Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-02
MANY KIND WORDS
FOR TECH ATHLETES
Work at Reading Set New Pace
For High School Per-
formances

Praises for the Tech high school
track athletes are coming TO Harris
burg from all over Pennsylvania. In
high school circles the work of the
Tech team this year is classed as
eclipsing that of any high school team
since the scholastic contests were
started nine years ago.
At Reading the strongest commen-
dations were heard. While Mondays
meet was all Tech, a number of the
keen competition. Referring to the
work of Tech. the Reading News
Times of yesterday says:
Beck and Heffelfnger were the in
dividual stars for the winners. each
winning two first places. Included in
their 5S points are five hard-earned
ones for rst place in the mile relay, the
last event of the afternoon, and by far
the most thrilling.
The handsome University Of Penn
sylvania cup awarded to the school
winning the relay. together with the
big new Josiah Dives cup to the school
winning the meet, will be held in
Techs trophy case till the games next
year, when both will be put up for
competition.
Classic Relay
THE classic of the afternoon-the
relay. always the premier event of
Readings meet-found Tech already
Victors of the meet, but anxious to
capture the big Penn cup. Readings S
crack bunch was determined to con-
tinue the victories of the two previous
years. From the go-off it looked like
the Red and Black.
Hoffman, after craftily getting out
of a nasty pocket on the first turn,
opened up on the back stretch and
went into the van by a hve-yard mar
gin. Kremp, Readings second man,
t,,ta he
stretch, when his afternoons hard
work in the hurdles and the broad
jump told on him. Stite!er, Techs Sec
ond man, let loose with a marvellous
sprint in the last fifty yards and left
Krenip two Yards TO the rear. Troup
lust couldn't hold his own with DEM
ming. the Harrisburg lad, and he sent
Pierce Oft with eight yards to gain on
the husky Heffelfnger, Techs last
man.
Jimmy ran magnificently, but
we'll within himself till in the center
of the back stretch, then started his
fight for first place. He had to take
the cinders from Techs captain all the
way till the stretch was reached. Then
he drew up even. Down the straight
away neck and neck both men strug-
gled. The two thousand Reading par
tisans in the stand were in a frenzy.
calling on Jimmy But he lacked
just a trifie. and Heffelflnger broke
the tape with Pierce barely six inches
to the rear.
New Record to Win
THE hand that the crowd gave the
plucky little captain was an ovation
seldom seen and heard in Reading.
Pierce had run his quarter in SO sec
onds, a full second faster than the
Tech man. And at that. to win the
Maroon and Gray boys from the Capi-
f11 ~ al n win al IL
to win. They went 2-5 seconds faster
than the mark made way back in
1907 by Camden. when the Jersey boys
ran in 3.04
1.-THE speedy work and the new rec
ord was only one of the things that
gave Tech the victory. Performances
creditable to any college were the or
der OF the day. Sutch. the wiry young
ster from Harrisburg. who has been
running the distances in phenomenal
time all season. again shattered a rec
ord. This was the mile mark in
4.47 lis. made four years ago.
"sutch clipped 3-5 seconds off this
mark. The 'dopesters' in the stands
figured that Whiteman, a dark horse
from Williamsport, who had sprung
out from the field in the half mile.
winning easily, might repeat. But he
couldn't place. so fast was the pace
and so clever did the Tech boys team
together. Tech made a killing in this
event. capturing three first places. Some
of the old-timers recalled that Will
mington placed first three men in the
mile way back in 1909. when the field
was dedicated. But the pace was not
nearly so fast.
Just how good a team Harrisburg
had. and how brilliant were their two
stars. Beck and HeffelfinRer. may be
cleaned from the fact that they shat
tered marks that have been on the
Memorial Day meet books as records
for years. Each pushed the shot
/ 46 feet So inches. a college perform
| ance. Two years ago, the last time
| Tech attended the Memorial Day
ciassic-and won 1t. too. by the way
Beck set mark that has been equaied
only once. Yesterday he went out as
1 feet beyond that mark"