LHS Track Team, 1922-3

LHS Track Team, 1922-3

First Row -- .Ernest Wooldridge, Raymond Kimmet, Neil Bahr*, Elton Little.

Second Row -- Mr. Lansford (Faculty Manager), Manford Pattee, Elwin Love, Kenneth Gordon, Mr. Botkin (coach).

[* NOTE -- In the origianl 1923 yearbook, Neil Bahr's name was ommitted. Because there was one more person in the photo than there were names listed, careful inspection of photos in the yearbook matched the extra person with other labeled photos of Neil Bahr.]

Schedule
County Meet
District Meet
State Meet

TRACK

The call for track men came and only a few answered. But a few days later a call was heard again and to this call came the answer of about 15 men, all new recruits, besides all the old men. This was an extremely good showing because all men were willing to try.

Work was started in the gym at first, just to get muscles loosened up and a few hints toward the starting part of the game. On these nights of practice all showed very food form. Some slim, some tall and some short, all were there to do their best.

The 1922 Lake County Track Meet

On May 6, Lowell's team of thinly clads journeyed to Gary to participate in the Lake County track meet. The day was fine although a slight wind blew across the field.

About 1:30 p.m. the events started with the high jump. Little and Kimmet were in this event representing Lowell.

Both men were just a little inexperienced in this event but it did not matter. They made an excellent showing, going 5:2, which they both tied for fourth place; the event was won by a tie at 5:3 by an East Chicago lad and two Emerson men.

That was experience for Lowell's lads in the high jump event, but watch them jumping the meet at Gary in the year '23.

The trials for the "century" came next. In this event only one Lowell man was put in. But Gordon, the man, was right there, for he qualified for the finals. That being his first year, he will show the start and spirit that experience alone can give.

Next event in which a Lowell man was entered was the shot put. Love and Bahr were in this event and both men showed some form, Love taking 2nd, being beaten only by three inches by a Whiting man. This year Love and Bahr will show what they can do in the event again. Both men are showing greater form.

The mile came along and Elton Little began to warm up. The starter's gun cracked and they were off, Little lagging along until the last quarter when, with the wind of a horse he went around the front man touching the tape 20 yds. ahead of his nearest opponent. Little had good form, taking long easy strides. The quarter mile came up, in which Kimmet was entered. This man is a good runner for the distance of a half mile and a quarter. He came in trying for third.

The pole vault came and out chesty Wooldridge struts into the air tying for second place with a Hobart man at 9:8. He was inexperienced, but just watch him float over the horizontal in the year '23-'24.

In the half mile Little and Kimmet were represented. Kimmet is an experienced man and took first place in the half at Crown Point and Little 3rd in the year '21 and in '22 Kimmet took 2nd and Little 3rd. Both have form and stride of an ostrich, long and easy.

Schultz, Buckley and Richards, all new men, are showing great form in getting their stride. Schultz is a man who can be depended upon to come through to the finish, as he never gives up.

Richards is a man who will make good. This is his first year. Experience will bring the results from a good man who has the spirit.

Buckley, the tall lean man, has the build of a runner. He can cover the ground in good time. He is a freshman and needs a little experience.

Tripp, Berg and Morrison show their ability in covering the shorter distances as the half mile and the quarter mile. Tripp, though short, has the wind of a horse, always plugging on and never stopping until he has touched the tape.

Berg is a man who can step out and the people will take notice of his speed on the start.

Morrison is an inexperienced man and time will prove what he can do. Coach Botkins says he runs like a deer.

Keith Gordon, Elmo Sprague, Castle Brownell, Abbot Dinwiddie and Richard Cox are the sprinting squad of the new men.

Keith Gordon has the sprint and form of his brother and was last year on the grade school track team where he showed his ability as a runner.

Castle Brownell is the man who has the sprint of sprinters. He will show the public what he can do with the handling of his feet on the 220 and hundred.

Schultz is a new man for high jump. He, with his light slim body, can just seem to float over the pole at 5 feet 4 inches, but when he tries look out, for he is going higher.

These men, with last year's men, Love, Little, Wooldridge, Gordon, Bahr, Kimmet, will make the showing of a real track team for the meet of '23,

Raymond Kimmet, '23

From the 1923 Lowell High School yearbook.

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