--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 15 number: 7 published: 1912-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Second Annual Athletic Meet and Field Day," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 7 (May 1912): 662–663.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1507unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1507unse start_page: 662 end_page: 663 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1507unse publication_year: 1912 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Second Annual Athletic Meet and Field Day Second Annual Athletic Meet and Field Day The second annual Y. M. M. I. A. Field Day and Inter-Stake Athletic Meet will be held at Wandamere, commencing at 2 p.m., Saturday, June 8, 1912. Superintendents are requested to take this matter in hand at once, and secure as many entries from their stake in the contests of the meet as possible. The events for Seniors (18 years and over) will be: 100 yard run, 220 yard run, 440 yard run, 880 yard run, 1 mile run, 120 yard hurdles, 220 yard hurdles, running high jump, running broad jump, shot put, pole vault and stake relay race. Please note that the hammer throw is not included in these events. Field events and track events will be conducted simultaneously; that is, the running high jump and the twelve-pound shot-put will be started at the same time as the track events. The relay race will be one-half mile, and teams will be composed of four men, each man running 220 yards. The Junior events for boys under 18 will be: 50 yard run, 100 yard run, high jump and relay race. The relay race is to be 440 yards, the teams to be composed of four boys, each running 110 yards. The field day is open to any bona fide amateur who is a member of Mutual Improvement Association in good standing, and who has a record of fifty per cent in attendance at Mutual meetings for the last season, except in cases where applicant may be reasonably excused. The application for entry must be endorsed by the president of the ward Mutual and the superintendent of the stake. An entry fee of one dollar will be charged for each event, as a guaranty of interest, but said entry fee will be returned to the contestant after he takes part in the field day. Medals will be awarded for first places, and blue and red ribbons for second and third places respectively. We have mailed the superintendents entry blanks which must be returned with fees not later than May 30th. We recommend that stake meets be held where practicable as early as possible, so that contestants for our big field day may be se- MUTUAL WORK r,M lected by the respective stakes. Every stake will please report at qpce whether they will or will not be represented at the meet on June 8th. With best wishes, yonr brethren, Lyman R. Martineau, Hyriim M. Smith, B. F. Grant, John H. Taylor, Oscar A. Kirkham, B. S. Hinckley, Committee on Athletics.