The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-17
A STRUGGLE AHEAD
School Boy Athletes Have Theii
Attention Directed to the In
tersChoIastic Games
DECIDING CONTEST
COMES THIS YEAR
Permanent Ownership of the Sill
YER Shield Will be Settled
Among Four School Teams

Athletes of Worcester high school
and Worcester academy are looking
forward to the indoor games of the in
terscholastic association, which will
take place at Boston in March. The
coming games are easily the most i'm
portant in the history of the associa-
ton.
The meet will be the ninth and last
of the struggle for the silver shield
which is offered by the Boston Ath-
letic Association, under whose aus
pieces the annual meets have been held.
Athletic meets were held for few
years previous to the nine-year series,
but banners were given for the cham
pionship and the shield has been the
trophy for eight years,
What makes the meet the most i'm
portant of the series is the Importance
attached to it relative to the winning
of the shield. Nobody has a walk
over. Four schools are tied with firsts,
each having two. The conditions of
the offer are that the school winning
the largest number of firsts shall have
the shield, and in case of a tie on
f1rsts, the school that wins the largest
number of seconds will own it. The
last meet is the one to be held in the
spring. Worcester high, Worcester
academy, English high of Boston and
Hopkinton, each has won first place
twice For the last half of the period
of struggle, with the exception of
single year, the contest has been be-
tween Worcester high and Worcester
academy. Hopkinson won in the first
two years, and has never been danger
Gus since. But this year Hoppy has a
strong team, and bids fair to make
bid for first place.
Another consideration enters into the
coming contest. One of the schools,
that has not secured first place in the
eight years of the contest, is liable to
win the championship this year. Exc
ter and Andover academies have strong
teams
Should either of these or any outside
school win, the trophy will become the
property of Worcester academy, for it
leads all other schools in the number
of times it has won second place.
Worcester high wants first place this
season, which will give it the shield
for perpetual prize. 1t stands
good chance. 1t has a strong team of
athletes, more particularly in the run
ming line. AS was ever the case, Wor-
cester high will be weak in field events
Worcester academy considers itself
hopelessly out of the race. 1t has lost
the athletes who won first place. for
it, hands down, last year. The loss
of Scheuber is irreparabe. With him,
the academy counted on winning first
as easily as last year. The only ath-
lete of unusual ability now at the school
is Gardiner, who is counted on to win
first in the pole vault and first in the
high jump. Norris was picked to win
in putting the shot and could have
done it easily, but his expulsion from
school robs the team of five points, and
five points arr big.
Worcester nigh has Moran, Perry,
Jourdan for star runners, all of
whom ought to be pretty close to first
place winners in their special running
events.
The athletes of both schools will be-
gin training Immediately after the
Christmas vacation