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I It 1 t H
K enneth D. C l a p p ....................................................................... C aptain
C lark C hase, I I I ....................................................... . M anager
When Mr. Howe met the track candidates out on the boards on the first day of
the new year, prospects for a successful season looked good. Eight of the twelve letter-
men of last year's championship team were back. They were: Captain "Kenny” Clapp,
Bob Aldrich, Fred Estes, "Happy” Knowles, "Mickey” Maclsaac, "Heinie” Pierce,
George Spelt, and Frank Williams. A week's time showed that there was an abundant
supply of new material from which to build in order to stop up the gaps left by the
graduation of Captain Schwarz, McLaughry, and others of last year’s team.
By the time January 25 and our first meet of the year with Noble and Greenough
rolled around, prospects for victory were very bright indeed. On Saturday evening the
team victoriously returned and reported a score of 47 to 16 in favor of Moses Brown.
This was an all-round victory with everybody contributing.
Again on February 1 the trackmen ventured forth to the vicinity of Boston. This
time they were the guests of the Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury. This meet
was hard-fought all the way through, with every boy doing his utmost to win. As the
meet came into the home-stretch with but one more event, the 300, to go, the score
was 27 all. For the second successive year the combination of Spelt and Estes in this
event pulled this meet out of the coals for Moses Brown. Reeves of Roxbury and Fred
Estes battled for the lead all the way up to the last half lap, when George Spelt slipped
by them both to finish a half-step ahead of Estes and two steps ahead of Reeves.
On the next Saturday the team once more headed for Boston; this time the destination was the Boston
Garden, where the Eastern Seaboard Interscholastic Relay Carnival was to take place. In the three relays
run Clapp, Alexander, Holt and Blount took first in the one-lap relay, leading Roxbury Latin and Tabor
Academy by about forty yards, with a time of 1 minute, 3% seconds, the fastest time of the afternoon in
that event. Spelt, Williams, Pierce, and Estes took first in the two-lap relay, and Williams, Clapp, Spelt,
and Fenley took fourth in the medley relay to give Moses Brown six points according to the cross-country
method of scoring used in this meet. Roxbury Latin, which took three second places in these events, also
got six points, thus making a tie between Moses Brown and Roxbury Latin for first place in the Private
Schools Class.
On February 14, Moses Brown was scheduled to hold the annual triangular meet with Central High
and LaSalle Academy, both of Providence, but adverse weather conditions prevented this meet from being
held.
On the Saturday following, Moses Brown had as their guests the track team of Tabor Academy. Moses
Brown won 42% to 20%. The outstanding event of this meet was the performance given by Don Blount
in the high-jump. Don set a new Rhode Island Interscholastic and a new Moses Brown high-jump record
by gracefully clearing the bar at 6 feet 2% inches, actual measurement.
On February 29, the track team competed in the annual Providence Y. M. C. A. Interscholastic Track
Meet held at Hope Field. In this meet Hope High defeated Moses Brown by the small margin of 1%
points. Captain "Kenny” Clapp set a new meet record in the forty-yard dash with a time of 4.5 seconds.
The former record in this event, held jointly by two Hope Street men, was 4.6 seconds. "Kenny” was also
the only man in the whole meet who took two first places, obtaining a first in the forty-five yard low hurdles
as well as the first in the dash. George Spelt tied for first with Dunbar Young of Hope Street in the 300,
and they jointly set a new meet record in that event with a time of 35 seconds flat. This meet was one of
the most strenuously contended meets of the indoor season.
On March 7 the track team wound up its indoor track season by taking first place in the Private Schools
Championship at Soldiers Field, Cambridge, with 47 points. The team’s closest opponent was Roxbury Latin
with 25 points. The performance of the boys was good all around. Don Blount broke the meet record in
the high jump with a jump of 5 feet 11% inches, actual measurement.
The outdoor season was opened officially on April 17, when Moses Brown was host to the Central
High team. Moses Brown won to the tune of 97 to 29 to chalk up the twenty-eighth consecutive victory
for Moses Brown in dual and triangular track meets. This period extends over nearly four years of time,
and it looks as if the team had a good chance to increase the number this spring. Three dual and two
championship meets are left, and indications point to a very successful season.

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