Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
NEWS OF STEELTON
MANY QUALIFY
FOR ROMPER DAY
Youthful Athletes Will Com
pete in Fairgrounds Activi-
ties Next Wednesday

After repeated tests. many boys and
qualified to enter the various contests
to be held on the Cottage Hill athletic
field during the Romper Day exercises
next Wednesday which will mark the
close of the borough's first play
grounds season.
Supervisor James R. Irwin and his
assistants have nearly completed all
plans for the big affair. The program
calls for massed drills and exercises in
the morning, a baseball game and
track events in the afternoon. A
band will give concert at noon and
there will be something doing every
minute of the entire day.
Many Qualify
The following boys in each event
have qualified for the finals which
will be held on Romper Day after
noon, August 80, at the Cottage Hill
athletic field
Midget Boys 5O-yard Dash-A.
Sharosky. West Side; F. Fisher, Hy-
gienic; D. Brown, Hygienic; Acri, Cot
tage. Hill; Turner, Hygienic; Deane'
Hygienic.
Junior Boys 6O-yard Dash-shep-
herd, Hygienic; Sanders, Cottage Hill;
Fisher, Hygienic; Jiras, Cottage Hill;
Sharosky, West Side; Carchidi, Cottage
Hill.
Senior Boys 75-yard Dash-McCall,
Cottage Hill; Shepherd, Hygienic;
Marrila, Hygienic; Keen, Cottage Hill;
Sellers, Cottage Hill; Peace, Cottage
Hill.
Junior Boys Potato Race-sanders,
Cottage Hill; Jiras, Cottage Hill;
Shepherd, Hygienic; Carchidi, Cottage
Hill; Brown, Hygienic; Grims, West
Side.
Midget Boys Elephant Race-ffty
entries.
Junior Boys Relay - Hygienic,
Shepherd, Washington, Fisher, Brown
and Wright; Lawn. Brashears, Neb-
niger, Keim, Watson, Bellows and
Johnson; Cottage Hill, Jiras, Sanders,
Carchidi, Wigfield and Lodge; Fother-
gill, Galinac, Peace, Dolinar, Zerance,
Butalla and Plasaj; West Side. Sham
baugh, Sharasky, Grim. Salinger,
Rashinsky and Weisenford.
Senior Boys Relay-Lawn, Morgan,
Evans, Nebinger. Wilt, Keim and Bel
lows; Cottage Hill, Mccall, Keen
Good, Sellers and Jiras; Fothergill,
Soster, Bosjak, Brodnik. Kambic,
Hartz and Simmerman; West Side,
Sullivan, Rowan, Simonic, Matan and
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Wright and Marilla.
Girls Track Events-AIidget Girls
Club Race, Brown, Hygienic; Gorup,
West Side; Davis, West Side; Bailey,
Hygienic; Bratine, Fothergill; Beatty,
Hygienic.
Hygientc; Peace, Lawn; Grove, Foth-
ergill; Jenkins, Hygienic; Davis, West
Side; Brown, Hygienic.
Junior Girls 50-yard Dash-Dra-
govic, Fothergill; Koch, Fothergill;
Jenkins, Hygienic; Brown, Hygienic:
Dice, West Side; Christian, Hygienic;
Beckwith, Hygienic; Quinn, Fothergill.
Senior Girls 60-yard Dash-Chris-
tian, Hygienic; Crummery, Hygienic;
Minor, West Side.
Junior Girls Serpentine Race
Dice, West Side; Brown, Hygienic;
Davis, West Side; Steward. Hygienic;
Beckwith, Hygienic; Wright, Cottage
Hill.
Winners of the final interplayground
track and field meet will be decided
on romper day, next Wednesday. A
number of events were run off yester-
day on Cottage Hill and resulted as
follows:
Boys Field Events
Midget boys, three bucks-T Cole
man, r. Brown, Lodge and Brashears.
Distance, 10 feet II inches.
Junior boys, running broad jump
R. Jires, T. Shepherd P. Todor. Dis
tance, 2 feet 1052 inches.
Senior boys, running high jump-C.
Good, H. Mccall, C. Sellers. Height,
4 feet y inches.
Senior boys, broad jump-C. Sellers,
]. Keen, H. Mccall. Distance, IA feet
8 inches.
Cottage Hill special running high
jump--R. Proud, G. Tiponaski, w.
Nebinger. Height. feet inches.
Girls Field Events
Junior girls, basketball thrown.
Dice, @. Christian, W. Brown. Dis
tance. 32 feet 10 inches.
Serior girls, basketball THROWN.
Dice, NJ. Lord. C. Peace