The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-15
SCHOOLS TO COMPETE
Young Athletes Meet To-day
at Four Fairgrounds.
THIRTY SCHOOLS ARE ENTERED
Prize Banners offered to Each Sec
tiOn for Champion Baseball and
Tether BALL Teams-Keen Rivalry
Exists Among Children, and Roof
ers VIII BE on Hand to Cheer.

/ Inaugurating a series OF three similar
/ events for youthful athletes. the first
interschool field day will be held stimuli
grounds in different parts OF the city.
The sports Will begin at 9 o'clock and
continue until o'clock this evening.
/ Children OF thirty schools win compete
for the prize banners offered 10 each sec
ton by the Fairgrounds Association.
Keen rivalry exists among the young
athletes. and each school will have SIS
quota of "rooters" on hand. To-day S
I programme includes interschool baseball
games for the boys. and tether ball for
the girls.
/ On October % and % the field and track
sports VIII be taken up. several events
being on the programme for each day.
Each school will be entitled to three
entries for these events and points Will
be awarded for the first three places.
Every school Confident.
AS baseball championships count nine
points and tether ball victories six. much
viii depend on to-day's games in the final
reckoning OF points. Boys and girls OF
/ both teams have been practicing during
the summer. and each school is claiming
a victory.
Ten schools viii take part in the games
at Garfield Park Fairgrounds. Repre-
sentatives Of WaIach. Towers. Dent,
Brent Van Ness, Holton, Peabody st.
/ Peters. Edmunds. and Maury schools
| viii compete for baseball and tether ball
honors Mrs. Walter Binley will be in
charge, assisted by Miss Jean Crawford.
members Of the Y. NJ. c. A, and teachers
! OF tie public schools,
At the Mount Pleasant Fairgrounds the
following schools Will participate in the
/ sports. Hubbard Johnson, Monroe. Pet
worth, Powell. and Ross Especial in
ter-st IS taken IN the girls games al
that playground, as each school has
! expert representatives.
/ In charge OF the exercises Will be Miss
Florence NJ Kent and Miss Caroline
/ stinemetz. assisted by Mrs. Frank Col
| burn. Mrs. Lee Wolf. Miss c. G. Brewer,
and Miss Snyder
Virginia Avenue Events.
Cranch, Bryan, Buchanan, Van Buren,.
/ Tyler Ketcham Lenox. and Congress
| Heights schools viii be represented in
/ the sports at Virginia avenue play
grounds
! The programme viii be under the
/ supervision OF Miss Mabel F. Towner,
1 assisted by Miss Connoyer, Miss Fawcett.
Miss May Graves, Miss Layton. Miss
/ Lockwood. Mr.. Low. Miss McCauslln,
I Miss Phillips Miss Imogene Stockett.
Miss Zimmerman, and members Of Bust
! ness High School Athletic Association.
/ Rosedale playground. al Seventeenth
/ and Kraemer streets northeast. viii be
/ the scene Of the contests among ath-
! letes OF Blow. Weber. Wheatly. Pierce,
/ and Madison schools. Despite the small
/ number Of schools competing, there IN
I doubtely VIII be large attendance. as
/ there IS great rivalry among the pupils
/ Miss Elvira r. Whitcomb and Edward
/ s. Gilfllan viii be in charge They Will
/ be assisted by Miss Edith L. Grosvenor
and Miss Katherine G. Whitcomb.
/ Schools Of the Eleventh and Thirteenth
/ divisions will hold an athletic meet nj
Howard Fairgrounds. Fifth and w streets
I northwest. next Saturday afternoon,
/ Many events viii he run OFF in competl-
/ ton for the Howard-Cardozo playground
/ championship and tho Johnson Dufaeld
silver cup. Thomas F. Johnson. Miss
/ Minnie Price, W. 8. Dufield. and Miss
/ Violet Ferguson VIII have charge OF the
| events