Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-22
RECORDS IN DANGER
IN MEET SATURDAY
Performances in Divisional
Tests Indicate Marks
May Be Broken.
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~ of the city. will compete in
4 4 the annual city championship
elementary school track meet
to be held Saturday morning on the
Plaza Field starting at 10 O'Clock. Di-
visional meets now are in progress and
boys finishing first, second and third in
each event will be eligible to compete
in Saturdays title affair. Approximately
1000 boys will participate in the di-
visional' meets.
E. V. Brown School of the George
town division won both the senior and
junior titles in last years meet.
There will be five classes of COMPETE
youngsters will get their chance in the
meet for the first time. AS in the past
there also will be the IS, 100, and u.s.
pound classes and the unlimited COM
petition.
Indications are that several meet rec
ords will be seriously threatened.
Some Clever Feats.
One mark that may prove a vulner-
able target is that OF II seconds fiat
for the l00-yard dash, unlimited class,
held by Earl Clark, now playing base
ball with the Boston National League
team. Barney Alderman of Cooke
Scaoo, in the Columbia Heights division,
recently stepped the century in 11z5
seconds.
In 1924 Calvin Milans, captain and
sensational high jumper of the Central
High School team. made leap of 4 feet
9 inches to establish record in the 85-
pound class. Myer Sirota, Madison
School youngster, cleared the bar at
feet 8 inches, just one inch under
Milans' standard, in the Rosedale d.
vision meet few days ago. incidentally,
Milans, who now holds the public high
school G Club and Dewitt School meet
records, also still holds the 100-pound
class elementary school record at feet
p of an inch.
Gerald Freedman of Park View
School in, the Columbia Heights divis-
ion meet stepped the 50-yard dash in
the 85-pound class in seconds. This
was good time for a youngSter, but 1t is
not thought likely that the exceptional
record of is seconds for this event
set by Robert Smith of Ross School
way back in 1915 will be surpassed Sat-
urtiay.
William Harris of Monroe School
promises to place the record of IL lilo
seconds for the 80-yard hurdles, 100
pound class, made by Payne of Ed
monds in 1928 in jeopardy. In, the Co
lurnbia Heights division meet Harris
turned in a 1880 seconds perform
arce.
Not Easy to Pick Winners.
Richard S. Tennyson, in charge Of
boys activities of the municipal play
ground department, and who has been
conducting the meets for the past II
years, points out that it is not easy to
predict the winner of the meet. Be-
cause school does not land top hon
ors in its division does not necessarily
mean that it can be counted out Of the
running in the city championships. The
genial Tenneyson recalls that in 1924
the Monroe School, though it finished
third in the Columbia Heights Division
meet, came back to win the city affair.
Harry Helme, former Georgetown
University trackster, will be the starter
Saturday.
Other officials will include:
Judges at the finish-Walter Haight,
Herbert Hunter, James White.
Judges for the high jump-Franklin
Carr, Ben Kali.
Judges for the broad junp-Joe
Mitchell, w. Nerlich.
Timers-Bill Dowding, James Con-
molly, Mike Beckam.
Recorders-Miss Teresa Breen, Ber-
nfe McCarty.