Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-22
WEBB AND TYLER WIN
Two Playground Athletic
Meets Held Yesterday.
GIRLS DO SPLENDID WORK
Police Capt. Daily Umpires Base Ball
Game.
WON'T TELL SCORE, THOUGH
Cranch School Runners in Fine
Form-Summaries of
the Events.
WON'T TELL SCORE, THOUGH

From ? O'Clock yesterday morning until
8 o'clock last night future Duffeys sprint
cd about the Virginia avenue playground.
18th street and Virginia avenue SOUTH
east, in the annual athletic meet of the
section. while in the afternoon on the
Rosedale grounds, 18th and Gales streets
northeast, representatives of the Blow,
Webb. Pierce. Madison. Wheatley. Hay
and other schools battled fox supremacy.
Six schools were repyesesed\n the vir-
ginia avenue meet. the SCranAh. Tyler,
Van Ness, Buchanan, Lenox AQd Wal
ZACH. When the final event was yum off
| and the totals summed up it was seen
that the Tyler School team had secured
first honors. with forty-seven points.
Cranch was second, with twenty-three,
and Lenox third. with twenty-one.
The victory of the Tyler School does not
belong TO the boys alone. for the girls de-
serve much credit for the laurels. The
/ girls managed to pull off several first
places and several of them played in the
base ball game which won the cham
/ pionship. In the base ball game. as
stated in The Star yesterday, the Tyler
team won from Cranch by a score of
21 to 2.
/ At $50 O'Clock last evening the field
events were started at the Virginia ave-
nue. grounds. The first event was a dash
| for boys under ten years of age. The
! Cranch School boys started off like sure
winners, Charles Downs leading his COM
i petitors across the tape and scoring first
points. In the race of the same distance
j for girls Cranch again came to the
front, l.. Hagar being the winner.
Girl Wins Ginning Contest.
| The most interesting event was the
i chinning of the bar for girls, in which
little Marie Harmer of Tyler School. the
smallest contestant. took first honors
/ when she raised herself up ten times. 1t
was not thought that she would make
showing, but after she had passed the
! total scored by several of the larger con-
4 testants the spectators began to cheer.
/ and. spurred on by the encouraging shouts
of her schoolmates. she continued until
/ she had accomplished it for the tenth
time.
The Tyler team won against four oppo-
nents in the tether ball contest. and the
Lenox team proved an easy victor in the
| croquet game.
/ The judges of the events were Messrs.
Jackson. Grace. Sullivan, Thornton and
Ball. Rodney Hinwood and Grace Lang
refereed the croquet game and George
| Hines was scorer.
Each winner in the various events will
receive blue ribbon, and the trophy
| awarded to the winning team was
small American flag.
The meeting was under the direction of
Miss Mabel Tower and Miss Elizabeth
Garnet.
Virginia Avenue Summaries.
The summary of events is as follows:
25-yard dash for boys under ten years-C.
Downs Cranch. first; II. Beall, Lenox, second;
| A. Sisemore, Tyler third.
25-yard dash for girls under ten years..
Hagar. Cranch. first; L. Hunt, Tyler. second; NJ.
| 5O-yard dash for boys under twelve years-C.
Crook, Tyler first: ~ Grace, Wallach, second;
6O-yard dash for girls under thirteen years-A.
| Hinwood. Cranch, irst: A. Baumbrast, Lenox,
sard n Dash or Girls Iy ner Sixteen
Brown. Tyler, first: f. Downs. Tyler. second; NJ.
Potato race for boys-A Helwig, wallach.
first: A. Persing Bryant second; J. Boyd Tyler,
Potato race for sirls-A woodscn Leno1. first;
| r. Hinwood Cranch, second; NJ. Grace, Lenox,
more. Tyler, first: G. Hoffman, Lenox, second;
R. Mccormick Cranch. third.
Tyler School, ' first l. Hunt. Tyler School sec.
ond; E. Martin. Lenox School, third.
ennH vsr Bar s f. aneh
school. second; l.. Hunt. Tyler School. third
sss for eos uHssg sss
second: A. Heiwig. Wallach School, third.
sasnsns s5ssd s@R boys
School. second: A. Sisemore. Tyler School, third.
Standing broad Jump for boys under .n,o twelyemE
School. second: II. Fletcher, Lenox School. third.
Standing broad jump for boys under welyeG
| School, second c. Crook, Tyler School, third.
Rosedale Meet.
| At the Rosedale playground. 18th and
Gales streets northeast, almost 800 young
| sters. ranging from six years up. from
the different public schools in that sec
cit fh0i,~ Arcf
athletic meet of the season. Nearly every
boy and girl of the northeast part of
the city was there, and many Of them
had their fathers, mothers, large sisters
and brothers and friends on hand to
/ watch them battle for athletic Suprem-
acy.
/ There were also about 200 other adults
there to watch them, among who were
Postmaster General Hitchcock. who is
president of the Playground Association;
Burlington. Arthur Moses. Samuel w.
Smith. chairman of the House District
committee James e. West. secretary of
the Playground Association; Capt. DAILY
of the Metropolitan police department,
who is in charge of the ninth precinct
police station.
There were games of nearly every de-
scription, among them base ball contest
between the girls from the Webb and
) Taylor schools: volley ball, quoits, relay
races and potato races for both girls and
boys.
Capt. Daily Umpire.
q Capt. DAILY was selected to umpire the
ball game between the girls, as they
; knew that brave and determined man
would be needed. When asked If he
. wasn't afraid to umpire a game between
: girls he said: IF any of them disputes
my decisions III arrest them for dis
orderly conduct" He did not have TO
do SO. as the game, while a very lady
! like affair, was not tame by any means
!. Nobody knows what the score was eX-
. cept Capt. DAILY, and he refused to tell
: The small girl pupils of the Blow
School presented cinderella"
Credit was accorded Edward s. Gilffl-
Ian and Mrs. Agnes Stewart and their
assistants, who have charge of the
Fairgrounds. for the prOmptness with
which the events were pulled off.
Rosedale Summaries.
The results showed that the Webb
School had scored 50 points. Pierce so.
Blow II. Madison Il. Hilton and the
Taylor, .. The summaries:
Potato race for girls-Won by May Irwin. Webb
School: Barbara Seiber, st. Cecilia School, Sec