Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-06

of exceptional interest and contain
ing elements of real value to them.
Medals to the three place winners
in each event were also distributed
at the banquet, His Honor Ernest L.
Mclean, mayor of Augusta, making
the presentation. Mayor Mclean
also extended the welcome of the
Capital City to the young athletes
representing the schools entered in
the championship competition, de-
claring that Names greatest crop
was her boys and girls. stepping
Stones to Success" was the topic of
the mayors remarks and he de-
clared that though there could be
but one winner in every race, the
other contestants who had given
their best had laid one more STEP
ping stone to their ultimate achieve
ment.
Everett v. Perkins, principal of
Cony High School and president of
the Maine Interscholastic Winter
Sports Association. presided at the
brief program following the banquet
last evening. In his opening remarks
Mr.. Perkins called attention that 1t
north who have produced the worlds
leaders.
Rupert Aidrich of South Paris. the
high point winner of yesterdays
events, responded to Mayor McLean's
welcome on behalf of the city, and
in we'll chosen words expressed his
faith in Maine and her young sons
and daughters, and suggested that It
was up to her citizens to sell the
| natural attractions and advantages
to the people who are now scurrying
to Florida.
DIR. Thomas Address
DR.. Thomas in the principal ad-
dress of the evening said in part as
follows:
1.-THE governor himself would take
pleasure in being here tonight and
in welcoming you, but tonight he is
far away carrying the message of
Maine to the South. Maine is q per-
sonality. 1t stands for definite
things. Its resources, like money,
are to be used to purchase human
comfort, human progress and human
happiness. Its stubborn soil and
rugged climate are calculated to
bear strong men upon the bosom
OF Maine. Its variety of climate and
occupation is conducive to an in.
dustrious, frugal people. Those who
i've in tropical chimes, where food
grows abundantly without care and
Where one does not need to sub-
scribe to Vogue or Elite In order
10 Keep posted on the latest fash.
IONS IN clothes, do not represent the
vLllle peoples of the world. Out of
tnem has never come the elements
OF human progress. It is only where
men nave to struggle that they find
strength and progress. Invention and
discovery go with the rugged of
Drain ana muscle. The tree which
sro"s upon the hillside buffeted by
the winds and subjected to the tor
lures e OF neat and cold produces the
nore OF the finest type.
The message the governor would
orlng to you tonight were he here
IS the lesson of the great out of
doors, the use of the laboratories
when God has made and equipped
not only for the industry and &C.
cupatlon of man but for his sport
also, Tor man is a social being and
Iun-IoVlng. We are endeavoring in
our health education program to de-
'NiNP q lONS AL WlUl6E SDOfCS and
organized teamwork which teaches
our young people to work and play
together, to be sympathetic with
each other and to strive for leader
snip, for 1t is leadership which our
country needs today in large pro-
portions.
The young people of today are en-
tltled to congratulations upon two
Things; first, that they live in Ameri-
ca, Tor no country affords such mag
hIlcent opportunities for a career
OF ones own choice as our own coun-
Try. 1t is a wonderful thing to live
Where ones achievement is limited
only by clean living and perseyer-
ence. Again. congratulate you upon
the fact that you live now in the
worlds greatest age. There never
was an age like this. so full of op-
portunity, so full of hope, so full of
progress.
THOSE of you who are interested
in these athletic sports should not
overdo for the sake of winning.
Guard well your store of nervous en-
ergy and muscular force. Study your
own nature. Don only to the limit of
your capacity and remember that
Your physical strength is the basis
upon which you build your intellec-
tual and moral future. Win If Won
can but do not Jeopardize the
strength you possess and your future
strength merely to win. To win is
an achievement but to do your best is
the highest reward.
There are those who say that the
men Of today are not like the men of
Yesterday. I GOOD on the side-lines
at Boston 'on the 18th of April and
saw Charles Melfer sink his spikes
into the home line in the Marathon
race of 26 miles, 305 yards. He came |
in fresh and vigorous and made IT in.
two hours, 20 minutes and 40 LIS sec |
onds. 1t took the old Greek links
three solid hours to make this dis |
lance and then croaked. He ran for
the olive wreath but does not seem |
to stand in the same class as a mo- |
dern athlete.
But I will leave another message
with you tonight. You can achieve |
whatever success you will in this life. |
In this country and in this age, If Won
live clean and strive hard enough. |
But clean living, high ambition and |
persistent effort are the price of sue |
cess.
The finish of the 100 yard skill
dash was hard luck one for Loyett
of Kent's Hill, who raced down the
lane neck and neck with Aldrich
only to break a ski in the final five
yards and fall, losing the race.
The time for the mile snowshoe
run was apparently slow, being IA
minutes, 40 and 2-5 seconds but this
was due to a misunderstanding in
directions on the part of Taylor of
Lee Academy, who led the field the
greater part of the way, and became
cnnfuSad wit h the raSl1lf flat -ho Iod L