Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-22
LOCAL BOY COMPETED
Harry IttIejohn of This City at Athletic Meei
 in Hartford.

Harry LittlejOhn of this city con- 5peted in the fifth annual indoor ath- letic meet held in the Hartford armory last night. This meet was attended with one peculiar circumstance which is given below. The events in which Littlejohn competed were as follows:
 Forty-yard dash, c. N. G.-First heat won by J. F. O'Connell, Company B, First Infantry; Henry Littlejohn, Com pany A, Second Infantry; time, 4 4-5. Second heat won by l.. J. Carroll, sec ond division, N. B.; Raymond w. Case, Second division, second; time, 4 4-5. Third heat, tie between w. c. Roberts and A. B. Silmon, Second division, N. B.; time, 5 1-5. Semi-final won by Lit tlejohn; time, , seconds. Final heat won by O'Connell; Carroll. second; Llt- tlejohn, third; time, 4 4-5.
 Putting twelve-pound shot, c. N. U. Won by M. F. Coughlin, Company II, First Infaftry, 43 feet inches; J. k. O'Connell Company E, First Infantry, second. Al feet , inches; Henry Little john, Company A, Second Infantry, third, 37 feet 10 inches.
 Collegiate honors went to Holy Cross. The events contested were the mile run, the mile relay race and the forty-yard dash. Holy Cross took the first two of these, while her opponent, Trinity, took the dash. The linterschol- astic honors were won by the Spring field High school, nine points. New Haven was second with seven, and Holyoke third with six. The New Haven team would have won the cup, as the team took first place in the mile relay, but for the fact that the team was disqualified for ungentlemanly conduct on the part of the winner or the race, F. V. White. This gave first place to the Hartford team.
 In the mile race the Springfield, Hol- yoke, New Haven and Hartford High school teams were each represented by four runners. New Haven started out in the lead and the different runners from that school maintained the lead. When the last man started out Pillion of Hartford shot out at killing pace and soon began to overhaul E. V White, the New Haven captain. Then the Hartford boys banked up on the seats and set up an awful din and eli- couraged their fayorite. But Billion could not overtake the New Haven boy, lwho won out. As White crossed the | line he nut his thumb to his nose and | wrlgkled his fingers at the Hartford High boys. His ungentlemanly act was witnessed by nearly everybody m the armory and there were number of misses. The referee and judges were urged by other officials and many of the spectators to disqualify the New Haven team, but they did not need any urging. Only one of the offciais was in favor of letting White off witA a reprimand. After the meet some O, his friends explained that he did not mean any Sliscourtesy to anyone and his act was not done In a spirit of anger.
 In the wall-scaling contest and the tug-o-war. the Second division, Naval battalion, defeated the First division team. The individual honors were won by I. F. O'Connell, representing Company B, First regiment, c. \. G | His total was eighteen points.
 James F. 0Connell, who represented the Hillyer Guard at the meet, came up from Villa Nova college, where ht is student. With bright colored hat band he looked like a regulation col lege chappie. He got a good measure of applause for his work in the broad jump. the dash and other events.
 Individual points made in general events were: 0'Connell. IS: Carroll 3; LIttlejohn. 2: Coughlin, 10: Case. 2 i Mason s. Tanning. 5. Scrlly. 5. Ftetch CT, S; Thompson, [.