The Washington times., 1918-06-02

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was fired by Bill Foley until the C
hut game, finished up the cartridge
Pelham Bay carried OF top honors
with the Charleston men second. - II
there was a third It was far enough
back to be out Of the running, al
though the Camp Meigs and Fort
Myer lads were prominent with one
or two Washington boys coming here
and there.
OF the individuals, Charles Hoyt, Of
Charleston, who used 70 run hundreds
E for Grinnei College out Iowa way;
William +. Gordon, the former New
York A c. star half miller; George
DeFneli. Of the Boys Club Of Brook
lyn; Roscoe Fades, Of Illinois, and
J. 2. Needs. former Meadowbrook
Club jumper and vaulter. we're al
ways in the hmelight
wen Title Reeently.
Pelham Bay Naval Training Station
athletes, but followed up their win Of
the metropolitan title Of last Thurs
Say IN coming through with q ma.
torify Of the pointa. The Long Island
men presented formidable array Of
ail-afound athletes, who competed in
both the open and service events With
. equal skill They were trained to the
minute.
william T. Gordon. starred in no less
than Eve events. He won the service
and open mile. his little teammats,
Charles Pores, the Millrose distancer,
At his elbow. In the haIf-mile open
Gordon showed the way again, al
.Sbough Rosce~ EadeB, the Charleston
: speed artist, pushed him to 2:O2 for
the distance. Gordon had. stuff
enough 70 run third on the winning
mile relay team, and topped Noff his
Z cperformances by taking a third. in the
. cartridge collecting race, which serv-
Cd as the old-style potato race.
p Charles B. Hoyt won the hundred,
came through a winner in the fuFlong
in creditable time, and with his little
brother. Criss o. Hoyt, six-foot, 2OO-
FOUNDER, earned the win in the rescue
? race, carrying, Griffin across the line
: by Eve yards. The. rescue race was a
distinct surprise, as no one recognized
-Hoyf in his navy uniform for the fly
er who had galloped off with .boehs
sprint eyeptS- ,.
Entered B6t Eight. 4,
Charleston entered but eight men,
qEnd-did well with them. Hoyt and
Griffin took care OF the sprints and
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= second in the half In the high jump
=. J. Needs, OF Charleston, jumped hve
feet clever inches, and was imme-
diateIy placed as the youngster who
Toh the pole-vault at the George
stoN,n meet indoors two years ago.
while the track and field events
were being run off the huskies from
Camp MeiEs and Camp Humphries
toiIed in the sun in the tug-of-war
eYent. Humphries won out after los
Ing the first engagement
- Later Drummer A J. Rau captured |
the bugIe blowing event over a Sc
lected group OF first class men w. |
W. Janish, Of the Bureau Of Yards |
and Docks, won second place. Rau |
drew. rounds OF applause for the
smooth way in which he rendered his |
calls,
In the service hundred Lem Owen,
well known here as an amateur |
baseball pitcher, but now Of the !
Surgeon Generals office, galloped off J
with the event owen showed him /
self to be as good sprinter as he |
Is pitcher although Edward Bisson, ]
OF Camp Humphries, won second |
and W. z. Spellman, eighteen years |
old and the smallest soldier In COM |
petition, gave Owen a real race to !
the tape.
Anderson Jumps Well
Pelham Bay uneorked a fine jump
eT in Anderson, who competed in the
open as weW as service broad Jumps i
and wen both. The Pelham lad leaped
twenty feet ten and a half inches
in his first trial, and that stood for
q win in the open With service
clothes on he sailed out over. eighteen
feet and a half inch OF turf for
win Of that event Needs, of Char
lesion, was second in the service
broad jump. while Frederick, OF the
Personal Ordinance Division, was
second in the open, just half an inch
behind Anderson
In the service furlong event Pei
ham Bay athletes went to the front
again. Mullin won the event, with
Rockford, Of the East Potomac
Guards, second. N Brown, who had
annexed the service half mile, was
third.
Fades Makes Fight.
:. Roscoe Fades. of Charleston, who
made a game night Of it for first
honors against the flying Gordon in
the half mile, showed he was made
OF the right stun by coming right
out for the quarter. Fades made a
great race Of IL against Dale, of
Pelham Bay. and Duffy, Of Charles
ton, by a fine burst Of speed in ffty-
three seconds.
re- Local camp entrants made the go
ing in the high jump. Needs. Of
Charleston. won the open with five
feet eleven, Will Losoher, OF Meigs.
got second. and Jaquette, OF Fort I
NgeE,' third. In the service high
jump Lyons. OF Camp Humphries,
vruu with Ave feet fuo fnehaE yrbfte
Wiggers,- Of ihe Quantico Marines,
was second. and Henke, of Camp
Nelgs. third
AnOtheF Meet Coming
Plans are already under way for
dhotheF bis service meet on July, .
The class OF competition and the in
teFest shown BY the various athletes
after four postpohements is thought |.
70 warrant another set OF games.
The events were run or despite
many obstacles in the way Of be-
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