Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-27
FINE CHANCE FOR SUCCESS
OF BARRINGER HARRIERS
Scholastic Athletic AssOcia-
tiOn's Ruling Makes Chances
of Victory Bright.
QUANTITY WILL COUNT
Absence of Boughton and Smith
from Central Team Viii
Also Help.


try team has big chance of win
ming first honors in the second an
nual cross country run under the aus
pices of the Newark High Schools
Athletic Association at Branch Brook
Park Saturday morning. Central High
School viii be without the services
of Charles Boughton and Robert l..
Smith. These two runners, absent
from the Central line-up, will nn-
doubtedly leave a big hole in the
ranks of the team. Smith has been
In school more than the time allowed
athletes, and Boughton, because OF
the fact that he worked on the play
grounds during the summer months,
viii not take part Should Boughton
run there might be big howl go up
after the race, so Coach Anderson
has decided to allow his team to run,
minus the services of the national
two-mie champion
Barringer will also be minus three
OF it's boys, but from all appearances
and Judging by the recent ruling Of
the games committee of the Newark
High Schools Athletic Association, II
will be the quantity of runners en-
tered that will count in the long run.
The ruling says that twelve boys
should take part, with eight TO count.
rhe coaches of Central and Soutn
Side schools, who intend to enter
teams. have found 1t a difficult mat
Ter to gather enough boys to practlce
for the one meet. Barringer has a
bie squad, and it may be that Coaeh
Joe D'Angola might slip one over ON
Carl Anderson, of the Central school.
Barringer will suffer from the loss
of Schneider, F'rittS and Warner
Schneider transferred his affections
from East Side to Barringer TINS
term. and as he has not been in scnool
the required period, he is lneilslpie
to run. At that Barringer snoulu
make a strong showing, ana II IL pv,
heVed that one or two polnts VIII
separate the teams at the nnlsh'
AS vet no course has been selected
the games committee designating
Branch Brook Park as the logical
choice. There are two courses USED
at Branch Brook, one by Central ana
the other by Barringer. The diner
ences in the length and selection OF
courses will mean much to the con-
testing teams.
south Side will send a team, but.
40 Ear as is known, East Side Will not
no represented. South Side has not
met with much success at the hill
and dale game this season. Tnelr
supporters. however, are roofing LOT
Harry Schwartz to come in first. me
South Side boys seem to have a good
chance, since the fieet-footed Boush-
ION. of Central, and Schneider Of Bar
ringer are not going TO run. Wlnheid
Angus and Charles Alien. of Central.
are big favorites for finishing one
two.
Owing to the fact that the Cornell
a thletic Association is said to nave
refused full expenses, the Central
High school team will not compete. at
the Cornell interscholastic run Satur-
.9ay. It was proposed to have the
Newark High Schools Athletic Asso-
ciation run postponed until the FOL
lowing Saturday should Central de-
eide to go to ithaca.
The method of scoring the run sat
nrday will have TO be changed, since
eight boys count. The Amateur Ath-
letic Union rules and Intercollegiate
rules call for five men from each
Team to figure at the finish. Some
how or other the games committee or
the Newark High Schools Athletic
Association, which is composed of
members of the faculty, has deemed 1t
advisable to change the usual run of
affairs in athletics substituting new
rules for those which have stood in
A. A. U. circles for a number of years