The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-31
RECORDS TUMBLE
At TRACK MEET
BrattlebOrO High an Easy
Winner in Field of
Seven Schools
RUTLAND SECOND
AND KEENE THIRD

I.awton Sets New Mark in Shot. Moran
in Vault and Sibley of Keene in High
Jump - Moran Individual Star. Win
ming Six First Places.
Running true to form as in past years,
Brattleboro high again led the way in the
| invitation track meet held Saturday at-
ternoon on the Valley fair grounds, romp-
ing in ahead of the other entries by
big margin. having lead of 40 points
over its nearest competitor, Rutland.
Seven high schools participated instead
of the expected six, Turner's Falls sending
Fan entry list after the list was printed
and sending five contestants. The mai
scores were as follows: Brattleboro,
741a Rutland, 2j12 keene, 10; Hol-
yoke. s; Springfield (Nt), 4; Turner's
Falls, 3; Greenfield, l. 1t was the big
gest meet ever held under Brattleboro
high school auspices. Ideal weather con-
ditions prevailed and a crowd of about
800 persons was on hand. There We're
about 40 participants and % point win
nerS.
Eugene Moran of Brattleboro, who is
but IS years old. had a big day, winning
six frsts with 30 points. breaking one rec
ord and equalng another. The events
which he won were the 10O-yard dash,
broad jump. 220-yard dash. 22O-yard low
hurdles. pole vault and 12O-yard high
hurdles. He tied the record for the 30
yard dash, made in "a seconds in 1918 by
his brother. the late Edward Il. Moran,
and tied in 1919 by BellerOse of Rutland.
In the pole vault he thrilled the crowd
with a sensational vault of 10 feet >
inches, smashing last years record of .
feet 9 inches made by Lawton of Brat
tleboro.' who was then in his junior year.
1t was a remarkable achievement for
high school boy. Moran also had a chance
and doubtless would have broken the rec
ord in the 220-yard low hurdles had he
been pushed bit more. but he slackened
his pace near the finish.
Henry LawtOn of BrattleborO in his
last local meet went after and broke the
shot put record of Al feet inches held by
Merrill Haskell of Brattleboro since 1915
by one foot. putting the crowd on edge.
He attempted to break O'Brien's 40
ward record but the strain of the after
noon told on him and he was forced to
abandon the speed which he carried the
first half of the distance, still he easily
won the event. He was a point winner i'm
six events. standing second in the meet
with 1912 points. He was second in three
events.
Fred Robbins of Brattleboro. who was
third in points won. with a total of Is,
five second places and pushing the leader
hard in some of the events.
Sibley of Keene broke the high jump
record of ) feet 6 inches made in 1914
by Murphy of Bellows Falls by one-duar-
ter of an inch and attempted to go
higher. but could not better his record
breaking jump. He put the rest out Of
business at feet pa inches, but kept on
until he COPIED the record,
To some there was one disappointment
| i'm the meet as they had looked for or
at least hoped for more competition, and
with two unknown quantities in HOlyOke
and Springfield CVt.) they thought that
one or both perhaps could produce some
| thing to make the local boys extend them
selves but neither school had a look in
! finishing low score.
| The competition which developed in the
! local team. however, kept the interest
strong at all times.
The first event, the 100-yard dash, was
a pretty affair and on account of the
/ large entry list the event was run in
| three heats. Moran won the first heat
with Wells a close second, Manfrida of
! Rutland and Alden of Springfield finish
| ing third and fourth. Lawton was the
winner of the second heat, Putney of
keene second, Robbins of BrattleborO
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