The Washington times., 1920-05-09
WASH|NGTONLADS
co TO PRINCETON
Sterling Performances In Gen.
trail Stadium Win Trip to
Big Saturday Meet.
By BRYAN MORSE.

hush johnston, BOD montgomery,
willis Kern and l.. b. McFadden. of
Central High School; John Gross, OF
Mckinley. and one or two others will
represent Washington Saturday in the
Princeton tnterscholastic meet at
Princeton, y, J. On the showing OF
these lads yesterday in the &c" Club
meet in the Central High stadium ar.
, rangements have been made TO give
1 Washington boys a chance at Prince
ton.
! The aftermath OF the second annual
Central High Schools meet. which
was most successfully staged by the
"C' Club. reveals several interesting
things. That the AFFAIR was the best
ever held her" for school boys Is the
general opinion. That competition
/ was keen at all times was due TO the
fact that the talent was first class.
No mistakes were made and not a
single criticism was forthcoming as
TO the way the meet was run. Entef-
tainment was lavish, the prizes could
not be improved upon, and even the
weather man. after frowny morning,
was good enough to provide sunshine.
| Staunton Military Academy. with an
/ apparently older and much more cx-
! perienced squad. captured the meet
from Central. Staunton gathered So
points. chiefly In field events; Central
got 26. and woodberry Forest 10.
Eight other schools figured in the
f, point getting.
! Staunton landed the "Pep" cup and
| the Wilson cup, woodberry Forest
| gained the Alumni cup, as Central,
the host school, declined to compete
for the big prizes. Walter Benz, the
giant Staunton schoolboy. won the in
dividual field events trophy with frsts
In the shot discus and javelin. Benz
set record/hgures In each event. Hugh
| Johnston, OF Central won the indi-
vidual track trophy, scoring wins In
the century and furlong dashes.
! Hugh Johnston was pre-eminent In
the dashes and was closely pursued
by willis Kern. Johnston did 10 2-5
, in the 100 and IS l-5 in the furlong.
Earman, Of Woodberry. annexed the
| quarter in 81 1-5. John Gross. of
| Tech. ran a superb race in the half,
| clocking off 2:02:2 and equalling
Mon" Sheehan's time for the record.
| Bob Montgomery. Centrars track
| captain, created new figures in the
mile. making I:i3:2, tho best mark for
the distance since Mike Stuart ran
more than twenty years ago.
Harding. OF Woodberry. with Is Is
| in the 1"0-yard hurdles and Edelson,
| OF Baltimore city. with 2S 30 in the
furlong hurdles, were the best timber
| toppers.
l. Benz's mark of A. feet 4 inches for
! the twelve-pound shot is a new dis
trict scholastic record. and Is entirely
out OF reach of the present crop OF
! District lads. His mark of 10T feet .
/ inches in the discus Is another record.
In the javelin heave Benz did 139 feet
IL inches.
! McFadden. Of Central, proved an eN-
| ceptional performer in the pole and
high jump The Central lad cleared
five feet six inches in the high jump.
! which has not been approXimatcd in
. Washington high school ranks in
! twelve years. In the pole vault Nc
Fadden got ten feet six inches, and
was in n triple tie with Gray, Of
Woodberry, and Growers, OF Staunton.
All of the old grads OF Central
were there. Former star athletes OF
the old school cast envious eyes on
the sprightly performances Of the
they could have done years ago.
The meet was frst-class affair
was we'll patroniZed, and can be
looked forward to az one of Wash
ington's big yearly athletic affairs.
James Sprigman, class OF 81 oi
Central High. one OF the prime mover:
in the &C" Club and at the same timt
"peppy" and perspicacious individ'
ual. delivered himself of the follow
ing: ar some of these Virginia per
formers are schoolboys, then I'm still
in the kindergarten"
Relay honors went to Tech High ir
Ithe big scholastic honor, with west
ern second and Central third. The
time, 3:401, was good. Western
Freshmen were too large for the Cen
trail youngsters. Episcopal easily
trimmed Augusta. and ran in 3;+8.2
st. James defeated Army and Nav.
in 34S.2.