The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-18
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WAR ENLISTMENTS
Many Were Cited for Bravery
and 1873 Received French
CroiX de Guerre.

AT the sixteenth annual meeting OF
the Public Schools Athletic League last
wednesday Gen. George W. wingate
president of the league since its In
auguration, pointed out TO the board OF
directors. the part the p. g. A. L. had
played In helping win the war.
In his address to the delegates Presi-
dent Wingate said that when this coun-
try entered the war 26,l67 boys. al
Joined some branch OF the United States
service. These lads, who had received
their early athletic training in the
league. Gen. Wingate continued. were
found In far better physical condition
than those boys In other parts Of the
country who had not received such
training. AS a result they became EN-
Gent soldiers in a much shorter period
than the unframed boy.
or the twenty-six thousand league
boys who answered their country's call
4Ss were killed in action and sic
wounded. One hundred and ninety
three OF these boys were cited for excep-
tional bravery, 1913 received the Dis
ttnguished Service Medal and ~ the
French Croix de Guerre. This, Gen.
Wingate said was record which no
other schoolboy athletic league In the
country could equal.
De Witt Clinton High School led the
other schools of the league in the num-
Der OF enlistments. Thirty-one teachers
and 1927 former Red and Black pupils
entered the service. OF this number
twenty-five were killed and thirteen
wounded. -Four former Clintonites won
the Croix de Guerre. Curtis High School
was second to the Manhattan school with
ga members in the service. Curtis lost
ylNt nf
Kept Cp Good Work.
Although much difficulty was expert
enced by the league during the war in
obtaining instructors, rifles, Ammunition
and athletic pharaphernalia, the y. s.
A. l. during 1918 instructed 125. 900 boys
and girls, as against 10000 students in
1907. During the war the league sup
piled twenty-six subtarget gun machines
to the schools at cost OF s270 each
Fourteen OF these guns We're donates by
S. r. Guggenheim. the leagu~'- : cas-
urer. besides n large numhe- rifles
and practice rods
Treasurer S. r. GuRgenheIrn' report
sttested to the good financial stI-oding of
the league. Mr.. Guggenheim show cd
that the league had a bank balance Of
S5.i99.T6 and plso a reserve fund Of
$4,000 received through the legacies
from Col. Robert u. Woodward and Au-
sustus c. Brown.
The members OF the board of direc-
tors, all OF whom were reelected to serve
for the next three Years were Egerton
l.. Winthrop, Jr Judge Victor j. Dow
ling, Gustave Straubenmuiler. Rodman
Wanamaker. Herman A. Metz. Frederic
Lewisohn, q. Randolph Manning, MIi-
lam g. Wilcox. Thomas r. Ryan,
Thomas W. Churchill, Clarence S. NY
ers Edward J, OConnell. Gen. George
w. Wtngate. Francis J, Paul and Will
lam II. Andrews.
At the recent championship boxing
tournament conducted by the High
School OF Commerce Robeson won the
lightweight crown, while Kopchefsky
captured the iiywelght title. The touS-
nament, which was the first to be con-
Quoted by any local school, proved 30
successful that the T. ). A. l.. il seri-
ously thinking of conducting similar
tournament in all the other schools.
The Roosevelt Athletic League, COM
posed of Public Schools Nos 20, Il. %,
10 and 49, will stage It's annual indoor
track and field championships In the
Seventy FIRST Regiment Afmory on Fri
Dan Hay, Erasmus Halls star pitcher.
is lost to the Buff and Blue nine for the
remainder of the season. Hay received
n broken ankle IN the recent game with
New Utrecht, which will keep him out
of the game for some time
Coach Bernstein OF De Witt Clinton
II. s. track team announces that Billie
FeTtstein viii take the place on the mile
relay team vacated by Larry Hordes.
Hordes was recently declared Ineligible
by the faculty.
The competition in the coming New
ark High Schools Athletic Asso,lation'a
annual track and held championshlps at
City Field, Newark, on May 20, Is ex-
pected TO be keener and more interesting
than ever before. Central. Barringer and
South Side high schools are expected to
have a close battle for the team title.