Identifier: athleticprincipl00phila (find matches)
Title: Athletic principles and activities
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Philadelphia. Public schools. Supervisory committee on athletics. (from old catalog) Hummel, Carl A., (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Athletics
Publisher: New York, American sports publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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awarded to the school having won the greatest numberof dual meets, the Interscholastics being a grand finale to the swimmingseason. West Philadelphia has won the swimming championships for the lastthirteen years. The.v hold all the records, but the other schools have grad-ually come to the front until it is no longer a riv.ilry but hard competition.- TENNIS IN BOYS HIGH SCHOOLS. In 1921, a demand for tennis competition among the public high schools ofthe city sprang up, and it was recommended that the matches be played inthe early months of Autumn, that a championship be declared in tennis asin other sports, and that this championship be based on the number ofmatches won by the school teams of the league. These recommendations were adopted by the Supervisory Committee onAthletics, and in September of 1921, the first matches for the high schoolchampionship in tennis were played. The games were played on Tuesdaysand Thursdays, beginning on the twentieth of September and continuing until
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SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 35 each school team had met each other school team. As a result of thesematches, West Philadelphia won the championship. The other schools wereplaced as follows : Central second, Northeast third, Frankford fourth, Ger-mantown fifth. A change in the scoring system was adopted for the season of 1922, asfollows : In calculating the standing of school teams, the number of pointsmade by each team in each meet shall be added, the sum to be the numberof points made by the team during the season, and the championship shall beawarded to that school having the highest number of points thus obtained. TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS. HELD JUNE 7. 1922. 100 yds. daBh—10 l-5s.; Gould, .Central, won; Mathlas, Germantown, second; Foley,Southern, third; Karback, Germantown, fourth; Wright, Germantown, fifth. 220 yds. dash—23 2-5s.; Karback, Germantown, won; Gould, Central, second; Foley,Southern, third; White, Central, fourth; Weeks, Frankford, fifth. 440 yards run—54s.; Jackson,

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