The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Won Indoor and Outdoor
Track and Field, Football
and Rowing HonOrs.
RECORD BREAKING YEAR
Hussey. Figueroa. Lewis and
Brown P. S. A. L. Stars in
Track and Swimming.


schools in Greater New York had a
finger In some championship plum
for the year 1922. Stuyvesant High
School. situated on the East Side OF
Manhattan. accounted for the major
share Of titles in the fourteen branches
Of athletic endeavor. The Scarlet and
Blue athletes won the city indoor and
outdoor track and field, rowing, and
Manhattan Bronx football crowns
George Washington High, one Of the
smallest of the institutions in the
educational system, won the p S. A. l..
lionors In baseball. tennis and skating.
The Inwood school has less than 500
boys from which 10 choose its teams.
Three schools each won two cham
pionships. Erasmus led in swimming
and Brooklyn Queens football; High
School of Commerce was successful
in chess and freshman swimming. and
Manual Training finished on top in
basketball and lacrosse. Newtown an
nexed the laurels in country,
Richmond Hill in golf. Evander Childs
in the spring rife shooting, Morris
High in soccer. and Commercial High
in the fan rifle shooting.
The Public Schools Athletic League
conducted citywide tournaments in base
ball basketball. rifle. soccer. tennis.
swimming, skating and track and field
sthIetfcs: while the chess tourney was
hel5 under the auspices OF the Inter-
borough Chess League; lacrosse by the
fr-s-Scholastic Lacrosse League. the
-as7ube-s Of which are confined 20
Brooklyn: rowing was fos-ered by the
View York Rowing Association. while
roc>czl was an independent sport. al
thor-h s-perv iSed by the p. s A l.
Double Honors for stuyvesant.
S7.yvesant annexed the indoor and
ou-soo- z. < A. I. track and fed
titles zf-n ease. The outdoor meet was
a tfeld day Tor the Esst side athletes.
T-sv ergoyed a margin of more than
-tF-t- rofrts over their nearest rivals.
The football titles were necessarily re-
s-rictes 10 borough divisions In which
eacl q the schools played al o. the
others Stgyvessrc defeated It's three
rivals in Manhattan snd The Bronx
De Witt Clinton. High School of Com
own goal line crossed. That was the
first football title for Stuyvesant in
seventeen years OF competition on the
yridiron.
Rowing was resumed as a schoolboy
sport after an absence of five years.
stuyvesant and Clinton, which with
Commerce were the rowing rivals years
ago. formed crews. In the Decoration
Day regatta of the New York Rowing
Association for the Samuel A. Cramer
trophy. Stuyvesant won by three-uusr-
fers OF a length from New Rochelle
High School. with Clinton third. and
lowered tho p. $ A. l.. record OF fifteen
Years standing by 56 seconds. The time
was minutes SO seconds. The form
Of the schoolooys compared with most
college freshman eights.
George Washington won the Manhat-
,an-Eronx Richmond baseball tourna-
rnent after a playoff OF tie with De
Witt Clinton for leadership. m the
final OF the interborough series Wash
iugton defeated Manual Training. win
ner in the Brooklyn and Queens divi-
sion. Local scholastic baseball received
a big boost when washington triumphed
over Chicago's champions. Austin High.
IN the intercity series in spectacular
ninth and tenth inning rally. winning.
2 to 2.
washington defeated Erasmus Hall.
three matches 10 one. In the final OF
the p. s. A. l.. tennis tournament and
gained the point trophy In the skating
races conducted January 30.
Manual Trainings basketball title for
fe2l-is22 was secured after two extra
periods with De Witt Clinton. 1t was
tho closest game on record for the p. s.
A. L. court championship.