The Washington times., 1918-08-11
NAVY YARD STUNTS
BIG CROWD.
At Central FIELD
By BRYAN MORSE.


There may be some sore navy yard,,
athletes tOday-thAt Is physically tired
and not mentally peeved-otherwsss
everything Is quite up to snun. Ths
wheels viii 90 around quite as usual To-
morrow at Uncle SANS big war factory,
but there viii be considerable tax for
days to come over the big athletic meses
and carnival held in the Central Hxh
School stadium
Considerable handshaking and hack
patting win be Indulged in tomorrow,
and rightly. for the meet was an un.ii
qualified success from the time the .!
platoons drilled. commanded By Lieut..
Robert Kilmartin. q Washington boz
and former Western High School track
star. by the way. to the mad dash Tor
the tape in the final relay. which nsttsd .
Zone No. , win.
Be It known that the Navy Yard n !,
divided into zones. and that each zons
sent in all sorts Of athletes % compsfa )
for the irst prize. Individual winner1
were awarded war savings stamina.
which may not be strictly up to A A. ~
ruling, but the athletes and spectators.
numbering some thirty-nye hundred. I
were out for a good time.
There has been much argument about .
the various crack athletes at the navv ;
yard for some weeks. and the class ~ Z
competition bore out the reservations
r1nisnes were close and hotly contested. 4
Inere were no long waits. no arguments. I,
ana the best Of sportsmanship displayed :
Marines .Driu Wen.
After the marines had shown bow.
wen they could drill under Lieutenant o
Kilmartin's leadership. and the jack
les, arrayed In their white unies. had
drilled and done the setting I'D ex-
ercises to the Playing OF shes the n
Sister Of Rosie O'Grady" By the ma =
rines' jazz band. and Capt A L VII 4
lards commandant Of the yard. had :
said few encouraging words to the =
athletes, the meet was on.
The preliminary meats IN the dashes
drew out SOME ane sprinting. Z. p
GIL OF Zone No. 4, nolsed about ast
the crack sprfnter OF the Atlantic q
Meet, romped in aheA1 In the half CEN
tury. In the fat meas race Berkiey, =
showed some OF the same strff and =
landed a counter for Zone No. I. The
work by h r. Carney. who later ran
a great race for the Seamen Gun--
ners.
Acton Wins 100.
Acton, OF Zone No. 5. was the WIN,
ner In the century, while Gill in a az
great driving, lunging dive at thsZl
finish. won the nfty-yard sack race
from q 1eld OF twenty. Partenneld.3
q. -rAngy youngster, cut on. . bot q
pacs,in the quarter and won in q driv-
ing hnish from Danny Healy, ar
former marathoner Of reputation IaS'
the Carroll Institute distance races.
Murphy and Seaton. hooked up
tightly with handkerchiefs. won out
over a field OF fifteen couples in the
three-legged race. Not content withs
drilling the jackies to perfection.
Chief Gunners' Mate ID. Vandermasts
doffed his duck clothes and appeared
in a natty track uniform to face thg4
going in the fifty-yard dash for men
over forty. He won with something
to spare and then eashed in for sec, q
ond place in the standing broad "
thereby putting some Of the young
sters to shame
NOOnan Heaves shot. .
In the shot-put J. F. Noonan. ofst
Zone No. 6, came through with asai
heave of 46 feet 1 inch and outdis-i
tanced the others. F. Schrider, or
Zone No. 5. was the best OF the jump =
ers and negotiated 5 feet 2 inches. A ssl
double winner for No. 6 was produeedaa55 -
In G. S. Cook, who took the long jumpsfs
and the hop. step and jump. Eight
cen feet two inches was good enough
for a win for Cook in the running Il
broad. while IS feet 5 inches sufficed
for his win in the hop,ste and jump. =
The mile relay race for service
teams found a stirring engagements.
in which the Seamen Gunners came2s
on victorious after Carney had made -
up nearly forty yards for a gruellinge
inish and a victory. Klonield, Broom
and Miller lost steadily for the Gun sSs
ners until Carney took up the run
ming.
The mile service relay brought out
Teams OF eight men each. and thes
Zone No. team won with Clarke -
Young. Fairall. Langley. Gates, ke- =
hoe, Nesley and Beall, running in the
0rder named.
The official count gave Zone No. $50
he victory. with 80 points; No. t,,4
second. with 80; and No. Z, third. with - =,
IS. Zone No. l got II. and No. s, =
10, with No. gaining IL; No. Z;
md the Marines with 4 points.
. The crowd would have awarded
big prize to the naval fyer-name y
ieieted by censOr-who did stunts II
,ver the field during the meet All
he fancy dives. turns and twirls ~ ~
we're offered for a full half hour by
he aviator during the early part OF -