At long last after 15 years of searching, I present you the 1919 & 1920 State 100 yard Champion - Phillip Wright - Warren HS

[JAVMAN83]

Phillip Wright of Warren (now Warren Harding) HS.

In the prelims of the 1920 meet, Wright tied the state meet record of 10 flat set by Earl Vail (Toledo Scott) in 1914. Wright ran 10 2/5 seconds to win both in 1919 & 1920.

Wright also won the 220 in 1920, and placed 2nd in the 220 in 1919 to teammate Arlington Everett.

 

[JAVMAN83]

Here is his teammate, Arlington Everett, who was 2nd to Wright in the 100, but won the 440 & 220 in 1919.

 

[JAVMAN83]

As quick follow-up, I'm sure you've noticed that I used the time of 10 2/5 seconds using the format and timing scheme up until 1924. Mechanical watches that were precise to 1/5 seconds were in use during that period. Mechanical watches' precision to 1/10 second didn't come about at the state meet until 1924. So, in all my documentation, I will use the format that was in use at that time instead of 10.4 seconds that we would commonly convert to for our purposes.

Edit note: I originally used "accurate" instead of the proper term, "precise". The resolution of the watch refers to its precision. The accuracy comes with the ability of the timer in question.

 

[Altor]

As quick follow-up, I'm sure you've noticed that I used the time of 10 2/5 seconds using the format and timing scheme up until 1924. Mechanical watches that were accurate to 1/5 seconds were in use during that period. Mechanical watches accurate to 1/10 second didn't come about at the state meet until 1924. So, in all my documentation, I will use format that was in use at that time instead of 10.4 seconds that we would commonly convert to for our purposes.

This is the way.

 

[KingHorn419]

How did you finally figure out who they were?

 

[JAVMAN83]

How did you finally figure out who they were?

Like a lot of searches ... figured out the right search terms to use in searching through my subscription to newspapers.com - came across a late June 1919 article from the Plain Dealer that featured those two pictures and a short paragraph describing their exploits that year. As I'm sure you're probably discovered the same, not all text from past newspapers can be interpreted by OCR, so you try to go at it another way. I feel most fortunate to finally have done so with these two athletes. There are many more to go.