New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01
COMMERCE HIGH
SWEEPS THE FIELD
Rolls Up as Points in Annual
Championships of P. S.
Athletic League.
NEGRO SPLINTER A STAR
Sets New Record for Meet in
220 Yards and Equals
Former Mark for the
100 Yards.


merce held a field day OF their own ia
winning the point trophy by an over
whelmng advantage. In the annual high
school track and field championships ~
the Public Schools. Athletic League, held
on Brooklyn Field I'm Flatbush. yester-
day. IL was the first victory scored by
the West 66th street school I'm eight years,
and with FIVE frsts. five seconds. two
thirds and a fourth place TO their credit.
it romped away with the trophy with %
points. Morris High School, Of Tine
Bronx, and Manual Training High School.
Of Brooklyn, were tied for second place
with 10 points each. Bryant High
School of Long Island City, was fourth
with 10 points. with Curtis High School,
of Staten Island, fifth. only a point be-
hind. Six other schools also shared in
the point tabulation.
John Bonaparte. a negro, Of the Morris
High School. of The Bronx, sprinted I'm
whrlwnd fashion, taking the 22O-yard
straightaway dash by two yards in the
newly established time OF 81 1-5 seconds.
This erased by three-fifths Of a second,
the former mark, held by Frank Temp
which had withstood assault for eight
years. Thomas +. Lennon, Of Curtis
High School, was second.
Bonaparte also accounted for the time OF
10 % seconds i'm the l0O-yard senior dash,
which equalled the record The neGro
proved stronger al this distance, winning
by almost five yards as he pleased. The
mark was made In 1907 by a. b. Cozzens,
of Manual Training. who is now attend
ing Cornell University.
Edward Carroll, a one-arned youth Of
the Bryant High School. shared honors
with Bonaparte by taking two victories.
He took the broad jump with a splendid
leap of 20 feet II inch. He made a rec
ord jump OF more than - feet, but un-
fortunately fouled the take-off by a few
inches. Carroll competed in the 22o-yard
low hurdles for the first time, and won by
scant yard from Henry Monroe, of De
witt Clinton, i'm y So seconds. George
Hartman. the Manual Training pitcher,
( was leading by some fve yards three hur-
dies from home, but took header over
an obstacle, which killed any chance for
I prize.
, Mike Finn, OF the High Schoo! of COM
merce, who captured the 100 and go yard
| junior dashes in the novice games last
/ week won the lvO-yard again in 10 3-5 sec
! onds and took the 220-yard by four yards
from Ernest Herberg, a schoolmate, in q
! seconds:
David Rosenberg. another Commerce
student, who took the l2-pound shot-put
event in the postponed novice field games
in the morning, also took first honors in
the championship event, putting the ball
I A feet l inch.
| The haf-mile run was one Of the hard
est fought races of the afternoon. Allison
| Miller, Of Morris High School after
thrilling sprint from the first turn for
home, won by five yards. Arthur Husen-
bach, of Manual Training High School.
came on with a great squirt IN the last
nifty yards TO nose out by inches William
Monahan, OF Curtis High School. The lat
ter took the one-mile run, when he
Jumped Frank Jenkins, of Far Rockaway
| High School, who led practically through
out, until the last 100 yards.
The summaries follow:
TRACK EVENTS.
44O-vard relay race QOo-pound classl-Wo1
| By Morris High (Zettler. Lifkowitz Rothscnild
and siegeD: High school Of Commesrce ~
second; curtis High III. Lowell; / Began W.
Kehoe ana a. NidaD. third: Manual arainins
High ,R. Gray. Jones. LacoX and La"reHee)'
one mile Iun--Won by " Monahan. Curtis;
Jenkins Far RS :Si.t N SeS9aa Rich
mond HILL fourth. Time. 4io 80 ,
iOO-yaTd dash Oun.or)-Won by 81. Finn.
H ign school OF Commerce Z. Herosrs,c aga
third. J. \ oRourAe. Commercial fouFn'
i0o,yard dssh (s.nior)-won by J. Bonsparts.
| Morris; T. Feuerstein Manual Training sec
| ond T. F. Lennon. Curtis. th!ra: A. Vein
stein. High School OF Commerce. fourth. Time
sso-yard relay race l2o-pourd class)-won
/ By Curtis III. Starkey, c. Leunan. {. Becker
and L. Midruml; High school o. Com mn Nc
Levinsonl, second; Manual Training q Mar
tin. Horn. King and J. Gilson). third: Erasmus
Hall burr, Eldert. Wheeler and 8 SAensl'
sso-yard run-Won " A. Miller, Curtis; 4.
Hulsenbach. Manual Training. ,, second: W.
merclal. fourth. Time; 2:0i S-5.
l2O-yard high hurdles-Won by n Cam
High School Of Commerce; w walsh Com
ton. third Z. Finberg De Witt clinton
fourth. Time OILS ID.
| o2O-yard low hurdles-Won By Ed Car
| roll Bryant: II. Monroe. De Witt Clinton
second; F.. Finbers. De witt Clinton thirc'
| Time, OFT SO. $500,
Won by Boys High with F. Llttaner, T.
| Rothschlld L. Zychlinsk and o. WaH:f'
! ir): De Witt Clinton with @. Bracken. n.
! Ripor. p stevens and n. Spiro), second
| Erasmus Hall with Dougherty Chiffon.
! Tomklrs and Burr, third; High School or
| Commerce with C. Krausse, II. Henryson'
c. Lajotte and spotsey), fourth. Time
| 3:47 3-5. =, ,,
| High School OF Commerce; E. kerberg. High
| school OF Commerce. second; J. A o Ronrkr.
a aiph' fourth. Time, o:24
| 2oO-yard run (senior)-Won by John Bona
| parte, Morris: T. F. Lennon, Curtis, second
| A Reed Manual Training. third z. Fenei-
! stein Manual Training. fourth IlIhs'
| n 90 I z New record; old record. O;22 30.
4l0-yard rtn--Won by A. Goldstein Mahua1
| Training; Finley, Morris. second; ). hAt,'
| Manual Training third; J. Gillies' bush"loA'
fourth. Time, O:d
| FIELD EVENTS.
| Throwing the discus-won By c. Arrnstrone'
| Flushing with l2s feet 10 inches, {. Flores
| Finishing. with IA feet 2 inches. se,ond, z.
| Genoyese BRYANT, with i07 feet. third; "
| Greene Far Rockawsy, with 100 feet inches
| fourth. -, Call
| School OF Commerce. with 10 feet lnches'
second n Cam. High School OF Commerce'
with 10 feet sis inches. third c. Cantor Efas-
mus Hall with 10 feet inches, fourth.
| Running high jump--Won by n. WaIaee.
High school OF Commerce. with feet I inches,
| p Hart Bryant with feet inches. second
! e quinn. High School OF Commerce WIN
/ CsAN lar