New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-24
Track and Field Cham
pionships This Year to
Surpass Former Ones.
.STUYVESANT TEAM Is
FAVORITE FOR TITLE
Clinton and Manual Sure to
Make Contest Next Sat
urday Interesting.

The athletes of the local high
schools are trained TO the minute and
ready for the twelfth annual renewal
of the high school indoor track and
field championships. which will be held
in the Armory of the 23d Regiment
on next Saturday night More than
$50 boys will answer the starters
call. and keen competition is promised
John j. McHugh. the well known
starter and inspector Of athletics IN
the Public Schools Athletic League,
which is conducting these games, said
Yesterday that this meet would sur
pass any ever held by the league. The
members Of the Board Of Education
aud numerous city officials have been
invited 70 attend. The price of admis
sion has been reduced TO 10 cents, and
n record crowd of schoolboys IS eX-
iected.
Stuyvesant High School, which won
the championship last year, VIII be
represented by well balanced team
and is expected by many to retain the
title. The Hon. Edward VI. Grout has
offered q bronze statue Of Mercury TO
Ire school scoring the greatest num-
Der % points With half dozen boys
VINO scored in the meeting last year,
StUyvesant ought 10 be prominent.
Forty-three lads viii represent the
Dutchmen in the track events, three IN
the shot put and one IN the running
nigh jump.
De Witt Clinton, with ffty-one en-
trants IN the struggle for points, IS
certain 20 make a showing. Many Of
the Tenth az. boys have shown well
i'm the various meets this season, and
are confident tina. they viii do as well
On SATURDAY.. Clinton bids fair 10 make
the night with Stuyyesant most inter
esting. Manual Training has entered
twcntv-eight boys. every one well tried
and clever i'm his line. The Blue and
Gold is always 20 be respected. and
may sprino q surprise in these games.
The High School a. Commerce. with
thirty-four boys in the list. hopes for
the best. bat her chances are rather
forlorn when weighed in the balance
with Stuyvesant. Clinton and Manual.
Erasmus. with two dozen OF lads en-
tered: Commercial. with eighteen;
Richmond Hill. with eight, and Flush
ing. with seven. viii all make an effort
10 score.
OF chief interest in the meet is the
one-mile national championship relay
race More properly. perhaps IL should
be called an all-Easteru race. Tor the
most westerly city represented it,
Philadelphia. Bloomfield High. Hamii-
ton Institute. Hartford High, Central
Of Philadelphia. Central OF Newark.
Dickinson. West Hoboken and Poly
Prep. are among the schools entered.
The Boston Athletic Association has
taken a long stride toward the puri-
ication Of scholastic athletics. II
passed a rule that no member Of any
school who Is over twenty years Of age
may compete in the interscholastic
championship meet which 10 will con-
duet in the near future.
II is the opinion OF many that ~ G
Public Schools Athletic League should
adopt a similar rule A. present any
boy not over twenty-one years Of age
may represent any OF the local high
schools. IL Is hardly fair 20 send these
fully developed young men into action
against lads Of fifteen. sixteen and
seventeen years Of age. II is the eX-
ception when any OF the high school
boys IN this city is over eighteen years
old.
There are instances. however. where
boys, especially those coming from the