De La Salle Institute - Torch Yearbook (New York, NY)

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- I, 70 WJ 1 7-sq Nj I i lf. 'V . 1' - e A T - . P 3 XL I T i TRACK Despite the fact that four of the letter men of the cross country team of 1926 had been lost by graduation, another team of high calibre was expected. There- fore a goodly number of candidates responded when the first call was issued, soon after the opening of school in September. Dual meets had been booked with Columbia Freshmen, Clason M. A., Manhattan Prep., and Xavier, and a strong team was entered in the Private Schools Championship Meet. The season was one of varied success, starting with a defeat at the hands of the strong freshmen runners from Columbia. This was followed with a well earnedvictory over the Xavier harriers. Then followed the loss of close decisions after races with Manhattan Prep. and Clason M. A. In the final meet of the season, the Private Schools Championship, our runners finished fourth with the premier honors going to Clason M. A. J. Downing ran an exceedingly fine race, being among the first five to finish. At the next meeting of the Executive Board of the Athletic Association letters were awarded to H. Gugler, '27, managerg John O'Connell, '27, captain g G: Gegan, '29, P. Christopher, '27 5 J. Downing, '29g R. VVard, '29. VVith the close of the cross country season, attention turned once more to the annual Indoor Track Meet. The meet had been a tremendo-usi success in former years, so much so, in fact, that it had come to be regarded as the model interscholastic meet held in New York City. The day finally came and the meet was run off in such a fashion as to elicit praise from both spectators and news- papers. In this meet the De La Salle one mile relay made its debut. The maiden appearance was crowned with success for the quartet skipped' through both trials and finals with such ease that their rivals were both dismayed and outwitted. This was but the start of a strenuous campaign. One evening the boys journeyed to Newark and returned with the title of National Champions. Mr. Peter L. Waters who is track coach at De La. Salle deserves great credit for the successes of his charges. On another occasion, just to prove their versatility, they betook themselves to the annual games of the Osceola Democratic Club and captured the one half mile relay. The Junior Relay that flashed across a clear sky in the season previous is no more. Its members have grown corpulent and can no longer scale the requisite one hundred and twenty pounds. The reign of the quartette was short fit took part in only two racesj, but it was correspondingly brilliant. In the Princeton Interscholastic Meet it defeated the best that the Public School Athletic League could offer and captured the unofficial Championship of Greater New York. E711