Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-20
SPORTS
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
CAPTURES TEAM TROPHY
Athletes From Tall Building Lead
Competitors in Bank Track Meet.
Barrett individual Winner.

RichmondS First Annual BANK
ing the leading financial institutions
of this city was held last night in
the Richmond Grays Ar!nory. under
Ne auspices OF the Richmond Chapter.
In erican Institute Banking.
after the starters gun had been
fred for the last time, end the clerk
of the course had completed his res
team point trophy; August Barrett. OF
the Federal Reserve Bank. had won
the individual point trophy Tor tSe
men; Miss Anne l.. Gregory. OF the
iSirst National BANK, became the pos
SCISSOR Of the womeu's silver trophy:
and Edward Whitney. of the AHeri-
can National. and l.. l.. Ware, q Plant .
ers' National. mad tied for the boys
Il was the first time In four years
;l;at Il similar event had heen onered
: cd 10 Overlooking and the crowd
assembled 10 the floor. several times
during the night il was necessary 10
stop the procedure in order to force
the crowd back over the lines. Every
event passed of without q hitch. ant,
officials of the meet were compliment.
Cd on every side for getting the crowd
away from the armory as soon as theE
did.
Three Teams Evenly Matched.
Throughout the entire evening To-.
lowers Of the athletes let ioosa ana
cheer after cheer resounded an
out the ar,nory as one Of the athletes
breasted the tape first. or cleared the
bar. e Throughout the entire meet
First National. Federal Reserve anrt
the Merchants National teams battied
evenly and athletes OF these inst.tN-
tions gam-ly contested ever po!n,,
but the boys and girls OF the tan
narrow margin OF four poin:s over
The. Merchants team. 49,. ,,,e
No records were smashed. but ths
TING in several OF the events was good
considering the cement base of tue floor
'ThSee Athletes. ollie pevine. of Mcr,
chants; Gus Barrett; Of EeGeral f nma
ushed the real feature Of the evening
in the battle for the individual trophy
Barrett won over MS cc sJn .9 , s !,
and the high jump and finishing Seeon"
in the fiftyyard dash
Jennings running in the mile an"
the half-in!lc cNcntS WAS the real leu-
ture OF the evening. lie captured iirS'
place i'll the half-Inile run with corr
parative ease and came back Tor the
mile run and repeated his performance
in IT, In this latter event he allowed
l,endlcton, u Merchant cntrant. to keer
the lead for a major portion or the
race and then lie turned loose ms re-
Girls l;>*nts Interesting.
While events for the men attrar,on
considerable attention those OF the boys
and girls were interesting and closely
contested. Tie silver trophy Tor tae
winner among the boys remained un-
awarded, as EuW1IN HiNlltS, VI -Nli'e' :
lean National, and l.. J.. Ware, OF lihn :
tiers. We're tied with five points each.
Miss Anne l.. Gregory, OF First Ma
tional, won the Individual trophy Tor
the girls by securing ten points.
Church iIill Athletic club and John
Marshall High school We're the VII,
ners in the tNo added relays. Tho
East End team won FROM the knights
of Columbus, while John Marshall de-
feated an independent team. Both wih-
ncrs were forced TO overcome leads.
Individual point winners iol!uw.
Barrct. Federal Reserve. .......... !
Dcvine. Merchants National. ......,.,...l 10
Jennings First National .............. J .
Miss Gregory. i'irst National! ~
word SAVINGS Bank OF Nichmond -.... I.
!. l.. ware. Planters SEa,lo,.al '''' -
y. w. Allen. Merchants National 49,. ,
Edward Whitney. American National. .
Nary +. Carter. Merchants Sa;ional.....
w A Rose, state and city. ........-.... y
Annie Fecncy. Federal E.scry"........ ;
Robert Parsons. f'irst Natlona! -,...-'.. >
J. r kl!sc. STATE an.l City. )
Robert l.. brown, American Natlona -. .
g. C. lawrence. American National! ... 3
II W Tayio!. Planters Ma tlOHJi. :
J.. III. Smith sta - ana CIV. :-......'
George L. hiise. Lr: First National !
Marion Wharton. First National ......-
Edward a. IacEry. FRS; Eat!onai
~ l.. Zcisicr. Merchants National. ]
charles r Fox. First National. ........ !
W ". BAILEY. FeGersl E"seFv.......-...
Total .........-... --.''' ...'-''' 80 i'7