New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15
POLY PREP. TAKES
LEAD In RACES
|Noyices Win Point Trophy
in Open Events at
Clinton Games.
NEWARK SOUTH SIDE
SCHOOL IS SECOND
Never. from Scratch, Captures
3O0-Yard Run by a Mar
row Margin.

novice athletes the IolyteChh"'
atory school, OF Brooklyn. csptureo IN
point trophy Tor the open conpeutOn
races at the sixteenth annual games o
DE witt clinton High School. held ~ '"'
/ 10Th Regiment Arnory. yesterday aitci-
noon or the ave open races tho PolS
boyS took two first places, four thirds an"
two fourths. for a total Of 20 points. Ins
South side school, Of Newark. followed ~
second position, with count OF II points
Curtis High School, Of staten Island, wsS
third with 3 points while DE Witt chn-
! ION pulled down only one first place, Tor .
points.
| Arthur Clark and Victor Raymond Of
the POLY squad. gave interesting EXHIBIT
lions in winning their first placer The
6rst named took the 44O-yard run by
yard in / :O2 % seconds, while RAYMOND
outran field OF twenty starters IN 'n'
! ss0-yard run I'm 2:le.
| AIvah T. Meyer. the national spflh-
/ champior. Just breezed in winner OF ths
300-yard run, closed 10 graduates OF tns
zchool. He Ieaped away from the scratch
mark ard. after catching the field hsiI
| Ian from home, sped along easily 10 win
nv two wards. Henry Monroe. with ~
ward handicap. was second, with Joe
Reilly. third. three yards behind. me
time was 80 As seconds.
More than three hundred athletes TOOK
part I'm the many events that were Close"
| to the school. In many instances scratch
starters we're able to survive the preiim-
mary heats. and furnished some Close
competition in the final brushes.
| Charles Pistronk, late OF Morris Hish
school. but now attached to Clinton, easily
outdistanced the field Of sixteen contest
ants i'm the one-mile run. Pistronk nas
had much success in open distance races
and was easily the best Of the field. lie
gradually worked his way through the
field 10 command the lead at the three
auarter-mile point and TO win In cantef
bv ten yards. Eddie Houghton, with an
allowance of IS yards, beat out Benny
Segreto. who started I'VE yards benin"
| him. by his handicap.
| The SS0-yard walking race was pur-
lesuue, and furnished much laughter lor
the crowd. Twenty-seven boys competed
and some Of them exhibited ridiculous
| STYLES of the heel and toe pastime. MOI
than three-fourths of the competitors wera
yanked out as the race progressed. ami
only eight remained on the track on IN
final lap The victor, James Safer with
| a 20-yard start, walked an impressiV'
race. and. coming through in the final lap
won by 10 yards. Wigdrowitz finishe
second. while third place went to samm
Burt. --rs
Harry L. Spiro. Pete Stevens and Ter
Hegarty, all scratch men, had close hs'
in the 6O-yard hurdle race. spiro jumpe
away at the last hurdle, to win by feet
with the others placed as named almo
abreast.
The summaries follow:
CLOSED EVENTS.
sixty-yscd hurdle race 'hansiesp ..,,,'.o,
third Time. o:Os 3-5
one-mile run Chandcap)-won By Charles
| Pistronk scratch; r. Houghton 60 yards D.
second B. segreto go yards third. Time
So sixty-yard dash tfreshmen)-won by NJ
I Strauss (scratchl; NJ. Fisher (scrstchD, sec
ond NJ. Wetzburger d5 yards)' third Time
sixty-yard dash Csenior)-won by Barrett
| C13 feet; Van Raalte IS feet), second; Brat
lin 1J feet). third. Time, O;O1.
3OO-yard runs (open 10 ex-membersl-W'on
Iby Alvah T. Meyer (scratch); H. Monroe
! 10 yards). second; J. Reilly go yards.
! Putting twelve pound shot-Won BY To-
| rocco q feet. with 40 feet inches; Israel
q feeD. with 80 feet 9i7 inches second;
| Mcklowitz % feeD. with 81 feet { inches.
! third
Running high jump (hsndlcap)--won oy
| p. Chapman scratch. with feet inches;
W Harden g inchesl, with feet ] inch,
second d. Cohen a inches), with feet
| third.
one-lap run Cmidget)-won by T. Harris
| % yards) Gutenberg or yards) second,
Aldrich (15 yards), third. Time, O:19 10
22O-yard run (junior)--Won by Weinsten
GO Yards; ka1z 60 yards9' second; Zeiss
220-yard run (senor)-won by Van Rsalts
| g yards; H. Elsassen IS YARDS, second
Greenberg % yards). third. Time o:27 3-5.
440-yard run (senior)-Won by Bislo Go
ysrds); d. Cohen go yards). second: be
Bells go yards), third. Time. 1908.
Intersection relays (third form)-Won by
! Section %, with Chadarowsky Levy. John
son and Bone Section 20. with Mayers
Grant. Korenblut and Cuddhy second; Sec
ton II. with Katz. YoulJsky, Marshall and
Blaustein, third. Time, O:29 1-5.
! Second Form relay race-Won by Section %
! Clarke, Rosenfeld, Shur and F'luss); Section -
.Leyinson w. Fitzpatrick, e.. Fitzpatrick and
| Rocks and solomon). third
Third Form relay race freshmen handicap
vaeSse 0 PeHo ss0a and HSst srd' s.coS %
Yards Greenland Nisel. Panzer and Berkowts
second; Section 10 (scratchl o. Spiro. Bic
! Niggisno and H. Spro). third
| Fourth Form relay race (hsndicap)-won
! Section (scratch) C<eidanz. Fitzgerald
nenbaum and Sauter): Section 20 va
| (kerbs, kingsman I.ubn and kuppersm
second: Section 40 YARDS Zimmerman, G
stein. Bishor and Goldsmith). third.
Fifth Form relay race (sophomores: IA s
eapl-Won by Section l (suelkin. Giln !
| Wilks and LARSON; Section '25 YARDS CAfo.
| MarGos. Rosengarten and Weingarten),
| ond; Section l (scratch) sixth Form (PH
Landsman, Repin and Kirsh). third
1:l01-5.
Senior relay race handicap)-Won hy n.
! 2 90 yards) eighth Form CStrusser ~
Bosch and Barret0 Section 10 IIy
! and Cohen). second. Time, 1912. H"uel
] SS0-yard walk (handcap)-Won BY s ~
yards): Wigdowitz 90 Yard5). SOD ~ ~
Burt (25 yards), third. Time. 3;Ie .' =
One-half-mile run tsenior: handicap
! puntuscio 80 YARDS; Larson d5 yards, on .,
/ b. SegTeto $50 YARDS. third Time .. ~ sVohl
OPEN EVENTS 'i-S.
| Sixty-yard dash-Won by A. Rama,
Witt Clinton; Kempe. Townsend n, knao. De
oud: Clarke Poly Prep third. Ton Hus. Sec
District third. Time, 0:0T. r. Eastern
22o-yard run-Won by Fctherscf
Dipple South Side. Newark sscondE, curtis
Pely p1eg third Voorhees, Bay RIEse t sS,qs
44o-yard run-won by Clark. / p.,
| Walkenburg. South Side NewJ soiy Prep
] Booensten, Morris third; Kissari second
. fourth. Time l:02 2-5 r. fOly Prep
SO-yard run-won by Raymonjd D..
Ritzig. South Side Newark seIrc,rt oiy ifen
Poly Prep, third. Time, 2:le. "'' Ah"S"
, Putting S-pound shot-Won by H., ,.,,.n
side. Newark, with 80 feet III inchas..' yvcss-
man Curtis with IS feet IL inchISes' w..
Thompson Poly Prep. with Ia Sonee SThSs
third; sutton Poly PREF. with 20 -, / ineh.
fourth "e' '''''