The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-31
Fair Sized Memorial Day
Crowd Attends the Sport.
Baltimore Athletes Sweep
Everything Before Them.
Dash Events End in Close
and Exciting Finishes.
Edmonston and Bayly
Run a Dead Heat.

Despite the rain on Friday, and the
| threatening weather yesterday, the
| Young Mems Christian Association held
its most successful outdoor meet at Van
Ness Park yesterday afternoon. 1t was
| attended by d fair sized Memorial Day
crowd. The sport was the best that has
ever been provided at Y. M. C. A. meet
in Washington. and despite the fact that
! there was a dearth of Y M A tall
ent, the large crowd evinced much enthu-
siasm and seemed greatly interested in
the numerous track and field events.
Baltimore was well represented. and
the sturdy little athletes who came
over from the Monumental City swept
everything before them.
All the running events were close and
exciting. The several 100-yard dashes
were the closest and hardest fought of
all the events on the card. ]. NJ. Mat
thews, of the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege, ran a splendid race, and captured
first prize in the 100yard open handi
cap, while A. ]. Decker won the special
event at that distance. with P. Herring
and B. Dreyfuss finishing second and
| third in the order named. Randall
showed excellent form in the 220yard
handicap, and won hands down.
Ran. Dead Heat.
The 440-yard run, open handicap.
proved to be one of the best events
OF the day. Preston Edmonston, the
| Georgetown runner, was placed at
scratch, while a number of others were
given liberal handicaps. Bayly, of
Technical High Schol proved more than
a match for Edmonston because the
Handicapped got exceedingly generous
and gave Bayly 20 yards handicap over
the scratch man. With about two dozen
men in the race Edmonston started out
| TO win. He ran an excellent race, and
! displayed great enduring power and
grit. By superb sprint at a time
when he was practically all in. Edmon-
ston forged to the front and fell across
the finishing line simultaneously with
the man who had twenty yards on him
| 1t was declared dead heat. and 1t was
/ necessary to run the event over again
! iEdmonston was manifestly weaker in
| the second trial, although he picked up
| the handicap In a few strides. Bayley
ran like veteran. with Edmonston hot
on his trail. They both pulled their
corks before the last turn, and it was
question of who could stand the most
| grueling. Bayly was one stride
ahead and managed to hold thar lead
across the finishing line. Seaston, OF
Baltimore. was given third place when
another runner was disqualified.
Da1oua
The relays proved interesting also.
The Ss0-yard relay between George
| town Universitys reserves and the
Marston University School team was
good race Dougherty. the pocket edi-
ton of Arthur Duffey," led off for the
Blue and Gray boys. and Lorando and
Chiaco, two Central American runners
widened the gap which Dougherty made.
Ewing the last man to run. finished
yards ahead of his opponent.
The Baltimore Athletic Club and the
NJ. A. c. ran good relay OF one mile.
Owing to the fact that his associations
was short OF men, William BIome. of the
NJ. A. C. team ran the first and second
reliefs. The ordeal proved too much for
him. however. and the B. A. C. team
won by a few feet.
L. L. Hayden. heavyweight hammer
| thrower from Baltimore hurled that
missile a distance of 128 feet. and
smashed the local record by adding six
feet TO last years figures. Sam Owens,
put the shot over thirty-one feet. and
his handicap added to this actual put,
won the event for him
The pole vault was holly contested
by a number of the best vaulters in this
section of the country, including Curtis
Parker, Fewkes, and others Fewkes.
with his generous handicap of / foot
inches, beat Curtis out as did Wag-
staff and Sterrett, all of the Washing
ton Young Mems Christian Association.
Parker was in the running until II went
beyond feet inches. then he dropped
out. He was in excellent condition. ana