The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-06-25
YOUNG ATHLETES TRACK MEET
Boys of Graded Schools Fight For Honors in Various
Events-Fred Howard High Point Winner.

The second annual track meet of tho
boys of the grades in the public schools
was held on the Valley Fair grounds Sat
urday afternoon. 1t was not only sue
cess in point of attendance and in box
Office receipts but as a demonstration that
Brattleboro has squad of manly little
chaps fast developing into athletes. There
were no bitches, and from the crack OF
the starters pistol in the l0O-yard dash
event for small boys at 2.l5 o'clock to
the break of the tape at the finish of the
440-yard run for large boys at 6.l0, the
youngsters worked with a snap and vim
that made each event on the schedule an
interesting one.
Diminutive Freddie" Howard was high
man with p l-3 points to his credit,
Smith came second with Is, and w. Has
kell third with IA. Crosby won ID points
Rosis and Thayer, 10 each; Angler, 91a !;
Belden, and j. Dahlstrom, 8 each; r..
Davis, 7 l-3; Harris, 6A; Taylor, Gray,
ders, and Miner, each; Kirkwood, 3;
Whitney, Il. Davis, Fits and Horton, 2
each; Estey, 10; III. Dahlstrom, l. Bow
man, ". As there was considerable rival
ry between the sixth grade in the Canal
Main street school building division of
the points secured by each school shows
that the Canal street boys put it over
their opponents in the Main street school
by the narrow margin of 423 points.
Canal street school totaled 30 l-3 points,
and Main street, "a %. The remainder
of the events aside from those partici-
pated in by the sixth graders were made
up from so many different sizes, ages
and degrees of efficiency in athletic work
that it is impossible to make any COM
PARSONS other than the number of points
as given each contestant in the summary
above.
In the first event, the l00-yard dash for
small boys, the time was exceedingly fast
for such bunch of lightweight athletes,
and watches have not been snapped on a
more interesting track event in a long
time than this l21a second dash by the
infants of the meet Crosby came to the
tape winner all the way from the gun
flash; Richardson and Haskell second
and third place winners pressed him close.
Howard, in the l0O-yard dash for the
sixth graders, came to the tape in 10
seconds fiat, and Richmond and Whitney
were only Is of second behind the
winner. The l00yard dash for medium
sized boys was won by Harris in II Is
seconds with Belden and Angler second
second faster than the small boys
event. The large boys l0Oyard dash was
won by Smith in IL II seconds, which |
was going fast for boys. Rosis and M:
Haskell took second and first place and
all were closely punched.
The broad jump events were opportunl-
ties for displaying the results of the train
ing that the youngsters have undergone
during the past few weeks. Howard won
first place for the sixth graders, nego-
tiating Is it., 8 inches, with R. Davis
second at u feet and 6 inches. H. Davis
covered II feet, 2 inches. The large boys
broad jump was won by Taylor at l6 feet,
II inches; Rosis second with l6 feet. lOh
inches; and Smith third at Is feet,
inches In the broad jump for small boys
johnson covered Is feet, 9 inches; Gray,
13 feet, TX inches; Fits, Is feet, 5 inches.
In the large boys high jump, Smith and
Haskell tied for first place at 4 feet, I
inches. Ross took third in feet, 5
inches; Snow covered feet, IL inches in
the sixth graders high jump; and Estey,
Howard, and R. Davis tied for second and
third places at 8 feet, inches. The high
jump for small boys was won by Thayer
at the 4 foot, 3 inch mark, and second
place went to Haskell, who was danger
ously near the winner as he negotiated
the bar at feet, inches. Bowman and
johnson tied for third place. Howard
captured another first for the sixth grad
ers in the l2O-yard hurdles, coming to the
tape in IS seconds. Richmond and E.
Davis finished second third. Crosby won