Port Byron High School - Echo Yearbook (Port Byron, IL)

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- - -r'--'- vm--W, last last even man and ing Hill in t High The rela old the vaul Othe Gene Vall rung Reco Firs Pole Disc Broa 880- Seco High 100- Thir Pole 440- 220- sori Four Shot Fres On T and oart wrig D, a event, the 880-yard Senior relay, It won not only this and most important event but broke the record also. The was won by Fisher, who proved to be practically a one- eam for his school as he captured titles in both the 100 00-yard dashes and ran the anchor leg on the record-break- elay team. Bill Stewert, also a first place winner on the dale squad, won the mile run. These two competitors brought o of the relay titles clinching the trophy for Hillsdale. ther record that was shattered was the 108-yard shuttle . The three-man Reynolds team knocked 3,1 seconds off the ecord held by Coal Valley, Lyle Warren of Port Byron was nly other double winner of the day, He copped the pole and broad jumn honors. , winners were Ed Schroeder of Coal Valley in the mile, Blaser of Reynolds in the high jump, Bob Carmack of Coal y in the 4403 Larry Atkinson of Port Byron in 880-yard and Bailey Knorr of Port Byron in the discus. ds earned by Port Byron were: places: vault Warren s Knorr jump Warren ard run Atkinson d nlaces jumn Knorr and Swails of Coal Valley tied ard dash Warren places: vault Williams ard run Earhart ard dash Earhart t medley Williams, Wainwright, Carlson, Sullivan h Dlaces out Knorr -Soph relay D, Frits, R, Lund, Carlson, Williams esday ofternoon, April 29, Hillsdale, Cordova, Port Byron, rie competed for track honors at Erie. The following boys cinated: Atkinson, Warren, Johnson, Sullivan, Mose, Wain- t, Earhart, D, Frits, Knorr, Carlson, R. Lund, Williams, d H, Wuehle, Carl Orr drove,

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,- .- ..- ,.-.., ,, -....,T.,,,,.?,,,,,,.,,.,-,,, Erie w n the first olace in this quadrangular meet with 985 ooints, Port Byron was second with 35 lf9, and Hillsdale was third Recon First ?ole Broad Seconi Discus l?O-ya Third lOO-ya Pole x High 3 Fourth Q90-ya Discos Broad Fifth Shot . Erie's fieli, feren was Hi The Kr tied - The s. nyhen with 33 319. earned by Fort Byron were: .laces: ult uno nlaces d high ,lacesz .4 dash alt no olaces d run urn ,lacesz t hurdles Warren Jarren O Knorr Knorr Williams and Warren tied Borden, Erie and Yilliams tied 'Warren and Williams tied Atkinson Johnson Johnson Knorr athletes oroved their superiority on both track and Friday afternoon' Hay 9, by winninq the Two Rivers con- neat here with 295 ooints. Their closest competitor lsdale, with 295 counters, 1 er-coached lads were first-place winners in seven events, r first in another, and took second honors in five of the f irteen events. ,llar individual performance of the day, however, came n Olson of Erie and Gordon DeVrieze of Atkinson shatter- ed th hifh jump record and set one of the hest prep marks in the s te this year by going over the bar at 6 feet, 25 inches. The tw lads were as astounded as the crowd when the officials measn d their leans at the record-breaking mark. Neither could ,lear the har at a higher level, and so the loop high jnmo cord will he shared by the oair, The new jumping record crack 1 one of the oldest conference marks, The old record was set i ln34 hy Yaqer of Proohetstown at 5 feet, 105 inches. Only her record cracked yesterday was the 220-yard iash mark of ?3,,, which was lowered to 23.2 by speedy Haynari Fisher of