Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-06
GERMANTOWN CLUBMEN
LAND TEAM LAURELS
AT BIG TRACK GAMES
Hpstling Boys Club Again De-
feats Pick of Locals in Mid
die Atlantic Track
Championship
MEREDITH TWICE VICTOR
FINAL Po1Nr SCORE.

Germantown Boys Club athletes swamped
the other entrants In today's Middle Atlantic
Association track championships by piling up
30 points. MeadowbrOOk was second best,
with 90.
Ted Meredith, worlds champion half
miller and record-holder, competing for
the Meadowbrook Club, Of this city, won
both the quarter and half-mile races at
the annual track and field championships
OF the Middle Atlantic Association, held
on Houston Field. this afternoon.
Ted had alighted from a train which
had borne him from an outdoor camp in
Maine, just an hour before the race. His
time for the half mile was 1859 3-5, while
he trotted TO the wire in the quarter in
90 2-5 seconds
In the half-mile race, which was run
about half an hour before the quarter
mile, Ted was forced to go the limit by
Frank Dorsey, of the Germantown Boys
Club, while Eddie Meehan. OF Meadow
brook was third, with Hoffman, of the
Northwest Boys Club, fourth.
Doc Steele of Germantown. outgamed
the rest Of the field in the struggle for
the second medal in the 44Oiyard run.
Henry and ODonnel, of the German
town Boys Club, were third and fourth,
| respectively.
Only two starters made the mile walk.
Rutter, of Mercury A. c.. won the event
in minutes 45 2-5 seconds. The event is
new one in this city.
Comerford, of Shanahan, had no trouble
winning the shot-put with a heave of
! AZ feet 1914 inches.
| Metropolitan Rowing Club gained fur
| ther honors i'm the regatta by capturing
| the, Junior quadruple sculls, winning by
| two lengths 1t was a thrilling finish.
| Fifty yards from the Judges stand the
Nag gI,f VarrfA
battling, stroke for stroke. with the New
York boys, Then they faded.
The summary:
sso-yard rInIwon by Ted Meredith,
S5T cgS second
| fourth, Hoffman, Northwest Boys Club Time
Meadowbrook Club; Steele, Henry and o'Dop.
nell, all Of Germantown Boys Club, in order
I6-pqund shot-put-won by GomerfOrd
Harvey, Meadowbrook Club, second. No Other'
town B. c.; second, Nahm, Germantown B
i2o-yard high huTdles-wOn by a. 3. bar.
gen: Ms5S16' tsiSS siSIaa s%sS
one mile run-Won by Joseph. SCHWARTZ
Mercury A. C.; second, E. NJ. Shields
Meadowbrook Club; third. l.. L. Hin Pitts
Svrgh A. A. A.: fourth, Matz, Reading A. c
Running high jump-wOn by Hallett Ger
| mantown B. c., feet II inches; second
Crane, Meadowbrook Club. $40; ]. A. Kelsey
Germantown B. c.. SO; fourth. Smith, Victril
| c. c., 5S.
b. c.; second, Campbell, Germantown B. c.
third Albeit Reading A. c.; fourth, Wood
ring, Northwestern b. c. Time, "a seconds.
22O-yard low hurdles-Won by Bob Ferguson
| Germantown B. c.. second l.
| Germantown B. c.; third. Barron. Mercury
fourth. Armstrong. Wissahickon School. Time
20 1-5 seconds.
mantown B. c., p feet 3A inches; second
Eells. unattached 21.11k; third. Keliett, Gel
mantown B. G., q AZ; fourth, Bueholz, Ger
mantown b. c.. 2O11h
Javelin throw-Won by ]. L. Brechemin
aermantOwn B. e., 1924; second, ,Hassel
tSwsg B. c. la2'o; fourth Butler Mercury
Pole vault-won by POrterfeld. Germantow
b. c., HOG; second, Hunter Germantown
c.; third, Price. Germantown b. c.; no fourth
Discus throw-Won by Hasselberg, MeT
curry A. c.. 100 II. u In: second. Devereau,
Germantown B. c., 9s It. 8 in; third, BudC
Germantown b. c., 80 It. 5h in; fourth
Barck, Mercury A. c., SO IT. in.