Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-09
PLATE PRINTERS
GOOD ATHLETES
Day Force Wins Relay From
Night Force in Most Ex-
citing Struggle.
TORNEY SPRINGS A
SURPRISE IN 100 YARDS
McVey and Rathbone Capture
Events in Impressive Style.
Annual Outing a Success.

The Washington Plate Printers Union
held its annual outing yesterday, more
than 1900 people journeying to Marshall
Hall to the scene of the festivities. Not
in the history of the association has
any event of the kind surpassed that
which came off yesterday from any
standpoint. Every youngster in knicker-
bockers to the oldest member of the
union seemed willing to vote the trip
to be the most successful that has ever
been promoted in the interest of the as
ISOLATION.
From an athletic standpoint the outing
was the best that has ever been known
in the history of such affairs in this
section. 4 goodly number of entries
competed in every event, and in all the
competition was exceptionally good.
There was scarcely single contest In
which the finish not close and eX-
citing. While none of the runners SEEM
ed TO be especially in training for the
events, there was not any quitting on the
part of any one, and they stuck TO their
races in manner which Is deserving or
a great deal of cridit.
Many men were brought out for the
different events who IL trained under q
competent coach would undoubtedly
turn out TO be excellent performers on
the cinder path. One man especially dis
by winning the event from one of the
fastest men in the District Babe" Tor
ney is the new star who has arisen on
the athletic armament. and If he sticks
to sprinting will undoubtedly class with
the best of them in the coming meets.
Although Mahoney won his heat in such
easy fashion that the final appeared to
be his without doubt. Torney went in
and heat the fremont Splinter by cou-
pie of yards There was no fuke about
the victory at all. as Torney simply
showed much greater speed than one
would ever expect to see under such
circumstances. McNey. Honey and Batch
were others who did well.
Relay the Feature.
The feature event of the day was the
relay race between the night and day
forces at the bureau of ngraving and
printing. The event was SO closely con-
tested that ii was impossible to determine
the winner until the two men who ran
the last two relays had crossed the finish
line The two men who started the first
two relays ran nip and tuck till the
finish, and managed TO start the second
relays so close together that there was
nothing gained by either. On the third
relay Batch, who ran for the day force,
ope ned up a gap Of about ten yards for
his team. The last relay was run be-
tween Mahoney and Torney. Torney had
beaten Mahoney handily in the hundred
yard dash, and there were few who
thought that the fremont boy had amy
chance to catch Torney, but he started
out and ran one of the best races OF the
day. While he did not pass the man in
front of him, there is not particle of
doubt that he would have done so had
there been ten yards more to cover When
the two runners crossed the finish line
they were separated by not more than a
foot.
Of h
bone and McVey were noteworthy. Rath-
hone won the quarter mile from "a good
field in fairly easy fashion Lying be-
hind the pace for the first $50 yards. he
then started his sprint and won by a
good margin. He would also have won
the bag race had il not been for the
fact that he thought some one was pross-
ing him close. and started to 20 faster
than was safe. As result he took
big tumble and lost out within two yards
of the finish. when he was leading by
more than FIVE yards. McNey won the
Northumberland da Sh and captured first
in the bag race.
The first event on the program was the
fifty-yard DASH open to members sons
who were under twelve years of age. In
this contest George BOrst took the lead
at the start and won in rather easy
fashion. Graham Quesada was second
and Albert Watt was third
The second event was for the members
daughters who were under ten years OF
age Little Dorothy Reeder won the race
ca silly, outclassing as sprinter each Of
her rivals in the event. Florence Rich
was second and Myrtle Evans third.
Ladies' Event a Feature.
In the event for the ladies employed at
the bureau of printing and engraving 1t
looked as though there would ne no
entries, but after much persuasion six
young ladies were gotten on the track at
the start of the sxty yards. which they
were to cover. 1t was close race all
right, and was not decided until the last
three feet Miss Gertrude Kelly took
the lead on the start and he Id IL until
about three feet from the finish, where
she was passed by Miss Pauline McFay,
who had been running her close all the
way Miss Mamie Twiford was a good
third. 1t was one Of the banner events
of the day.
In the 22it-yard dash, Honey led until
the last turn. where he lost great deal
of ground and was passed by McVey, who
won the race with about eight yards to
spare E. F. Dwyer was a close third.
In the finals of the sack race Rath-
bone should have been an easy victor, but
lost out by misjudging his distance and
In the auarter-mil run Rathbone was
an easy winner with H Boyd second
and E. F. Dwyer third.
In the seyenty-yard dash for members
sons under sixteen years of age II. Har-
ris had a walkaway. winning the event
by ten yards over his competitors Il.
Rich was second and Wallace Kirby was
third.
The meet in general was undoubtedly
one of the best-managed affairs of the
kind that has ever been witnessed in
this locality Every official SCENE TO
know just. what he was TO do ana ne
did it without the slightest hesitation.
There was no crowding on the track and
not a single Objectionable feature TO the
way the events were run off. Mr.. Beach
did some of the best work In starting
the men that has been seen on the local
tracks at any time. There were many
attempted steals. but not In single In
stance was a man successful in getting
away before the gun was fired. The Of
fcials OF the union, the men who had the
athletic stunts In charge. and those who
had the general management of the az
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