The Sidney herald., 1957-05-16
COMPETE IN A
MEET THIS WEEK

Shading with Is Sidney track
men are in Missoula this week
competing in the State Interscho-
lastic track and field meet.
Those making the trip with
the events they r participating
in are:
Doyle Dotson - 100, 220, $40.
Bob Potts - high hurdles, high
jump; Tom Quilting = 100, low
hurdles, javelin; Ron Quilting
high and low hurdles; Craig Price
- low hurdles; Gary Bracken-
low hurdles, pole vault; Grin
Anderson - pole vault; Lee An
derson - high hurdles, high
jump and broad jump; John
Marman- $40, discus, ~javelin;
Jack Marion - mile run, $50;
Jim Joslin - 440; Dick Helten-
shot put, discus, pole vault; Rich
ard Rein high jump; Brent
Potts - 220, discus; Duane Bea-
gle - high hurdles, high jump.
A Sidney team in addition will
compete in the $50 yard relay.
The race for Glass A top honors
seems to be wide open among
four or five schools with Sidney
possibly holding a slight edge.
Others are Glendive, Billings Gen.
trail, Laurel and Havre, the de-
Tending champions. Sidney was
second in 1856 when they quail
fled a.. one less than this year.
From the Eagles squad Jack
Marion is defending state title
holder in the mile run
Members of the coaching staff
and team wish to extend their
appreciation to those fans and
organizations who SO willingly
donated money so this trip could
be made possible. The Moose
and Elks Lodges, Legion club,
Kiwanis club and Jaycees do
mated to the athletic fund pro-
ceeds to be used mainly for the
track squad. In addition the
amount made on the Sidney Re-
lays was earmarked for this trip.
Many thanks from the 1857
Eagles.
Last Saturday Sidney took top
honors in the Glass A division
as they won the Sidney Relays
for the second straight year with
1914 points. Fairview topped the
class B schools with SO points.
Other class A teams were Dick
inson, N. D., At; Glendive, 3lh;
Miles City, 16; Williston, N. D.,
4 and Glasgow no score.
Behind Fairview e r Wolf
Point AZ; Alexander, N. D., l4h;
Ekalka 16; Scobey 10; Plenty
wood and Medicine Lake, 7 each;
Baker and Nashua, 4 each and
Culbertson 3h. Richey, Outlook
and Lambert failed to score.
Six new records we're establish
ed out of l6 events. John Marman
of Sidney threw the javelin 165
feet S inches to better the l63
feet ii inch throw of Clark of
Miles City in 1854. The Dickin-
son team set a new mark of 3:52.5
minutes in the medley relay. This
bettered the 1858 minute time
\
set by Williston in 1916.
Doyle Dotson's time in the 44O
yard dash of 53.1 seconds bettered
the time of SAT- seconds set by
Price and Petty of Williston in
1916 and 1948. Lemke of Dickin-
son ran the low hurdles in II
seconds which beat Norby's OF
Watford City 21.2 seconds set in
1855.
Sidney relay teams set new
records in the 440 and $50 re-
LAYS. Glendive's 1885 mark set
in 1916 in the $50 was bettered by
5 seconds. Sidney's own mark III
the 44O set in 1854 was topped
47.9 seconds to 46.45 seconds.
In addition Doyle Dotson bet
tered two Sidney school records.
His 10:15 seconds time in the
100 yard dash beat out the 1O.2
seconds time set by Jim john
ston in 1947. Kay Carpenters
record of 1913 seconds in the
22O yard dash also set in 1947
was topped by Doyle who ran
It in 22.55 seconds.
One of the largest crowds ever
10 witness a Sidney meet turned
put as the weather was near per-
feet. The well managed meet,
to the help of many local
businessmen, was run off in rec
ord time. The finals in the after
noon took less than two hours
IS a running event took place
every four minutes.
Medals were presented to all
place winners and ribbons
the other placers. Sidney and
Tairview each received trophies
IS winners in their respective
.lasses. The top individual scor-
RS in each class also received
medals. These were Dotson OF
sidney with TN points in Glass
\ and Grandbois of Wolf Point
With 14h in Class B. All awards
we're presented by the Sidney !
<iWaniS club.
The summaries: {
LASS A ]
Mile run-Marron, Sidney, 1st;
Hagen, Miles City, second; Cas-
isch, Miles City, third; Dobits, !
dickinson, fourth. Time: 4:53.5. !
Javelin - Marman, Sidney, |
irst; Skillestad, Glendive, second;
dcMorris, Sidney, third; Brent i.
'otts, Sidney, fourth. Distance: :
65 feet, 5 inches NEW record). ]
Shot put - Meissner, Dickin- ,