New Britain herald., 1927-08-11
Washington WINS
PLAYGROUND MEET
More Than 800 Children Parti-
Cipate in Annual Event

The Washington playground track
and field team took first honors In
the sixth annual playground track
and field meet staged at Memorial
field in Willow Brook park yesterday
afternoon. The winners scored 90
points in the various events run off.
Nathan Hale, a playground that
has been in operation only a week
and half. furnished the biggest fea-
ture of the after oon by scoring Sc
points to take fourth place. Willow
Brook took second place with So
points. Smalley Park. third, ST
points: Burritt fifth with 80 points
and Smith sixth with 80 points
A total Of 81 events were run off
with six Fairgrounds being entered.
More than 500 children were num-
bered among the contestants and
more than 1000 youngsters and a
large crowd of adults watched the
meet. The entire program was COM
pleted in three hours. beginning at
and ending at 5 o'clock.
Motor transportation was furnish
ed the athletes to and from the play
grounds by the following manufac-
turing concerns: Landers. Frary &
Clark. American Hardware, North &
judd. New Britain Machine and
Stanley Works. The children were
transported to the field and back
again.
Results of Events
The results of the various events
follow
Running high jump, boys. Bog
danski, Washington playground,
first: Pasquin, Burritt second; Bar
kowtz, Smalley Park, third. Pole
vault, boys, Bogdanski. Washington,
first: Levine. smalley Park, second:
Eastanuk. Burritt, third. Running
broad jump, boys. Skonesk, Wash
ington. first; McCandless. Smith, sec
ond; Carr, Smalley Park, third.
Horse shoe pitching, boys, McCabe,
Willow Brook. first; Villa, Smith,
second; Griffin. Nathan Hale. third.
High jump, girls. Elizabeth Nog-
lee. Nathan Hale, first; Sophia Tru-
hon, Smalley Park, second: Aldo
Russo Burritt, third. Running broad
jump, girls. Helen Humason, Wash
ington, first: Julia Maticles, Smith,
second; Josephine Clanci. Burritt.
third. Baseball throw for distance,
girls over so pounds. Helen Huma-
son. Washington. first; Sophia Tru-
hon. smalley Park. second: Mar
guerite Baronian, Nathan Hale,
third. Basketball throw for dis
lance. girls, so pound class. Helen
Ruscik, Washington, first: Sophia
Truhon. Smalley Park, second; Eliz-
abeth Noglec, Nathan Hale, third.
Baseball throw for distance, girls so
to so pound class, Davis Lasney,
Burritt, first: Josephine Roman,
Smalley Park. second: Helen Kilpen-
six, Washington, third. Basketball
throw for distance, girls 60 to so
pound class. Doris Lasky, Burritt,
first; Martha Anderson, Washington,
second: Mary Pfister. Willow Brook
Park third. Baseball throw for dis
lance, girls. 40 to GO pound class,
Nina Zasko. Washington, first;
Frances Mack Burritt. second: Mary
Pfister. Willow Brook Park, third.
Basketball throw for distance, girls.
40 to 60 pounds, Marguerite Baron
ian, Nathan Hale, first: Anna Man.
ko. Washington. second: Alga Ro-
man. Smalley Park, third.
Boys 90 yard dash. midget class,
Nathan Hale. first; Rob-
inson, Washington, second: Skozyp-
elk, Burrjtt, third. Boys long-legged
race. 40 to 60 pound class, Magrolli,
Willow Brook park, first; Anderson,
Smith. second; Gootwsky, Nathan
Hale, third. Girls ribbon race, 40
to 60 pound class, Nathan Hale, first;
second; Smith. third:
Girls ribbon race. 60 to so pound
class, Smalley park, first: Nathan
Hale, second; Burritt, third. Girls
ribbon race, over so pound class,
first; Burritt. second:
Smalley park. third.
Boys 5O-yard dash. 60 to so
pound class, Karnelioiz. Nathan
Hale, first: Curylo. Washington, sec
ond; Avitable. Burritt, third. Girls
5O-yard dash, open class, Helen
Humason. Washington. first: Mary
Pfister, Willow Brook. second; So
phia Thuhon, Smalley park, third.
Boys 35-yard sack race, so to 100
pound class. Anderson. Smith, first;
Curylo. Washington. second; Latta-
vulo. Smalley park, third. Boys
potato race, so to 100 pounds class,
Washington, first; Villa.
second: KermewicZ. Nathan
Hale. third. Boys potato race. 60 to
so pound class, Lattavulo, Smalley,
park. first: Griffen. Willow Brook,
second; Scarola, Washington. third.
Girls potato race, over so pounds
class. Anna Jusk, Nathan Hale, first;
Mary Pfister, Willow Brook, second;
Anna Ruscik. Washington. third.
Girls potato race, so to so pound
class, Anna Monko, Washington,
first: Pralaikas. Nathan Hale, sec
ond: Beatrice Kavatky, Smalley
park, third.
Girls shuttle race, 60 to so pound
class. Washington, first: Burritt,
second; Smalley Park, third. Three
legged race, girls, 40 to 60 pound
class. Dorothy Stack and Josephine
tIerzy, Willow Brook Park first;
Caroline Shoy and Helen Dainick
Smith. second; Helen Nurzia. and
Pauline Kermiewicz, Nathan Hale,
third. Three-legged race, girls, 60
to so pound class, Mary Gambetz
and Mary Phster. Willow Brook