The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-01
FIRST H0N0RS
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AT ST MARY'S
Approximately 400 Riddles
With 100 RIOTERS Appear
at City Ball Park
GORDON HARRIS HIGH
Fulton and Mcleod Ably AS
sisted in Running Meet by
II Bismarck Volunteers



boys stayed home to NOW or rake
the lawn or clean out the basement
yesterday afternoon, they must have
had that lonesome and heart draw
ing feeling, because approximately
400 of their schoolmates, practically
all Of the kids" in the city, were out
at the city ball park running and
jumping in the annual grade school
track meet from . to 5 o'clock.
st. Marys school won the track
meet with total of 1875 points
scored. The other six teams trailed
the winners in the following order:
high school freshmen 1O4; Will
school So; William Moore school. So;
Wachter 81; Roosevelt so; and Rich
holt SO.
Harris Is High
High point men for the meet were
Gordon Harris. freshman. $50; Gus
Schlickenmeyer, Will, 300; Dale
Brown. freshman, 3O5; Henry Pot
ter, freshman. 3C2; and Lloyd
Murphy, Will, 292.
High point winners for each
school were: Gordon Harris, fresh
man; Gustave Schlickenmeyer, Will;
John Yeasley, Richholt: Evan Ken
nedy. William Moore; Mike Senger,
st. Mary's; Walter Zimmerman,
] Roosevelt; and Adam Fisher, Wach-
Ter.
Four events were run off in each
Z Of the five classes of athletes: the
Y standing broad jump, the running
+ broad jump, the baseball throw, and
I The 80, rs. or 1OO-yard dash &C
cording to the class. A special
event Of the high jump was run off
In the freshman class, and three
special relaya were staged. bring
ing the total number of events to
"a.
Point System Used
n Scoring was done on the point
system. each boys record standing
as against time rather than against
his adversaries in the particular
event. The total number Of points
scored by team was divided by the
number of men on that team was
taken for the teams total, giving
each team an equal chance to win
the meet, no matter how many men
It had entered in the various events
Promptly at 2 o'clock 500 kiddies
were on the field ready for the meet
of the year. Oh. yes, each of the
teams had to have cheering sections
in the grandstands. so approximate
'ly 100 lassies were there to yell and
sing as their cheer leaders went
Through their antics.
so Shells Used
Fifty shells were used by the
starter of the dashes. Little fell
lows entered ir the dashes came up
the starting line in a series that
seemed never to end. They were
being started as soon as the heat
before had finished. so that little
time was lost. In spite Of the hurry
system used by the starter and the
timers, the dashes continued for the
FULL three hours.
- When they were not running. the
.Alittle fellows, all deckcd out in track
tuits and sweat shirts with their
ichool colors flying from their
breasts, were throwing the baseball
sr broadjumping.
!. The meet was well-managed by
". G. Fulton, boys athletic director,
Ind Roy D. Mcleod, director of high
school athletics. 1t wa: quite a Job
o get all of that mass of yelling
ind running boys organized, but
snce the meet was started, there
gasn't hitch. The two directors
kere ably assisted by II city me
nd high school youths who volun-
>ered their services in judging and
tarting the various events.
8 When the meet was over, the 400
31sty, smiling boys left the wind
wept field in their sweatshirts and
Athrobes and disappeared into no.
there, no doubt to nurse their con-
stioned limbs which had become
siff after the days meet.