The Washington herald., 1921-02-27
Central High Leads Field
: In Interscholastic Run
Through. Ability of
Melton as a Sprinter.
Many Crack Athletes
Compete.
BY n NJ. HELGEsEN.
Herald star Corre.psndent.

BALTIMORE. Nd. Feb. 2s. =
washington athletes literally ran
away with the Johns Hopkins-Fifth
Regiment sixteenth annual indoor
track and field meet tonight in the
Fifth Regiment armory. George
town easily winning the South At
lantic intercollegiate championship
and Central High School taking Into
scholastic honors in a close ield-
Johns Hopkins won the open
championship with fifteen points.
Princeton followed with nine. Mea-
dowbrook Club, Of Philadelphia;
Georgetown. Lafayette. Staunton
Military Academy each six; Baiti-
more Cross Country Club and uni
versity of Virginia, hve; Delaware
College, four; Washington and Lee
and Penn State and Yale, three; and
Rutgers. one. Georgetown's inter-
collegiate point total was nine !;
Hopkins, eleven: Washington and
Lee. nine; Virginia, seven.
Tonights victory gives George
town the South Atlantic Champion
ship for the second year in sue
cession. the Hilltoppers having mar
rowly defeated Johns Hopkins last
year.
LeSendre, Hilltop star, was the
individual high point winner of the
meet, while E. f. Melton of Central
High school. hitherto an unknown
quantity in scholastic track ranks,
ran away from his field in the in
ter-scholastic hundred-yard dash.
winning his qualifying heats. easily
and absolutely outclassing the field
in the finals. Hugh Johnston. Cen
trails crack captain, ran third to
Johnston.
Athletes from all parts of the
country participated in the games.
Georgetown. represented by Legen-
DIRE, Jimmie Connolly, Werts and
Petty walsh. was forced to compete
against some of the classiest track
and field stars in the East, but all
of them came through with flying
colors.
Central won the interscholastic
title by a single point. Melton's
FIRST and Johnston's third In the
hundred. and Shipley's second in the
scholastic eight-eighty. giving them
nine points. while Baltimore City
College, runner-up. was able to get
but eight in the school events. Fol-
lowing came Harrisburg Tech with
uNc pOlnlSs bpiSCOpal IlA6h OCHOOA'
of Alexandria, with three: Western
High School. of Washington, and
woodberry Forest with one point
each
Connolly Easy Winner.
LeGendre and Connolly failed to
break any records in winning their
events. but both showed great
flashes of speed when necessary.
wonderful showing in the one-mile
South Atlantic when he toyed with
his deld for six laps, walking away
from the other seven starters IN the
fnal laps. Connolly showed by his
work tonight that he must have
been considerably on form in the
events in which he participated in
the North. as he was never in dan
ger in the mHe and faced practically
as stiT opposition tonight as he did
IN New York and Boston except in
matct races.
The work of Bob LeGendre carried
the Hilltopper5 to victory. as he
won three evenI3. two of them on
the track and the other the South
Atlantic 16-pound shotput. LeGendre
put the shot IS feet and Z inches
~ Win HIS nearest COmDeIlIOr,
Sweeney. also of Georgetown, by
nearly 8 feet.
Legendre took the South Atlantic
hundred from q classy field in 10 as
running from scratch. He was cas-
lily the class Of the field both in his
qualifying heats and in the finals
and showed that the injury which
he suffered to his leg during the
football season has not affected his
speed In any way. Baker, of the
University of Virginia, ran second
to Bob In this event but never at
any time did he have a chance to
win from the flying Hilltopper.
The Hilltop flyer showed real
class in winning the 100-yard low
hurdles In this event he faced the
strongest competition of the night
and was forced osgo at top speed
In both his heats and in the finals.
In the final LeGendre got away
to q bad s.art. He was forced to
slow up at the first jump and at
the half way mark was a bad third
to Mallory and Pierce. of Washing
ton and. Lee However. he flashed
a great burst of speed and went
over the last hurdle on even terms
with Mallory and won in the stretch
"cNon frOtc8 Surprise.
Undoubtedly the most surprising
feature of the games from a WASH
ington standpoint was young e. e.
(Dynamite) Melton's easy victory
in the scholastic hundred. Dyna-
mite ran the first heat and his
seminal In ordinary time. which
however. would have been much
faster II he had stopped looking
over bis shoulder at the field.
But the nnals developed the big
surprise
Pitted against some of the class
lest school dash men in the South,
Melton ran his race like q veteran
and absolutely outclassed the entire
field winning by six yards. The
fact that he easily defeated John
ston. considered the best sprinter
in Washington high schools shows
the boys class.
johnson started from the half
yard mark while Melton got away
from the three-yard line but '.Dyna-
mite"s opened at least q six-yard
hole st the finish more than making
up his handicap. Nations time.
1000 nat was . full second faster
than LeGendre's in the intercolleg-
late Hundred and q second slower
than the winners in the open event.
1oo-yard dash open finals-Won
by A Leceny, Lafayette; Cowles,
Yale; Wertz. Georgetown Time.
e;1o Is.
1oo-yard dash scholastic finals
Won by Z. e. Melton. Central High;
Js~C. scormick. Episcopal High; H.