Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-26
READY FOR GAMES.
Interscholastic Sports to Be
Held in Boston Today.
The Worcester Boys Expect 70 Win Some
Prizes But Do Not Look for
the Shield.

The school-boy athletes of the state
win nave their annual indoor interscho-
lastic meeting this afternoon at the Me-
resentatives of the leading preparatory
institutions are struggling for honors
upon the board track, their fellow stu
dents, who may not be as proficient as
in atletics, but who are exactly as loyal,
will make the rafters of the old build
ing ring with their school cheering.
While the various events offer field
| for considerable discussion regarding
4 prospective winners, the real interest
! centres in the contest for the cham
! pionship, which amounts to much more
| this year than usual, from the fact that
| upon it depends largely the ultimate
disposition of the school shield which
| will be competed for this year for the
| last time.
] Neither Of the Worcester institutions,
| the high school ror the academy, has
more than a fighting chance to win
the honor, and the students here seem
/ to realize this for while they are en-
| thusiastio over the meet, they do not
look forward to celebration of red-fire
and cheering in the evening, as they
/ have done In some years
! 1t is generally conceded that some
OF the Boston schools are going to take
a very prominent place IN the fight this
! this year. Hopkinson, which has won
| two years and tied third, but which
has not been prominent for four or five
years, has the best chance to win the
meet and the shield But it will not be
| a walk-over. Both Noble and Green
ough's school and Hales school, as well
as the Boston English high school, are
| gong to contest every foot of the
! ground, but none of them can win un-
less the points are divided up in much
smaller allotments than has been the
| case at former indoor meetings.
worcester high school rightly expects
| TO get first in the 800 with Butler, a
place in the 40 with the same man. a
possible second in the 1000 with Greene,
a point or two in the pole vault with
Streeter, who is yet an untried man and
possibly something in the 600 with Mo-
ran
AT the high school Friday, a tip was
| out that it would be well to watch the
hlgh schools pair of walkers as well as
hdson in the hurdles If Edison can
take the hurdles in Boston as fast as
IL IS reported he has been doing in prac-
uce, ne should get place. The more
enthusiastic, on the strength of the
mysterious tip, look for a first and Sc
cond in walk with Griffin and Hagberg
lney forget, however, that both Mahan
ana Riley, who won the places last wear.
are entered again. They have been
carefully trained under the direction of
Jack Moakley, and on paper, at least,
seem able to repeat their performance
The Academy boys justly expect to
| see Duffy win the 40, for unless some
dark horse looms up he cannot help
winning even though the speedy Butler
is in the field. Likewise they have a.
second in view in the shot put. They
| expect Wells to do something in the
1000, which is doubtful They have
great hopes Of Penny in the pole vault.
ana ne appears about as good as any
in the small field, and Dorr may do
| something in the walk. Pouch" Dono-
men into shape in the late minute, and
1t may be that a few loafers are in
| cluded on the w. A. team. If so the
Academy may be heard from.
But, after all, if either of the two local
schools scores a dozen points it will
be doing exceedingly we'll under the
circumstances. The Academy has had
| the conveniences to get good team,
but Donovan has not been able to find
the material. At the high school, exact
ly the reverse has been true. They
have had the men, but not the conven-
fences SO necessary to proficiency.
The teams from the two schools will
| go down on the 8 o'clock train, and as
! usual will be accompanied by big de-
legation of the students. 1t is expected
that the high school will turn out $50
strong, and make enough noise at the
games for three times that number.
The Academy of course will not have
quite so large a representation, but
| they will be just as enthusiastic and
| cheer just as vociferously.