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Rh in competition that they wouldn't think of in practice."

"Ought to be prizes, I suppose," said Lanny. "How about it?"

"Ought to be, yes," agreed Guy; "but where'd we get them? There isn't enough money to fix the track up decently."

"Instead of individual prizes for each event," offered Manager Beaton, "we might have a single prize for the best performance, or something like that."

That was discussed and eventually abandoned. As Guy pointed out, it would be a mighty difficult matter to decide which was the best performance and the awarding of the prize might lead to a lot of dissatisfaction amongst the less fortunate contenders. "We don't need prizes," he said. "We'll publish the names of the winners and that will be enough."

"Arthur's idea might be used, though," said Sears thoughtfully, "in the Springdale meet. How would it do to have some sort of a trophy to go to the fellow winning the most points for us?"

"What sort of a trophy?" asked Lanny.

"Well, nothing expensive, of course. It would be something to work for, and just now, when we want to induce fellows to take up new stuff, it