Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-09
ANNUAL MEET Of
NEWARK SCHOOL
ATHLETES OPENS
Six Thousand at Wiedenmayer's
Park in First Days
Events.
BOYS ALL TRYING TO
REACH A STANDARD
Events for Numerous Special
Prizes to Be Run Off
Tomorrow.

Budding athletes of the public
schools, 5000 of them. fairly swooped
down on Wiedenmayer's Park early
this afternoon, the occasion being the
first day of their annual field meet.
Delegation after delegation from the
rival schools passed the Four Corners
lin trolley cars which seemed to bulge
at the sides with their unaccustomed
loads. Enthusiasm had already reached
a high pitch and the welkin-all the
way to the park was ringing overtime.
While it is true that only the stand
ard events are to be settled today.
while the prize events are reserved for
tomorrow, yet every point made this
afternoon counts in The totals for the
school whose representative makes it.
For that reason the liveiiest interest is
taken by the school athletes in Ine pro-
ceeding today.
Fifteen hundrei children OF the
parochial schools are holding their an
nual field day at hillside Park this
afternoon. The beautiful June weather.
in riotously pleasant contrast to that
which has SO often dainpeaed the sldor
Ct prospective title holders, brought
OFT hundreds of spectators 20 10th Of
the big meets.
Effort to Reach Standard.
In the standard events there is
no competition among the performers.
They merely try to reach certain
o+b
BY so doing they earn for themselves
souvenir button and also gain for
their respective schools a point in the
competition for the various trophies
offered to the schools earning the
largest number of awards. In the
: standard events the boys are divided
into junior. intermediate and senior
classes The events for the juniors are
standing broad jump. chinning the bar
and fifty-yard dash. The intermedi-
ate lads will participate in a running
dash For the seniors there will be
a running broad jump, running high
Jump, chinning the bar and 10o-yard
dash.
Prize events, which are held in the
usual manner of athletic games. will
take up the time tomorrow afternoon,
and that is the big day. These prize
contests are classified similar to the
standards into junior. intermediate and
senior contests. There are both track
and field events, dashes, runs, relay
races hurdles. jumps pole vaults and
putting the shot. In each of these con-
tests medals are given for first, second
and third positions, and, as in the
standards, points are given which also
figure in the championship. Girls also
have a place in the games tomorrow,
competing in oat bag relay race, In
dian club relay race, potato race. char
lot race and dodge ball contest. The
prize events for the boys are as fol-
lows:
Basis of Prize Awards.
There is a long list OF special prizes
to be given to the schools scoring the
most points in the various events. In
order that the smaller schools may
have an even chance against larger
schools the winners are decided on a
percentage basis. The Mayor Hauss-
ling cup will go to the school scoring
the most points in all events. The
James C. Cumberland memorial cup
will he awarded to the school scoring
the most points in the standard events
and this will be the only trophy wnicn
can be won in today's events.
The public school meet started TINS
afternoon at 1:S0 o'clock, and Alder
man John H. Donnelly, who is acting
rnsyor, fired the gun which marked
the inauguration of the meet. Then ne
was whirled away to Hillside Park
where he performed a similar act,
starting off the midgets in the first
heat of the sixty-yard dash, which
started the parochial games there.
The parochial meet is the fourth an
nual renewal of the event. There are
10 be fifteen events and the lads are
divided into midget, Junior and senior
classes.
A feature of the meet will be the
large number of former well-knoWn
athletes who will act as officials. This
list is headed by Bernie Wefers as
referee who, when student at
Georgetown. led the intercollegiate
world on the cinder path, and several
of whose records still grace the record
hook. Others are. John r. O'Hara,
starter: William and Thomas Knowles,
timers; Frank Cadiz and Patrick
White Judges: John j. Gaffney and A.
NJ. Broadhead Fred Seyfarth and B.
NJ Stanley, jr., judges
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