Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01
UNPARALLELED SUCCESS OF
TECH IN ATHLETICS

The gray and maroon" banner on the
Mckinley Manuel Training School Is ny
ing high from the battlement OF the 1ort-
ress at 7th street and Rhode Island ave-
nue.. They have swept everything or the
athletic calendar in high school honors
for 1907. and there is not the slightest
protest against awarding to them the
title of champions in every sport they
have entered.
Their success in athletics in the past
year has been the most decisive IN Inc
history of high school athletics. and their
work places them beyond the record OF
any high school athletic doings since they
were started back in 1883. They swept
almost out of existence the hitherto un-
beaten Central teams, while 1hose
doughty Westerns were kept on their toes
all the time by their good work, but each
and every one will admit that for 1907 th@
TECHS stood in a class by themselves,
head and shoulders above all the rest.
They began the season by winning the
base ball championship in spirited man.
ner. their team showing up admirably in
eyery department Of the game, outclass-
ing the other teams to such a degree that
the series was simply one OF practice
games for them.
When base ball was waning they took
up rowing as a new feature of high school
athletics, and through the patronage or
the Potomac Boat Club made record I'M
paralleled in the history Of rowing.
While yet crude crew. knowing nothing
of the finer points Of shell work, but with
power enough in the craft to send gun.
boat agoing, they defeated the "preps"
of Georgetown in a hard, grueling race.
Then as q crew of 'Potomacs" they won
the Junior event at the 4th OF July re-
gatta at Philadelphia. and later on after
Pat Dempsey had trimmed on the rough
edges and got them down to racing form
thsy won the intermediate championship
of America at Philadelphia at the ma
tional regatta, and followed 1t up the
next day by virtually winning the Amer1-
can national championship, as the only
Argonauts Of Canada, while such former
champions as the New York Athletics,
R.versides and West Philadelphia came
in behind the Potomac-Tech crew. 1t was
wonderful showing.
They made clean sweep in high school
foot ball and then in one of the most
brilliant games ever seen defeated the
GEORGETOWN props for the interscholastic
championship Of the southJ
The only regret that the faculty OF
"Tech" are experiencing just now Is the
inability of the school to place in training
a track squad for the many indoor meets
that are to take place here the approach
ing winter. Prof. l.. w. Mattern ex-
plains that the reason lies in the fact
that proper training facilities could not De
secured, a thing he deeply regrets. as
there Is splendid material on hand which,
If there were track and other facilities,
could be whipped into champion teams.
with the success that came our way In
every other department, I am sure we
would have kept up our winning streak
had we the place to develop the stu
DENTS" said Prof. Mattern.
Tech" will not be represented as a
school in any of the meets, but num-
Der of the students may train indie
pendently and enter some Of the meets
unattached.
But next year "Tech" will branch out
strong in base ball and will again go
after laurels in aquatics, hoping TO re,
peat Its success of the present year. as 90
per cent of the champions of this year
will be students in 1908.