South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-18
Cashier urs No-4it No-Run Game Against Boern1aker
School Field Day at Springbrook
Park Tomorrow; S 900 Participate
Annual Program to Be More
Extensive This Year Than
Ever Before.

Five thousand South Bend school
children will participate in the nth
annual field day at Springbrook
park Friday afternoon. The partici-
pants are all from the intermediate,
grammar and vocational grades Of
the public schools and will present
a spectacle on the occasion that is
one Of which the city may well be
proud.
koenig In Charge.
The entire program and training
Of the children has been under the
direction Of Edward Koenig. physi-
cal director. The big program on
Friday afternoon will be under the
immediate supervision OF Mr. Koe-
mig. who has done some remarkably
fine work with South Bend school
children Mr. Koenig has been and
will he ably assisted by Wilma
Kleighe. Naomi Hull and Irene
Thompson. his assistants.
The program will open with a
grand march around the track in
review before the grand stand. in
which there will be 5000 children.
In the seventh and eighth grade
drill there will be 1000. and in the
sixth grade wand drill there will be
500 boys and girls. These i'm
mense drills will form one OF the
greatest and most complete exhibits
ever shown in South Bend and will
give the parents. friends and gen
eral public some conception Of the
physical education being given TO the
public school children Of the city.
Band n Everything.
The Studebaker band will furnish
the music for the drills and for the
entertainment during the running of
the athletic events. There will be
new feature added to the field day
this year in the entrance of the vo-
catOnal training school boys In the
under and over ball drill there will
be II teams entered with IS players
on a team. In the shuttle relay race
for girls there Will be is teams with
u girls 10 a team. In the boys
shuttle relay race there Will be b
teams entered with 2 boys on a
team.
The chariot race of the boys from
the vocational training schools will
be one OF the features OF the meet.
Another attractive feature he the
May pole drill in which there viii
be Il May poles. In the track and
field events there will be FIVE eighth
grade relay races OF one-half mile.
There will also be a broad jump, a
5O-yard dash for girls, a 75-yard
dash for boys up to the eighth grade
and a 100-yard dash for boys Of the
eighth grade. Besides those enum-
Grated the program will include a
huber of other interesting eventsA
ROcl1ne To Direct.
K. X. Rockne. athletic director Of
Notre Dame. G. a. Cooper, of the
Y NJ. c. A, and Coach Burnham
OF the high school with a corps Of
assistants will have charge OF the
events. A first aid tent will be
equipped and will be in charge Of
Miss Lulu Kline and assistant school
nurses.
The children will be taken TO
Springbrook from the various
schools in street cars. The meet is
scheduled 10 start promptly at ?
O'Clock No general admission will
be charged, but Is cents for children
and % cents for adults will be
charged in the grand stand The
program is as follows:
Mass Drill.
Combination Flag Drill-Seventh
and Eighth Grades.
Wand Drill-Sixth Grade
Folk and Maypole Dance-Fifth
Grade Girls.
Game-Basketbau Relay - Fifth
Grade Boys.
Chart Race-Vocational Boys.
Field Events.
Running Broad Jump--Boys 5th.
9Th. 18th sth Grades
Field Events-Boys o. Eighth
Grade.
Track Events.
50-Yard Dash-Girls OF 5th. sth.
eth. sth Grades.
75-Yard Dash-Boys OF 5th. sth.
eth Grades.
1oo-Yard Dash - Boys OF sth
Grade
5O0-Yard Shuttle Relay - Girls
Team from each school.
750-Yard Shuttle Relay - Boys
Team from each school
Shuttle relays 10 be run in groups,
schools being grouped according TO
grade.
Sso-Yard Circular Relay-Boys of
Sth Grade