Big Sandy High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Big Sandy, MT)

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THE CENTENNIAL TRACK. Prospects looked good for a fair track team in the spring of 1924. Coach I. E. White issued a call as soon as the snow was off the ground. A good response to the call was recorded and regular track practice was started. An election for captain was held in the early part of the season and Dosia Shults was elected to fill the position. The bad ankle of Shults, coupled with the sickness of Callison and the loss of Sig Moe because of the age limit cast gloom over the Sandy camp for some time but was quickly dispelled by the splendid showing being made by some of the material. DISTRICT TRACK MEET. Big Sandy firmly placed the purple and gold upon the map by taking the District Meet by a margin of thirty-three points, a record not likely to be broken for some time. A good share of the district records are now being held by Big Sandy athletes as five records were broken in this meet by Sandy boys and one by M'ark Mayer of Havre. The records broken by the Sandy boys were as follows: pole vault, John Bartlett; shot put, Earl Schilling; javelin and discus, Dosia Shults. The standing of teams at the finish of the meet stood as follows: Big Sandy, fifty-six points; Havre, twenty-three points; Fort Benton, sixteen; Shelby, fifteen and one-third; Chinook, seven and one-third; Chester, five; Inverness, three and one-third. For Sandy this was a very decisive step forward as Fort Benton had beaten us out of first place by two points last year. Dosia Shults, with firsts in discus, javelin and low hurdles and seconds in the 50-yard dash and shot put gathered a total of 21 points for high indi- vidual honors. Earl Schilling with firsts in the 100-yard dash, shot put, and half mile, and second in discus was second high point man with 18 points. The other athletes who snared points for Sandy High are: John Bartlett, first in pole vault and third in high jump; Russell Hurd, seconds in pole vault and high jump; Sam Sprague, second in the mile; Lloyd Callison, thirds in 50 and 100-yard dashes. Nat Gaines had a first place cinched in the 440 but fainted when ten feet from the tape with a six yard lead. Big Sandy won the relay cup when they smashed the district record by four seconds by running it in one minute, forty and two-fifths seconds. The

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THE CENTENNIAL Sandy boys won the respect of their opponents and the support of the fans. The Weekly Exponent, college paper, says, “Big Sandy a favorite with the crowd.” The sportmanship displayed by the Big Sandy team was in marked contrast to that which a few high schools in the state would have people believe, because of the football mixup last fall. This fact was evidenced much more clearly by H. Hurd of the Big Sandy team winning the sportsmanship medal, which is valued more, by many, than the winning of the tournament. H. Hurd was also placed on the All-star team. The scores of the games were as follows: Big Sandy ...................... 22 Forsyth ........................ 17 Big Sandy ...................... 24 Helena ......................... 30 Big Sandy ...................... 14 Park Co.......................... 7 Big Sandy ...................... 11 Billings ....................... 27 Total ........................ 71 81 Those who made the trips to Bozeman were: Coach Cameron, (Capt.) Callison, Dosia Shults, H. Hurd, R. Hurd, S. Moe, Bartlett, Hansen and our All-district yell leader, Sam Sprague. GIRL’S BASKET BALL. The basketball season opened with a great deal of enthusiasm among the girls who came out for practice. Uuider the direction of Miss Mack and Miss Von Tobel, we developed a team. Although we suffered defeat at the hands of two of the rival high schools, we ended the season with a deter- mination, among those who remain, to carry the “Purple and Gold” over the top next year. Only three games were played, two against Havre and one against Fort Benton. The Havre girls being more experienced, defeated Sandy 19 to 7 in the game at Big Sandy and 24 to 7 in the game played at Havre. The game against Benton was a real fight from start to finish. The outcome was uncertain until the final whistle blew ending the game 8 to 9 in favor of Benton. The squad consisted of Irma Arnold (captain) and “Barney” McClellan centers, Lela Robertson and Lottie Heise forwards, Bertha Carnahan, Bessie McClellan and Marie Black guards; and Marion Heise, Selma Simonson and Bella Corrigan subs.

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THE CENTENNIAL relay team was composed of Earl Schilling’, Lloyd Callison, Herschell Hurd and Dosia Shults. INTERSCHOL STIC TRACK MEET. Big Sandy ended the most successful athletic season of the history of the school by taking third place in the State Interscholastic track meet. There were about ninety schools that took part, and the competition was very keen. Considering this Big Sandy made a very good showing. Those who took part at Missoula were: (Captain) Dosia Shults, Schill- ing, Bartlett, R. Hurd, H. Hurd, and Callison. All the boys made a good showing. Even though the competition was very keen there is no doubt but that Callison would have placed in the sprints had he not oeen sick short time before the meet. Dosia Shults was second high individual scorer with 12 points, only two points behind Burns of Jordan, who was the high indi- vidual scorer. Shults easily -got first place in the low hurdles, second in the discus and third in the javelin. There was only one state record broken this year and this record no doubt will stand for many years. The honor of breaking the record goes to Schilling who heaved the discus 127 feet, 3 inches, bettering the old record held by Blumenthal of Missoula by 4 feet, 11 inches. Shults was a very close second being only one inch behind Schilling. Schilling cook nine points, getting first in the discus and second in the half mile. H. Hurd got 3-7 points in the pole vault. There were seven who tied for fourth and fifth places at 10 feet, 3 inches. Twenty-nine of the schools represented took points at the Meet. The points ranged all the way from three-sevenths to 30%, the latter was the number of points gotten by Butte, who won the meet. Hamilton was second with 26 13-14, then came Big Sandy with 21 3-7. Flathead placed fourth with 14% points. All those who took part in the meet at Missoula will be lost to the team next year but there is plenty of material for a good team next year. Those who will be back for the team next year are: Flatness, Gaines, D. Moe, S. Sprague, Hansen, Holst, Homan, Miller, C. Ensley, Worstell and Works. Inter Class Track Meet. The inter-class meet was very close this year between the Seniors and Juniors. The points stood 27 all after the first day. The Juniors forged ahead of the Seniors on the second day, making the total points of 71 to the Senior 65. The Sophomores got 11% points while the Freshmen got the cellar position with 5% points. Dosia Shults was high point man with 30 points, Schilling second with 20, Flatness third with 13% and Bartlett fourth, with 12%. Considering the wind and the condition of the dirt track, good time was made. The events were as follows. 50 yard dash, six seconds,—Shults 1st, Cal- lison 2nd, Schilling 3rd, and Gaines 4th. 100 yard dash 11 3-5 seconds— Shults 1st, Schilling 2nd, Gaines 3rd, Callison 4th; 220 yard dash, 26 4-5 seconds—Schilling 1st, Callison 2nd, Gaines 3rd, H. Hurd 4th; 440 yard dash, 1 minute.—Schilling 1st, Gaines 2nd, H. Hurd 3rd, D. Moe 4th. Discus, 126 feet and 10 inches.—Shults 1st, Schilling 2nd. S. Moe 3rd, Flatness 4th. Javelin, 142, feet.—Shults 1st, Flatness 2nd, Hansen 3rd, Bartlett 4th. Broad jump, 17 feet and 9 inches.—Worstell 1st, H. Hurd 2nd, R. Hurd and Miller 3rd. 880 yard dash, 2 minutes and 35 seconds.—D. Moe 1st, 3. Sprague 2nd. Holst 3rd, Flatness 4th. Mile run, 5 minutes and 42 seconds—S. Sprague