Official handbook .. . rts. An estimate of the cost of such a track was asked for, andwhen these officials were given the estimate of $400, theypromptly declined to undertake it, but offered to allow the peti-tioners to build the track, provided the two instructors whowere employed in the University would take the personalresponsibility for its completion, and, in case of failure, wouldreplace the sod in its original condition. Under these conditions the organization began its workfor the uplift of the athletic life of the respective schools. In about five weeks the track was laid, about one-f
Official handbook .. . rts. An estimate of the cost of such a track was asked for, andwhen these officials were given the estimate of $400, theypromptly declined to undertake it, but offered to allow the peti-tioners to build the track, provided the two instructors whowere employed in the University would take the personalresponsibility for its completion, and, in case of failure, wouldreplace the sod in its original condition. Under these conditions the organization began its workfor the uplift of the athletic life of the respective schools. In about five weeks the track was laid, about one-fourth otthe entire track being laid by voluntary labor on the part of thestudents of M Street High School, Armstrong Technical HighSchool and Howard University. The remainder was built by hiredlabor and paid for from the personal funds of the men times the Association was in debt to its individual membersin sums varying from $io to $ioo, with no assurance, save theirfaith, that it would ever owe them 1, ^^erton Robinson, roted foot hall and hrtskpt ball coach;Jobnsou, Secretary Y. M. C. A., Twelfth Street Branch. Lewis E. SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 19 The teachers of the several schools subscribed for a grandprize in the form of a trophy cup, to be contested for annuallyby the schools, and the organization spent another $i_o inmedals and prizes. Track teams of the High Schools were trained by Mr. 1{. IxHenderson; of Howard University by Mr. W. A. Joiner andMr. DeCatur, and of Baltimore High School by Mr. Cook andDr. Smith. The first meet, held May 30. 1906, called out the largestcrowd that had ever gathered on the University campus andproved the popularity of the movement. Between seventy-fiveand one hundred young men competed in the events, many ofwhom had for their first time beheld a lield and track the spectators generally it was an entirely new experience. The competing teams were from Howard, M Street High,Armstrong Technical, Baltimore High.
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