The Washington herald., 1917-05-13
CENTRAL Wins ANNUAL
Spring TRACK meet
Blue and White Pushed by Tech for
Athletic Honors.

Central took its second championship
within twenty-four hours by annexing
the annual spring meet in the initia
opening OF its new stadium, one Of the
best equipped for the meet in the South.
The meet was run OF in great style,
competition was keen in every event and
the winner of the meet was not decided
until the last event was over The senior
event was won by Central. a margin OF
ten feet.
Technical High showed Central hard in
every event and had Coach Bill Foley
guessing at all times by springing many
surprises upon his charges Techs fail
ure to win the meet was mainly due 70
its lack OF men entered in every event
virtually every man Of any worth being
sent in two or three events and it great
ly showed upon them, whereas the Blue
and White had enough good athletes 1,
send fresh men in for every event
Carpenter Brothers Score.
The Carpenter brothers scored heavy III
this meet and without the aid OF these
athletes, who came to the front, the
Manual Trainers would not have been in
the runner-up position all through he
meet.
Ben Carpenter surprised his followers
by romping away with the hundred and
getting second in the 20. while his
brother. Herb" got second in the broad
jump. Ben was pushed hard in the hun
dred by sWaine and Mclean. Of Central
who finished in the order named. Nc.
Namara, who was picked to win this
event, finished fourth.
Central scored heavy in the hurdles
capturing first, second and fourth places
while the best that the Manual Trainers
could do was to annex third place. Swain
MCLEAN. Hedian and Stein finished in
the order named.
Sheehan Makes Record.
shehan stepped OF the half mile in
record time for the spring meet in 2:O2 rs
He had things his own way throughout
this event. and would probably have
done better II he had been pushed
Pretty" Gross took second place while
Burgess pulled up in third. making the
first three places for Technical Gerry
OF Central. was fourth.
The Quarter-mile race was closely
fought from the beginning to the end
with all four men punched at the I'm.
ish.
The 30 was a thriller between Latta. OF
Central. and Carpenter. OF Tech, the
former winning by about one yard Nc.
Lean and Ryan finished in the order
named.
Mile Race Closes Day.
In the mile race Alexander took the
lead with the crack Of the gun. and held
it until the end, just breaking the tape
ahead OF Clark, running under Tech
colors. Shoemaker, OF Western. and
Taber. of Central finished third and
fourth.
Country Clark, of Tech. easily won
the shot-put with a heave OF S37 feet
inch, while White took second honors
and Barnes third.
The high jump was the longest event
Of the day. It looked as il Bosley and
Chamberlaine would have to split honors.
but Bosley finally won the event with a
5-foot-2-inCh jump
Sam Soloman captured the broad jump
with a distance of I9 feet 10 inches.
Herb Carpenter was second.
Central had things its own way N tho
pole vault event. capturing first and sec
end places.
The last event on the program. which
was the deciding event Of the day was
easily won by Central, who sent in its
best quartet, while Tech sent in a Grip
pied aggregation.