Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-12
PLANS ARE ADOPTED
FOR TWILIGHT MEET
Meeting Under Auspices Conn.,
munity Service Adopts Rules
for Contests Next Week.


inter-club twilight field meet to be
held on Wednesday and Thursday OF
next week on the Pennsylvania Rail
road Field. Final plans for the con-
tests were adopted at an enthusiastic
meeting OF representatives of the
various organizations of the city IN
the rooms of the Community Service
in the du Pont Building.
II was decided that all entries VIII
have 10 be turned in at the Com
munity Service headquarters by
p. m. next Monday night, July 1S
The meet was planned to be held this
week. but as some of the organiza-
tions had not had sufficient time for
the selecting of candidates, 1t was
decided to delay the meet until next
week and permit entries TO be filed
up to Monday night.
James T. Godfrey, who has taken
an active interest in track and field
athletics. presided over the meeting
held last night and injected much en-
thusissm into the discussion of the
various points as they were brought
up. The organizations at the meet
ing and their representatives were as
fc..ows: Seventh Ward A. G.. Charles
Dougherty: Coyne Neighborhood As
socistion. Thomas Mckelvey; Peoples
Settlement. George Ayars: Keystone
Field Club. Olen Hackett: Y. NJ. c. A..
II w. Loose: Delaware a. c.. George
A Smith: ST. Mary's A. A. L. F. Nay
lor: Defiance, Raymond Corrigan
The events planned for the meet
are as follows: One hundred yard
dash, 220-yard dash. sS0-yard run
mile run. three-mile run. one-mile re-
lay, running high jump. running
broad jump. pole vault, shot put. dis
Gus. javelin. The meet will be twi-
light affair and will start at 6 y. M
each evening. two evenings being re-
uuired for the completion of all events
Points will be five for first, three for
second and one for third place.
II is planned TO hold another similar
meet in August and these two meets
viii serve to bring out material for
the State athletic championships
which will take place at the State
Fair gro -nds in September
Various prizes will be offered to the
winners in the different events j. T.
Godfrey announced that contestants
viii be allowed TO file entry from only
one club. +. Nichols, 23I9 Tatnall
street. n half mile and mile runner.
who has not been connected with an,
athletic club, filed application and
was advised to become attached to one
of the local organizations.
Entries were filed ast night bv /
several of the clubs and the indica- /
,ions are that there will be many more
filed before the closing time next Mon
day night.
One point in connection with the
meeting last night was the lack of a
good athletic field in this city on which
20 stage track and field meets and the
fesuit Of the two proposed meets dur
lne this summer will likely serve more /
than anything else to arouse interest /
for an up-to-date and modern ath- /
letic field
The Y. NJ. c. A. entries are as fol-
lows:
loo yard dash-Barnard Jones. /
Roland Ingram, Leonard Jones. Rob
ert Zortman, Jack Garvine, Walter
Mendinhall. John Webb.
22e yard dash-Roland Ingram. /
Barnard Jones, Leonard Jones. Rob /
ert Zortman, Jack Garvine. Walter
Mendinhall, Roger mixer and John 1
Webb.
$50 yard dash-Joseph Torous. Per-
rome, Charles WeitzeI, II. W. Nathan.
Jack FosteS Archie Foster and Chas.
Parks.
One-nile run-Charles Weitzel. Nc
Clure, Dave Jones and II. W. Holt.
Three-mile run-Joseph Norous |
perrone, Moon and Mcclure,
One-mile relay race-Roland In
gram, Charles Weitzel, Jack Garvine
Barnard Jones. Roger Minker. r. Paul
Kite.
High jump-Jack Garvine. Cliff
Ralph France and II. W
Holt.
Running broad jump Roland In
gram. Joseph Vorous, and Harry W.
Loose.
Pole vsult-Jack Garvine, Victor
Waller and Harry W. Loose.
Shot put-Charles Leggs. Roland
Ingram. Cliff Garvine, Davis Jones
H. ". Matthew, II. W. Holt and II. w.
Loose.
Discus-Charles Leggs, II. W. Holt
and Harry W. Loose.
Javelin throw-Charles Legges. II
". Holt and Harry W. Loose.
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