Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-29
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m looking over the records fer the
Nsrth Dakota interscholastic track
and field meet for the past few years,
a Is compelled to recognize the fact
that the smaller high schools have 81
n!tm chance to land first place. Four !
Years IN succession. Fargo, has piled
enough points to win. the meet.
Three years it held that distinction
alone. and this year Grand Forks tied |
the southern school for frst h0nors. |
Lately the meet has developed into
more or less of a contest between this
school and Fargo with a few OF the |
other larger schools putting up enough
competition to. make the tournament
Interesting. As fAY as the majority
are concerned it 10 over after the pre-
iminaries have been run.
Have Two Glasses.
Unless a small school happens TO
have q star, and it would practically
never have more than, one, there is
no chance of, 1t collecting enough
points to make it q contender. This
fault could be corrected by dividing
the high schools into two classes. The
larger ones could be placed in the first
: class and the smaller in the second
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held and winners in each class ,picked.
Possibly there would be a little more
labor connected with a plan Of this
kind, but 1t would. Seem to- be worth
the" effort. y.
With an arrangement Of this-kind.
however, it would probably be un-
necessary to u preliminaries, or at
least only a very few, Instead Of
holding preliminaries on Friday and
the finals Saturday, the class B, or
second class meet could be run Friday
and the first class on Saturday, and
ni any prelfminaries were necessary
they could be held in the forenoons.
. Would Be Popular.
While the officials Of the state high
school league may not think. such a
smcve necessary right now, it is bound
to be necessary sooner or. later, and
It would be- mighty popular with the
small schools, and would probably
find no o-~osition In the larger. Such
. classp lion would mean larger
meets anu more track teams overtthe
stAte. Many small schools which do
not take up track athletics because
the calfbre of, their athletes would not
BE- sufficient to warrant sending them
to5a meet here, would feel that. they
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q second class.
One ruling Of the league deprives a
small school Of any. chance At has to
win first place in a meet conducted
a. 1t Is at present: This rule prevents
an athlete from entering In more
than three events. A small school
with a star and another, man good for
q few points could often take first
place away from a larger school If
hi Nonll ArtA~L a1vo~k~ NM
was demonstrated in the meet held
hAre this year. Harmson, the star ath-
;lete from the Deaf school could have
won four frsta If he could have en-
tered the broad Jump. He Jumped
q feet in a trial during tho prelim-
inaries, which would have given his
school 20 points, as he collected three
other nFsts and his running mate,
Mueller made nine points.
Good Railing. i,
Thu ruling Is good one;:r however,
in spite Of the handicap, for the ree-
o that It prevents boys who are
physically unit to stand the strain,
from entering more events than they
should and working q permanent In
Jury to themselves In the case Of
have been waking to the broad jump
lane and taking ono jump. b
NJ The league Is discussing the feas-
ibility Of holding district meets the
same as held In hasketbAl and. foot
ball. There does not seam 10 he any
particular reason why this should be
done. a track meet II q matter Of
individuals and not teams, and In
! big meet . team that might not show
up we'll In q dual tournament or small
contest might stand a show Of collect
Ing enough points to be contender. Tho
only xouse for holding district meets
would be to cut down the number Of
entries In the interschplAstic, for
which there does not seem 10 he any
good reason. II the objsct Of tho ais
trict tournament IL to make the COM
ptition more equal here, the dividing
OF the schools Into tvs, classes would
give thu athletes somefhing to work
for besides . possible elimination in.
the annual interseholastic teurpa-
ment. sSs