Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-14
SUSSEX AVE. GIRLS !
| WIN SCHOOL GAMES.
It's Now Up to Boy Pupils to
Add to Point
Total.
FOURTEENTH AVENUE
TAKES SECOND PLACE
Chief Interest Centres About
Evening Stars Handsome
Trophy for Point-Winner.

The Sussex Avenue School girls.
with percentage of 594, won the
silver loving-cup donated by ]. L.
Terwilliger, principal of the Four
teenth Avenue School, emblematic to
high total point honors, at the first
half of the tenth annual field day
held under the auspices of the New
4rk Public School Athletic Associa-
Ton at the new athletic field, in
Bloomfield avenue, yesterday after
room.
Four other silver trophies. similar
80 the one awarded to Sussex, were
awarded. Fourteenth Avenue Schools
representatives finished second in the
noint table, with percentage of .572.
They also captured the silver cup
donated by George W. Knight, super
vising engineer or the Board OF Edu-
cation, as a result of their victory in
he oatbag relay race.
South Eighth Street School carried
home two silver cups. winning the
Indian club relay race and the 440-
YARD relay event. DR.. George j.
Holmes, supervisor of medical in
#fection, Board of Education, and
d X. Sexton, assistant superinten-
Hent of schools, were the respective
donors.
Madison Avenue School girls, who
we're third in the point competition
With a mark of 1893, won the potato
race, and were awarded silver cup,
Honated by the Franklin School
8Iumni Association.
Webster Street School was fourth,
with percentage of 1850. Morton was
fifth with percentage of .344. Frank"
I'M which was looked upon as a pos
sible contender for first honors, was
sixth, having a mark Of 1907. Arthur
6 Balcom's lads are confident of win
ning the entire meet, however, and
VII endeavGr to make up their lost
zround in the boys events, which
are down for decision at the same
Held this afternoon.
Many of the officials of the meet
said yesterday that the Park Avenue
School stands good change OF VIM
5 ming the handsome silver loving-cup
donated by the Evening Star for the
school scoring the most first places in
the prize events for both boys and
girls.
Sussex Avenue. South Eighth
Street, Fourteenth Avenue, Madison
3 Avenue and Bergen Street schools
are also in the funning for the trophy,
Judging from the performances OF the
girl pupils in the prize events yes
terday.
Sussex Avenues victorious team
Sscored heavily in the standard events,
although also making fair showing
In the prize contests. South Eighth
Street tailed her twenty points in
the prize events. She failed to score
a single point in the standards.
Fourteenth Avenue had first and
second in the prize competition,
while Madison was content with a
I first, third and fourth place.
OF the thirty-seven schools which
were represented in the meet all but
( one, Fifteenth Avenue, scored one or
4 more points But seven schools were
able to come through with points in
4 the prize events, while all but. two
Z schools, Fifteenth Avenue and South
Eighth, tailed in the standards.
The oatbag relay race, the first
prize event, started shortly after 1870
{ clock, or Immediately after the ar
rival of Mayor Jacob Haussling. who
fired the first shot. s...
Fourteenth Avenues team won it's
trial heat in easy fashion, but had
trouble in taking the final. A protest
& was lodged by the Madison Avenue
s School team, which claimed that a
Sussex Avenue girl touched the pole,
causing deliberate foul. The judges.
3 however, ruled that the winners
d should stand as picked. Sussex was
awarded second place, Madison third
and Seventh Avenue fourth.
South Eighth Street School girls
captured the 44O-yard relay race by
fully five yards over their rivals from
Fourteenth Avenue, who were second.
Sussex finished third, with Madison
Avenue close fourth, South Eighth
won the Indian club relay a few
minutes later, with Bergen, Morton
and Sussex following in the order
named.
There was trouble after the final of
the potato relay race. Madison won
the event, with Morton second, but
1t took Mr.. Randall Worden, physical
Instructor of the Newark public
schools, who, by the way, did not
even see the race. to pick the third
team. Guedo Cavallaro picked Frank
lin as the third-place team, while
Carl Anderson said that Franklin
finished fourth, leaving Bergen, the
other contender, completely out of
it. Mr.. Warden was called, and he
promptly picked Bergen for third.
The summaries of the prize events
follow;
Dat Bag Relay Prize (girls of sA and
SB classesl-Won by Fourteenth Avenue
lNanette Ehring, captain; Kathryn Groh,
Irene Germanus, Alma Glueb, Ruth Her
man, Clara Miller, Clara Nelson, Bertha
Schmidt, Julia Schneider and Marie See
mani Sussex Avenue, second Madison
Avenue. third: Seventh Avenue fourth.
Time I'm. 81 SOS.
44O-Yard Relay, Prize girls Of IA and
7B elasses)-Won by South Eighth Street
School EDNA Armitage, Anna Dawcey.
Gertrude Territhal, Marion Clifford, Helen
Kussey, Frances Pulcaries and Katherine
Sayre) Fourteenth Avenue. second; Sus-