The New York herald., 1922-06-02
With the Scholastic Athletes

Tomorrow will be a red letter day
In school boy track and field athletics,
with three big meets on the program
for schools in Greater New York All
of the high and non-sectarian prep
schools of Manhattan, The Bronx, Brook
lyn and Richmond Boroughs will COM
pete in the second annual games on
Columbia University at South Field.
The high schools in Queens will meet
for the borough title. while the Catholic
schools of the five boroughs mingle at
Brooklyn Athletic Field
The Catholic schools meet has drawn
an entry of close to 1900 boys. The
favorite for the team championship is
De La Sale Institute. One of the fea-
ture races will be the one mile relay.
the fast quartets of De La Sale and st.
Augustine's Academy being primed to
settle the question of supremacy. Ans
bro. Slevin, Rice and Eastman will COM
prise the st. Augustine's team. the four
who were beaten by a yard by De La
Sale at the N. Y. U. interscholastics.
Because the De La Sale team. which
has one leg on the trophy will not COM
pete at the Columbia meet, the Morn
ingslde Heights authorities have an
nounced their intention of Withdrawing
the John p. Poe cup from competition
in the one mile relay for this year.
The fight for the Columbia point
trophy is considered to be among the
same teams which finished first. second
and third last year. but the positions are
likely to be changed. Poly Prep, with
81 tallies, led Stuyvesant by 10 points,
with Manual third. with 10.
Among the entries this year are Clin-
ton, Erasmus Hall, Townsend Harris,
Boys High. George Washington. Com
mercial, Morris. Commerce, Theodore
Roosevelt. Evander Childs and Bush
wick.
Jimmy Shea, star hurdler OF Fordham
Prep. will attempt to hang up a record
i'm the 220 yard low hurdles race at the
Columbia meet that will stand for some
time. The race has been added to the
program for the first time this year and
the mark made will stand as the record
for the meet.
Stuyvesant's entries In the South Field
carnival number seventy-four Those
who are expected to figure in the point
score are Frank Hussey in the 100 and
broad jump, Carl F'igueroa In the 220.
high and broad jump. George Gierschev-
ski In the high hurdles and shot put.
Nagourney in the high hurdles and pole
vault. limestone In the high jump. Tay-
lor and Solomon In the 220, Oberwager
in the 220 low hurdles and pole vault.
Sorokoff in the 100 Junior and De Ma
rino in the 220 junior. Coach Brad
shaw predicts that Stuyvesant will score
2s points and Poly Prep 26.
Ira Bloom, coach OF the Manual Train
ing team, thinks that the absence of
Queens and Catholic schools will favor
his athletes. Harold Lange. winnerNof
the mile at the Poly Prep meet. will
beneit by the absence OF Sig Greenafege
of Flushing. while Weeks should score
again in the half mile and Stephan force
Cook of Clinton In the quarter mile.
In the graduating class and open class
relays Manual is exceptionally strong
and should win both. Ryder In the 100
Junior. Mergenthaler In the 220 junior,
Gunther, Wallace. Sullivan and Beer In
the graduating relay. Counsellor In the
pole vault and broad Jump, Burke and
Quattlander In the 600 novice, are 9cSne
OF the outstanding competitors for the
Blue and Gold Lange, should he win
the mile will receive n special three
year trophy.
The large NUMBER OF youngsters prac-
ticing daily at Brooklyn Athletic Field,
where the r. s. A. l.. triple carnival
will be held on June 10, are being
coached by Eddie Farrell, Fordham Col
lege sprinter, who is practicing for the
annual games of the New York A. G. to-
morrow. Farrell has all the boys line
up at the start and he corrects the
faults of many of the lads. Johnny
Sacco of the High School OF Commerce.
former junior sprint champion, is one
TO whom Farrell is attracted.
The fourth annual New Jersey State