Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-05-17
RECORDS BROKEN
At DELAWARE.
LARGE CROWD WITNESSES EVENTS ON JOE.
FRAZER FIELD

and Inter-class track and field
meet of Delaware College held on
Joe Frazer Field, at Newark, Sat-
urday afternoon.
The class of 1919 won the inter-
class meet by scoring 50 points,
the class of 1918 finished second
with AZ points and the 1917 ath-
letes were third with total or Al
points.
The Baltimore Polytechnic In
stitute romped away with hrst
honors in the first class high
school events with total of 80
noints, Jacob Tome Institute was
second with total of 32 IA points
Wilmington High School was third
with 10 IL points, Chester High
School scored IL IA points and
the Wilmington Conference Acad-
envy of Dover scored 10 points.
First honors in the class two
high schools went to Georgetown
with "a points. Sudlersville i'm
ished second with Is points and
. third place was a tie between We
omico and Lewes high schools,
each scoring 10 points. The other
schools and the points they scored
follow: Elkton, 8; dupont, s.;
Chesapeake City, 4; Middletown,
A. Newark. d: New Castle, 5;
Caesar Rodney, 3; Dover, 8;
North East, 3.
In the class i high school events
Wooster established new record
in the twelve pound shot put,
heaving the iron ball Al feet l ga
inches; Mcdonnell of Wilmington
High, went sailing through the
air a distance of 10 feet 6 inches,
in the pole vault, breaking Will
mington Highs record of 8 feet o
inches, made by Goldberg in 1910,
smashing the record in first class
high schools of 9 feet 9 inches,
and setting up a new height for
Joe Frazer Field. Mathews OF
Tome, Institute, broad jumped ~
feet a 3-4 inches, which is also a
new record in this event, and Lee
of Chester High, lowered the half
mile record of two minutes 7 40
seconds by covering it in two
minutes 6 2-5 seconds.
One of the outstanding features
of the meet was the excellent
showing made by athletes repre-
senting down state schools. In this
class Carey of Georgetown High,
covered the mile run in 5 Minis.
ID 1-5 secs, breaking the former
record of 5 MINIS. IA 2-5 secs, held
by Barr, of Georgetown High. The
record of minis. is secs. for the
relay race in second class schools,
received a slashing when the Sud
lersville High School boys romped
home in the time of 3 Minis. SO 10
secs. Another one to go by the
boards was the performance OF
Jones of dupont High School, who
made broad jump of 10 feet q
inches, smashing the former re.
cord of IS feet s "a inches, made
by himself last year.
Although there were some spec
tacular races in the inter-class
events, only one record was low,
cred. The class of 1919, composed
of Fitzpatrick, O'Toole, Craig ant
PLAN, won the one mile relay race
and hung a new record of 3.43 l-5
a fifth of second better than the
old mark.
Craig and Bratton were the in
dividual stars in the inter-class
events. The former cleaned up II
the century and the furlone
dashes, and the latter won first
place in putting the sixteen pouno
shot and high jump. Craig tool
the lead in the 220 and kept about
a yard in front of Heinel unit
about the last ten yards when he
made squirt and won handily. II
was one of the best races of the
day.
The one mile inter-class run was
close. Tyson went out in front al
the sound of the gun. At the first
quarter, Taylor went into the leac
and at the three-quarter Tyson
again sprinted and passed Taylor
but on the home stretch Taylor
challenged him and won out by
twenty yards.
The most holly contested race
of the day was the class one mile
run. At the word "go," Sproul,
captain of Wilmington H g h
School, sprinted to the head of
the big field and coolly set the
pace for the first half mile, close
" followed by Barley and Baker