The Washington herald., 1918-06-09
Capture Honors by Scoring
40 Points-Win Half
Mile Relay.
(By "JAD.")

1
peeped over the Eleventh Street wall
at the Central High School stadium
! yesterday morning. 1t is a certain bet
| that the veteran cinder path instruc-
tor would have issued one of his broad
smiles, which are few and far be-
tween. Seven hundred future greats"
of the local graded schools toed the
mark during the four hours which it
took to run of the annual Play
grounds Associations track and field
games. and any lover of athletics was
! sure to feel the thrill of excitement
which came with every finish and
jump enacted by these youngsters.
The meet was one of the most sue
cessful ones ever staged in the Dis
| trict and a great deal of credit in the
smooth manner in which it was ham
died must be given to the committee
! of the association.
The Ross school team captured the
! honors almost in a romp. as they fin
ished twenty-three points in the van
| from their nearest rivals. The Ross
school team waS a well balanced one.
as but four first places were landed
| by them. but their athletes helped to
run up the large total of forty points
by grabbing off second. third and
fourth honors. The Fairgrounds rules
will only allow an athlete to enter
two events, but -he Ross combination
showed enough punch during the rum
ming OF the early dashes and jumps
to make them contenders all the way.
This squad was not satisfied with
carrying off the first honors in the
point list but they scored in the
classic Of the meet when their un-
| limited relay team landed the half
mile relay, after a great race against
the Wallach-Towers, and Force
School teams. In this relay Ross
School was given somewhat of the
breaks of luck as the Powell team
with Galway running in anchor po-
sition was well out in front when
| the stretch run began. 1t could
easily be seen that his lead was
good enough to win but about fif-
| teen yards from the tape Galway
fell and Stewart of the Ross quar-
| tet forged to the front to breast the
wool in first position
The Ross School lis pound RELAY
team captured the honors in this
Quarter-mile event while its two
lighter teams placed in point posi-
tions in the other events. In the
one hundred pound class the Ross
team ran second while third honors
was captured by the IS Founders.
Ross captured it's first point Of
the day when Handy ran fourth in
the 115 pound century but Kern
placed them on the path for the
point honors by landing first place
in the unlimited hundred. Hoke
added five more points to the total
by capturing the lis pound high
jump this being the final first hon
ors captured by the team, but the
pace position in the various other
places helped pile up their total.
The Caroerry School was REPRESENT
ed by a well-balanced team. Although
they failed to land n single first posi-
ton they managed to squeeze over
enough second and third places TO
give them seventeen points and sec
ond honors. while their S5-pound re'ay
ran second to the Toner School. and
the 1l5-pound teams traired Ross
across the line in the quarter-miIe
nike. The Powell and Maury teams
were tied for third place with fifteen
points apiece. while Brent was fourth
one-half point ahead of the Wal
lach-Towers outfit.
Dalton, of the Adams School. gave
! n pretty exhibition of form in landing
the S-pound high jump. when he
! cleared the bar at feet inches
while Reamey. of the walla ach-To,yers
team, out-jumped his opponents in the
unlimited high hurdles by clearing
the bar at feet one inch. The cpn-
sistent work of little Tom Bromley.
OF the Toner relay team, was respon-
sible for this quartet landing the @-
! pound relay. as in his teams heat he
was forced to come from behind 10
win, and repeated this performance in
the final by overtaking a 1O-yard lacd.
/ The summary:
Fifty yard dash. 8-pound class-Won by
Johnson, West School; second. David. Eaton
school; third. Pitts, Carbery School; fourth
Robertson. ludlow School: time, seconds.
sixty yard dash. l00pound class-won by
lgIehardt Brent School: second, Hageage Ad.
olson school: third, Weyl. Cooke School
fourth. Schill, Wallach- Towers School: time
s seconds
seventy-fve yard dash. lis pound class-Won
by Felstein: Brent School: second, Overind.
Maury School; third. Bowen, Brent School
fourth. Handy, Ross School; time, 2-5 sec
onds.
One hundred yard wssh, unlimited class
Won by Kern. Ross school; second. Melton,
fowel school: third. Holcolmb, Force Schol
| other place disqualified time II seconds
High jump. s5-pound ciass-won by Dalton.
Adams School; second. Nalley, Maury School
third. Walton. weightman School: fourth. tie
between Dickson Of Wallach-Towers School and
fungkwai. Of Eaton School; height, feet
! inches.
High Jump. 1oopound ciass-wou by Edelin,
rowen school; second, Duncan, Milton School
tnirn. Babson. Ross School: fourth. Ricks.
Careey School; height, 4 feet 81 inches.
High jump llSpound class-won by Hoke
hos School; second. 'supplee. Carbery School
third, Marks. Ross School; fourth McNalley
Brown School; height. feet 81 inches.
Hlgn jump unlimited class-won by Reamey,
Waiiach Towers School: second, tie
between A., Small Of wallach-Towers School
Stewart, Of Ross School. and Harsend, Of
Boss School; height. feet inch.
Broad jump. s5-pound ciass-won by Twee
dale. wheatley School; second. Booth, Roe.
school; third. Rasey. -Carbcry School; fourth
Conner. Powell School; distance. Il feet III;
inches.
Broad jump. loo-pound class-won BY W.
Udeibrick. Addison School; second. johnson,
Ross School; third. Hayden. Corcoran School
fourth. Aubinoe. Thomson School: distance. Il
feet 81 inches.
Broad jump, 1ispound class-won by simond