The Bryan eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1880-1913, 1911-05-18
UP TO ALLEN ACADEMY
TO DEFEND HER CLAIMS
Comparison Of Records Give Marshall
the Title, According to San
Antonio Express.

len Academy OF Bryan is claiming
academic track honors in Texas. On
lust what grounds they base their
claim, say most Texas experts, II is
rather difficult to imagine. Allen can
not base II on the mere winning Of the
recent academic meet al Collese Sta
ton. in which only three other weak
academic teams were entered and in
which the records were exceedingly
poor.
A comparison of the team record OF
this school with that Of Marshall
Training School shows most conclu-
sively that the title righ,fully belongs
to the local lads and not to the self
styled champions" from the Brazos
valley
In the first place, Marshall has en-
tered and won by Overwhelming scores
three state meets, the San Antonio
fair meet, the Fort Worth meet and
the state interscholastic at Austin In
every instance the local lads more
than doubled the score Of their near
est councillors. In the Fort Worth
meet Marshall defeated a field OF fiji
teen schools, including Allen Academy
Marshall scored A points in this
meet. Allen scored only ., being fifth
in the meet. In this meet the Mar
shall captain alone scored more than
four times as many points as the en-
tire Allen team, while, including Coin,
three Marshall men individually scored
as many or more points than Allen
Academy.
Allen Academy has participated in
only two meets this season. In the
first one. the Fort Worth meet, she
finished fifth, as has been previously
stated, scoring points to MARSHALL S
"A. The second meet, the College Sta
ton meet. she won, but the records
were far inferior to the records made
in the Austin meet where Marshall
defeated a stronger field by a more
overwhelming score than Aliens total
at College Station.
The following table shows most con-
clusively the relative strength of these
two teams:
Comparative Records.
5O-yard dash: College Station, > 80
seconds; Austin, 3 So seconds.
1OO-yard dash: College Station,
1925 seconds; Austin, 1915 seconds.
12Oyard hurdles: College Station,
II seconds; Austin, Is seconds.
22O-yard dash: College Station,
223-5 seconds; Austin, 20 2-5 seconds.
44O-yard run College Station, So 2-5
seconds; Austin, "a 2-5 seconds.
SSO.yard rum College Station, 2
minutes and II seconds; Austin, 2
minutes and 10 seconds.
One-mile run: College Station, 6
minutes and 40 seconds; Austin, 5
minutes and % 1-5 seconds
Shot-put: College Station, AZ feet s
inches; Austin, 46 feet II 1-2 inches.
Hammer throw: College Station,
1875 feet; Austin, 1853 feet inches.
Discus throw: College Station, so
feet 4 1-2 inches; Austin, 100 feet l
inch.
High jump: College Station, feet
incehs; Austin, 5 feet inches.
Broad jump: College Station, 10
feet inches; Austin, 20 feet inches.
Relay: College Station, 4 minutes
and 6 seconds; Austin, minutes and
50 seconds.
From this it will be seen that ten
of the records made at Austin were
better than thoes made at College Sta
ton; one was the same while only
two of the College Station records
were better One of these was the
22O-yard dash, which at College Sta
ton was run on straight track, but
at Austin was run on curve.
Field Events Also Better.
The field events show the class Of
the winning team at Austin no less
than the track events. Every field
event record at Austin but one was
better than the corresponding events
at College Station.
The weight events in particular
show the superiority of the San An
tonic lads over the Allen team. Both
Marshall and Allen made clean-ups in
the weight events in their respective
meets, but the performance of the
local athletes made those of their
rivals look puny.
In the hammer throw the Marshall
man who won the event tossed the
missile 1913 feet inches, or just 2S
feet IL inches farther than the Allen
man, while the Marshall man who took
third place bettered the winning per-
Torrance at College Station just. 10
feet inch.
In the discus throw the Marshall
husky won with a throw of 100 feet l
inch, just 10 feet 91-2 inches better
than that of the rival Allen man.