Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-06
CARL BECK IS
STAR ATHLETE
Wins Four Prizes at Cham
pionship Games, Keeping
= Tech High ON the Map

Carl Beck, Techs best all-around
athlete, proved his superiority Sat
urday morning at the annual inter-
scholastic track and field champion
ships of the Middle Atlantic states
by scoring seventeen points and car
rying off the individual honors from
big field of stars. He wassthe only
Maroon athlete at Philadelphia, vet
his great work placed Tech third in
the final results.
Cuckoo" won the high hurdles in
II seconds fiat; won the low hurdles
IN 26 4-5; tossed the twelve-p pound
shot 46 feet. 2B inches, and landed
third place in the broad jump. He
was easily the star of the meeting,
and his work surprised the Philadel-
phla critics. The meet was held un-
der the auspices of the University of
pennsylvania, and the best schoolboy
athletes of the East gathered to the
meet
Beck easily won the honors with
ms seventeen points. Davis, a Mer-
cersburg lad, was second with thr-
teen points Mercersburg tailed in
all ffty-five points; st. Benedicts
school, of Newark. was second with
eighteen points. Beck came in third
with seventeen. Had others of the
Tech athletes entered the competi-
tion. the local school would have
been sure to have at least won sec
ond place. Last year at Easton, with
half of the squad, Tech tied MERGERS
burg for second place, being nosed
htr fNYyA a.
Decoration Day Tech will have a
chance to even the score with Mer-
cersburg, as both schools are repre-
sented in the Lafayette meet.
Beck is a sophomore at Tech, and.
with two years more of high school
competition in high school sports, he
should have enough medals to go
into the jewelry business. Last year
as freshman he made the football,
basketball and track teams and was
the champion wrestler of the school.
This year he has played on all of the
athletic teams, and will undoubtedly
have the largest number of ITS" ever
won by any other student.
Last Thanksgiving he scored six
touchdowns against Central in the
final game between the two schools.
As a member of the basketball quin-
tet that won the. Central Pennsylva-
mia inter-scholastic basketball cham
pionship, he scored a greater num-
Der of goals from his guard position
than did all of his opponents from
forward. On the track team last
spring he was an all-around star in
half dozen events. He holds the
school record for the shot put, high
and low hurdles. In the Pennsylva-
MIA high school meet on the Island
last spring he scored four firsts, two
seconds and ran a quarter mile on
the winning relay team.
The only sport in which Beck has
not won a "T" is in baseball, for
the reason that the Maroon school
is not represented by regular team
on the diamond at the present time.
However, he can take a turn at the
great national game and has signed
with the Hick-A-Thrift team of the
Allison Hill League. Tuesday even
ing he will hold down third base for
the Washburn aggregation against
the Rosewood aggregation at Seven
teenth and Chestnut streets. Clar-
ence Beck. brother, graduated from
Tech two years ago, the most popu-
lar and best athlete ever to go from
Tech. The older lad went to State
College. where he captained the
State freshman eleven. Then he en-
tered the service of Uncle Sam and
was assigned to the Usaac camp at
Allentown. At once he was elected
captain of the Usaac eleven. Both
brothers have their following, and
any time you want to start an ar
gument just ask the question as to
which is the better athlete of the
Beck boys.