New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-29
SUNDAY SCHOOL BOY
SET A RELAY MARK
Team of Central Congre-
CATION Show Way in
Senior Event.
"pEE WEE" HAWKINS is
CHEERED IN DEFEAT
More than Four Hundred Match
Proves in Annual Spring
Indoor Track Games.


one record was broken and more than
four hundred boys had a gala time last
night at the eighth annual spring meet OF
he Sunday School Athletic League in the
.sth Coast Artillery Corps srmory, at
sunnes and Gates avenues, Brooklyn
The record that went by the boards was
the one-mne relay handicap race for
seniors. in which the crack quartet of the
Central Congregational first team romped
across the tape with an eight-yard lead
The time, s:sS s-S, broke the previous rec
ord. made in 1909, by l-5 seconds.
W NJ. Goebel ir.. Of Good Shepherd,
with 3 handicap Of sixteen feet, won the
loO-yard dash for seniors in 10 IS and then
turned around. Hoped back, and got second
place in the 75-yard dash for intermediates
from the l2-foot mark.
The number OF entrants (410) was the
largest ever recorded in these games and
included boys from seven years OF
age and forty-five pounds in weight TO
their big brothers Of nineteen and twenty.
AND the little fellows tried even harder
for the medals and cups than their elders.
The Seward dash for midgets was chief
Is distinguished by. the presence in the
fnal heat of Master ". Hawkins, of Beth
any PRESBYTERIAN. This young athlete,
known 10 his fellow competitors as 'Pe-
wee" Hawkins. was eight years old and
tipped the scales at fifty-hve pounds. Al
though he was just Outside the money
"Pewee" received the lions share or ap-
plsuse from the gallery, and took his
honors modestly
After the race he confded the infor-
nation that he had been jostled in the
homestretch and thrown out Of his stride
else ne might have won. Also his racing
tights were so long they seriously inter
fered with "Pewee's" knee action.
The SOO-yard race for seniors provided
thrilling struggle between l.. H. Miller
of the Bushwick Avenue Reformed, and
p. W. Kister. Of ST. 'Paufs. Coney Island.
Miller had a 4O-yard handicap and kister
a.. and the two made a runaway race or
il, leaving the scratch man in the rucK.
Miller had the most strength left at the
finish, however, and breasted the tape
two feet ahead of KiSter. The time was
III 2-5. The record ntVie by r. E. Pals
ley from scratch, is Ia 2-5.
There were thirty-nine events on the
programme. and almost every event ne
cessitated the running of half dozen
heats.
The summaries follow
lOo-ysrd dash Csenier; hanlcspl-Won by W
n CoebeL jr, Good Shepherd Qs feep; X r.
paisey, Central congregational q Ieey, Sc, SCI
ond; A. E. Engels Central congress- "ON~i
seventy-ave-ysrd dash dutermediate; hanoi
oap)--Won by r. Fried, Central CongIsse-
tional (scratch): W. II. GoebeL r. 5000 S"eR
herd d2 feeO second; s Ackeriy James M T.
fs feeD. third. Time o:0S Is. ~, -,
Sixty-yard dash Junior: handicapl-Won oy
Jones csntrs CSnSTessss a0tist g feet.
second: A. Z. Smith, First Bsptlst N leeV'
third. Time, O:01 % -, IT,, 49,
Fifty-yard dash midget; handlesp)-Mon Ds
A. Larson, F. A. NJ. T. Is feep; n B9smsh'
r A NJ E. & feet, second; w MerkeI'
bethany Presbyterian q feeO. third. linie'
500 Sco-yard military hike tclosed 10 sth Com
pany)-Won by Fred Faber; G w. Edine see
ond: E. LEM. third Time O:S.; aD,--vvon nv
Central Congregational nrst team tAtns..eSSHi..
Beardsley Selover and Daisleyl tsc'aSsp'
Wvckosf Heights Presbyterian (Faoer Ge-s
bach Stelljes and Wendling). secono' Ce a1iaS
CONGREGATIONAL second team freedman Ailen'
Clark and Merkes) t& yards) thiu' LING
3:S3 3-5 new record. ~, -
il0-yard dash novice: midgeo-Won oy j.
Afmes' Bay Ridge Presbyterian; r. Schaeole'
AinsIie street Presbyterian. second; II. Hunt
ington. Grace Reformed. third Time 9le' 49,
44o-yard run Senior; championship)-Non o.
p F. Daisley. Central Congregatonel; I. %
Mount ir r. A. NJ. E.. second; ". >; SCI
over. Central Congregational, third Iime'
p.57 is. ~
22o-yard dash novice tuniorl-Won by p. ID
Askn Central Congregational; G. Wilhams'
Central Congregational, second; r. orr CEN
trail Presbyterian, third. Time, o:zS 70.
Background shot-put dntermediate; novice
Won by r NJ Chan. Wyckof Heights Pres
byterian, with 40 feet 1ol5 inches; 2. f. Brsnotss
tr Vanderveer Park NJ. E., second. with So
feet ia inches; A. Larsen, City Park Chapel
third. with 81 feet III inches.
ae0-yard dash intermediate; championship
Won by r. Fried Central Congregational; n
y r lunch Central Congregational, second; A.
Fox High Park NJ. E. third. Time, e:2s.
G00-yard run (senior; handicap)-Won ~
=. H. Miller. BushwicS Avenue Reformed
$40 YARDS: F. ". Kister tr., st. Paups,
Coney Island (l6 yardsl. second; Charles
Hill. Concord Baptist $50 yards) third.
Time, 1:17 2-5