Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-19
SCHOOL MINES TAKE
FIELD NEXT WEEK.
City Athletic Field Promises to
Be Busy Place, Wealth.
err Permitting.
FIRST GAME ON APRIL }

FIRST GAME ON APRIL }
Getty Athletic Field will be in con-
slant use, weather permitting, after
next week, when the coaches of the
local high school baseball teams hope
10 begin diamond practise. The field
is rather soggy yet, but the frost is
almost out of it. The first scholastic
baseball contest at City Field will be
staged Friday, April 3, between Bar
ringer and Orange High School. After
that, even practise will be curtailed
at. the field, as the high school base
ball games will take up most of the
weekday afternoons.
All of the Newark High Schools
Athletic Association games will be
held at the City Field. In addition
play their home contests at the
field. 1t is hoped that South Side will
be able to arrange for the use of a
field nearer the Johnson Avenue
school.
The schedule of the East Side nine
has not yet been finished, and, con-
seauently, no dates, outside of those
in the City League, have been ap-
poFtioned to the Down Neck" school
Mpntclalr Nine Anxious to Get Out.
M4ntclair High Schools baseball
candidates hope to get in outdoor
practNSe before the week is out. The
Hill bnpthers, colored boys are the two
most prominent asplrants for battery
pos tions George Hill, the catcher,
is q veteran of last year, while Sey-
mour Hill, half-back on last falls
eleven, who is a portsider, appears to
Z be in line for the bulk of the mound
work. Captain Rose has had the
! battery men at work in the gym
nasium for several days, and will
soon issue call for the rest OF the
/ candidates.
Players Likely to BE Rewarded.
"A resolution is to be introduced
this afternoon, at the monthly meet
ing of the East Orange High School
Athletic Association to the effect that
the members of the basketball team,
which recently won the New Jersey
Interscholastic League title be award
ed gold basketballs, in appreciation
Of their work in defeating Montclair
in the postseason game. In all prob
ability, the Red and Blue quintet VIII
receive the trinketS, as the East Or
ange school body always acknowl.
edges. by some token, the merits OF
its athletic teams.
Track Practise at Academy Soon,
Newark Academy track athletes
will begin practise shortly at the
Academy Field, and the work OF
boistering I'D the spots weakened by
the leave-taking of Johnny Kruger,
lob" Hetzel and Kim Atha Will be
started Burtis Goldberg. the sprint
err who took the measure OF Johnny
Gardner, the Central short distance
man, at the Princeton Club games
last spring. was declared ineligible
during the recent gymnastic season
The departure of Johnny hrueRer,
who won the hurdles last year at the
Princeton Clubs games. has left 4
void that will be hard to I'LL. krue-
ger was also a strong contender in
the broad jump. Hetzel. since leav-
ing the academy, has developed into
q shot putter Last Saturday, under
South Sides colors. he won the shot
put of the Dewitt Clinton High |
School games. in New York.
Railway Has Good Diamond Prospects.
Railway High School promises to
make as good a showing in baseball
Rs it did last fall In football. All OF
last years team Is back with the ex-
reption of Brachert, who is now at
Rutgers, and Ludlow, two outfield-
ers. Arthur and Elmer Armstrong |
are slated to do the battery work.
Barringer Expected to Make Good.
While the superiority of the Central |
High School team is admitted, IL IL
expected that Barringer High School !
Will make a good showing in track
this spring, and will gather more than
4 few points at the Newark High |
Schools Athletic Association field day. |
Barringer has two good sprinters |
In Norman Wiss and Bob Dempsey. |
Wiss finished within striking distance |
of Johnny Gardner, the Central sprin- |
ter, in the State indoor champion |
ships last January, and in a longer |
sprint he is figured to do even better. |
Dempsey is junior and while still |
little inexperienced he is one of the |
best Junior dashers in the vicinity. |
Lester Stackhouse, a colored boy at |
Barringer, Is said to be an excellent |
broad jumper, having bettered |
twenty feet
Record Schoolboy Meet.
Saturday afternoon the Princeton |
, Club, of New York, will hold the !
ourth annual interscholastic track |
Ind field games at the Seventh Regi- |
nent Armory, New York. Seven hun |
) lred entries have been received, maxi |
ng it the largest high school boy ath-
! etc meet ever held in New York |
dty.-
.iptOn's Cup Challenger
! to Draw Over Thirteen Feet
LONDON, March 19.-Further de- |
ails of Shamrock ". revealed last
light show that the challenger will |
lraw thirteen feet nine inches. The !
.entreboard is in the nature of n
lager plate and drops another ten |
Get. The hull will be double skinned, |
With three skins in places