New-York tribune., 1912-01-07
MANUAL TEAM IN FRONT
Wins Football Relay Race After
Keen and Bitter Struggle.
BOYS PACK THE ARMORY
Much Interest in Struggle for
Interteam Honors, as IL
Proves Novelty.

Taking the lead in the last lap and main
| tanning a scant advantage 10 the enn oy
brilliant sprint, Harmon. the left haitoacs
Of the 1911 football team, Manual ITalh'ns
High School. captured the interscholashC
football relay race at the fourth annua
| indoor track and field meet or MahuaI
Training High School, In the armory oi
the 14th Regiment last night. the nee'
| footed wearers of the Blue and Colo
crossed the tape three yards In front OF the
hovs Of ST. Psurs School. Of Garden City'
Erasmus Hall High School was third
AdeInhI. Boys High. "Poy Prep Bush
wick and the Townsend Harris soCCer 'eaI'
strung along in the ruck.
The meet was attended with ita usual
brilliant success Two thousand snthusl-
astic school boys and girls, and perhaps
more. cheered the competing athietes OF
to greater effort. thrilling with elatlon as
q fsvorite crossed the line in the van. or
Offering coincidence when their frenhS
were beaten The races were close ana
the strong showing made by the boys OF
the lower classes may he taken as an
aupury that Manual is well off for good
men The armory was decorated WIN the
school colors, and the boxes were well
filled
Arthur Goldstein. the onetime CONNER
claI High School runner, showed his hee'S
to a likely looking field in the fO-yard run
ard won by y comfortable margin IN %
seconds. f. Heitman. first year man.
showed we'll I'm the race. and fniShed III
third place from the l0-yard mark.
While all the races were close, the IN
torest of the crowd centred around tho
football relay race, and cheer rose from
the crowd as the runners toed the mark.
AT the bark OF the gun Rodgers, the left
end of the St. Paul team, lcaped out in the
lead. and running with long, free stride
carried his field along at a burning CLIP.
The Manual boys were silent, for Gar
guilio was back in the ruck, and I'm a
pocket on the turn, however, he shooK
himself out and Eddie Collins, the second
relay of ST. Pauls, had only rev yards
on Seaver. OF Manual. The rival quarter
backs fought 1t out on almost even TERMS
Seaver straIning every nerve to make up
the lost ground, while Collins fought to
the last ditch 10 hold the lead.
The armory rocked with the cheers Of the
crowd as Chalmers. the halfback, and Essel-
styn went out on the third lap, Chalmers IN
the van. The race narrowed 10 struggle
for honors between Manual and the Garden
CITY team, and a battle royal II was. Rae
ing along at a furious pace, Chalmers held
the lead for half a lap, but Esselstyn ran
on the wings OF the wind, and as they
rounded into the stretch he jumped out and
nipped Chalmers ten yards from the tape.
4 ward I'm the lead. Harmon took up the
burden, and while his schoolmates cheered
themselves into a frenzy he slowly but
surely widened the gap. GoldthWalte set
out On the stern chase. but although he ran
samelv and we'll the Manual boy was too
fleet for him and breasted the tape three
yards in the lead.
A pleasing novelty was added to the meet
in the interteam relay race. Ten teams
faced the gun. representing every branch
Of athletic activity in which the school
completes All the boys ran in costume. The
football warriors, who won from the the 90
yard mark, were arrayed in the ftoleskins
and padded jerseys, the cleated shoes alone
being missing. So with the baseball, hook
ey and other teams. Each carried some i'm
plement used in the sport. The football
stick, the baseball boys a bat, while the
rife team came within the pale Of the
rules by toting an air rife around the
track. The lacrosse team was second and
the cross country team third The track
team which ran from the post Of honor,
was unable to make up the handicap and
finished far back
The summaries follow:
one mile run-Won by II. Hattor 90 Yards
J. Veverito 100 yards. second g. J. North 80
yards', third: H. Manson 200 Yards, fourth
ITO ward dash Evening Technical and Trade,
Won 10y W Mann John Allen. second; Peter
Grimm. third Time" O.l3 %.
SsO-yard championship interscholastic football
relay rsce-Won by Manual Training tGarguliol
Seuver Esselstyu and Harmon; 81. PaJls
| school Rodgers Collins Chalmers and Gold
thwairej. second. Hasmus Hall High school
football team .No.mer Roth Brush and KEEP
seventy-vard high hurdles Chandicap,--Von by
G Kean (scrstchl J. Bowman 'scratch1' second
40 yard run--Won by \. Goldstein - yardsl;
! r Harper % yardsI. second. +. Huffman tO
yards,. third. Time. 0:57 ).
l.O0D-N NaId rIr thandi"ap; open n members ot
I4th RegimeuU-Wou D., VI. Gaffney Cscratch).
Tengwall Cscratch,. second. Gutenberg ,Go yards''
aeyenty y.yari dash ,opou to members OF tn.
lith Regiment Won by !. Won Hagen a.
,ards. / Lowell scratch second r. Lind"aiI
10 NdrdSD thllh lln'. 'Vt -
Scven'y.yard dash Uuniorl-Won hy F. M
gent IS teat, ". Dolan 10 teet. second J.
Kngrok Is reen, third. Time. 0:oS|.
seventy. ward senior-Won by !. Hart - feet
4 Reed - fcet second. j. Rummell ,scratch).
third Time. o0SiS.
ssO-yard run Won ny A Heulsenbeck 90
vardSD: Charles Mount (5 yarisl. second; W. Nor
, SsckeIen 40 yards third Time zoo.
Putting twelve pound shot-Won nv c. Halm-
burg oscratch). with put or 30 feet - inches
VI ManstrQm q feet inchesl. second with IS
feet inrhes Z Wheeler - feet inchesb
third. with 3s feet sis inches
Running high jump--Won b. T. Whitney 4
inchesl. height 5 feet 3ig inches e. Hean q
! ln"hes). second with leap of feet 3 inches
Sunderlin Il incm. third, with jump of
feet inches
800 yard dash C'Ey Manuel the Race -Wor
nv r Jordan 10 ,ards. W Kirhhy rs Yards
second Van Blst 10 variN. third Time, o2i
10 yard dosh WidZ"D- Won by r Kennedy
! - yardsI, T.. fouarst-m fSCratchI. second. g
Fine e" yards thud Time. o:12 IS
22O- ward dash iseuion Won nv =. Holmbers
CsCratch) z Iohr 6 yards,. second r HarVel
~ yards). third Time. OPS as
Intertram relay-Non bv football team l0C
yardsI. GRAY. Soaver Quinn and Hart. Lacrosse
team oS5 Yards. kean, Kent North and Good
gross countrv RS NsrGsN Mount. Hu'en Huffman
aud Tisenstadt third Tio". . 8"
DARTM0UTH'S FIVE SPEEDY