The New York herald., 1921-05-15
MODERN ATALANTAS
MAKE new RECORDS
Oaksmere Girls Perform Won
ders i'll Interscholastic
Track and Field Meet.
MISS KREMER JUMPS z FT.5
Miss Batson, Miss Metzger and
Miss Mead Win Honors
for Their Schools.
MISS KREMER JUMPS Z FIT. 5
Nv MARTHA CONAN.

ny MARTHA CONAN.
Girl athletes proved what they can DO
In the way of breaking records yestsr-
day at the interscholastic track ana
field meet held at Oaksmere, the Mer-
rill school, at Afamaroneck. 1t had been
. whispered around the campus on ORR
enta Point and elsewhere along the
Sound where other girls schools are
situated-and even over in New Jersey,
which was represented at the contest
that the modern Atalantas were in ex-
cellent form. And they were.
Trainers anticipated establishing one
or possibly two new world records for
girls, they said but afterward they
frankly declared that their most san
guine hopes ware exceeded. They had
not expected to see such a wholesale
smashing of previous marks as was ac-
comphshed. and Will make the Oaks
mere meet go down in athletic history
Oaksmere girls did most of the record
breaking One girl from this school set
a new mark for the basketball throw
and another for the 220 yard relay race.
A Rosemary Hall girl established new
record for the 100 yard hurdle race, and
this same girl broke the record in the
trial heat of the 60 yard hurdles.
Floreida Batson. a young Southern
girl, slim, dark eyed and with wavy
dark hair held by blue ribbon, which is
Rosemary's color, stepped out on the
track with the air of trained runner.
Her classmates knew what she could do
but 1t surprised even the judges when
IN the first heat of the 60 yard hurdle
event she clipped one-fifth Of a second
from the record time.
Miss Helen Kremer OF Kansas City
was another Oaksmere girl to bring
honor to her school by winning the
standing broad jump with leap of
feet inches. Miss Blanche Strebigh
was second in this event with a jump OF
Z feet ~ inches.
Real Champion.
Misc Kremer is the athletic type. un-
usually tall, with bobbed black hair,
and suggesting the nervous, high ten
stoned race horse in her movements on
the field. She won the all round track
cup at the recent school athletic meet.
Miss Rosenbaum. the third Oaksmere
girl to win the laurel threw the basket
hall nearly five feet beyond the record
throw. established by herself. The mark
now stands at "a feet and 2 inches, in
ttead of SO feet, 6 inches
And the fourth girl wearing the green
and white athletic costume of Oaksmere
10 bring still greater honors to her alma
mater and her athletic associates was
Miss Louise Metzger of indianapolis. a
freshman. Never was a school prouder
Of ar underclassman than those green
and white clad girls were when they
neard the judges announce that the IN
dianepolis girl had won the sixty yard
hurdle race in 9 minutes and seconds.
This is the first time that such a num-
Der Of girls schools has participated In
an athletic meet. There were seven in
all-St. Mary's Hall Of Burlington, n.
J., Leonfa High School of Leonia n. j.,
st. Margaret's School OF Waterbury.
Conn. the Savage School for Physical
Education of New York city, the Gate
way Of New Haven and Oaksmere and
Rosemary Hall.
Up to within an hour before the meet
was scheduled TO start the clouds
dimmed the sun and rain threatened.
and when the skies did clear il was the
happiest lot OF girls ever seen that ran
out upon the OalSsmere track. They
made bright spots of color in their school
sports suits as they filed the bleachers.
built just inside border of trees al one
end OF the field near the gymnasium.
Oaksmere naturally had the biggest
representation. The girls who did not
take part In the events wore white
skirts, green sweaters and white ribbon
sport hats. The Rosemary girls wote In
blue and the st. Margaret's girls we're in
white and lavender. Leonia provided a
contrast with her maroon and white at
tire. The other girls were in either blue
or black bloomers and white middies