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HAMPTON TRACK!MEET WILL BE ANATHLETIC TREAiiP. Bernard Young. Jr.)Every indication points to the stag-iag ot the biggest track and tie'.d meet ever organized among Negro schools when the starter’s gun cracks May at the fourtti annual Hampton Institute Championship Track and Field Meet wliicn will be held on Armstrong Field. Entries are coming in with every mail* iu. te rest mounts higher with every passing day. and hundreds of wing footed athletes are going through their training stunts all over the country in preparation for this gigantic spectacle.Besides the regular gold, silver, ind bronze medals, and silver cups, awarded by Hampton Institute, several additional trophies have been presented to Hampton for winners iu certain events. A cup has been provided by the Chicago Defender as an additional incentive and feature of tli- col egia.e 4 40-yard dash, which has been a nip*auA tuck affair in every preceding meet, and which promt.-es *.» reach the lt;?Iimax this spring. A cup will also be given by rhe Madame Walker Company to the winning team in the collegiate relav.In the scholastic division a record entrv i expected. A featured even; will be the ‘ Tidewater Relay” which will be open to schools in the Tide-miter sec:ion of Virginia only, while Frank A. Young, -porting editor of the Chicago Defender has donated a cup as an additional prizje iu the hirers, holas h- relay. All these prizes will be added incentives for Uie cin der-oath athletes. The first threo place-w inners in the individual events will be awarded medals. ...... ••Keen rivalry will be given plenty of opportunity to express itself on the Hampton Institute track, which is one of the best in the country, being -4 feet wide on the 2 20 yard straightway and 13 feet wide around ihe nuartermile oval track. Entries Are being received by Gideon L. Smith. Hamptou Institute. Hampton.form displayed in the first game.This was the first game that the Morehouse College team has lost to a team of the Southeastern inter* collegiate Conference this year.STATE NORMAL LOSES GAME TO TALLADEGA COLLEGE.The Alabama state Normal baseball nine was unable to hit its stride here on Thursday and staged a com; edy of errors, which allowed the Talladega College nine to take the long end rtf a 20-9 count in a listless game. A combination of hits by the S visitors and errors by the locals in n three innings netted the Talladegans « 1 u; scores and determined the winner. *t Watts on the mound for the vis- n itors was the outstanding performer. L Lewis started the game for State A Normal and retired in the fourth in n favor of Kindred who fared little better.tl1 MON WINS OVER HAMPTON.h|C.ci(TV. Lerov Williams, Jr.)ALh«» Hampton has been running t r.ion tor the championship this sea-son - ht* was beaten on Hovey Field, Ma\- 1. bv a score of 3 to 3.The two moundsmen, Abbott and Hargrove pitched fast ball, which tested ;he batting strength of both teams, but by hard playing I'nion copped the largest end of the tallies.Pirginla.One c 29fl• S.■A-Tn
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Richmond Planet
Richmond, Virginia, US
Sat, May 09, 1925
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