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Page Six THE RIMROCK ECHO RURAL TRACK MEET ON NEW ATHLETIC FIELD The new athletic field of E. M. S. N. S. will be the scene of Yellow- stone county's rural track meet at 10 a. m. today. Already the con- testants have appeared on the cam- pus and the corridors. Reading tests are being conducted this morning in room 109 of our building. Sixty pupils from the fifth to eighth grades are competing. This is a new departure, for no contests have heretofore been held in school subjects. A noon picnic will be held at Tourist Park on Sixth Avenue. Chil- dren in grades 4 and 8 not partici- pating in other events may enter the Youths' parade of 4,000 children to celebrate Youths' Week, which will start at the county court house at 10 o'clock. Students Coach In Schools Coach Oscar Bjorgum is respon- sible for this meet. During the last two months he has been sending members of his physical education classes to coach in the rural schools. Earl Childress and George Allen have been coaching at Elder Grove, John Olson at Pioneer, John Lamers at Central, Lowell Smith and Eli Stewart at Baseline, Ted Cenis at Hawthorne, Homer Loucks and Luis Gonzales at Longfellow, Shepherd and Emerson, Charles Holmes at Canyon Creek, and Harold Wright at Rim Rock. These young men will have charge of the events at the meet, which will include competi- tion in a baseball throw, shot put, jumping, running, and several nov- elty races. It is believed the activities will continue until late this afternoon. Officials From Our School Coach Bjorgum has appointed the following officials and helpers for the track events. Clerks in the four pits — Clark, Horton, Wagner, Gonzales. Assistant clerks — Smith, Beeler, Brown, Allison. In charge of tapes—Caruso, Mc- Garry, Childress, Bell, Gremmer, Minnie, Louk, Toohey. Shovel - men — Mammen, Holmes, Lamers, Paterson. Judges of races—Caruso, McGar- ry, Beeler. Timer — Sirrine; scorer — Elliott; clerk of course—Loucks; starter— Scully; announcer—Wagner. First aid — Cenis; water detail— Saunders, Kloster, Holm; Traffic detail—Welsh, Shirmer. Policemen-Wright, Jamison, Stew- art, Kehoe, Olson, Moorman. These men are excused from all classes today. Several times Miss Meek has been heard bewailing the fact that her office chair was lost. One day Mr. Dean told Bill Bequette that he didn't know where that extra chair had come from but it was handy to have around. Bill, upon hearing this news, was getting prepared to cover himself with glory by reporting his find to Miss Meek. He delayed too long however, because Bob Wilson seized the chair, thinking it was an extra one and spirited it off up to the second floor for Miss Brown to use in room 207. There, Miss Meek, is the solution of the \long lost chair.\ A foolish son makes a sad father. Baseball Practice Begins With Seven Lettermen With seven lettermen to form the nucleus of his squad, Coach Bjor- gum began baseball practice Thurs- day, April 9. Last year the Teacher squad was successful in defeating the Poly two out of three games and dropped a 7-6 struggle with the state champion nine of Dillon. The lettermen are Ed Gremmer of Custer, Burton Caruso of Boze- man, Clark McGarry of Joliet, Luis Gonzales of Edgar, Jack Scully of Hysham, Joe Toohey of Absarokee and Elton Elliott of Billings. Others out for baseball are Earl Childress and Charles Stiffler of Clearmont, Wyo.; Floyd Beeler, Ray Brown and Harold Wright, all of Billings, Ernest Louk of Hardin, Homer Loucks of Redstone, Charles Holmes of Lewistown and John La- mers of Broadview. Candidates for track and tennis turned out at the same time. Out for track are Elton Elliott of Bil- lings, Allen Hires and John Lamers of Broadview and Luis Gonzales. Tennis team aspirants are Bob Pa- terson of Livingston, Vern Clark, Bob Moorman, and Luis Gonzales, all of Billings. W.A.A. NAMES LEADERS IN SPRING TOURNEY Contestants are now at work for the spring quarter tournaments, which will be played off late in May. Some of the tournaments the W. A. A. are going to sponsor this spring quarter are Badminton, Manager, Evelyn Tendeland; Tennis, Manager, Maloa Nonhof; Archery, Manager, Jean Jimmerson; Baseball, Manager, Ruth Toothaker; Marbles, Manager, Mary Beth Grinde; Tops, Manager, Mary Beth Grinde; Croquet, Man- ager, Maloa Nonhof; Kites, Manager, Mary Beth Grinde. All girls who wish to participate in any of these activities should sign the list in the girls' locker room. 4 Scully Chosen Guard in Small School Conference Jack Scully of Hysham, captain and guard of '36-'37 Yellowjackets team, was selected all - conference guard at the annual meeting of the Montana Conference of Small Col- leges in Great Falls during the State High School Basketball Tourney. Throughout the season, Scully's aggressive floor work and consistent shooting were the inspiring factor in the Yellowjacket attack and de- fense. Jack is equally efficient play- ing the backboard or \out in front\ in the fast break offense on which Coach Bjorgum drilled his boys. In the ten conference games Scully compiled an average of 12.5 points per game to lead all conference scorers. Leroy Barr, Esther Epperson and Lois Fraser drove from Billings to Roundup and on to Lavina to spend Sunday, April 4. They were accom- panied by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fra- ser of Billings. A road hog is a big hunk of in- feriority complex intoxicated by a shot of gasoline. SENIORS BEAT FROSH This year, instead of playing one game to decide the Frosh-Senior champions in basketball, a three- game series was arranged, but the Seniors went wild on two successive Fridays, April 9 and 16, and a third game was not necessary. In the first game McGarry was unstoppable, scoring 33 of the Senior 70 points. Louk and Stiffler were outstanding for the freshmen. The game ended 70-37 in favor of the Seniors. Except for the opening minutes of play on Friday, April 16, the Sen- iors were again superior in every department, including personal fouls, committing 22 out of 40 called dur- ing the rough fracas. For the Seniors Scully and Mc- Garry were hitting regularly while Caruso played a bang-up game at guard. The final score was 72-31. The lineups for the two games: Seniors— P PF Gonzales Sirrine Scully McGarry Gremmer Elliott Loucks Caruso Frosh— Beeler Stiffler Louck Childress Smith Patterson Minnie Mammen Clark Normal To Play 15 Games Instead of 10 Next Year Breaking away from the old cus- tom of a ten-game schedule for basketball, a 15-game schedule for next year was drawn up at the an- nual meeting of the Montana Small College Conference in Great Falls, March 18-20. Athletic directors and faculty representatives of the six small colleges took part in the meet- ing. In the new basketball set-up, members will play each other three times instead of twice. On alternate years, one double-header, probably on successive days, will be played with each opponent on the oppo- nent's home court, with the remain- ing contest between the two teams to be played on the court of the visiting team. The following teams are members of the Conference: Carroll College of Helena, Northern Montana of Havre, State Normal of Dillon, State School of Mines of Butte, Poly of Billings and Eastern Normal of Bil- lings. Officers of the conference are: President, Chas. McAuliffe of School of Mines; vice president, Herbert Klindt of the Poly; secretary, Oscar Bjorgum of E. M. S. N. S.; treasurer, Dr. Irvin Douglass of Havre. Lawrence Aber, June '32, principal of the Washoe schools, is president of the Carbon County Teachers' As- sociation, which is a very flourishing organization. The April meeting, held at Red Lodge, was well at- tended. Small College Track Meet To Be Held Here May 22 The Annual Track, Tennis and Baseball meet of the Montana Small College Conference will be held in Billings on May 21-22. All schools entering will take part in elimina- tion tournaments in baseball and tennis to decide collegiate cham- pions. In the baseball drawings Dillon and Eastern Montana got byes ex- empting them from first round play. Dillon will play the winner of the Poly vs. Havre game, and the Yel- lowjackets will play the winner of the Mines vs. Carroll contest. The tennis play-offs will be held on the Pioneer Park courts and baseball games will be played on two of the city diamonds. Eastern Normal is in charge of both these sports. The Poly is in charge of the track meet which will be held on their campus. A GROUP WINS CONTEST In the tournaments which were sponsored by the W. A. A. during the winter quarter the winners in individual games were as follows: Badminton — Helen McKee, first; Genevieve Brunckhorst, runner-up. Archery—Emma Rudio, first; Hope Rockwell, second. Table Tennis—Jane Smith, first; Hope Rockwell, second. The winner in inter-class basket- ball was the A group, composed of Katherine Denton, Joan Beeney, Lois Fraser, Rayola Sasten. The C group won the volleyball contest with Alice Halver, Gertude Atkinson, Mildred Highland, Genevieve La Rowe, Betty Bullette, Irene Shalock, Beatrice Hall, Marjorie Bowen. Matilda Kuzara, March '37, is teaching at Chester, Montana, which is close to the Canadian border. She has five boys and three girls and is really thrilled about her new teach- ing position. Garfield Wins City Meet; Normal School Men Coach Showing superiority in every event, Garfield swept to a decisive yictory in the fifth annual Billings grade school track and field meet in Public Schools Stadium Wednesday to re- place Jefferson as city champion. Garfield garnered 395% points. Next came Jefferson with 318% points, followed in order by Pratt, 244 3 /4; Broadwater, 141 1 /2; McKinley, 92 1 /4; Taft, 441/2; Roosevelt, 24; Or- chard, 17. During the past few weeks all the pupils had to be measured, weighed and classified according to age. Then eliminations were held as a school may enter only two contestants in each event. Much of this responsibility was given to the Normal School students assigned to the schools. Ralph Loo- mis, Broadwater; Elmer Kloster, Garfield; Joe Toohey, Roosevelt; Jack Scully and John Schirmer, Jef- ferson; Irvin Bell and Alvin Guthrie, McKinley, and Luis Gonzales, Fratt. These students have been con- ducting elimination contests in run- ning, jumping and bicycle races. Some people need a good excuse for not being born on April 1. 18 3 0 4 25 1 17 2 2 4 4 4 2 4 4 0 P PF 2 7 2 7 1 4 1 0 4 7 1 2 4 2 3 0 1 0
