems from Went
worth Smith Book l., to Quadratics.
Originals in plane geometry from
first two books of Wentworth
2. For grammar grades: Written
spelling, composition, arithmetic.
There will be two senarate contests,
one for fifth and sixth grades, and
ore for seventh and eighth grades.
In each contest the tests in arith-
metic and spelling will be taken from
the state adopted books for those
grades. The judges will be asked to
confine the tests in two divisions OF
the grammar school to the part of
the state prescribed work that could
be reasonably expected to be COM
pleted by the time of the meet, APP
proximately 2-3. Colaw, Duke and
Powers Practical Arithmetic will be
used for both divisions of grammar
grade contest.
8. For grammar grades las a
whole): Extemporaneous reading ard
expression.
4. Defamation for boys (Any
grade grammar school or high
school).
Athletic Contests
| For boys: Class c, 100 yd. dash,
running high jump, standing high
Jump, 800 yd. relay race, so yd. sack
race, baseball distance throw. Class
B. 100 yd dash, half mile race, 800
yd. relay, running high jump, stand
ing high jump, running broad jump,
standing broad jump, baseball dis
lance throw. Class A. Same as B.
2. For girls: Glass B (All under
100 pounds), Potato race, so yard
dash, 200 yard flag relay race. basket
ball distance throw. Glass A. Same as
class B. In the potato race there
will be six (6) potatoes placed three
wards apart and contestant will de-
liver one potato at a time.)
In sack race, 5 bushel oat sack
will be used. Sack will be It'd
around waist, leaving hands and arms
free. All materials will be furnished
by local committee in charge.
Local manager &C. U. Moore, Ma
con, Mississippi.