Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-02
BAKERS VICTORY IS
SURPRISE OF MEET
New York A. c. Speed Merchant
Captures 1880" from
Crack Field.

Homer Baker, the New York A c.
middle-distance star, furnished the
surprise of the evening when he
breasted the tape first in the Central
$780," the feature race of the Central
High School annual indoor games
held lastsSaturday night at the First
Regiment Armory. In the field Baker
led home were Mel Sheppard, of the
1. A. A. c.; Billy Anderson, of the
of Dartmouth, and Ted Meredith, Of
the University of Pennsylvania.
Baker took the lead from Anderson a
lap and half from the tape and
opened up a big gap on the back
stretch.
When the gun announcing the final
round was fired, Baker developed a
stride which carried him over the I'm
ish line, ten yards to the good, In the
fast time of / minutes 81 3-5 seconds,
which is but seconds worse than the
A. A. U. record, made by e. B. Par
son at Buffalo.
Sheppard uncorked a flash of his
old-time sprint, and beat in the tot
tering Anderson. Granger had a nip
and-tuck race for fourth position. with
Meredith, but the Penn star made lit
tie effort, and the local colored boy
ing of Meredith was probably due to
the fact that the race was his first
this season on the board floor. He
had trained on the cinder path at
Franklin field.
Although William Richie, Of Rah-
way, was never headed in the A. A. u.
"440," the race was of great interest,
owing to the rivalry of Hal Holland,
the Xavier crack, and Frank Lagay,
the star quarter-miler of the Dart
mouth freshmen. who finished second
and third, respectively. Both are To-
cal lads. Lagay had been allotted a
handicap of three yards. He declined
to take the advantage and moved
back to the scratch mark with Hell
land. Lagay fell behind at the first
turn and never caught the flying
Xavier boy, although he made a stiff
squirt down the home stretch. The
time was So 3-5 seconds.
Mike Devaney, the Soho runner
with a handicap of ten yards, finished
second to M. Gordon, scratch, in the
one-mile run. ]. E. O'Connor, New
York A. c., and G. B. Kiely, unat-
tached, two of the limit men, were
third and fourth, respectively. A new
armory record of minutes "a As Sec
onds. was established by Gordon, dis
placing the old mark of Hampton
Voorhees,.
Central High School captured the
State scholarship championship, with
a total of as points, thereby winning
the silver shield donated by the
Princeton Club, of Newark. Barrin-
ger was runner-up with IS points,
while Dickinson High School was
third, with points. Newark Acad-
envy, with only a minor representa-
ton, took fourth place in the school
standing with points.
Charles Boughton, OF Central. cap
tured both the half-mile and mile
events. He won out in the latter in
the time of 4:37 1-5, which Is a new
record for the meet. John Brooks
Gardner, of Central, captured the Sc
nior dash in 4-5 seconds, equalling
the meet record. The SSo-yard gram
mar school relay record for the meet
was broken when the Sussex Avenue
quartet negotiated the distance in
las 1-5.
r. T. Collins, of Atlantic City High
established a new record of 40
feet in the 12-pound shot-put. In the
Junior high jump Phil Krug, Of Cen
tral, hung up new mark Of 8 feet