Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-05

Athletes of Newark and vicinity
were prominent contenders in the
junior national indoor championships
Saturday night at the Thirteenth
regiment, Brooklyn. Wallace C. Max
field, the Bloomfield giant, represent
ing Dartmouth freshmen, broke the
12-pound shot-put record of 81 feet
81 inches, with a heave of So feet
AZ inches. Maxf1eld defeated Charles
Brickley, of Harvard football fame,
and other stellar weightmen. Ohm
stead, of Columbia, captured second
place with a put of so feet 25z inches.
William Roos, of the New York A.
c., a duplicate of Ralph Rose in
figure, was third.
Athletic experts who watched Max
fields performance Saturday night
predict that he will eclipse Larry
Whitney's intercollegiate record be-
fore he completes his career at Dart
mouth. Maxfield had sore arm
which Handicapped his somewhat.
Since attending the Hanover institu-
ton Maxfield has developed a style
which was never visible in his
previous competitions. At MERGERS
burg he heaved the lead for goodly
distances, but he put the shot with
sheer strength, his preliminary move
ments tending to hamper his throw
rather than increase it's distance.
| Harry Hillman was particularly
elated at his charges record-breaking
work, as 1t vindicated the Dartmoutir
coach's advance statement that a
record would have to be broken to
beat the Bloomfield boy.
William Anderson, local middle
distance man.. captured first place in
the 1,000yardf handicap. In the final
| heat McHugh, the big barrier of the
Pastime Athletic Club, who won the
| junior met half-mile title at Far Hills
last summer, sprang to the fore. He
led for most of the distance until on
the final lap Anderson drew alongside.
| The pair battled all the way to the
home stretch. where Anderson flashed
ahead, pulling O'Niell, of the New
York A. c., over for the second medal.
The winning time was minutes AS
seconds.
Hal Holland, the Olympic sprinter,
| of Newark, failed again in his am
bition to annex a championship.
Holland seemed about to have his
many efforts rewarded when in his
heat he came home first in the time
of % AS seconds. Holland, however,
failed to repeat in the final. After
leading for three-quarters of the dis
lance Tommy Lennon, of the Winged
Foot Brigade, opened up a gap Of
several yards, which he maintained
to the tape. winning in 20 2-5 seconds,
a new record. Holland finished Sec
ond. third place going to Harvitt. the
Columbia sprinter.
In the sixty-yard dash John Brooks
Gardner, the Central High School
sprinter, got third place. Gardner
| finished second to Mcdonald, unat-
tached, in his heat, but qualified for
the final by beating Harvitt, of Co.
| lumbia, and M. A. Connor, of the Bos-
! ton A.. A., in an extra heat for second
| men.
| Gardner was ahead for fifty yards
of the final heat, but the extra trial
told upon his strength and Ravenell
of st. Christopher, and Mcdonald, I'M
attached, shot past, getting first ana
second respectively.
Percy Franklin and Jack LASER, of
the Newark Y. NJ. c. A., failed to
qualify in the standing broad jump,
while Aaron LASER missed out In the
jump off for third place in the stand
ing high jump.
Metropolitan district trackmen won
the bulk of the honors in the running
races the collegians failing to Show
to form. Wenz, the Roselle flyer, run
ming for Colby College, was out
classed in the two-mile run, finishing
| far back.