The Washington times., 1913-05-29
Students to Honor Athlete Who
Won Inter- High School Meet
For Their School.
WAS FIRST IN EVERY ENTRY
Brewer Is Second Individual
Winner, Being CentraI's
! Worst Enemy.
By BRYAN MORSE.

By BRYAN MORSE.
Edmund Jones, Western High School
track captain, will receive silver low
ing cup from the students Of the
Georgetown institution for his work In
the seventeenth renewal Of the annual
interhigh school field and track cham
pionships, which was won at Satterlee
Field yesterday for the first time In the
history Of the high schools by Western.
subscription will be started today.
and the boys backing the movement
say that Jones will be given a remem.
brance that VIII surpass anything be-
fore given at Western. The fact that
Western won over Central is all that
concerns the Red and White adEerents.
and while the points scored were 4sis to
the 30 for the Blue and White, with
Tech trailing for is. Western is jubilsnt
over the fact that history was made
in defeating Central after seventeen
long years Of struggling against almost
overwhelming odds.
Jones was first in every event enter
ca anu F" C6lcTh lOhoWcTS VIII udNc
past performances at their finger tips
declare Jones the best track man ever
developed at Western. Certain it Is
that he approximated the performances
OF the late Paul Cook. who in 1904 won
the 100. 20, and the broad jump. In
addition to winning these events in
better time than Cook was able to co,
Jones ran what is considered the great
est race seen in the high schools when
he conceded DoIner. the Central anchor
man. something over forty yards In the
relay and won the event for MS school
In something Ike fifty-one seconds for
his portion of the mile.
Brewer. Westerns freshman. ably
seconded Jones. for IT was due to
Brewer that Centrals back was broken
in the 21o-yard hurdles when Oyster
was defeated, paving the way for three
places for the Red and White After
the hurdles It was merely question
Of .'how much" for the Red and White
athletes.
Western has once before defeated
Central for the first time In historJ
In 1904. when Kortright Church was
captain of the football team, Central
was defeated by to 5. In footoah
game at Georgetown Field. Yesterday
track victory was the second time tnat
Western has been able to break Cen
traits wonderful string Of victories.
Brewer and Jones for Western. scored
between them twenty-three points. not
counting the five points which they
helped to contribute in the win or tne
WQ mt INTENDED
10 win in. any of the heats In the. nun.
dred or furionS, nor was he approacheo
in the broad jump, he was fully equal
TO the test in the relay. and In the su.
preme moment came through WIN
wonderful burst OF speed.
Fortier, of Tech. in the half mile, de-
feated Scott. of Central, in as pretty
and heady a bit of running as the meet
produced. Fortier was more than game.
race. nosing out the Central man In q
burst of speed.
Rankin. Tech star high jumper. was
OF color, failing to make better than
five feet. while "Beany Leecn surprised
the bar at five feet two inches Brad.
lev. the Western jumper. also failed al
Ave feet, but later managed to nose
out the others in the jump on.
Bin Foley, Centrars veteran coach.
appeared to have things pretty much his
avn way up to the relay. Rose, West
ern's relay man, was competing In the
mole vault, and Foley maintaining that
Western was stalling TO rest up Jones
And brewer endeavored to run on the
reiay. I'D to the time Jones took up
the running Central had the race well
IN hand as Stearns. who "Piedmonted
his way home, was forty yards In the
rear. After the relay Foley retired
sornewhat discomfited-
Galloway, CentraPs star miller. ran a
rresf race as did Oberlin. the rangy
kasebaii player. Galloway allowed
Snann. of Tech, to take the pace for
three Quarters and then went through
10 the finish in a great burst OF speed.
although Oberiin gained IT through for
q good second.
Against the greatest handicap the
hiRi1 school faculty advisers ran the
meet. weather conditions were not Of
the best and had not allowed the oni-
cials to get the field into CONDITION.
Robert Maurer, CentraPs faculty advis-
er. worked like a trojan all afternoon
and rot the meet OF in great shape.
The BOYS handled themselves well ana
while the field was crowded, spectators
crowding at the finish and around the
men In the field events. there were no
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