Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1912 — Rensselaer Boy Individual Star In Sunday School Meet. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Boy Individual Star In Sunday School Meet.

John Morgan, son of George Morgan, of this city, for the past year a student of Butler college and their all-round athlete, carried off honors in the Marton county Sunday school meet, held at Indianapolis Saturday. The following account appears in the Indianapolis News of Monday: Pete Morgan, Butler’s half back and all around athlete, proved the individual star in the Marion county Sunday school track meet, held on Irwin field, Saturday. Morgan took first in the high jump, crossing the bar at five ffeet, nine ®ftiches. He broke the Sunday school record in the pole vault, in which event he also holds the state high school record, making it at ten feet, eight inches. He also won first in the shotput and in the broad jump, with a distance of twenty-one feet, three Inches. His discus throw of eighty-five feet, six inches won a second place for him. The Central Christian Sunday school, of which he is a member, easily carried off the honors of the meet with 53 points; Irvington Presbyterian, second, with 40 2-3; Central Avenue, third, with 33 points; Friends church, fourth with 28 1-3 points. Friends church was winner in the mile relay with the Irving Presbyterian second, and Central Christian third. Bronze medals were given the winners of first places, and the three churches having the highest number of points were awarded a silver cup apiece.