Daily Kennebec journal., 1924-01-29
Paddock May Show Wares In Olympic Race
80. SECo DIARY
SCHOOLS INVITED TO
AUGUSTA CARNIVAL

With the issuance Of Invitations TO
90 secondary schools in the State Of
Maine requesting them to participate
in the State of Maine Winter Carnival
which is to be held at Augusta Febru-
ary 21, % and %. 1924. by Chairman
Stacy Of the secondary school commit
tee Of the carnival. It is an assured
fact that the competition in this par
ticular division will be the keenest
and most interesting of any meet
which has been held between these
schools.
The committee. which. in addition to
Mr.. Stacy. Is composed of E. p. Moves,
HI. S. Kennedy. Arthur S. Merrill. Chas.
S. Brown. Walworth Simpson. Everett
v. Perkins and Adjutant General Has
son. has completed arrangements
| whereby the secondary school State
hockey championship will be played
| for at the Augusta carnival. All schools
which have logical claim upon the
State hockey championship will sub
nit their records for the entire season
up to the end of the week preceding
Carnival Week, and from these the
ones with records good enough to give
| them a logical claim upon the cham
pionship will be selected to come to the
State of Maine Carnival for the play.
off. This will definitely decide just
who are the secondary school hockey
champions and by means of this play
| off there will he no doubt as to VINO
/. has the best team.
Previously championships have been
, settled. or rather often times unsettled.
through newspaper claims, and this
has always left the final decision open
, to argument and nobody has had real
honest right to call themselves State
; champions. This play-off Is an inno-
| walton which might we'll be Incorporate
ed into other major sports played by
| these schools, and besides being of es-
pecial interest every play-off would de-
! eide the real champions.
The other events in which the Sec
! ondary schools will participate in are
| the following:
| SSO-yard race on skis: ssO-yard race
| on snowshoes; 100-yard race on skis;
| 1O0-yard race on snowshoes; ski
jumping. cross country race, snow
shoes and skis: SS0-yard skating race,
! and the snowShoe and ski relay race
| which will be for n distance Of one
mile, each contestant running one
quarter mile.
| All of the ice events and the prelimi-
naries in the $50 and 100-yard ski and
, SnowShOe races Will be held on the
morning of February % and at Reuel
| Williams field. The finals in these
| races. in addition to the ski jumping.
cross country and relay races. will be
held at Ganeston Park on the afternoon
of February %.
| The committee has worked very hard
to make Friday, which is given over to
the secondary and grammar schools a
day which will be of unusual interest.
and has arranged a program of events
which should draw supporters of the
schools participating from all corners
of the State. 1t is to be real sec
ondary school meet. and although the
entire 80 schools. perhaps. will not ac-
ccpt the invitation sent. 1t is expected
that the great majority will accept
and be present and enter into the COM
petition. Cups and medals arc to be
! given in all of the events. and this is
a feature which always interests the
various schools and students.