Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-08
GRADE SCHOOL MEET
TO Be HELD JUNE is
Championships Postponed Until
That Date, as Divisional Con-
tests Are Unfinished.
BY Il. c. BYRD.

Grade school track and field cham
pionships are not to take place tomor-
row. as announced previously. but will
be held Saturday. June 16, one week
later. Holidays broke in so much on
the schedule of divisional meets that it
was impossible to complete them in
time to have the main event as orig
inally scheduled. The first event June
Is is to begin at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing ana the competitions will be run
off thereafter as rapidly as possible
The Garfield Park and Gallinger divi-
s1ons are to hold their meet this after
noon. After that two other divisional
games are scheduled. the Virginia ave-
nue. school being listed to meet Mon
day afternoon and the Georgetown
schools Tuesday.
Individual championships will be the
predomtnating feature of the meet next
week. The boys finishing first, second
and third in the events in the div-
sional competitions Will be eligible for
the titular games.
The games will take place in the Gem
tral stadium. This is the first time
that the grade schools have had such
nne facilities for their championship
meet. ana that alone is producing more
than general interest among the young
athletes. The largest entry list and
the best facilities are sure to cause
about the best meet of this character
the Fairgrounds have ever held
The news of the wounding Of Arnold
Jackson, one of the members of the
English relay team which came over
mere two years ago and won the four
mile championship of the world. will
pc received in this country with more
than regret. The three Englishmen and
the American Rhodes scholars who
comprised the relay team representing
England in the Penn games that wear
made lasting friends on this side of the
water and their victory was not in the
least begrudged. AS a matter of fact.
probably more praise was showered on
them for winning than would have
gone to an American team had a four
wearing the colors of university on
this side of the Atlantic been the vic
done well in the war, as he is men
toned with the rank of major
The wounding of Jackson brings to
mind that it may not be so very long
before the followers of sports on this
side of the Atlantic will be reading
casualty lists in which may be the
names of some of the greatest athletes
In America. AS a matter of fact, it is
almost a certainty that such will be the
case. Among the National Guard Of
hcers and in the officers reserve camps
are thousands of men who have made
splendid regulations in various branches
of sport, and many of them have been
brilliant performers on many varsity
gridirons. The war has not come home
to Americans yet but when the names
that have been by-words in athletics
are mentioned as victims of German
machine guns or German shells they
will awake to the fact that the United
States Is giving up the flower of its
young manhood-undopbte embod-
led in it's athletes-just} as England has
been doing.
The w. B. and A. team is to meet the
Albrecht nine at Naval Academy juno
ton Sunday afternoon. Two contests
are to be played, both being scheduled
games in the Semi-professional League.
The first game starts at o'clock.
Games are desired by the team repre-
senting the Young Mems Hebrew Asso-
citation OF this city. Manager Goldberg