New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
P. S. A. L. Champions,
Likely to Bring Fous
Many New Record,
VOLLMER REAL STAp
AMONG SPRTNTrn,
Commerce, with Well Bal,,,.
Team, Favorite for n,
Point Trophy.

or all sports fostersd by tn. D..
Schools Athletic League. syimr,,s
developed most rapidly Number.s.
the students OF the high schools a.
city there are toys who. II they co.,
In the game, will Develop nto hs,,
performers. II not national chamr.n..
There are fully 2 dozen lad.
scholastic ranks who can sr,n
hundred" IN close to one niu,. :,
nm equai number have shown "A
seconds for FIFTY yards with gr.s,
sistency. \ few can cover the rya..
furlong swim in OF around /, ml,,-
only a few Gays ago Amer. a pror,.
youncster ~ Townsend Harris Hail y.
school won "a 220-yard race IN
meet with the High School Of cor..
n 80 Is. the fastest furlonx A..
this ccason.
The teams are now preDariEg fs 4.
high school championship. which ~
held early in March OF IN the lat,s,
Of next month. after the various
meets have tee1 completed. Fron
Indications. based on ability shos,
the dual competitions. the High 81,
Of Commerce. winners of the FIRST eA.
pionsh,p. held en- 1906. bid fair 70 =
hut a hard fight is promised befor
point trophy b. captured. The 0rrs
and Blue team has won is sIx NJ
defeating Manual Training. Ne y
Clinton. Erasmus Hall. Boys High ca
mcrcial and. lastly townsend hr
Hall. and all by comfortable marra
meeting WIKI stuyyesant High n.
viii be held this week alone remzin
round out the schedule.
There is a formidable array Of ~,
distance swimmers defending the clz
OF the various schools. First o. al ,,
haps. is Hal Vollmer. Of Stuyyesan' Z:
School. who recently won the aas
championship Of greater New iorsh
remarkable time OF Is seconds Crost
elise uuon the heels OF VolIins q
Davidow. Of Clinton; Smith. also q ~
ton: Long. of Erasmus Had; Cen
Cram2. Of Erasmus Prescott fslns
Manual Training; Al Bazsn. o. 20
merce. and Billy Montgomery an
Commerce.
Practically every one Of the sios-o
toned boys can lash his way oss :
half century in IS seconds, and' n "
ton. the majority are capable psn~'
in the century. as we'll SfanP
Palmer have also shown marked a.
IN the go. yard swim. Billy Aons'E
whose specially is the i'9-yard f's
developed remarkably In the All -
Last season he was ONLY fa'r l<'1.
and seldom showed better than " ~
for the distance. but IN a reee~ ~
flashed out and won IN the ae'>
time OF 81.
The performance Of these lads W.
mind the first championship nte =
under the direction OF the PueN
Athletic League. on February
the West Side Baths, In e0th susel
the High school of Commerce so''
down. scoring more points than =
ether teams put together "
paavers. then of Erasmus Han I"
officer i'm the United states army.
the Seward race I'm IS seconds
Thompson. OF Commerce. won me va
dosb in = a seconds. while con''
won the lsO-yard relay -ace In ~.
Greenwald. o Neil. Boyle ana -.
son swimming on the team
Gmteras won the 20-yard tue ~
which the competitors swan pDHS
pulling the tub, In Il 2-j seeone'
was no 100 or g0o-yard swim be'o
In those races not a single ~
the exception oil Thompson. INV
ANYTHING about the crawl "'''>
only a few had a fair trudseoh
ming as they did. II is prooso's
a single one would have sur''S
first heat of even q dual meet -
they were hailed as true en@'nr
every high school dual meet DC"
West Side Baths during the =
years the relhy record has oee'
often by more than Is secono'
sons record for the '5-ysra ~.
completely eclipsed by JACK A' 20
elementary schoolboy VINO, "
1912 won the so-yard swim IN 'ns 80
tary school championships ID
onds. The relay team OF fu''.
II. Of Brooklyn. In 1911 cams
seconds OF the old records '%
school lads in the leo-yard fe'''
New material Is cropping w ~.
The lads delight in training !"
ming team, waich 10 them Is w"
little work. The estaolisn'hs =.
forums in the various par" " ~
has given practically every COY =
the chance to learn to SWIM. -.
most part they have seized W.
tunity.