“Oh, why didn’t you do the low hurdle, too?” Lilian regretfully asked Eloise.
“They wouldn’t let me enter any more, and I really forgot it when I entered to my limit in the other events.”
A seventy-five-yard dash followed the hurdle events, and last came the interesting relay race. One senior and one junior ran, handing the stick to the next senior and junior, and so one. This was the most exciting of all the events. The spectators stood as close to the track as they were permitted to come, the academy girls rooting for their favorites.
In this event, the juniors started under a handicap, for one of their best runners turned her ankle, and could scarcely get over the remaining distance. It was to Virginia that she handed her stick, but although Virgie ran like the wind, the seniors were already much in the lead. Some of the ground lost was recovered by the juniors, but at the end the junior stumbled and fell.
“Goodbye, juniors!” exclaimed Isabel as the senior covered the distance to the final goal before the junior had risen to her feet. “I most certainly didn’t think it would be as bad as that!”
The events were over. All that remained was the announcement by the judges of the winning class, and the awarding of the trophy. The girls who had not kept account of the results in the separate events were uncertain, some hoping, each for her own class.
“I am sure that we have it,” said Evelyn, running over her record and comparing it with that of another senior girl.
At last Miss Randolph rose from a seat in the bleachers where she had been conferring with the judges, and announced that the silver cup was awarded to the senior class. The events have been of unusual interest said she. “Both classes deserve great credit for their good work and spirit of good sportsmanship. I congratulate the seniors, and remind the juniors that they have another year.”
CHAPTER XII
ON THE RIVER
“Girls, we’ve simply got to beat the seniors this time,” announced Isabel to her crew, as they made ready to take out the junior canoe one afternoon.