The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-21
By SPEED.

Last spring Al Anderson, a local business man. offered his services gratis to coach the Hilltop track team. Lack of coaching was given as the reason for the lapse of the running game in the High school for the last six years. Anderson, who formally ran in High school and col lege, proved to be a master coach of the athletes on the cinder path for after having charge of the B. H. S. track team for two weeks the squad journeyed to Waterbury and was de- feated by the Brass City boys by the, narrow margin of three points. In t-June the Red and Black cinder paC- CTS entered the Yale Interscholastic meet. copping third place. About 50 schools were entered in the meet. In the fall, recognizing the inn portance of the gridiron game, An derson did not call for any of the for mer tracksters to leave football but whipped into shape cross country team which entitled itself to the state i championship by defeating Choates, l reputed to have one of the strongest l hill and dale teams in the east. Two
 weeks ago the team journeyed to l Gotham but were unable to make any showing because several members
 were made ineligible by the faculty | on account of studies and the large
 number of entries of other schools. | Coach Anderson donated trophy
 ito be contested for annually in the
 spring by the different classes This
 |. Iphy stands about two feet high | and was won for the first time last
 June by the present senior class. S5ane Shows Up.
 Matty Skane is perhaps the best
 n'ile run record by two minutes 56 Black. In training this fall the
 swift junior broke the New York
 Interscholastic Cross Country 1-2
 seconds. crossing the final chalk
 mark in 14 minutes 25 seconds. Skane copped second place in the l Yale mile run last June and also in | 1-2 mile at Choate. He was the | only local student to register any points in New York.
 Johnny Fitzpatrick provd to be a
 7ong winded pacer. and 5copped first place in the Choate meet this year
 thereby earning his "B.''
 Leo Griffin, a new track man is
 clim bing into the upper ranks. Grif-
 fin has not shown much to date but
 has a pretty step and V1eS with Skane
 and Fitzpatrick.
 , GALBATTTI LEADS SHORT RUNS. Lou Galbiatti star of the gridiron is leading AIl others in short distance runs. acing a hundred yards in 10 second flat.
 sDud" saur, who has been prom nentIy mentioned to lead the Hilltop eleven next season is also fast 10C varder, running 10 2-5 second in the ! Dewitt Clinton heats last week. | Quigley is A good all around mar | and showed up fine in the Yale mee
 last year. Quig led the mile relay in Gotham until he was purposely l ripped.
 : The two 300 yard men who wear
 the local colors are Amse1 and Hop
 kins.
 2 Saur. Wales, and Berkwit are try = ing to establish records with the T. t fb shot Saur shows promise witt ! the shot while Berkwit is leadir: = Wales who has been the n1ainstay c | the Hilltops for the past year. Berk
 wit has trained but one week and l n pushing the oval to 3S-66 it. whil S the New York records call for 4
 Jepson and sturr control tn
 i jumping game. Sturr will start t t train after the holidays, but Jepso! = | will be unable to come out befor
 March having already allied himsel S with the basketball team. I, George Warrick. formerly connect '' ed with the A. F. F., is considered a
 | fair short distance man. Marty Ryan also of gridiron fam l. and Earl Lyons are considered a - almost unbeatable pair of 22O var e runners.
 'f Chopski is a strong long distanc II man along with Saga1 and Bruce wl1
 are showing good work in the hi
 and dale game
 It The Hilltop relay team is compose st of Quigley, skane Fitzpatrick, Am l. sell Galbiatti and Griffin
 g A peculiar thing is that only si
 men were available to form eros
 country team and six entries are re J. quired for each race but the Hilltop er overcame this barrier in defeatin le Choate.
 his squad will make showing in th