The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-10
THOUSANDS CHEER
AS SCHOOLbOYS
BREAK RECORDS
Stands at Wiedenmayer's Park
ThrOnged with Shouting, Pal
pitating, Cheering Youth.
ALMOST AS MANY GIRLS
AS BOYS ON HAND
Program of Events Starts at
l:3O and They Are Run Off
Rapidly-Rec0rds May Go.

| A wildly vociferous multitude Of boy
and girls, assembled under the banners
of their several schools, filed tn,
grandstand and bleachers at Wieden
mayors Park this afternoon and
cheered to victory their athletic repre-
sentatives, who fought for supremacy
in track and field events. The occasion
was the field day of the Newark Pub
lie School Association. postponed from
the day before on account of rain.
Animal spirits and enthusiasm, helc
| in check for one whole day and nigh
after the time when it should have
| found expression, resulted in one Ions
continuous explosion Of shrill staccatt
sound Only at those hair-raising in
tervals when a race was being fougn
| to the bitter last decisive Inch did any
semblance of quiet fall upon the stands
And the added volume of sound which
swelled up after such intervals made
up and more for the lost time.
The games were scheduled to begir
at 1:30 o. M, and as early as noon
the clans began to assemble on the
grounds. Before that time a procession
of special cars filled with excited and
happy children had started in the gen.
eral direction Of the park. Once out
of the cars and inside of the gates the
girls and that minority Of the boys
who were not contestants sought out
those sections of the grandstand and
adjacent bleachers marked by the BAN
ners of their school.
The Athletes Arrive.
The athletes themselves, with martial
tread, marched majestically to the big
dressing tents which had been erected
In the rear of the grandstand. In q
few minutes they emerged In jersey
and running trunks and scattered tc
the sections under their banners tc
permit their followers a little hero
worship before the beginning Of the
games. A chattering like unto thai
of thousands of backbirds, magpies
and crows arose from the moment the
first delegation reached the ground
and swelled with the ever-increasing
contributions of sound until at times
the pistol shot Of the starter semed
but q faint echo and the megaphone
voice Of the announcer was no longer
heard in the land.
do you know where the Burnet
School kids is?" or Where's the
Franklings?" and ''Have the Centre
Streets got down YETI" are samples OF
the myriad questions which eager, anx-
ious little boys and girls, late arrivals,
asked of those adorned with the blue
badges of officials.
In time they were all placed, not,
however, in some cases until a very
nervous, lonesome quarter of an hour
had been spent and in very rare ones
few tears shed.
Largest Meet in Country.
Promptly at the hour set for the
beginning of the meet-the largest of
its kind ever held in this county
those scores of little athletes who were
to contest in the 50-yard dash were
summoned to post. Six parallel run
ways had been laid out of the dashes
through the diamond to the bleachers
in the rear of the field. So great was
the number Of entries for this initial
event that as they stood in columns in
front Of the starting point they almost
filled the so yards of the courses.
Preparations for the meet had been
painstaking, and in spite of the num-
Der Of the entries the trial heats for
the 50-yard dash were quickly run of.
Contestants, for second heat had left
1t so that there was bunch of flying
little forms crossing the finishing tape
most Of the time. Field events were
being run off at the same time as the
preliminaries in the track events.
When from the grand stand the
champion of any particular school was
III ~tx Att
by clear margin of open air the babel
of unorganized sound gave way to a
school yell, repeated until the small
fans were breathless.
The Fifty Yard.
In the final of the fifty-yard dash,
which followed the six trial heats,
James S. Dombrowski, Of the South
Eighth Street School, was winner, with
Samuel We'll, of the Chestnut Street
School, second; Charles Christopher. of
the City Home, third, and Lawrence
Dixon, of the Central Avenue School,
fourth. Time, 1-5 seconds.
Fifty-Yard Dash (Junior) = First
heat: First, Charles Christopher. City
Home; second. William Herman. Four
teenth Avenue. Second heat: First.
LduncelOt DlAOIl, Centrdl AVenues SEE
ond, James Dombrowslxi. South Eighth
Street. Third heat: First, Morris Gott-
fried, Eighteenth Avenue; second.
Charles Samonsky, Newton Street.
Fourth heat: First. Samuel Well, Chest
nut Street: second. Frank Wadsworth,
South Eighth. Fifth heat First, Adam
Delmotto, City Home; second, Henry
Gordon, Eighteenth Avenue.
When the games were well under way
the centre of the field presented scene
Of marvellous activity. Judges. officials
and young athletes awaiting their
events were crowded into compact
groups. At one time a quarter-mile
run, 100-yard trial heat dash, a hur-
die race and the shot-put were being
contested. In the latter event Walter
Schwinn. of Franklin School. broke his
own and the association record of IS
feet 10 inches by hurting the iron ball
80 feet inches.
Senior 12-Pound put-Winner,
(COntinued nm Second Rawo.l