The New York herald., 1922-03-19


thletes imbued with the notion that
! boy about to start for college.
The Orange and Black OF Princeton
was prominent in the armory decora-
ton, which included all the colors OF
the rainbow, as the high school public
and private threw out their banners
and flags. TIE entire floor was filed
with bare legged and bare armed boy
athletes. They We're all ages, sizes and
races. In the heats of the dashes pale
little schoolboys strove manfully be-
side tall rangy colored youths. Easr
Side youngsters painted abreast of boys
from the most expensive of the pre-
paratory schools.
This year the Johnny Poe cup for
the mile was not competed for This
cup was donated by the United States
Marine Corps in honor OF Johnny Poe,
the star Princeton athlete, who. after
adventuring around the world, was
killed in action with the Black Watch
in France. De La Sale Institute holds
leg on this cuD. but it was not noti-
fled in time to get a man entered for
the mile this year. so It was held unfair
to stage the race without an entry from
De La Sale.
stuyvesant YelIs First.
Stuyvesant High School got the op-
portunity to raise the first yell Of tri-
umph early in the afternoon when young
Frank H,ussey in the final OF the 100
pack and dashed against the the tape
full six yards in the lead The time
shown was a tenth OF second better
than the previous record.
There was a fluttering of flags nd
cheering from the lie La Sale delegation
when the tall and slender Edward Swim
burn took the lead in the $50 yard run
and held IL, widening the distance be-
tween himself and the field at every
turn. He set beautifully smooth pace
and gradually accelerated his speed
while the others started to pant and lag.
Keene Fitzpatrick, the gray haired
trainer of the Princeton athletes,
watched this lad with great tenderness.
In the meantime there We're the field
events in the center of the oval made by
the wooden track. Here the most
startling performance was made by
Charles Major, tall and rangey colored
boy from the De Witt Clinton High
School. In the high jump he cleared the
bar at feet %. inches. setting a new
national scholastic mark.
There was never an idle moment on
the floor. Between the dashes there
were the relay races, and always in tho
certer of the track the boys competing
in the field events We're straining la
fsNrr fer haf tfIr no q
rerhaps one of the best ordered. though
most hotly contested. meets ever held ~
this vicinity.
Those youths Of the exuberant a.e
showed the most perfect discipline, re-
fiecting great credit on those who had
handling the meet.
Athletic Melting Pot.
Certainly Il was the melting pot or
the athletic meets. All Of the races that
20 to make up the composite scho1lboS
of this vicinity were represented there
Children OF oil sections Of the globe
comp,t ted. and over Il oil was TIE spirit
OF fair play and good nature.
Whatever the motive OF the Prince
tonians may have been In the beginning
they certainly started an event that VIII
grow when they organized these games
The meet was supervised BY the follow
ing Princeton men, most OF whom were
famous athletes when they attended the
university: Joseph z. Truesdale. VIII
lam T. v1ymen Frank Click, William
B. Moore, william A. Bours. Jr., Gin
ton winant, j. o. Parisette and Henry
A. Callahan.
De witt Clinton won the plaque pre-
sented BY the Princeton Club for the
highest school point score. Stuyvesant
took second place.
When the Princeton Club frst started
TO sponsor this meet the entry list was
small and the attendance was limited.
CT aduaily interest IN the contests grew
until yesterday they had 10 turn away
hundreds from the arnory. Now sixty
two preparatory schools are training boys
for the annual meet under tho patron
age of the Princeton Club.
The Princeton Club this year was
aided greatly by committee represent
ing the public and private schools
Those representing the public schools
are Gen. George w Wingate. Or. VIII
lam L. Ettinger and Or. a. X. Allinger.
The private schools committee u made
up OF DR.. william T. Hazen. Charles &.
Tillinghast and Or Arthur Fiske Warren.
TRACK EVENTS.
100 YARD DASH FOR JUNIORS .--Fsrst
heat--won by Mare, High School OF Com.
fnerce: ", Bergen, Poly Prep, second. Time.
IL l-5 seconds Second heat-won by l..
Schuiman, Eastern District High School
Fisen, Boys High School OF Brooklyn. Sec
ond. Time, III i-i5 seconds Third heat.
Won by Nova, Poly Prep; J. Roche, Evan.
der Childs High school, second. Time.
III 3-5 seconds Fourth heat-won by Catiin,
DO witt Clinton Hgh school, NJ. Lieber-
man. New Utrecht Hgh School. second.
Time, IL 3-5 seconds. Fifth heat-won hy
Fischer, Stuyvesant High School. &. Harris.
Evander Childs High school. second. Time.
N 2-5 seconds. sixth heat-Won by T.
Baer, Horace Mann High School Press
man W. Hoover, Horace Mann school. sec
ond. Time. II 3-5 seconds. Final heat
Won by Bergen with Mare, second Baer.
third Nova, fourth Time. II seconds.
100 YARD DASH FOR sENtORs.--First