The sun., 1919-03-23
SELLERS HANGS UP
NEW 1000 YD. TIME
Wins Feature at Central High,
Newark, Games From
Homer Baker.
MIKE DEvANEY FOURTH

Jack r. Sellers Of the New York Ath-
letic Club, the national senior indoor
900 yard champion. last night won the
1000 yard Metropolitan championship
run, the feature of the seventh annual
indoor games Of the Central High School
Of Newark in the First Regiment
| Armory in Newark.
| The winged Foot athlete, besides. an
nexing the title In sensational man
| ncr. established . new record for the
distance. Sellers completed the 1000
yards in the fine time of 2 minutes IS LIS
seconds This was Just . As seconds better
than tho record made by Mike Devaney
Of the Millrose A. A, and only Alb
| seconds slower than the American rec
ord held Jointly by the late Johnny
overton OF Yale and Joie Ray Of the
| Illinois A. c.
| Homer Baker Was Second.
| Sellers won the event by Ave yards
over Homer Baker Of the Glencoe A. c.,
who finished second. Newton r Brown,
| Jr., an unattached runner finished third,
ten yards behind Baker. while Mike
Devaney Of the Millrose A A., the for
mer champion. was fourth.
| Tho other starters were ]. ]. McAuley
| Of the knights OF st. Antony of Brook
1 lyn, A. H. Dolder of the West Side
Y. NJ. c. A. and H. Browser OF the
Brooklyn A A.
| At the crack OF the starters gun
went to the front and set a terrific pace
for the first two laps with Sellers run
ming second, Baker third and the rest of
the field punched. about i've yards be-
hind the leader. Dolder. At the start
Of the third lap Dolder appeared tired
and started to drop behind. while the
Winged Foot athlete VAS coming strong.
| u was at this point that Sellers went to
the front. with Baker hanging close on
to his heels.
For the next two laps Sellers hit up a
hot pace. which had the other athletes
used up when the time came for the Anal
squirt. On the Nth lap or the sem-final.
when Sellers was leading Baker by about
a yard, the Glencoe runner tried hard to
pass Sellers, but to no avail. Sellers
was in the front and there to stay.
Tried Again vainIy to Pass.
On the final lap Baker started another
sprint in an effort to get past Sellers
but again he was checked. About fur
long from tho tape Sellers uncorked a
wonderful squirt and broke the worsted
Ave yards in front of his rival, Baker.
Baker ran a good race, but not as good a
one as did Sellers.
Sherman Landers, the University of
Pennsylvania sprint champion. won the
10 yard handicap low hurdles race from
a select field OF timber toppers He was
| allowed a three foot start and won the
event by a yard from A. p. Roberts of
Stevens Tech. who had a handicap OF
ten feet. William z. Massey OF Prince
ton finished third and w. II. Bratten
Of the Knights OF st Antony OF Brook
| txryx 80 q
seconds was only one-ffth OF a second
slower than the American record held
by John ]. Eller OF the Irish Ameri-
can A C.
Lincoln Adams OF Hill School OF Penn
| sylvania hung UP a new interscholastic
half mile record when he captured that
event In minutes seconds. The
Quaker City lads time was two and
one-hfth seconds better than the record
made by A. Swede of Mercersburg
Academy last year. Adams won the
event easily, leading from start TO finish
, and breasting the tape ten yards in
front
D. Caprio OF Central High School of
Newark annexed the 10 yard inter
| scholastic championship run in the fine
time OF AS seconds, while J. Boone Of
Hill School captured the 20 yard high
hurdles interscholastic championship.
New York Wins Relay.
New York won the intercity relay. 1t
was represented by E. Hosmer, Glencoe
A c.: Jack Sellers, New York A. c.; ].
J. O'Brien. Loughlln Lyceum. and Ho-
mer Baker of the Glencoe A. c. Phil
adelphia finished second and Newark
! was third.
The Quaker City quartet was cap
tanned by Ted Meredith. His teammates
I raj ~ IL
er-milers-Brown, Davis and Fee
rick.
| The race was n hummer and went TO
New York after hard struggle At the
end of the contest O'Brien, anchor man
on the Gotham team, was only yard In
front of Meredith. Meredith showed
only a trace OF his best form. He start
ed five yards behind O'Brien. but the
best he could make up was four He
Jagged near the end and acted as II no
were short OF work
The national irterscholastic title went
to Central High School of Newark Its
representatives scored 90 points Hill
School Of Pottstown, Pa, was second
with IL and Dickinson School of Jersey
City and East Orange High School were
tied for third with each.
The summaries:
7o-Yard Dash. Interscholsstic Cham
s.: II. Behr, Dickinson II s, second; Z.
Hosmer. De La Sale Institute, third; c.
McKim. Barringer II. s., fourth Time,
As seconds.
70-Ysrd High Hurdles Race. Interschol-
asttc Championship-Won by J. RippAl.
South 1stde II, s.. Hrphei GsSt-al II 80
second; r. Thret66rey, Central IL s.
third; Boone. HiIl school. fourth. Time,
! 10 seconds.
7O.Yard Low Hurdles Handicap "a. A.
C)-Won by sherman LRnders, Univer-
sity OF Pennsylyania teeO; A. T. Ro-
z. Massey. Princeton % feep, third; W.
II, Bratten. knights ST, Antony (l1 fesp,
fourth. Time. as seconds
! s0o-Yard Hun, Irterscholast!c Cham
pionship-won by Lincoln Adams, Hill
school; Milton Richmond South side II
s., second: c. Stuart Beattie Central H.
g.. third; I. Roth. stuyvesant H. s.,
fourth. Time, 2:02.
l.Ooo-Yard Run, Metropolitan Cham
pionship-Won by jack r. Sellers. New
second; Nowton Brown. Jr., unattached.
| third; Nike Devaney Mlllrose A. A.,
fourth. Time. 2:isl-5 NEW record).
220-Yard Dash, Interscholsstic Cham
pionship-won by Daniel Caprio. Central
II. s.; r. Rlodgett. Dickinson H. s.. sec
ond; C. schley, East Orange II. s., third.
Time. ~ seconds.
Two-Mile A. a. U. Hsndicap-Won by
carmine Cornetta, Psulist A. C.; Max Bob
land, Paulist A. C.. second; John Costello,
Paulist a. C.. third. Time, s;4s4-5.
Won by D. Bush, East Orange II. s.; c.
g. Beattle. Central II. s., second; A. Tracy,
Flushing II. s.. third. Time. 4:l6 As
one Mile, Inter CITY Relay-won nv