The herald., 1897-02-11
A Fine Afternoons Sport at
Athletic Park
THE COMMERCIALS VICTORY
Ryan Takes Everything in Sight for his
Class
The Gentlemen Of the Faculty Prove That
They Have Not Forgotten How
to Play Bail

Yesterday afternoon the winter class
of 97 of the Los Angeles High school
held its annual field day at Athletic
park. The senior b class had turned
out gayly in three tallyhos, and the
girls of the senior A class with their
spotless parasols were a sight to de-
. light the eye. The grandstand and
| bleachers were crowded.
The one-mile bicycle race was entered
by Brotherton, Pierce, Frick, Dandy,
Stewart and Ryan, Ryan setting the
most of the pace. The result was: Ry-
an first. Frick second. Brotherton third /;
time 2:33.
The football punt was contest be-
I tween Hubbard. Dunlap, OMelveny and
! they came out in the order given; dis
! tance, 1t6 feet.
! The one-half mile bicycle race was
entered by Ryan, Brotherton, Frick and
/ Dandy. Ryan again set the pace, the
contestants coming out in the order
named; time, 1.22 2-5.
The 440-yard dash was won by Bright.
Hale second, Crippen third; time. ISL.
The one-fourth mile bicycle race found
Ryan on top again. Dandy second, Broth
erton third. During this race Frick
found out that the track was not quite
soft enough to fall upon with impunity
Time, :36 20.
Then the circus of the afternoons
sport began. 1t was the senior novice
race. and Pauly, Brown, Hallett. Put
nam. Brousseau, Levy, King, Baxter
Norton and Jacobus all exhibited their
skll-or lack of skill-at riding the
fOr J,
first prize, followed by Brown, Norton
and Levy; time. 1:27.
Next was the long drawnout high
jump. After a great many trials Wolf
skill came out No. l, Austin second,
Crawford third; Wolfskill jumped feet
inches.
The three-mile handicap found Broth
erton, Frck and Ryan on scratch; Dan
dy 80 yards. Pierce 100 yards, Russell
200 yards, Stewart 900 yards. The COM
mercials had chance to yell once more,
for Ryan, the conquering hero, took the
cake in this event. too. Close behind
came Brotherton and Frck; time, SAL
The 100-yard dash was won by Bright,
Sill second; time, 10 %
In the preceding events first place
counted five points. second place three,
third place one. The points when added
up showed that the commercial course
had 40 out Of the 81 points. The middle
BIS had 20, senior A 9, middle AS and
the senior BIS and the ninth graders
simply were not in it,
The baseball game between the gen.
tlemen of the faculty and the senior As
showed that the scholactic gentlemen
still had the vim of youth within them.
The score was 8 to 2, favoring the fac
ulty nine. On the faculty nine were
Messrs. Housh, Baker, Leslie, Carlson.
Brown, Henry. Palette, Wolfskill and
Glass; on the senior A nine were Brous
seau. Jacobus, Hallet, Levy, Pauly.
Norton. Putnam and Brown. Pauly and
Putnam gave the seniors their two SOL
itary runs A broken bat and a late
hour wound the game up at the end of
the second inning.
The officials for the day were: Ref
cree, Carl McStay; starter, Eugene R.
Hallett; announcer, Roy A. Brousseau;
REGISTRAR. Paul Pauly; timers, Paul
Brown, John Ross, Fred Turner; scor-
ers, Albert NJ. Norton, Chas White, De
Forest Howry; judges. Messrs. w. H.
Housh. ]. NJ. McPherron, George Les
lie A. F. Baker. Milton Carlson; clerks
of course. John Putnam, jr., Mark H.
Slosson. Kay Crawford, Asa Keyes.