New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-28
YOUNG WEFERS
A REAL CHIP
OFF OLD BLOCK
Son of Famous Splinter
Breaks Record in Annual
High School Games.
BY 4. c. CANAGNAR0.

BY 4. c. CAVAGNAR0.
Proving himself to be q real chip OF
the old block, Bernie Wefers. jr, the
sensational Splinter Of the De Witt
Clinton High School. accounted for the
only new mark established in the thir-
teenth annual track and field high
school championships OF the Public
Schools Athletic League held at Brook
lyn Field yesterday.
The son of the coach Of Columbia
University and the New York Athletic
Club ran away from his opponents IN
the l00-yard dash. winning by more
than two yards. in 1915 seconds This
broke the record Of l0-5 seconds, which
was first set by Arthur b. Cozzens,
then Of Manual Training, back in 1907.
Since then, however, four others have
succeeded in equallng this perform
ance.
Coming out afterward for the go
yard run. Wefers won in canter by
more than eight yards, after setting
killing pace from the start. His time
Of % seconds four-fifths of a second
behind the record was considered
especially remarkable, as the race was
run after a heavy shower had made
the track heavy.
For the first time since the orgsniza-
tion of the league, the team champion
ship fell to Long Island school, Flush
ing High scoring a total OF % points.
This result was attained chiefly through
George Hughes, captain of the team and
star hurdler, who captured both the OBJ
stacle races.
Morris High School. the favorite for
the honors, had to be content with sec
ond place. This team would have en-
joyed better success had not several
of its champion runners met defeat
The Morris High total was "a points.
Eliot Balestier. the schools champion
middle distance runner. who has been
making a clean sweep of his races this
season, met defeat at his favorite dis
lance. Jesse Fleck. record holder at
one mile. also met with reverse.
Stuyvesant finished In third place
with 90 points, while all the other
twelve schools entered succeeded in
getting into the point column. Towns
end Harris Hall entered athletes for
the first time in four years, and Abe
Marks, of that school, finished second
in both the 100 and 220 yard junior
dashes.
Two other athletes also gained two
first places. They were Jim Sinclair,
Of Stuyvesant. who threw the l2-pound
shot 10 feet AZ inches and the discus
l2l feet ia inches, and Eddie Perel-
man, a Morris youth, who captured the
100 and 220 yard junior races.
One of the most thrilling races of
the afternoon marked the running of
the mile. From the start Fleck, Frank
IL Of oh 10,
for the last two years and record hold
er, and Robert Crawford, OF Flushing,
had a hard battle.
On the final lap Fleck went into the
van, but on the first turn of the back
stretch Crawford sprinted ahead. How
ever, he had made his bid too early, as
jenkins passed him coming down the
homestretch and beat him by one yard.
tleck stopped down TO a slow trot some
fifty yards from the finish when he
found he was unable to meet the sprint
of his rivals.
Fleck got his revenge in the half
mile event later, when he defeated
jenkins by five yards. jenkins set the
pace from tie start, and on the final
lap held an advantage of fifteen yards
over Fleck, who followed behind in
third place.
start greatly injured the chances of
Balestier in the quarter-mile. Round
ing the first turn Balestier got into
lam" and before he could recover he
was five yards behind the leader.
The summaries follow:
lO0-ysrd dash 0uniorl-Won by Z. PEREZ.
man. Morris; Marks, Townsend Harris, sec
ond Brinderhof. Newtown. third X.
Pshenitzsky' Stuyvesant fourth Time.
44O-ysrd relay race G0O.pound elassl-
Won by Commercial with Torres. Copelman,
Fileg and Cohen: De Witt Clinton. with
Babushkin. Bingham, Schemel and Tomkins.
second Eastern District. with Landowsky.
SkOnick Blumberg and Gelman, third
Stuyvesant with Tuna. Mcdonald. Katzhow
end Bahck. fourth. Time. 0 :5l l-5.
One-mile run Won by +. Jenkins, Far
Rockaway: X. Crawford, Flushing. second
). Fleek' Morris. third A. Harrson. Bryant,
fourth. Time. IA l-5.
l0o-yard dash-Won by b. Wefers. jr..
De Witt Clinton; Il. A. Austin. Jamaica.
second p. Friedlander New Utrecht. third
c. Gross, Commercial. fourth. Time, 10 l-5.
Pole yault[Won by J.; MeRickard, Flush
ing. with feet: +. Townsend. Flushing.
with feet s inches. second NJ. Callahan,
Bryant. with s feet inches, third
ssO-yard relay race (l20-pound class)-
Won by Morris. with Kamnsky. Reisig.
Schoenholz and Lewis Commercial with
maica, with Carpenter, Thoms, Holt and
kitchenburg. third Stuyyesant. with Kam-
minis. Ladin. Oshinsky and Mesebach. fourth.
Time AZ -.
SsO-yard Won by j. Fleck. Morris
p. Jenkins. Far Rockaway. second Hslsey.
Townsend Harris third n. Callahan. Com
merce. fourth. Time. :05 So.
Running high jump-Won by NJ. Banks.
Stuyvesant. with feet inches Brown,
Jamaica. with . feet inches. second X.
Clark De Witt Clinton. with feet inches,
third c. Kane. Far Rockawsy. with 5 feet
inches. fourth.
Throwing the discus Greek style Won
by !. Sinclair. Stuyvesant. with l2l feet II y
inches r. Reilly. Flushing, with ll6 feet
inches. second j. Armeth. Far Roekawsy.
with lO7 feet, third H. Eisenfeder, De Witt
Clinton, with 50 feet. fourth.
100 yard high hurdles Won by G.
Hughes. Flushing Z. Teaney, Commerce, ,
second $ Smith, Flushing. third +. Mar
bardi De Witt Clinton. fourth. Time, 0 ~ l-5. .
One-mile relay race unlimited weight
Won by Commercial. with kur1man, Bald /
win. Selg and shepard De Witt Clinton. !
with H. Flugel. G.. Geller. Guerriro and W. |
Thompson second Morris. with Dackerill. !
Friedman Silverstein and Boten. third. .
Time. :52 3-5.
22O-yard low hurdles Won by G. Hughes. |
Flushing r. Kennedy. Flushing. second; Z. ,
Teaney. Commerce. third H. Braverman. De
Witt Clinton. fourth. Time. OF 80.
Putting l2-pound shot Won b. J. SIN /
clair. Stuyvesant. with a feet a.. inches /
" Meany. Morris. with - feet inches. sec (
ond j. Armeth. Far Rockawsy. with 20 feet. !
third j. Steinberg. Morris. with 80 feet 81
inches. fourth.
Running broad jump Won by n Brown. +
Jamaica with 20 feet Z inches VI. White +.
house Commerce. with 20 feet g., inches /
second r. Friedlander. New Utrecht. with 4