Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-19
SCHOOLBOY STARS
COMPETE TODAY
ON FRANKLIN FIELD
Penn Stages Annual Junior
Interscholastic Meet
This Afternoon
MERCERsBURG FAvoR1TE
BY TED MEREDITH
Penn Track Captain


r-ho annual Junior and senior inter-
.obolastic meets, which the University of
rsnnsvlvania has held for number of
vsars will start this afternoon on Franklin
iTjsld. The junior meet will take place
thja afternoon, and tomorrow at l o'clock
sbe senior meet will be started.
An schoolboys under the age of 17h
.ars are eligible for the Junior meet. This
e the seventh year this meet has been
soaducted, and it always has created great
interest among tn, the scnooi0oSS Oh rh'ia-
Few of the big prep schools send their
nn nm for this meet, but wait for the
seniors on Saturday, when their points
r,iii count toward the senior championship
,rba iunior meet. however, does furnish
,ood competition for such schools as Penn
Sbarter. Episcopal. Central High North
ast Manual, West Philadelphia High School
and the suburban schools
Irsually these games turn out couple OF
GOOD schoolboys who show themselves 10
~ sliaible for the next days meet, when
tbev can try for senior honors.
Prep Schools Battle
rbe big interest in the scholastic athletes
world will come tomorrow, however, ana
,bat Is when the best of the prep schools
Iii, turn out and battle for the Middle
Xtantic Interscholastc championship title
Tbis meet usually attracts more prep
schools than any other such meet IN the
country, probably with the exception or
staqg's Interscholastics at Chicago. The
.ln,es also are better in this meet, because
I, is about the last one for the schoolboys,
and they are all in tp-top shape.
THE rivals for this title usually turn out
to be Mercersburg and Hill School. These
3 two schools always are well represented IN
numbers and quality and fight it out for
arst honors, while the other schools have
10 be content with the lower places
Mercersburg seems to have the edge on
i Hill this year and are picked to win the
meet Jimmy Curran's team has been hav-
ing things Just about their own way so far
this year They carried off the first honors
At Cornell's meet on May 6, and last Sat
urday won the Princeton meet by good
margin.
Hill School did not have her full and
hest team at Princeton last week, and this
accounts for the large total which Mercers-
burg ran up. The Pottstown team Will be
here with her full strength tomorrow, how
ever and will prove harder opponent.
St. Allan's Stars Here
A great bunch of schoolboy stars will
take part tomorrow. st. Adams School. of
Washington, will have three men here that
now are finished athletes in Brooke Brewer,
Maxson and Wallace.
Brewer is we'll known from his sprint
Ing here last year, when he covered the
century in 4-5 seconds and won the 22O
yards with great ease in Fl 40 seconds.
Brewer is back in form again this year
and easily won the sprints at Princeton last
week.
The Washington schoolboy star has to
his credit something that few sprinters
have, that is, victory over Howard Drew
ina 5O-yard dash, Brewer won this race
last March in the Meadowbrook indoor meet
here in this city.
MaXson is a good sprinter also, but will
enter the quarter tomorrow. MaXson ran |
the final quarter on the ST. Adams mile |
team against Davis, Mercersburg's best |
quarter-miler at the Relays, and although |
he was sent off behind Davis, he beat him
home by a good margin, winning the one |
mile prep school championship.
Wallace is a shot putter and will give a |
good account of himself in this event.
Jimmy Curran, the Mercersburg trainer, |
will not be without his usual number of |
star schoolboys. Currans men have hung |
up couple of records so far this year, and |
much Is expected of his team tomorrow.
4 Davis and Brownville are good sprinters. |
Reed, who broke the Princeton interScho- |
lastc record setting the new mark at
4:30 will be entered in the mile and two |
mile.
Ted Advises Brother
George Meredith will run the half and Is
expected to win this event. Whether he
can do 1t is question to me. He will
find Sullivan, of Catholic High School, n |
good man and hard to beat. George has
not learned pace yet; he is afraid to go out
and set a good fast pace himself and so
never gets within 10 yards of his running
out of himself. He ran / so AS at Prince
ton last Saturday, but the race was run
very poorly. The first quarter was COW
cred only in 60 seconds which made him
come home in SO AS seconds.
This is n poor way to run the half espe-
clally If you want to make time. The first
quarter should be at least three seconds
faster than the second
Chiffon will have couple of good school
boys IN the senior meet. Smaley, of Cen
tral High, will star in the hurdles and
broad jump; Rodgers, of Northeast will
pace IN the quarter and Hampton, of Cen
tered
Shields, Mercersburg's famous two-miIe
runner, will not be seen here. He is
over the age limit of this meet and cannot
run Tor his school. Shields under unoffi-
eiai timing, ran two miles in 9:39 on the
Mefeersburg Academy track on May g.
which breaks the scholastic record, held by
Ear humphreys, by more than 10 seconds
me schools which will be seen here this
sii. aiIernoon and tomorrow are Mercersburg
nm school, HaverfOrd School, Franklin and
narshall Academy, Erasmus Hall, Newark
sehtral High School. Penn Charter, Episco-
pa, 81 LulSe's Central High, West Phila-
eelphla High, Northeast High, Media High
s"aflhmore Prep and George School