DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - SCHOOLS - Leo Roberts wins track meet,  April 4, 1910 
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Washington Post April 4, 1910 Sports Page 8

LEO ROBERTS WINS HONORS.
Former Central High Athlete First in 50 - Yard Championship Race.

 Word reached this city last evening of the wonderful feat of Leo Roberts, 
formerly star athlete at the Central High School of this city, who is at 
present representing the University of Kansas in track participations. In an 
athletic carnival in Omaha, Nebr., last Saturday evening the Washington boy 
is credited with having won the Western championship 50 - yard dash, 
negotiating the distance in 51-5 seconds, which, if correct, is a fifth of a 
second better than the world's mark for the event.
 Pitted against him was the cream of athletic talent in the Far West, 
including represents of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma 
universities and all the larger athletic clubs and schools of that section.
 Roberts started his career on the track as a member of the Central High 
School track team of 1907, and soon developed into a dash runner of rare 
ability. After a season's workout under the veteran trainer, "Bill" Foley, 
he gained a place in the front rank of dash runners in this vicinity, and at 
the end of his final year at the school earned the title of premier 
schoolboy dash runner of the South. Roberts is in his junior year in an 
engineering course at the Western University, and expects to graduate next 
year.