New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-25
STUYVESANT SCHOOL
RELAY RACE WINNER
Mcdowell and BOughtOn IN
Thrilling Finish at
Indoor Meet.
REFEREE DlSALLOWS
PROTEST BY LOSER
Two Thousand Persons Cheer 800
Competitors Who Contest
for Sports Sake.

Stuvvesant High School. through the
unfaltering courage and whirlwind speed
Of Bud Mcdowell who ran the last relay
for his team, won first honors In the IN
vitation medley relay race. at 200 yards.
which marked the NTH annual indoor
meet Of the Eastern District High School
AZ the 18th Regiment Armory yesterday
afternoon The race was thrilling from
start to finish. and the battle between
Mcdowell and Boughton, Of Central High
School. of Newark. which finished second.
will linger long in the minds of those
who saw it.
For the entire last lap Mcdowell and
Boughton ran shoulder To shoulder,
straining every nerve and muscle as they
plunged on to the tape. The crowd rose
TO its feet. believing encouragement TO
both. Partisan feeling was forgotten IN
the excitement of the race. At the start
of the last lap Boughton was perhaps a
ward out in front. but his rival bounded
along. full OF fight and strong. on the
backstretch Mcdowell moved up, and as
Boughton swung along little Wide'
Ieaped i'm and took the pole. The race
was on i'm earnest.
Like a well matched team, the lads ran
around the bend. on the sraishtaway
for the tape Mcdowell wobbled bit, and
carried the Newark runner wide He
Strengthened out i'm time, however. and
STAYING off q determined rush. half ran
and half stumbled across the tape, about
half a stride in front OF Boughton.
When the race was over Mr.. Anderson.
coach Of the Central team, entered pro-
test. declaring that Mcdowell had used
his elbows on the turn and had otherwise
interfered with Boughton. The judges
refused TO hear his protest, declaring tnat
the race had been fairly run and won.
Stuyvesant went right out AT the crack
of the gun with w. Albrecht lsnky
individual with the speed of the WIND
running the $50 yards. He opened gap
of perhaps twenty yards on his time, ana
p White. a dusky-skinned athlete broke
out to dash the furlong. Rubin, of Cen
trail. picked up some ground on the negro,
and Harry Bergind, of Stuyvesant, went
out for the quarter mile with ABOUT
twenty yards lead on Angus, OF Central
The last named was. indeed, quarter
horse. and not alone did he outstrlp
Bergllnd, but gave Boughton slight LEAD
to start the last relay.
1t has been the policy of Eastern Dis
trict To offer no prizes for the meet yet
more than FIVE hundred boys competed
for the sake of the sport Nine teams
were represented in the medley relay
race. while the other open events drew
| full quota Of entries. Two thousand en-
| thusastic schoolboys and girls were on
| hand to offer advice and give encourage
ment to the athletes. a number of girls
from the commercial branch of the school
had their own cheering section, and when
tired of yelling for the boys, they yelled
| Justify for themselves.
Nj. KIinger, Of Class B T. aided in
some degree by handicap of sixty yards,
won the half-mile handicap in minutes
| 70 seconds, with b. Weitz, who started
! from the 75-yard mark, good second
| There was that about the race when
might have suggested some lack of real
speed, but the boys ran well. and the
closing yards were full of excitement with
| the leaders fighting a merry little battIe
for supremacy. klinger also romped on
with the S0O-yard race, this time handl-
| cap of twenty-five yards figuring In the
result. Joe Scianni, a back mark man.
| captured second place after running
pretty race.
| The Borough of Manhattan swept the
| boards in the half-mile relay race for ele-
mentary schools in the unlimited weight
class Public School 10. champions of the
| Public Schools Athletic League, was first'
with No. 10 second and No In thru
position. The same applied TO the quar-
| ter-mile race for 1O5-pound boys. In this
race Public School 40 won, with No. g.
in second place and No. IA trailing IN
third.
| The summaries follow:
| sixty-yard dash-Won by J. Ambean IS feeU
| s Shuyal (6 feeO. second, NJ. Dank q feeO'
| third. Time. OO1.
ssO-ysrd relay race. elementary schools ,un-
| limited weight class)-Won by Public school 10.
| Manhattan (Wolpheimer. Terrys, Schroeder and
Lee: Public school 10. Manhattan (ksufmann.
| Bleicher Zcer and III Marco second Fuone
School 8. Manhattan fiesta, Brown COOKE ana
Wnlls). third Time. 1:i9rs. -
| 3Oo-yard dash-Won by NJ. klinger 90
YARDS. J. scianni % YARDS, second; NJ lie
| bofsl<y 30 yardsl. third. Time, O;36.
! sso,yard run-Won by NJ. klinger go YARDS
b. Welt 90 yards second: ID. Danziger go
| yards. third. Time. 2:l2
| Putting eight pound shot-Non by l.. Roth
! scratch with SO feet inches, NJ. JampolsAy
| "a feet, second. with 80 feet : inches: c. Ra
| dack q feeO. third. with 30 feet ? inches
! Running high jump-Won by l. karp %
| inches) with 4 feet 10 inches NJ. Ssrnn -
| inches. second. with feet inches; l. Gold
/ stein q inchcsD third, with feet inches
| 440-yaTd relay race elementary schools 200
pound ciass)-Won by Public School 40. Man
haitian (Kenney. Voyds. Severia and Buscellel
Public school 90 (koenweiss, Ohtsky, Cohen
and Brodsky) second; Public School IA tklep-
fer. San George. L<ander and Conway, third.
| Time O54S.
intercass relay race. $50 yards UNLIMITED
| weightD-Won by Glass 1B okass. Lebassi.
| Wolf and Cohen. Class Oh d1rst team Lint.
| Rosenblitz Nelte and Zimmerman. second
| Glass 2B second team (Share, Blocker. Mend
| lin and Grsdn). third. Time l:4s's
! 44O-yard relay race 100 pound classl-Won
! BY Glass III (WoXman, Marcus. Straubner and
| Fredman); Glass lB tHelfand Kerr. Helfand
and Borrmann), second Class 2B tBlicksilber.
/ Ress, Gst;esman and LembecD. third. Time.
| O.STr
Medley relay race. 2, 200 yards topen 10 all
| high and preparatory schoolsl-Won by Stuy-
vesant High School (Albrecht. White. Berglind
and McDowelD, Central High School Of New
ark ,Gsrdner. Rubin. Angus and Boughtonl,
second De Witt Clinton High School FiN-
patrick. Garvey. Feigenau and WalleotD, third.
| Time 5.o3.
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