The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-25
COOK winner OF
PENTATHL.ON In
fest ATHLETICS
Local Athlete Piles Up 3,216
Points to Win From Classy
Field Saturday.

nlVal here saturday afternoon IN con-
nection with the 33rd annual Finnish
midsummer festival
Second to Cook was Tauno Nurmela,
Covington, Mich, who last year won
the pentathlon event for the third con-
SeCutive time thereby winning per-
manent possession of the Carl Salminen,
Duluth, trophy. Cook gained the first
leg on the new pentathlon award
donated by Paul Martin, Ely. Muir
mela'S total for the five events was
5000.
Nurmela led the field in the tri-
which completed for him third leg on
the Frank TaIuS, Chisholm, triangular
cup, which is now his permanently.
Cook pressed Nurmela closely in the
triangular with 1922 points.
Cook and Nurmela were easily the
class Of the meet in all around ability,
the former chalking up a total of 4,838
points in the eight events in which he
competed, while Nurmela scored 4,763.
Wheeler Van Steinberg, st. Cloud,
placed third in the pentathlon with
Paul WaSSan, Coleraine, getting third
place in the triangle. The pentathlon
event included the 1O0-yard dash, jaw
elm, high jump, hop, skip and jump,
and discus. Triangular events We're the
220-yard dash, shot put and broad
jump.
Norman Bailey, St. Cloud, turned in
an outstanding performance in the dis
lance runs with three firsts, winning
the one-haf mile, one mile and five
mile events. He passed up the chance
to compete in the two mile run which
he won last year. James Trotto, Vir-
ginia, copied the two mile run. Bailey
in winning the half mile completed his
second leg on the Ely Finnish Stock
company trophy having won the event
last year. The victory in the mile and
five mile gave Bailey a leg on the
Savolainen company, Duluth, cup, for
the mile and the Arth ForseliuS, Ely,
trophy for the five mile. The latter
trophy is a new one, Erwin Lehti of
Cromwell, having won permanent pos
session of the Carl Salminen cup for the
distance last year when he won the
run for his third time.
John Deblock, st. Cloud, and Robert
Downing, Coleraine, scored heavily in
the events they entered with Deblock
taking first honors in the shot put and
discus and a second in the javelin
throw. Downing won both the 100 and
220-yard dash events. Other first
place winners were Van Steinberg, st.
Cloud, in the high jump; WATSON,
Coleraine, broad jump; Harold Jacobs,
st. Cloud, javelin, and Nurmela, hop,
skip and jump.
Both st. Cloud and Coleraine had
team entries in the festival with st.
Cloud carrying off the major share of
the honorS with seven firstS, one sec
ond and three thirds. Coleraine got
three firsts, five seconds and two thirds.
Winners of the various events are as
follows:
100-yard daSh-Robert Downing,
CoIeraine, first; Alec Opel, New Ulm,
second; Clifford Cook, Ely, third. Time,
10.7 seconds.
220-yard dash-Robert Downing, Col
eraine, first; Clifford Cook, Ely, Sec
ond; Paul WATSON, Coleraine, third.
Time, 24.1 seconds.
Half mile run-Norman Bailey, St.
Cloud, first; Frank Miller, Coleraine,
second; Gene Harris, Moorhead, third.
Time, minutes, 10 seconds.
Mile run-NorTlan Bailey, st. Cloud,
first; Frank Miller, Coleraine, second;
Gene Harris, Moorhead, third. Time,
4 minutes, 54.5 seconds.
Two mile run-James Trotto, Vir-
ginia, first; HAL Pike, International
Falls, second; Gene Harris, Moorhead,
third. Time, 10 minutes, 465 seconds.
Five mile run-Norman Bailey, st.
Cloud, first; James Trotto, Virginia,
second; HAL Pike, Int. Falls, third.
Time, 80 minutes, Is seconds.
High Jump-Wheeler Van Steinberg,
st. Cloud, first, 5 feet, 10 inches; Paul
WATSON, Coleraine, second; Robert
Downing, Coleraine, third; Tauno Muir
mela, Covington, Mich, fourth; Harold
Jacobs, st. Cloud, fifth.
Shot Put-John Deblock, st. Cloud
first, 80 feet; Tauno, Nurmela, Coving-
ton, second; Clifford Cook, Ely, third
Broad Jump-Robert WATSON, Coler-
aine, first, 20 feet, seven inches; Edward
HerShbeck, Coleraine, second; Wheeler
Van Steinberg, st. Cloud, third.
Javelin Throw-Harold Jacobs, st
Cloud, first, $50 feet, four and one-halt
inches; John Deblock, st. Cloud, Sec
ond: Edward HerShbeck, Coleraine
third.
Hop-skip- Jump Tauno Nurmela
Covington, first, Al feet, 2 inches; Pau
WATSON, Coleraine, second; Wheeler
Van Steinberg, St. Cloud, third.
Discus Throw-John Deblock, st
Cloud, first, 123 feet, six inches; Clifford
Cook, Ely, second; Tauno Nurmela, Gov.
ington, third
Pentathlon-Cl Clifford Cook, Ely, first
1916 points; Tauno Nurmela, Coving.
ton, Mich, second, 3099 points; Wheeler
Van Stienberg, st. Cloud, third, 287-
points; Paul WATSON, Coleraine, fourth
$500 points.
Triangle-Tauno Nurmela, Covington
Mich, first, 1864 points; Clifford Cook
Ely, second, 1922 points; Paul WATSON
Coleraine, third, 1889 points.
Awards to the winners were presented
at the Festival ball, Saturday evening
with gold, silver and bronze medal
given to the first three place winner
in each event and trophies to the dis
lance run, pentathlon and triangl
athletes who COPIED first place.
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