Arizona republican., 1922-04-03
PEORIA ENJOYS BIG
ATHLETIC CARNIVAL


PEORIA. April 2.--Last year local
high school students set aside April
l as SNEAK day" and regardless OF
the opportunities OF the faculty,
every class room was vacant all day
on that date. The intention OF the
stsudents was to make SNEAK day"
an annual affair and always declare
a holiday for themselves on that
day. The faculty realized that they
were powerless in the face of
"mob rule" such as that and went
the students one better and declared
April as high school athletic day.
So hereafter. the 1st day OF April
of cache year will be devoted to an
interclass meet in the forenoon.
picnic dinner at noon and ball
game between the high school and
town business mems team in the at
ternoon.
The program was commenced yes
terday at o'clock by the racuity
100 ward dash won by Professor
Taylor. it is claimed in S1a seconds.
1t is not clear exactly whether tnat
means that he crossed the flnlsn
eight and one-half seconds ahead or
all other contestants or whether he
made the hundred yards in that time.
At all events the race was given 10
him.
noon was given to interclass track
events and other contests. There
were 220 and 100 yard dashes Tor
the bows. 100 and IS yard dashes for
girls, high jumps for both boys and
girls Basket ball throwing contests
for the girls, girls 100 yard hobble
race. in which each girl had their
Geet tied eight inches apart and
thusly hobbled ran 100 yards.
Running broad jumps for both
BOYS and girls in both OF which
events remarkably good recoras
were made. A tug of-war was en-
gagged in by junior and freshmen
girls against sophomore and senior
girls. The freshmen boys We're
pitted against the sophomore boys
! in a tug -of-war whichc was bitterly
contested and declared draw.
The girls had a shoe scramble IN
whichc they all piled their shoes up
| in a pile and then were lined up 5O
| wards away and rushed to the pile
| of shoes, secured their own snoes
and the one who was back at the
start in her shoes first was declared
the winner. Miss Opal Davis was
awarded the prize IN this contest.
The morning events We're ended
with a cane rush where the fresh
men were lined up opposite tfis
sophomores 100 yards away. At
! signel a rush was made Tor cane
/ midway between the contesting
classes and for five minutes there
was a scramble to get hands upon
4 the cane and when time was called
and the bonys untangled 1T was
| found that the sophomores had one
more hand on the cane then the
| freshies.
A call had been made by Man,
ager- Captain Sigworth for local
Businessmen ballplayers to be on
| the diamond at ] p. m. Tor prac-
/ tice until 2 o'clock when the base
| ban game was scheduled to begin.
| II developed that all business es-
Establishments in town closed up ana
every business man in town consld :
| cred himself an unknown Babe Ruth-
/ There were enough men on the
| ground equipped for the game 70
make three teams, all clamoring 70
play. c. A. Robinson. F. Latham
and w. J. Osborn. all claimed a place
l on the LGdIIl. dtl0 eaitAAOAeA
acknowledged that they had not
touched a baseball for 10 years, they
thought that they could show some
of the younger players UP. z. La
than did later distinguish hiInsell
on third base. but later tried to have
the high school pitcher disqualified
because, as he claimed, when the ball
got almost to him it changed its
course. and claimed that that was
not playing the game. He could no.
connect with the ball so was benched
in the second inning. During the
game four town pitchers We're tried
| out. among whom John Meyer dis
tinguished himself. T. f. Thurs
| ton and C. o. Stevens alternated
behind the bat. Judge. Sigworth
furnished the thrills OF the game IN
his baserunning. What he lost IN
time between bases in running ne
made up in sliding into the bases
head first.
! In all the business mems team
used 81 players during the nine In
i nings and still had reserves clamor-
ing to get into the game. the
final score was II to in favor OF
the high school.
doc" Whitney, local manufactures
| of liniment, claims that he has 80
far today sold twenty bottles OF MS
rub liniment.