Iron County Record | 1956-05-03 | Page 8 | Robinson is Winner of Second Place in Junior Pentathlon

Robinson Is Winner Of Second Place In lunior Pentathlon Last Saturday In St. George the District 15 Pentathlon sponsored spon-sored by the Deseret News Telegram Tele-gram in Salt Lake City, was run off, with junior high school students stu-dents from several high schools in this area participating, and at which Jimmie Robinson, freshman fresh-man student at Parowan High School won second pJace in the senior division of the event. Coach Dick Jones took six boys to St. George, three to compete in the senior division and three In the junior division of the Pentathlon. Pen-tathlon. Participating from Paro-wan Paro-wan in the junior division were George Banks, Gladen Mlcke.'son and Larry Tullis. Senior division participants in addition to Robinson, Robin-son, were Kenyon Clark and Ron Smith. Robinsons marks In the five-event five-event Pentathlon were as follows: fol-lows: Basketball goal throw, 23 shots in two minutes time from outside a 10-foot circle around the basket; bas-ket; ball put, 51b. ball, 49 feet six inches; high Jump, 5 feet 2'4 Inches; 75 yaxd dash, 9.5 seconds, sec-onds, and broad Jump 17 feet 104 inches. This gave Robinson a to-taJ to-taJ of 3700 points. First and second place winners win-ners In each district meet may compete in the grand champion finals In Salt Lake City on May 21, but have to pay their own way to the meet. They are also to receive medals from the newspaper news-paper sponsoring the competi-tion. competi-tion. Whether Robinson will enter en-ter the state finals hasn't been decided upon. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. D Robinson.