New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-26
Championship Goes
to Manual Training
Brooklyn School Has Strong
Team and Runs Away
with the Hon0rS.
STUYVESANT is SECOND
Lawrence Won Mechow Fur.
nishes Surprise and Breaks
Record for Mile Run, De-
feating Charles Piebes.

feating Charles Piebes.
Manual Training High School of Brook
lyn came into its own after lapse of one
year and swept all before it in the tenth
annual indoor track and field champion
ships of the Public Schools Athletic
League, held yesterday afternoon in the
armory of the 23d Regiment. The Blue
and Gold was worn by strong team,
which rolled up total Of SO points. Stuy-
Sesant. which won the championship last
year. was second with 25 points. and De
Witt Clinton finished in third place with
: points TO its credit The rest of The
hools were strung out. Commercial had
points. Commerce and Morris scored S.
Ttis I, Erasmus Hall 5. and Boys High
hool. of Richmond Hill, and Flushing
re tied with l point each.
lawrence Won Mechow. of Curtis High
hool was the only lad to establish a
; record in the games. He ran to vic
~ in the ono mile run H. minutes and
Z I-5 seconds. which lowered the former
+ ark of 4:47 1-5, established by Frank
y lungs, of Manual Training High School,
in 1905 Derril Trenholm. OF De Witt Gin
t0l High School, clipped a full second off
the mark in the high hurdle. when ne ran
his final heat in Is 2-5 seconds, but the
little fellow unfortunately knocked down
two hurdles in his fight and the old mark,
established in 1911 by Jack Slattery. of
lie Witt Clinton, still stands. Trenholm
won his heat in IS So seconds. and Davy
Crockett also of Clinton. won his heat in
Il Is seconds, but each knocked over a
c. lple of hurdles.
farrell, the junior sprinter Of Stuyves-
ant High School. gave a splendid account
OF himself He won the 22-yard dash
after a hard tussle. Farrell found himself
in a neat little pocket in the first few
yards of the final heat, but he fought his
way clear. and won with something 10
spare. lie ran a good race in the final If
the 100 yard dash. but found his master In
Schulmsn, of Morris. and was forced TO
rest content with second honors.
The victory of Won Mechow came as a
surprise. Charley Piebes, the Commercial
High School flyer. was the popular favor
lite. for only two weeks ago he won a
race in 40 20. Piebes, however. started
in the half-mile run, and was hard
a good. long rest between the races. but
his first effort took the edge off his speed
for the mile run. and the Staten Island
lad. fresh and strong, was able to outrun
him in the final dash for the line. He
won by perhaps twelve yards in rafting
finish.
Twenty-three starters stood on the line
IN row three deep for the long jaunt.
and at the crack OF the gun they went
out pellmell III a rush for position. Per-
haps TWO hundred yards were run before
the leaders settled down into the stride.
and at the first lap Piebes led, swinging
along with a free lope that fairly ate
up the distance. Right at his shoulder was
Veg, the hope of De Witt Clinton, with
Won Mechow and Moriarty next In line.
On the second lap Piebes flashed the dis
tress signal and tried to rub stitch
out of his side He's done" chirped
some Of the lads in the galleries, but
they reckoned without the grit and speed
OF the runner Veg tried him with
rprint, but the Commercial lad ran him
into the ground and Veg let up 10 save
) strength.
me ground at a burning pace. he left all
Won Mechow, Veg and Moriarty far
hind him, struggling along In the rucR'
was on the fifth lap that Won Mecho"
r we'd up. running with an easy, rhythmic
ide. and challenged the leader. For per-
ps thirty yards the pair battled for the
nd. but Won Mechow was strong and
oped out into the lead The Curtis del
cation roared its approval and encour-
; cement
On the bell lap Piebes went ahead again.
cling away from Won Mechow, but IL
rs only fash in the pan, ana Sixty
rds from home the Curtis lad Forged IN
'front.' and, racing away from the heio'
hroke the tape a winner by about M
teen yards In record time.
piebes CAPTURED the half mile in fine
lie. He went right out at the start
d, sprinting as II IL were only nun
ID yard dash carried the bunch along.
te pace, however. told heavily. SLOWLY
speed slackened. and 1t was strength
me that carried the plunging boys
,ng. Piebes held the lead, but ne was
rely challenged by A. Miller. OF Nor
High School, who made his sprint
too late to win better than second
nors, only one or two yards behind the
.tor. Hand. OF Stuyvesant, was thiro.
ID Douglas, OF Clinton, fourth.
Tommy Lennon, the Curtis High School
printer. was painfully injured In the
IN al heat of the 29O-yard dash. Rounding
the second turn ne tripped and fell heaV-
jJy. The rest of the field was forced 10
run wide or leap over the fallen athlete.
Lennon tried 10 rise and walk OF the
track. but fell again. He was picked up
by friends and carried 10 the dressing
room. He was examined by physicians
who said that his right knee was badly
.prained. II is feared that he will not be
able to compete again before the outdoor
ssason.
p. Luce. OF Manual Training High
School was running on the outside OF the
field when Lennon fell. and he was not
blocked in any way. The accident gave
him his chance. lie bounded away and
| opened UP wide gap on the rest Of the
1 runners In the last fifty yards Mike
Charles, also of Manual Training, and
Abe Weinstein, of Commerce. closed with
a rush, but were unable to catch up In
time to win. Charles beat the Commerce
runner by about half yard.
One of the surprises Of the meet was the
cheating of Arthur Goldstein In the quarter
urnile run. A hot fsvorite for first honors.
zt,oldstein was run completely off his feet
ufron, start m finish and just managed to