The sun., 1895-03-31
crashes IN CYCLE RACES.
DAMN rs BADLY INJURED At
,ur "PoLF PREPn GAMES.

a DAMN rs BADLY INJURED AT
,uE "PoLF PREP" CANES.
.ra school yyins the Banner for Seor-
,.. the Most Poi.ts In the echooibeJs'
.,,,.t,c Events at the Thirteenth ReSi-
=, Armory-T. II. Hall, Jr., OF Yaie
s,,oo, Makes Fast Ti-s In tho 1oo-yard
n..b-Sew Record. Est.biished In vari-
a., Event. A Large Crowd Present
-., ,hor,and schoolboys and their friends
-.,d.d the galleries OF the big Thirteenth Reg
,u.,, .rmory at sumner and jefferson avenues,
n.,otlyn, yesterday afternoon to witness the
A., indoor athletic games Of the Polytechnic
,.,,,ute Preparatory School. more familiarly
lawn as the POLY Prep" So much interest
=. manifested in school games nowadays that
h.sysnt had been uppermost In the minds OF
~. ho,, for weeks, and when the young athletes
Ns,n competing yesterday afternoon the ex-
,t,ment was at fever heat.
mis- all we'll enough to describe the enthu-
.,,n Of colegians over sports among full
..iy.d Young mon, but 1t would be hard to de-
.rt the scenes when boys show supremacy In
.,,,sts OF speed and strength. All the notable
al ,cl, had shrIeking, cheering representatives
4, the armory when the first event began at
.cocl, and for the four succeeding hours
,h.y made Rome howl. In fact. SO cxuberant
r.rs some OF the youngsters that the Colonel OF
IN. -esiment vowed several times that he would
,o, p,rmit another set of games to be hold in the
,,nory He filed his principal objection to sew
.r,l scrobatic feats, whereby reckless boys
einbed into tho iron girders and tried to give
,,riou. kinds OF exhibitions on an imaginary
rsreze.
The usual cheering Of course prevailed. but It
l..~h h-n .l1a H. dat1
,.ouy whistles ear splitting rattles, and shrlll
,.umpets. Whenever q Poly" boy showed in
front in any event, his adherents let their lungs
su, With the following slogan:
,,!ye 'em the axe. the axe the axe'
Foy Poly! Poly! Polyi:!
While this sounded we'll It was not SO effec-
tv. from a rattling point Of view ~ the yell Of
Ns Barnard boys. whose representatives sue
coded in scoring the largest number Of points
md carried of the banner of honor. Their cry
vv constantly sailing toward the skyliGhts,
md was rs follows:
wah. hoo wahi
Barnard, Barnardi
eiss, boom, bah.
n, other schoolboys, while not 60 unique In
r,ss,ing their feelings made plenty of noise
ynsorting to tho old-time rah, rah. rah. Al
rsltioned before, tho galleries were crowded.
and hanging over tho rail were flags. banners,
and ,,reamers Of all tho colors o: tho rainbow.
white o" Poly" the blue and yellow of Berkeley
the red and blue OF Columbia Institute. the pur-
p. and white Of Barnard, tho brown and
into sSs the he .rmory carried his fsvorte
tho many pretty girls did not confne themselves
IN
narly ali the competitors. They were happy
d when a Barnard boy won; equally joyous
tcwhen an Adelphi representative did some
thing notable. In fact, no trial or final heat
run that did not cause unbounded enthusiasm
throughout the building:
The armory Is unQusstionably the finest place
run Of athlstie games in this vicinity. 1t
abouts, and the track measures eight laps to the
mile But bicycle events in the future should
such afairs. a. it 10 laid too near tho wallis
pf the buildinr. has no raised turns. sn6 there
4. IS"n crde that pro1ect under the
crashes and rails. .AlthouKh the wheels were
mil The boys vere. constantly Foiiine on the
vssy ssns r. o
1rd school swerved as he rounded q turn and
.oS. sam.6sng into an ,rS1 post He s was
more racing. In tho second heat five boys
MINDED a turn simultaneously and one fell.
!pectators near the wall and there was a most
sSildsrinE% % %sntapglemenIt I.t Of machines; No. No.
h. WEE pss. sSs
beads and kinks in their limbs.
TWAS the fifth-heat, however, that produced
{. damn Of the Bryant 4 strstton School. while
Blowing burst Of speed; suddenly lost control
H. fell with such force that there was .
bhldder among those who saw the mishap,
and ,aa he lay upon his back
him to his feet. But the boy was badly hurt.
tnd groaned heavily as his friends took hold Of
Nlry's Hospital. and the surgeon said that
Damn was suffering from q broken collar bono
,nt severe injury to his head. He was taken
;Stunaie ,9 occurrences. however. did not prevent
,nost exciting struggle In the final heat, which
tsished I few T tI feet ahead OF S. Gillespie, Conm
hlnstitute in the fast time of 2 :3S 3-5. This
ma scholastic record. the best previous time
kag g2:t6
But that wasn't the only record broken. New
tgures, 10 3.5 seconds, were established In the
.ho made it in a trial heat and then ran the
SIEanCea a quarter of second slower in the final.
, Wilson; barnard school. ais established a
n's, S. 4. Syme, barnard Sc hool. performed in
I'd in tho 22o-yard dash Il. Underhill.
.poly Prep ran in "a 20 seconds, as against
- TO. The best previous hgures. l.. Iappan.
Crt!er School. covered mile in the fast time OF
VS. rs. tho previous record being 5:02. The
.cSrd f,r the pole vault was also smashed by
dM. Phillips, Bryant d Stratton. who cleared
ne bar at feet inches
/ The games were not SO well managed as those
he'd By the Berkeley School not long ago. At
one time there were several hundred boys on
ae ho.r, crowding around the judges and inter
lelhg greatly with the competitors. There was
asreat scare once. when one of the officials be-
nh counting the medals that were displayed on
liable in the middle Of the floor. They had not
t zen surrpunded for at least an hour because Of
Mt watchtulness OF a sleuth-like individual
sho stood guard over them and waved every
%ly on. But when he wandered off to look at
ae OF the crashes in the bicycle race, the
P sOPhes were surrounded by an admiring
soSd, suddenly an official rushed through the
ewd ard began counting the medals.
| NY goodness" he exclaimed. somebody has
"!ped medal. Now. isn't that u shame?"
,Merybody agreed with him and All sorts OF
,aEclous giances were thrown around tho
sIaifg; Finally, aftera closer investigation,
asS discovered that $. A. w. BaltaZzi OF
aatvard School. who had won the high jump
WE easily, had walked up to the table and
s.ed out his prize. Then there was easier
There were only two other features-the cane
arlel by Referee Wendell md the SOldicrly