Evening journal., 1922-05-13
SUSSEX MEET IS
GREAT SUCCESS.
Seaford School Winner in
Athletic Events at
Georgetown
PARADE is ONE
OF FEATURES
Special to The Evening Journal.

2 Georgetown gathered here yester-
day for the annual field and track
meet between the schools of Sussex
county. parade was one of the
features of the day and several
/ thousand school children from every
section of the county took part in
the meet and parade. Seaford. with
1856 points captured the meet.
The other contestants had poiDts
as follows: Georgetown. 81; Milton,
73; Green, 80; Hillsboro, 25; Selby-
vile. H. Cannon. 10; Frankford. 6;
Nields, 6; Bettel, 6; Laurel. 5; Lord.
Baltimore. 5; Lewes. 2; HALFWAY,
q Bridgeville, / Pennington, l.
Between eight and ten thousand
persons are estimated to have been
in the city for the occasion.
The streets were jammed, but
through the carefulness of the local
and auxiliary force the day was free
from any accident.
Ten local policemen. ten special
police of the State Highway Depart
ment and two men sent by the
Pennsylvania Railroad handled the
crowds.
Rest tents, a lunch room in charge
of the Home Economic classes of
/ the schools were provided for the
comfort of the thousands of wit
nesses of the many sorts Of contests
held during the day.
In the morning there was a pa
rade of the school children whose |
record of school attendance up TO /
May l was 90 per cent or more, |
starting from the Georgetown pub I
lie school at o'clock. The parade I
was photographed by a represen- /
tative of the Pathe Company.
Events of the morning were a (
dodge ball tournament. in which
twenty teams took part.
Five hundr@ and thirty-two girls
competed in the badge tests. each
girl being able to toss n basketball
a least twenty-five feet above her
head I'm order to qualify: and 423
boys competed in the 5O-yard dash
having to run in nine or less seconds
to qualify.
Howard Wilkins. Of Georgetown.
won the 100-yard dash, which was
the chief event ofthe afternoon. with
a record Of 10 2-5 seconds. Walton
Isaac, OF Georgetown. was second,
and Albert Hill, Seaford, third.
The afternoon results were as
follows; al
7O-yard dash-Charles Short,
Georgetown; Lloyd Short. George
town; Seth Phillips, Bethel.
Running high jump-Walter Hat
field, Seaford; Irwin Carpenter. Sea-
ford: Ralph Collins. Pennington.
Running broad jump-Granville :
Culver, Seaford; Robert Arnett. (
Bingwood; Lloyd Short, George
town.
SO-yard dash-william Henry S
Seaford; Earl Walls. Milton. Harry
King. Seaford. Z
5O-yard dash-Harry Christey,
Milton; Van Lear stentley, seaford;
Ralph Martin. Milford. c
Junior shot put-George Hous- I
ton. Seaford: Harvey King. Seaford;
Herman Greenwood. Georgetown. r
Junior Girls a
220-yard walk-Myrtle Clifton, y
Mary Jones, George 7
own; Cordelia Morris. Selbyville.
5O-yard dash-Emma Hudson, p
Ocean View; Hazel Wiley, Seaford;
Doris Reynolds, Greenwood. n
S0-yard dash-Clara Clendaniel n
Louise Stokely, Seaford; a
Charlotte Shockley. Delmar.
1OO-yard dash-Myrtle Eskeridge, o
Alberta Sammons. George p
own; Anna Marvel, Seaford.
22O-yard relay-Seaford; Milton; a
Iillsboro.
44O-yard relay-seaford; Milton n
,reenwood ..
22O-yard relay-Milton; seatord: n
Georgetown. d.
enior Events
Girls ffty-yard dash-Emma Hal SC
1n, Georgetown, 6.45; Paulella gr
Hover. Millsboro; Helen Jefferson,
eaford. az
Running broad jump-Albert Hill, at
eaford. LIE; Alton ODay, n,
Howard wilkins
reenwood. NJ
Shot put-Alton Isaac, George N
,wn, "a IT,. 61s; william Kenney.
Fred Wiley, Bridgeville. y,
440-yard dash-George Lynch, ay
Illsboro; Alton Isaac, Georgetown;
red Wiley, Greenwood. r,
60-yard dash-Everett Messick, ~
-illsboro; Horace Walls. Milford;
ussel Reed, Milford. w
22O-yard sdash-Irvin Burton, wi
illsboro; Irving Carpenter, Sea-
,rd; Joe Hazella, Milton. Gi
440-yard relay-Seaford, Milton, SO,
66O-yard relay-Georgetow Sea- A.
rd, Greenwood. TT
440-yard relay-Milford, Seaford, II,
reenwood. of
440 yard walk-Chester Jones, ST,
eorgetown; Merrick Galloway Del
ar. Oc
Senior relay. three-quavters mile. Br
ilton Belts, 2 min. So seconds w.
georgetown, Pepper; Seaford, Cod 10
In; Greenwood. Wickerson; Lewes, of
lort: Laurel, Isaac; Bridgeton,
mes; Millsboro, Wilkin. for
The officers of the track and field &c
eet were as follows: ma
Referees-Dr. II. V. Holloway,
lte supervisor of Public Instruc- of
IN; DR. Thomas r. Brown, State tio
of Public Education;
F.. Culver, of the State Board. and J.
Iarles Van Lear of Seaford. ass
L. Harrington, OF
georgetown. lice
starter-H. e. stahl of the State (
partment of Education. Jor
Clerk of Court. c. Armstrong
the state Department of Educa- ThC
N. Mu
Judges of Finish-Rev. william Nil