Show ATHLETIC SPORTS IN BOSTON Boston is this summer surpassing its is success of last year in interesting a aLost host Lost of youngsters in track games and Under the leadership of the tho Boston boys' boys games committee the work was inaugurated in the summer of 1909 hOD when the cooperation operation of the park bath hath and school departments was secured Prize medals were obtained ten preliminary meets were held beld and l i final l meet at Wood Island park n. n brought vu uv the total individual list up up to brough 2735 Fourteen hundred and eighty eighty- five prizes were wore distributed Several Saturdays have ve been devoted to the 1910 gaineS gates however and the entry lists have bave gone gono way ahead of last year year Perhaps the tho most encouraging feature is that the meets attract a t multitude multitude mul mul- of small smal boys from 14 11 to 16 years of age boys who aro arc out for time the fun there is in i it it- There is a silver siver medal for every boy o who wins a first place in the preliminary meets and a bronze medal for second pIa co The first four in the events of the tho preliminary meets qualify for the final meet at Wood island when cups will wi be awarded for first and second pla places es On July 20 there were 1000 individual entries s at atthe atthe atthe the three t ck and arid swimming meet meets Ten thousand spectators watched the games from grand stand and beach At north end end encl beach there were contestants in the various swimming events event During these swimming meets there was a very striking instance of the way through at athletics of this sort youngsters are ro learning how to handle themselves in m an e emergency ergen y At the tho Dewey beach bench meet eight girls were in il th yard fifty dash The Tho swimmers had yarl gone about twenty feet toni Ol tho float foat when cramps seized one ono of them and I she sank A companion who had I earned to swim swim at tho the beach only tho the summer before turned and supported her rival until the life guards came to tho the rescue The The The Survey |