The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-09
FAIRGROUNDS MEET A POPULAR SUCCESS
West Park Easily Carries Off Athletic Honors-Z. Nespor Directs Great
 Track Meet
By FRED BopEkER

In the greatest tournament of it's trict, West park easily carried off all honors in the first annual playground track meet under the auspices of the municipal recreation department. Full Iy 400 contestants competed and the interest shown by the boys and espe- cinlly the girls, who have never before entered such meet, pointed to it's great success. The West park athletes showed superiority in almost every event and the lead they took in the first race was never lost as the meet progressed.
 The Ensley Wesley House proved the surprise of the eventful afternoon. They came in a distant second and were hot rivals to the Lakeview squad for the next highest honors to the vic- torious West park team. Of the num- erous other boys teams the next five of them were closely punched but the remaining playgroundcrs followed hopelessly in the rear
 The West park athletes also proved to have the best girl performers in the city. They were forced to the limit to win out over the East park com bination. Several records came near falling before the ambitious girls. Miss Rosie Lee Webb only lacked two inches in reaching the worlds record for run ming high jump. Miss Lula Ridge threw the baseball 132 feet and consequently n tvlo
 Both of the cups awarded to the winning teams were presented to Miss Shapiro, the West park playground su- pervisor. and to Hyman Dorskey, the manager and captain of the boys team while on the grounds. Moving pictures were taken of the occasion and the great success result of the recre- alton departments efforts to put the fairgrounds on a higher footing among the cities of the south. The cups were presented to the winning teams by. Borden Burr. The cup that the West park boys won was presented by the Herzog- Thompson company; the girls cup by Loveman, Joseph & Loeb; and the indicidual cup open to the girls city championship by Louis Pizitz Much of the success must be given to the officials who practically made the meet"
 The results follow:
 Girls S5-Pound Class
 4o-Yard Dash-First Bessie Coon, East Park; second, Ekie Mones, West Park; third Upchurch, East Lake; fourth, Viola Rabbit, Neighborhood Time 6 3-5 seconds.
 60-Yard Dash-First, Marguerite Boyd-~~ West Park second, upchurch East Park; third, Dorothy Davis, West Park; fourth. Lucille Montgomery. Lakeview Time. Is.
  Carnes, East Park; second. Alice Holmes, Graymont; third. Margurits Boyd West Park fourth, Jeanette Templeton, East Park. Height. feet 10 inches.
 160-Yard Relay--First. West Park second, East Park; third, Ensley Wes- ley House. Time. "A 1-5.
 Girls 100-Pound Class
 50-Yard Dash-First. Margurite Lev in Graymont; Mary Wilkerson, West Park; third. Thelma Dunn. East Park fourth. Amy Eggston, Lakeview. Time. seconds.
 65-yard dash-First, Hattie Pennington Bessemer: second, Lucille Martin, Lake view Marguerite Levin, fourth: Thelma Dunn. East Park. Time. g seconds.
 2OO-yard relay-First, Graymont second East Park; third, Graymont; fourth, West Park. Time 30 seconds.
 Running high jump-First. Rosa Lee Webb, West Park: second Hattie Penn ington. Bessemer; third, May Williams, Neighborhood House-4 feet inches.
 Girls 115-POund Class
 50-yard dash-First, Helen Gould, Gray mont; second, Hazel Boddie. East Park; third. Bettie Feinberg, West Park; fourth Lida Doris, West Park. Time, 8 seconds 65-yard dash-First Jennie Hirsch, West Park: second Helen Gould, Graymont third, Ida Mendelsohn, West Park. Time seconds.
 200 relay-First, West Park; second, East Park. Time. 31 2-5 seconds.
 City Championship:
 40-yard dash--First Bessie Condray,
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