St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-06-20

College lost Junior Day event, but the
class they displayed on Senior Day
wiped out the defeat on the day be-
fore with a very large margin to
spare, for their total of u points was
sufficient to beat the Young Men s
Gymnastic Club with the crack Birm-
ingham Athletic Club thrown in, as
the two clubs totals only ran up to
70 points. the Gymnastic Club max
ing Sc and the Birmingham Club IA.
AS fOrecasted in these columns, rec
Ords were shattered in ten of the
eighteen events, six of which were
bettered considerably, while four Of
them were equaled, which speaks
vOlumns for the class OF athletes
competing and the condition of the
new track. Most of the credit for
our victory falls to the mantle of the
boys from the Mississippi A. & M.
College, Parker leading with IL,
Wells and Scott with 8 each, Jones
with 5, Rea with 3, Mobiles with 2,
Stouse with /, for a total of 38 points.
So that the public may understand
the entries of boys from the different
colleges 1t might be well to say that
this meet is open to every athlete in
the south. 1t is not a college event
(their interscholastic events are held
under that heading), for the South
ern Amateur Athletic Association
Union is just what its name implies
an association for any one to COM
pete, and always with view to ele-
vate the game; hence, if some able
contestant wishes to compete, he has
the privilege of afiiliating with any
club that belongs to the Association,
and it rebounds to the credit of
Coach Foster Commagere that he Sc
lected so wisely and well a bunch of
athletes that would prove a credit to
any club in the circuit, for he out
generated foxy" Tad Gormly, of the
Gymnastic CluD, as this coach select
ed the best point getters of the Tu-
lane College and the Louisiana State
University, and he would have been
beat with the crack bunch from Birm-
ingham thrown in.
The st. Paul boys captured all nine
points in the first event on the card,
the 1OO-yard dash, when Coleman,
Wells and NQbels finished in the or
der named In the finals, and this race
was the more remarkable when you
learn that the SIX to qualify were
evenly divided between the st. Paul
College and the Gymnastic Club, as
not a one of theirs finished one, two,
three.
The half mile race, second on the
card, found st. Paul with six more
points, as Scott. winner, broke a
Southern record that has stood for
twenty-five years.
The third event, 12O high hurdles,
had only Gymnast!c Club entries
which gave them nine points without
competition, while in the mile event
they added six points to st. Paufs
three.
Event No. 5, the 44O dash, brought
the Birmingham club in the point
column when Jones won after q warm
tussle with Rea, and after the mile
walk another event in which st. Paul
College failed to have an entry. The
total points scored were GymnastEc
Club %, St. Paul 81.
St. Paul College took the lead
again when the, seventh event was
completed, as this 220 yard dash con-
tanned four St. Paul entries, three of
whom finished one, two, three. In
the low hurdles st. Paul add,d five
more points to their credit, when
Jones beat three of the Gymnastic
members. one of whom was the hold
er of the Southern record.
The three mile run was one of the
features of the meet, Claiborne of
the Birmingham Club, clipping near
ly a minute off the former record,
and decisively defeating the holder
of this record by nearly quarter of
a mile. finishing up the last hundred
yards as If just starting on sprint;
and this record bids fair to stand
for some time, with Claiborne elimt-
mated.
st. Paul added laurels when park
er defeated Schroth in the pole vault
event, and Werle'n gave Griffin, of
Mansfield. who was representing the