The Washington herald., 1913-01-05
Y. N. {. A. WINTER
SCHEDULE IS OUT
Forty Men to Participate in
Sports, Beginning on
Wednesday.
FOUR TEAMS COMPETE
Many Records Expected to Be Broken
When Athletes Get
Busy.
FOUR TEAMS COMPETE

The winter schedule OF weekly gym
nastic and indoor sports contests among
the Y. NJ. c. A. athletic teams was an
nounced yesterday. The series. in which
four teams. aggregating about forty
men, will compete. starts next wednes-
day night and continues until March Is.
The contests are as follows:
January s-2spyard dash. hop. step and jump;
running high jump.
January 5-Three standing hops hitch and kick.
i0-yart potato race.
January 22-Three standing broad tumps stretch
kck. l4-yard potato racP.
January 2-fsoyard dash springbozrd high Jump
pushing up I2-pound shot.
February 5-ZIyard dash. standing broad jump,
standing high jump
February R-S-ya-d dash, three standing broad
Jumps. rope climb.
February ls-ss-yard dash shot put. fence vault
February ar2aynd dash. hop step. and jump,
running high jump.
March s-lo-yard potato rac.. three broad Jumps
stretch kick.
March l2-ThTes standing hogs. hi;eh. and kck
l9-yard potato nce.
March I-4O-yard dAsb, sprnsboSrt high Jump
pushing up l2pound shot
March 5-5yard dash, standing broad jump
standingshigh Jump.
In the first series OF contests. which
ran weekly from October IS to December
II. there were forty-four competitors.
Lassley winning first place. Linden sec
ond. and Elder third.
The high athletes in the first series
are debarred from taking top places in
the second. even II they win them.
though the scores made will count to-
ward the grand total of points for the
years work. The contestant getting the
highest number of points in both con-
tests will be accredited as the seasons
gymnastic champion and will receive a
FIRST prize of Y. NJ. g A. shield. in
scribed with the winners name in bronze
lettering and bearing the Y. II. c. A
insignia in bronze on a background OF
Flemish oak
The second and third prizes consist OF
silver and bronze watch fobs. respec-
lively.
High place in the coming series Of Y
NJ. c. A athletic contests. IL is conf
IDENTIFY predicted. will go to Allan L.
Thompson. the grand old man Of ath-
letics. who already holds three Y. NJ C.
A. gymnasium records in addition to be
ing last seasons champion. Thompson is
regarded as the best all-arOund athlete
in the Y. NJ c. A. gymnasium. His
specially is fence vaulting. in which he
established the record last season of
feet 10 inches. In the same series Of
contests, a year ago. Thompson hung up
another high mark that no one has since
touched. when he put up the l2-pound
shot SO times. The season before he
did the ls-foot rope climb in : Us seconds.
which is another record. Had Thomp-
son entered the first series Of gym con-
tests this season. he undoubtedly would
have brought home the bacon.
Another record which is to be estah-
lished in the coming series OF contests Is
the shot-put. The present gym record
of Is feet 4 inches. established by Thomas
Sheridan in 1908, is regarded by the ply
steal directors of the Y. NJ. c. a. as
being low, and they say that another
newcomer to the contests, Crabtree
gives every promise OF breaking it. All
Of the coming contests will be open TO
the public free.