Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-09
Games Unqualified Success.

MT. Mauer also expressed nope that
Games Unqualified Success.
| Not one fault could be found with
| the games. 1t was meet in which
youthful athletes stroye for honors
in nearly every form of standard
| track and field competition. with all
the attendant medicines of exuberant
thrills and the brilliant efforts OF
stars in contrast to the mediocre hut
Just as laudable performances of less
, capable athletes: il was a meet in
which there were frequently some
1000 or SO spontaneous outbursts in
the stands as some knight of the lists
| carried his colors to ha I'd ca rned vic
tory. 1t was the &C. clubs first meet
| designed as memorial to Emory
Wilson, former principal of the
| school. and the clean sportsmanship.
excellent management and splendid
setting bore perfect testimonial to the
| memory Of the man who so wholly
| embodied the first two of these and
whose hard work was directly re-
sponsible for the third Emory Will
son gave his life to the building of
| the spirit which is Centrars-in fact
! which is more Central than is the
splendid building which houses it
| andthere can be no more fitting me-
| mortal than that which embodies the
principles for which a man has lived
and worked.
And. after all is said and done. when
athletics are stripped of the tinsel
with which they usually are carnish
ed. the truest spirit of sports is to
be found in schoolboy competition. 1t
is there that all the elements of mans
primitive bent are seen; there that
natural spirits come closest to the
/ surface: there that the finest reac-
tons of physical competition are to
be found with little of the business
Hike methods which often mark the ac-
complishments of college developed
athletes.
Just little aside from the descrip-
ton OF the meet is the above. but one
can hardly refuse passing comment
on the one phase of scholastic COM
petition which makes scholastic COM
which it surpasses intercollegiate
competition. and which makes it, to
| many, more interesting.
Gross Of Tech Wins $50.
To Johnny Gross. a Technical High
boy. went the first honors of the day
1t was he who led the biggest field
that has ever started in an SS0-yard
race in local scholastic meet around
the first turn and gradually widened
the gap between him and the next
best man until at the finish he was 4
running easily twenty yards in front
of the next competitor. Gross time
was just fraction of a second worse
than minutes and seconds.
Most brilliant of all the efforts of
individuals in the meet was that of
| Montgomery in the mile run. Run
| ming in second place during the first
| forged ahead at the beginning Of the
third and held the lead. with Creech
| of Stanton running second. just a
yard behind. Both men were out
distancing the other runners and it
was evident that the race was be-
Thorn Of he
fourth lap Creech began to try to
run around Montgomery on the out
side of the curve. but could not make
good until he hit the back stretch
stride for stride with the blue jerseyed
athlete.
The Staunton man gradually bore
| ahead and hit the last curve in the
lead. 1t was here that Montgomery
seemed to be making mistake in
trying to run around his opponent on
the outside Of the curve He could
not get around, but he did hit the last
straightaway stride for stride with
the tall Vfrginian. and just as he had
been overtaken and passed on the
other curve and straightaway SO he
now overlook and passed to the front.
Almost stride for stride the two run
ners fought their way down the first
half of the last hundred yards, but
at the beginning of the last fifty the
Stanton athlete began to feel the
grind and to falter. Montgomery's
sturdy heart and nimble legs were
equal to the occasion and they bore
him on and across the finish line a
winner by scant few feet I'm one of
the greatest of local scholastic miles.
Hugh Johnston of Central was the
fastest man in the dashes. Not only
did he win victory in each of the
100 and 22O yard events but he could
have done the same thing had his
company been much faster.
20 <.H ~
was the best Quarter-miler on the
held. according to the results of that
race. Earman won the event in 531-5
seconds. which, considering the heavi-
ness OF the track. was excellent.
Tech Takes Relay Title.
Technical High won the one-mile
relay championship of the Washing
ton high schools. Tech led in the first
relay, but lost the advantage in the
second. Westerns second runner made
up the distance. and Hartman had
big lead during the first half of the
quarter he ran, but Burgess of Tech
put up such fine race that he started
Cross in the lead as anchor man for
Tech: That settled the event. as West
ern did not have a man in its quartet
who could have overcome the fiying
Manual Training star
81: James School of Hagerstown
captured the south Atlantic prep
Episcopal High won the special race
lot the prep school championship of
virginia, with Augusta Military Acad-
envy as its opponent. Western High
was victor by a wide margin in the
race for Washington high school
freshman tours.
Two recognized records for local
scholastic meets were broken Bentz
OF Staunton smashed the shot-put
mark when he hurled the lead lust
a little more than forty-six feet. and
montgomery set a new figure for the
mile when he hung up minutes
43 20 seconds to his time. Incl
dentaiiy 1t might well be mentioned
ana Jayelin which local schoolboys
may we'll strike to overcome for some
time to come. Those two events have
not been customary in local scholastic
games.
AS has been suggested in a previous
paragraph. there was no particular in
which the meet was not successful
It was well managed. the officials
knew their work and attended to it,
the starting was good. the quality
of the competition and number Of
competitors all that could have been
expected. the hospitality extended by
Central to visitors of the highest or
der. 1t was a good day for Central,
a good day for spectators and ath-
letes. and-what more could be ex-
pected?
The SUMMARIZE,
Central n. 81; second. Sidebotham (Episco-
pal H. 81; third. r. G. Penn augusta M. Al.
Time. O.1O25.
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