New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12
TRIUMPH FOR LAGGREN
Wins AII-Around IntersChoIaStiC
Championship.
HARMON A CLOSE SECOND
Pingry School Boy Pressed to
Limit in Erasmus In
door Games.

| V. II. Laggren, of the Pingry School, of
New Jersey, won the all-around inter-
| scholastic championship at the annual
indoor games of the Erasmus Hall Ath-
| Ietic Association, held in the 18th Regi-
ment Armory Brooklyn, last night. The
| Amateur Athletic Union method OF scor
irg, of for first > for second and for
third. gave Laggren total of points for
/ the title.
George Harmon. the football hero Of
Manual Training High School, was second
with 10 points; Victor Cantor, of Eras-
mus Hall High School. was third. with
Is points. and Arthur Dougherty, of Man
! haitian College Preparatory School, the
only other competitor, was fourth, with
| IS points.
' The championship competition. which
was made up of five events, proved y Sc
we're test for the entrants. Laggren began
| his task by winning the O-yard dash, the
220-yard low hurdle race. the 12-pound
shot and being second in both the half
mile run and the running high jump. His
most stubborn opponent was the Manual
/ student. who was runner'up TO laggren
| in the three races. while Harmon defeat
ed Laggren in the high Jump. but again
! had to trail the Pingry boy when he was
third in the half-mile run.
| Dougherty, who finished fourth in the
| first three events and third in the high
jump, clearly outclassed the field in the
| half-mile run, which concluded the pen
| tathlOn He won with many yards 10
| spare In the fast time Of minutes s 80
| seconds.
Laggren showed up well as Splinter,
taking the seventy-yard dash in i'm
pressive fashion and also the 220-yard low
hurdle race. in both contests Harmon
was always at Laggren's shoulder and
! the latter's margin of victory was always
close The Pingry scholar had another
narrow escape in the twelve-pound shot
put. when he defeated Harmon by / 2-S
inches Laggren's winning effort was 81
| feet 31s inches.
| The relay team of Central High School
! of Newark, snatched victory from the
! De Witt Clinton High School in the last
dozen yards Of the one-mile relay race.
| Six teams entered the competition, but
/ the fight was between runners from Gin
ton. Erasmus Hall ana Central.
| Charles Piebes, OF Commercial High
School, won d gruelling race in the one
! mile run. Piebes forced the pace, and on
"A continued sprint throughout the last lap
he succeeded i'm breaking the tape with
| "A ive-yard advantage
The 44O-yard run for the regiment cham
pionship was won by Harry Usher, Of
Company Il, by yard from A. Neil, of
the same company.
The summaries follow:
ALL AROUND CHAMPIONSHIP.
seventy-yard dash-Won by V. IL; l-asgren.
pingry school; c. Harmon. Manual Training
| II. s. second: " Cantor. Erasmus Hall III, s.,
third; A. Dougherty. Manhattan Prep School,
fourth.
greu. Pingry School; c. Harmon, Manual
| Training, second V. Cantor, Erasmus han,
third; A. Dougherty, Manhattan. fourth. Time
$50 2-5
Putting l2-pound shot-won by V. II. Lag
gren, Pingry. with IS feet 80 inches; @: Har-
mons Manual Training with 3 feet 70 ineh 9eei
l0h inches, third. A. Dougherty, Manhattan
with 80 feet inch. fourth.
Running high jump-Won by @. Harmon
Manual Training. with feet inches; V. H.
Laggren Pingry with feet, second; ~
Dougherty' Manhattan, with feet II inch 1es;
inches. fourth.
SSO-yard run-Won by a. Dougherty. Man
haitian Prep; Y. IL. Laggren, Pingry. second
mus Hall. fourth. Time. 2:0S 3-5
The summaries follow
OPEN EVENTS.
One-mie run (open)-Won By Charles Piebes.
Commercial: NJ. Thompson, Poly Prep, second
J. Meyer, Central II. s., Newark, third. Time
| 4:40 %.
One-mile relay lopen,-Won by Central H.
s. Newark !Meyer, Daer. Rubin and Lagayp 1;
De witt clinton Monroe, Moore. Veg and
| Trenholm. second. Erasmus Hall III. tstocK'
Matthews, Fischman and Kepharo. third'
! Time. 3:44 4-5 az,
Seventy-hve-yard dash Juniors: open)-Won
by w Farrell stuyvesant II. 8; c. opposite;
! Central H. S. second T. shannon, Manual
Training, third. Time. 0:0s 3-5.
| Seventy -fye-yard dash seniors: openl-Won
by b. Levnson. Eastern District IA. s.; w.
| Bartsch, jersey city II. s.. second j. White
stuyvesant H. s.. third Time, o;0; yon nv
II Usher Company r; A. Nell Company r.,
second: l. J. Lowell. Company A. third Time
O:57 ,,,., W., ~. TT
| ts1dcri ~ vards): r. Halstesd 90 YARDS, sec
/ ond. g. Rome % yards) third. Time, Do 3-5
| ss6-yard run (novice; open)-Won by r.
| Knight, Poly Prep: X. Burnhain. roy riep'
second; r. James comnefcAi' 'n'rd' i""e'
sSo, YARD run (cIosed: hsndieapl-Won by c.
! Tornkins 40 yards: j. Olsen tlG YARDS sec
ond; w Fischofer 40 yardsl third Ims ha III
can,@Won By w. Lndwall and r Bjorkman'
| Companv T. 2f-3 seconds) {: Clark ana -
! Hawkins Company + scratch second, w
Clauss and G. Hogan, Company " secoh's''
u" pnt,,ne i2.pmnd shot-won by y. spense,
| poly prem with As feet III inches: - rloies
Flushing H. S.. with 10 feet incnes, secon1
j. Farber, stuyyesant II. 81 WIN % iee' !"