The Washington herald., 1909-03-21

| N Street High School athletes have al
ways been able to make competitors from
other high schools go some 20 have 50
much as a look IN al the finish.
In football. track and field athletics.
hand ball, and basketball, II street
youths have done their best
| Football teams representing the school
we're ever well drilled and hardy SET OF
/ players. Puny little ffteen-year-oid
boys start out in the freshmen year with
the football squad; In four years they are
/ large, strong, broad-shOuldered athletes.
II is di1hcult 10 compare some OF the
strapping big boys a year OF Two after
graduation with the under-sized strip
pings OF a few years before
This year n Streets football team
rightfuIly may be considered scholastic
champions. having defeated all teams
OF purely secondary schools in this sec
ton OF the country.
Last season NJ Streets basketball team
won the I. S. A. A. championship. This
team did not do great seam work. but
Won through the excellence OF the players
as individuals.
about eight or nlne years ago. during the
tine Of Principal r. II. Terrell. under the
management OF w T. : Jackson. the
present principal
This was perhaps the first instance OF
track athletic competition among cOlored
youths. and after a lapse of Eve or six
( years the athletic director in charge now
began training men for circle pit. and
cinder path events
II Street has been second 10 only one
other school. Howard University. whose
I victories have been due mainly 10 q
greater supply Of older material
/ In a contest with Howard Cnlversity
NJ Street has had only a few men on
whom 10 rely in a majority OF events
while her rivals have had many strong
competitors.
I During the last / s A. A track and
field meet. Howard won by Il points. n
Street was second with g points. all %
/ which were won by hve athletes Hand
ball Is played. By mOsc OF the boys in
/ school. and quite a few lose much awk-
Z wardness. rheumatic pains. and 81 health
/ cavOrting about the courts
I Many Of the faculty members on Tues
7 day and Friday afternoons take the kinks
7 out or their system and seek new vigor al
I hsndbsH. boxing. and other games.
1 In both colOred high schools facilities
I for physical work are poor. n Street IS
favored with a driu lal. a narr ward.
4 and shower baths. none Of which is pos
sessed By the Armstrong School Tie
1 armory has a ten-foot ceiling. afordiue
/ poor ventilation and permitting no ap-
passtus work. All training for trscz
events Is done in a yard ffty yards hy
seven or eight yards, sixteen laps 20 The
mile The shower baths are in excellent
condition and are greatly appreciated by
I all of the boys
I Many athletes OF some class have beE-n
their blue ribbon work az II Street VVla
cannot remember the Francis. bows Mi
/ ton. John. Hugh. and Cedric. all exec
/ lent runners. al captains OF u Street
I football teams. and good su-round ath-
I Ietes
The Ssvoys made good in football
Kiger. Sevy. and Eddie. aU'Qusrter backs.
I small. snappy. and hesdy BauniSre-
won the all-around track and field ind
I vidual contest al II Street IN Ieu. smith
1 and Roscoe WOrmley are Two exceUen-
/ track and football men. Butcher anI
/ Lewis. OF hsndbsH fame; SsdgBsr. TIE
4 pedestrian, Clay ard JessUp az football
\ were good men Curtis a doughty little
runner. starred also in football and bss-
/ ket-bsn
Ed Gray and John Pinkett. both %
I whom played in every game on the Am
herst College football team the past sea
/ son A elear-cut group OF athletes is
I Bacon. Richardson. Gray. Shippiey. Penn.
I Helm OPey. TOomay. Mann. AIacIen-
I don. and Robinson. at the school now.
On the coaching staff are the faculty
men. Messrs- Douglas. Nontgomery. ara
Jackson Most OF these gentlemen have
PLAYED on colleSe football teams. one o.
whom has been a crew man al Harvard
tVO have PLAYED baseball. ard two have
won honors on the cinder path and in the
/ field sports. AIr. Wilkinson. as head foot
bail coach Tor number Of wears. de-
veioped crackerjack football teams.
Walter Smith this year turned ont a win
ner
Douglass and Jackson are largely re-
spOnsible for the showing made BY field
and track men. Most OF the teachers
have contributed largely 20 the success
Of N Street in athletic competition.
The school is fast coming into the pub
lie eye. due 10 the success OF her. athletes
winning fame through scholastic as well
as athletic achievements in the large col
leges OF New England and the North
west.