The Washington herald., 1919-07-09
|CHIEF OF navy
TO SEE MEET
Daniels and Other Officials
To Be Guests at
Yard Games.

Track athletes sporting the colora
Of Uncle Sans navy are awaiting
the sound of Starter H. C. Byrd's
gun, which will send them into COM
petition In twenty-five events sched-
uled to be held Saturday afternoon
at the Central High School stadium.
when the Navy Yard branch of the
Government Recreation League will
hold its second annual track and
field meet Harry La Claire. chair
man of the games, is enthusiastic
at the large number Of entries
turned in to date. 1t is his belief
that by Friday, when the entries
close, the number will far surpass
that of last season.
Eight zones from the naval gun
factory will be represented. includ-
ing the Seamen Gunners' School and
the United States Marine guard, sta
toned at the Eighth street naval
post. Secretary of the Navy Daniels.
along with the officisls of the Navy
Department. will be a guest of the
occasion. while Admiral A. w. Grant.
comma andant OF the Washington
Navy Yard. along with his stsff, will
act as honorary referee and commit
tee. The morale division of the Navy
Department has been invited. and
will attend in a body.
The twenty-five events which will
be featured with races kor the yeo-
man UD are as follows: 100-yard
dash. 5o-yard dash tyeomen -, B.
legged race. 50-yard dash (men over
IS years of age). 12o-yard low hur-
dies. sack race. 22o-yard relay IS
yeomen ~. 220-yard dash. 5o-yard
dash. 50-yard low hurdle (yeomen
~, ss0-yard run. 50-yard dash (boys
under l6 years of age). 5o-yard dash
(girls under 16 years of age). shot
put. standing broad jump. standing
high jump, running broad jump. run
ming high jump. ball toss tyeomsn
~. pole vault and relay race four
men from each zone).
The committee in charge of the
games art Harry LaClsire. chair
, man; William Mcintosh, track
events: II. A. Hogan. field events
and B. ]. Doyle, entries.
The judges for the events are
William G. Belts. chief judge: D.
VI. JdChs r. v. NC
! Lane and T. A. Seigfried. judges OF
track events: L. Davis, B. w. Bal.
linger and A. Martin. judges of fieId
events.
Public comfort-Chairman Frank
Goodman; J. w. Osman. ]. B. Post
w. c. Williams, Ralph Sharp. A..w
Sherer. William Wilson. w. S
| Schrout. A. Tietz, A. Fallon. Z. II
Tyler. Robert Dick. James Bombrest
, w. III. Huttle, w. E. zimmerman and
n. d. Ward.
Building and grounds-Samuel
Peake. chairman; Sylvesta Peake
Raymond Bates, william Thompson
Warren Peake and Miss Mary Nc.
Kee.
Prize committee-R L. Smithsor
/ and w. E. Mack.
nvitation-Capt. Parker. l. X
Lewis and James Donley.
| Publicity-David Hoderster anc
j. B. Dexter.
Decoration and badges-E H. Ty.
Ter. J. ]. Meekison, Charles Mentges
w. Z. Furgeson and Whitley Martin
wtlter-weight champion puglistic
OF the United States navy.
Starter. II. c. Byrd: scorers, Bryan
Morse, s. J. Gass and John A. Dugar
and Marshall Frank Goodman: time.
Keepers. James ]. Hughes. jaime.
Cullen and Charles A. Miller.
All prizes for the events will h,
awarded in war savings and thrift,
stamps. First place winners will b,
given IS in war savings stamps
while second and third will be
awarded 50 and 81 thrift stamps
respectively. The yeoman (f) will
De awarded IS in stamps for each OF
the winning places in their various
events. while the winning relay will
De awarded with the same numeral
| stamps. The boys and girls races
VIII draw thrift stamps as prizes.