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CONTESTSSCHOOLBOY GAMESLawrence Brothers of Leal’sFigure Prominently with aRecord and a Win.C. MAJOR SCORES A DOUBLECozzens and Sandford Victorious \t%Sprints in Crack Fields fromThirty-six Institutions.The schoolboy .athletes of the B|anual Training and Boys’ High Schools were the contenders for the point honors, and fin-■Rished first and second yesterday %t the annual indoor meet of the Polytechnic Preparatory School in the Twenty-third ! Regiment Armory, Brooklyn. Manual «f i Training School was winner With a •I i total of 29 points, including two first , places, while the Boys' High School, in ?| | second place, scored three victories, butI) i dropped away in the points credited forseconds and thirds.Thirty-six schools were represented inthe games, which were keenly contestedstraight through the programme of twenty-one events, with one record-brekking performance and another record tied among the results. JThe chief individual performance was i the triumph of R. J. Lawrence of Newark, I entered from Leal’s School, who broke theschoolboy record for putting the shot with a put of 54 feet IVa inches. Lawrence's put beat both the indoor record o£ Ar-|! thur Stifft of 53 feet 3 inches, at Mercers-burg, and the outdoor record of the famous California athlete, Ralph Rose, 52 feet 8 2-5 inches. In another event—theIstanding broad jump—R. T. Lawrence, brother of the record breaker, scored a second victory for Leal’s School.C. Major, the crack miler of Boys' High School and the interseholastic cham-, pion runner, won the 880-yard rtm In i commanding style in time that equaled the schoolboy indoor record, Major fin-[q j ishing in 2:014-5 with such ease that it would have required hardly any effoft for him to set a new mark. Major also'Easily won the mile run, coming on at the finish and beating T. Tallants of Brooklyn Preparatory School and E. Eberstadt of Newark Academy, after Tallants, set the pace wiih a big lead into the last lap, Major finishing the distance in 4:44 3-5. *'Two other brilliant performances were by A, B. Cozzens and E. Sandford, bothsiscrack sprinters of the Manual Training School. In the pole value F. Crafts ofid?deridtiethlePoly. Prep, took first place after a tie with K. Curtiss of Barringer High School, both getting over the bar at 10 feet 10inches and failing at 11 feet, the award1 then being made by drawing lots.The chief event in the relay racing was the invitation mile run for the athletic clubs of Brooklyn, with five teams starting, and the Acorn A. C. four the winners in 3:37 3-5. De Witt Clinton’s relay team won the half mile novice race in a close finish from Adeiphi Academy., Cuy-ler’s won from St. Andrews in the Sunday School A. L. relay at’ a half mile, and Public School 6 of Manhattan took, the elementary school relay race at a quarter of a mile.id ’ The point score result was: Manual„ I Training first, with 29; Boys’ High, sec-^’ ond, with 22; Barringer High third, withtoletoales:hic17; Centenary Collegiate fourth, with 14, jd and Leal s School fifth, with 10, earned through the Lawrence brothers’ victories ie ! alone. The summaries:Half-Mile Run—Won by Cedric Major. Boys*\H. S.; L. Gerow, Centenary Collegiate Institute, second; H. Snyder, Manual lt;; Training H. S.. third; Abel Kiviat, Curtia H. 8., fourth. Time—2 minutes 4 1-5 seconds. Seventy-five-Yard Dash (Junior)—Won by T. Mason. Barringer H. S.; D. Friend. Manual Training H. S.. second; C. Curran, Secon Hall I'rep.. third; J. Hogan. Xavier H. 8., fouWh. Time—8 4-5 seconds.Puttier the 12-Pound Shot—Won by R. J. Lawrence, Leal’s School, with a put of 54 feet V/s inches; R. McDonough, Seton Hall Preparatory, with a put of 45 feet, second; P. Coffey. Bryant IT. S., with a .put of 44 feet 1’2 inches, third; F. Creede, East Orange li. S.. with a put of 42 feet 5 inches,uteerd1ij; 1 fourth.* ore90ida440-Yard Dash (Senior)—Won by A. B.Coazens. Manual Training H. S.; B. Taylor, Boys’ H S., second; P. O'Leary, Boys* H. S., third; T. Gilmore, Boys’ H. S», fourth. Time—54 2-5 seconds. lOo-Yard Dash (Senior)—Won by E. Sandford, Manual Training H. S.. second; G. F. Scanned, Jr., De La Salle Institute, third; G. c_ I Kelly. Manual Training II. S., fourth. Time—:teat10 3-5 seconds. .50-Yard Dash, (Midget)—Won by A. Leeds, Boys’ H. S.; S. Woods, Manual Training H.j S., second; H. Olson, Manual Training H. S., ”» 1 third; C. Billing, Horace Mann School, 1- fourth. Time—0:6 2-5.2des of i is3dl/2-nDrte15?hinib15d75-Yard Dash, (Novice)—Won by E. Peck, Hackensack H. S.; G. M. Clark, Centenary m Collegiate Institute, second; H. Q. Jones, Polytechnic Preparatory, third; G. Brown, Barringer H. S., fourth. Time—0:8 4-5. Invitation Relay Race, for Brooklyn Athletic Clubs—Won by Acorn A. A., (Nelson. Pierce, Jarboe, and Charlton;) Brooklyn Central Y. M. C. A.. tHibbard, Murphy. Ooote, and So? lari;) second; Cuyler A. A., (Wickers. Bowes, Semken, and Witherel,) thpd. Time—3:37 3-5. One-Mile Run—Won by Cedric Major. Boys’ H S.: F. Eberstadt. Newark Acadbmy, second: T Tallants. Brooklyn Preparatory, third. O. De Gronchy, Erasmus Hall, fourth. Tim* -4:44 3-5.Half-Mile P. S. A. L. Relay Race. .(120-Pound Class)—Won by Manual Tra'nlng.(Burkhard. Van Alst, /YBrien, Ramsey;).dll.3:;s0.ils-e,sor-:e1-r-na.IStuyvesant H. S., (Marshall. Brorherton, Fink. Tobin.) second; Morris H. S., (Robinson, Bahr, O’Neill. Whttbevk.) third. Time—1:48. 220-Yard Dash. (Junior.)—Won by T. Hogan, Xavier H. S.; E. New, Barringer H. S., second; D. Friend, Manual Training H. S., third; W. Hennessy, Seton Hall Preparatory, fourth. Time—0:26 1-5.440-Yard P. S. A. L. Elementary Relay Race.— Won by Public School 6. Manhattan: Public School 109, Brooklyn, second: I’ublie School 27, Manhattan, third. Time—0:52 4-5.Pole Vault.—Tie at 10 feet 10 inches between F. Crafts. Polytechnic Preparatory, and K. Curtiss, Barringer H. S.: E. Hill, Newark Academy, with a leap of 10 feet, third; P. Googins, Boys’ H. S.. with a leap of 9 feetx9 inches, fourth- ;One-Mile Sundav School Athletic League Relay Race.—Wofl by Central Congregational; Cuyler. second; St. Andrew’s, third. Time—1-5 *600-Yard Run.—Won by O. Guthrie, Centenary Collegiate Institute; C. T. Burke, Centenary Collegiate Institute, second; A. Pearley, Montclair H. S.. third; H. Nutt, Hackensack H. S.\ fourth. Time—1:31 4-3.880-Yard Relay Race, Novice.—Won: by De Witt Clinton H. S.. (Feigus. Hayne. Shortall, and Robb;) Adeiphi Academy. (Halstead,11 Blackman, Williams, and Smith,) second:n .1.1.__Dma TT rtnn A *• rva ^ t r AnnhnIBrooklyn Preparatory, (McKeon, Armstrong. McLosicer, and McGrane,) third. Time—1:45. 75-Yard Dash. (Handicap, 120-Pound Limit.)— Won by W. Mead, Poly. Prep.,”;.J. Gal-:a I lagher, Poly. Prep.,’’ second; H. Andrew*, Poly. Prep..” third. Time—0:09 4-55 High Jump.—Won by E. Heinrichs, Barringer H S., with 5 feet 8 inches; E. Stevens. Manual Training H. S.. second, with 5 feet 7 inches; A. Houseman. Commercial H. Sted1c.nk•dthird with 5 feet 0 inches; G. Schenck, Adel-ffh ------phi Academy, fouWh, with 5 feet 6 Inches. Standing Broad Jump.—Won by R. Tic Law-rence. Leal’s School; S. Lentz, De M itt Clinton H. S.. second; R. Cotter, Brooklyrf Preparatory School, third. .'gMiskey Regain* Squash Title;PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20.-Dr. J. j£Mls-l-d.key of the Overbrook Golf Club regained th®title of. National Squesh Racquet Champion.which he lost last year to W. L. Freeland, bydefeating C. E. Jennings of the Philat^phlaJ. | Cricket at the Racquet Club here this afternoon. From start to finish Miskey. overshadowed his opponent, and won in the easiest e, fashion in straight games. Jennings tjjayedi Kolrsrtr V»io form fn aririitinn flnnAHMd tni.-9.r-,)below his form, and In addition appeared to b*nervous. ;McVey Outpoints • JeannettPARIS, Feb. 20.—Sam McVey of California received the decision on points over Joe’Jeannette of Ne wYork at the end of a ;twenty-j round fight at the Cirque de ParU tonight.51 : As hath men h*d been winning over tljea' flfr* |pon£nt» thq. fight, to-night* drew a big jpbwd. tr Tb® winder received 93J00 and, : Imtw.ooo.
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Sun, Feb 21, 1909
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