The Portland daily press., 1896-03-23
CUT LITTLE FIGURE.
Portland Athletes Not Conspicuous
at Boston.
FAILED TO SCORE IN ANY OF THE
EVENTS.

Were of Unusual Excellence-Young
Contestants Cheered and Sang-Events
Witnessed by Big Audience.
Boston, March 81 The annual games
of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Ath.
letic association at Mechanics hall to-
night were OF unusual excellence and sew
eral of the association's records were
broken. The attendance was large
The school boy athletic meeting is al
ways big event, but this year the in
terest seemed greater than ever before.
The old familiar decorations of bunt-
ing, school flags and colors were more
in evidence than last year. There was
hardly a boy or girl in the entire as
sembly who had not flag or bunch of
streamers at hand, and from the balco-
MES were draped the colors of the school
in the section below.
AS the competing athletes for the 40
mile dash appeared in answer to the call
of the clerk of the course, the $50 en-
thusiastic rooters from the Worcester
High school, which has won the past two
meetings, burst into song.
The cheering of the 90 other schools
ceased, and 5000 people listened as the
schoolboy voices rendered Tor the first
tim in public the musical gems, which,
although hardly dignifed, show aow
much interest the fellows take in their
sturdy athletes.
The Worcester songs are always popu-
lar, but this year they made decided hit,
but Worcester didn't win this time.
| Here is specimen of the songs:
Oh Hoppy for two years had cinch on
first prize.
While the band played on. -..
And victory for two years with Worces-
ter high lies,
While the band plays on.
But if Chauncey Hall, e'er expects it at
all
It should give its girl athletes chance;
If IN boomers they'd come, it would
strike the boys dumb,
And the band would stop.
My girl is a Worcester girl,
She is a royal pearl,
Bets on the Worcester high,
And wins the dough;
She'll wear tn blue tonight,
And look olea r out of sight
How tell did you find that out?
She told me SO.
The English high school carried off the
honors with total of II 3'5 points; Wor-
oester academy was second with 16 8-5;
Hopkinson, 8 3-5; Noble and Greenough,
5 80; Worcester high, 81 Broookline
high, s.; Berkeley, 5; Phillips Andoyer,
Ito; Cambridge High and Latin, 8;
Chauncey hall, g.; Cushing academy.
Ia; Medford high, 1. Results TO llow:
40 yards dash-W. M. Robinson, Wor-
cester academy, first; A. S. Goodwin,
Worcester academy, third; time, 4-5
seconds
1000 yards run-Mill, Berkeley school,
first; Porter, Chaunoey hall. second;
Dow, English high, third, time 2,33 old
$50 yards walk-o'Toole, English high,
first; Thatcher, of Hopkinson, second;
Glidden, Medford high, third; time
g. 80 3-5.
300 yards run-Robinson, Worcester
academy, first; Carlton of Hopkinson,
second; Badger. Worcester high, third;
time So is seconds old record SO 3-5 SEQ
onds.
900 yards run-Hanson, English high
first; Boyle, Worcester high, second; APP
plegate, Cambridge High and Latin,
third; tims 1.271-5.
45 yards low surdles-Seaver, Brook
line high, first; Mason. Worcester high,
second; Ashley, English high, third;
time As seconds
Running high jump-Rioe, of Noble
and Greenough, first; Howe, Worcester
academy; Perry, PhillipsAndoyer, third;
height, feet six inches.
Putting IS pound shot-O' Brien, Eng
fish high, first; Warren, Cambridge High
and Latin second; Heath of Hopkinson
| third; distance 81 feet 3 1-2 inches.
| Pole vault-Johnson, Worcester acade-
| my first; Shorey. Gushing academy sec
ond distance 9 feet 10 inches.
In the team races Hopkinson beat Cam
bridge High and Latin in 8 minutes and
% seconds. The English high beat Port
land high in minutes 26 2-5 seconds.
Newton high beat Boston Latin in 8
minutes 30 As seconds. Chauncey hall
beat Phillips academy in 8 minutes 81
seconds. Cambridge manual beat Maiden
high in minutes 80 is seconds Wor-
oester academy beat Worcester high in 8
mi nutes, 20 40 seconds.
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