New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31
SCHOOL ATHLETIC news
Brooklyn Boys Favored to Win
Public Schools Titles.
MANUAL TRAINING IN FORM
Several Records Sure to Fall at
Championship Games on
January 81.

The holidays are over. The ease and rest
Of the festive season is done, and while
the annual indoor track and field champion
ships OF the Public Schools Athletic League
loom up In the near distance, the squads
are making ready to buckle down to the
| real hard grind of the tiresome training.
| Unless all present plans are altered within
| the next few days, the fixture win not be
held until January a. For the last month
or more the coaches have been hard az
work on the teams and the boys who will
wear the silks Of their schools in the dash
for medals and glory are looking forward
to the affair with high hopes. On the
whole II the word OF the directors Of the
teams is to be accepted at face value. the
squads are not up 10 the standard OF Last
years boys at this time. Despite this pessi-
mistic viewpoint of the usually reticent
coaches there need be no doubt that when
the time comes all will be ready and the
meet will be attended with its usual glow
ing success.
The fight for the title lies, TO all outward
appearances and Indications, 20 the Brook
Ign schools De Witt Clinton, which made
creditable showing last year, is greatly
weakened through graduation, and some Of
the best men in school left to enter the
business world Morris is wofully weak.
with only a few men TO rely upon. Town
send Harris is out OF 1t, and Commerce.
which at one time swept all before her on
the track, river and in the tanks, appears
to be worse off than she was last year, if
such thing is possible.
Manual Training boys, who have Lad q
corner on the championship market for ssvs
eral years arc in A position to make q
| bold bid for the honors once more. Tho
already powerful machine built up on sol!a
/ foundation for three years. has been rein'
forced by Arthur Goldstein, the speedy
sprinter, who at one time wore the red and
/ gray OF Commercial. Goldstein Is sure 10
win points in the 100 and 23o-yard dashes,
and Mr. Dickler, the coach, Is well pleased
with his new charge. Boys High will have
a stronger team than in former years. but
there Is little likelihood OF their capturing
the title Under the hard, earnest coaching
Of Mr.. Carey, Commercial is putting to-
| gether a fast team. The loss Of Godstein
hurts, but Trefry Piebes and silverstein
will make their presence felt in the dashes.
Voln,an, Kephardt, Shaw, Brush and
Evans, all fast sprinters; Gamble and
Matthews for mid-distance races and Me-
races make Up likely looking nucleus for
\ winning track team at Erasmus Hall. This
Riff and Blue OF the Flatbush school 10
certain to be I'D among the leaders when
the finish tapes are broken. Not alone on
~. boards will Erasmus be well repre-
sented The swimmers are out In force.
! Clyburn Is the star OF the water men, ana
his teammates play him as ID points or no
au-inr
Yards IN q seconds, travels the fifty IN q
seconds fiat. and lashes his way over the
century In 1:o4. The ID record Of the Pub
lie Schools Athletic League is 40 3-S, estao-
Iished by Hanretti of TIE Witt Clinton, IN
1o1o Clvburn has more than an even
chance OF winning the race and establishing
new record. Evans, Johnson, Ferris,
Long. Clark and Cramp complete the ros-
| ter. Long can do the half century in %
second while Clark is doing we'll In the
| 220-yard event
De Witt Clinton, which won third place
IN the championships last year, only one
point behind Commercial High School is in
dire need of material There are number
| OF BOYS out for places on the squad, but for
the most part they are novtces. Garvey
will take care OF the dashes as best he can,
and the versatile and overworked Tren-
holm will try 10 uphold the honor OF the
| school in the hurdles and the 900 yards, and
will find time to swim and play hockey az
we'll Babe" White is out for the shotput,
| and doing well. Halasz is working away
| at the half and quarter mile runs, Wills
| RoseIle Is plugging away at the high jump.
Swerling. Bernholz, Mills and Klages srs-
! running the distance al Commerce They
are showing fairly well, but there the track
| strength OF the Orange and Blue just about
! stops In the field, however, they are bet
| ter of. Blodgett, Cohen and Kelley are
| putting the shot in creditable fashion,
! while Wallace one of the best II not tbs
greatest high Jumper ever developed In the
! school. is clearing feet 10 inches in every
practice. The record for the Public Schools
! Athletic League is only feet So. Inches,
! so Wallace appears sure TO win the title
| and establish a nsW record. Cohen is com
| ing into his On With the shot. and has
! done over - net IN the workouts, while
Rlodgett and Kelley all hover around the
40-foot mark.
A small squad, with only few reliable
men on whom TO depend. is the rather for
lorn hope Of Morris High School. Srachan'
J who played q remarkable game on the foot-
ball team, is a Splinter OF more IMAM
! ordinary ability. He. with Niamena, who
| took a place last year, will run In the
FLASHES. Marschat is covering the half-mils
! in fair time. and gives good promise.
! German J. Lane. the old Commerce foot
! ball player and swimmer. has more than
made good out at OberIn. Shady" played
q slashins game on the football team at
centre. and ia out with the basketball team
| on lis annual holiday tour of the Buckeye
| state. Lane is trying 10 make a place on
the swimming team, and is showing the
same good form that he always displsyed
while under the Orange and Blue OF Com-
merce.
Waldman, the midget end Of the High
! School of Commerce. is one or the nap
! Most hovs in the school After playing
on the cubs for two years. "Waldie" mads
the first team and won his "C". Waldman
was the smallest boy playing on any team
! In the city, and is the smallest athlete who
ever won the varsity letter at Commerce.
| Lent, the Stuyvesant half miller, gave .
remarkable account OF himself when no
raced that distance in 2oi last week. ia
has always shown great promise. but even
! his most ardent admirers scarcely expected
| him to break the record for the Public
Schools Athletic League held by Don Whit
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