The New York herald., 1922-12-24
MANHATTAN NO. 10
CAPTURES TROPHY
Noses Out Brooklyn 64 and
Manhattan 43 in Elementary
Schools Games.
OLD RECORDS BETTERED
Warren Roberts Equals Seven
ty Yard Sprint Time Estab-
lished Eight Years Ago.

If the supposedly very genial and
highly esteemed $. Claus doesn't drop
an extra lump OF good cheer here and
there as he fits over Gothamtown to-
night then Mister Claus isn't genial
after all and he doesn't deserve high
esteem, nor his patent leather boots
and the ermine cuffs. Yes, sir; "ol'
Sanity hadn't dare forget this year.
for yesterday the Public Schools Ath-
letic League staged a set of games in
the Twenty second Regiment Armory.
These were the annual championships
School No. 10, Manhattan. won the
meet
There were records broken and all
that sort Of thing. but that's not the
more good little boys galloping around
the drill shed yesterday than ever
kept a wood box stuffed to suffocation
a full week before Christmas Fact Is
they were actually "gooder." The
score card proves 1t.
The dear old bossy school teachers
perhaps wouldn't Ike TO near their
young hopefuls talking about a rip
snorter" of meet, because rip snorter"
doesn't quite too tho mark OF gram
matical propriety, and yet It was just
that--a rip snorter.' Nothing short
of IL
Hammer and Tongs Battle.
Public School No. 10 won. but only
after an old fashioned hammer and
'orGs battle with the teams from Public
School, No. 81, Brooklyn. and Public
5 hool, No. 43, Manhattan, which shared
second place honors only q single point
behind the leader.
During the course OF the afternoon
two records were bettered and one was
equaled. They were records worth haul
ing down too, for each of them had
withstood the attacks of several years,
the mark equaled having remained at
the top Of the mast eight full winters.
The youngsters to gain the charmed
circle OF record holders are Warren
Roberts. Public School No. 10. Manhat-
tan, who sprinted seventy yards in is
| seconds, tieing the standard mark for
the event a feat no other schoolboy has
been able to accomplish since 1914; Ed
ward Everard. Public School No. 46,
The Bronx, who cleared the bar In the
running high jump for boys OF unlimited
weight at feet SIS inches. adding
one-eighth OF an inch to the figures
created nire years ago.
The other new mark was set up IN
the quarter mile relay for teams of boyS
weighing lis pounds. In winning this
he M arhnoihn.yo 1rr al
fifth OF second off the record time
made In 1915.
Roberts Travels Great Clip.
Roberts made a great race of 1t TO
chalk UP, the dash record. Away from
the mark none too we'll he Immediately
placed severe handicap on himself
so severe that his chances looked dim
indeed. However, once young Warren
settled into his stride he began to fairly
eat up margins. In no time his long
even gait carried him up to the pace
maker and In the final ten yards he
went out and won by foot.
Everard, who is built on the graceful
lines OF a panther. showed we'll In all
his trials over the bar. His record
flight was registered on his first trial
In the finals He cleared the obstacle
with bit 10 spare.
Five thousand boys, representing
every school In the city, were out 70
cheer for their favorites. And there
must have been particularly strong
representation from Public School No.
| 10 among the spectators, for rolling
cheers rumbled about the armory when
that schools athletes were proclaimed
winners OF the championship prize.
The summaries:
TRACK EVENTS.
20 YARD DAsH dor boys. weighing 10
pounds and unJer)-Won by Irving Echoen.
berg. Public School No. 1874 OF Manhattan.
Bryan. Public School No 81 of Brooklyn,
| second; smith, Public school No 5 of
Manhattan, third. Brundagc, Public School
No. 10. fourth. Time. o06.
30 YARD DASH (for boys weighing ss
pounds and under)-Won by Nevlet Public
School No. II OF Manhattan: Moclair, Pub
lie School No. 80 OF Manhattan, second
Kearne, Public School No. 1877 OF Prookiyn,
third Johns. Public School No. 169 Of Man
haitian, fourth Time, 0:O7 LIS.
60 YARD DASH Uor boys weighing 100
pounds and under) by Stark, Public
School no. 43 OF Manhattan; Jouiilet, Pub
lic School No. s3 Of Manhattan, second;
Milovsky, Public School No 81 OF The
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