The San Francisco call., 1897-09-26
FIELD DAY
Of LOWELL
HIGH SCHOOL
Records of the School Were
Broken in Two of the
Events.
BISHOP BROTHERS WIN LAURELS.
The Contestants Were Evenly
Matched and the Finishes
Exciting.
>ENIORS MAKE The MOST POINTS.
But the Middles Gave Them a Hard
Tussle and Lost by but
Six Points.
SENIORS MAKE THE MOST POINTS.
But the Middles Gave Them a Hard
Tussle and Lost by but
Six Points.

The regular semi-annual interclass field
day of the LoweIl Hieh School was held
yesterday at the olympic Club grounds.
The events were closely contested, and
great entt usiasm was manifested by the
large crowd present. The Bishop brothers,
Frank and Ed, of the class of '9S carried
OH the honors of the day, participating in
nearly every event and seldom finishing
worse than second. Bonitieid won both
the 100 and 220 yard dashes, his time in
each being but two -filths of Il second
above the record. The school record for
the high jumps and sixteen pound shot
put were broken. Rooney 9S. jump ping
leet 2M inches. q OF an inch more than
the old record made by Drum 81, and
Bishop putthe sixteen-pound shot 80 feet
11I inches, beating his own and the
school record, which was 80 feet II
inches. A cod, raw wind blew over the
grounds, and made record breaking in the
iootraces impossible but the time in some
of them was remarkably good. The mile
run was the most exciting event of the
day. There were four starters, and they
covered the first five laps close together
Then Hursh and Aitken drew away from
time so close that it was impossible to tell
who was ahead. few yards from the
tape Hursh spurted desp erately, and got
the de cision bv foot in 5:4615.
William P. Drum (U. CO. acted as ref
cree and the judges of finish were AitkIn
Gu. c., Mr.. Walker IL. H. 81 and c.
O'Connor &c. NJ. c.. The seniors made
the most points and were declared the
victors, but they won by small margin,
as the middies were only six points be-
hind the M.
The first event was 1O0-yard dash. In
he trials Bo ,ifeId '9S won the first beat
f. Bishop % second Time, IL seconds
Tie second heat was won by Borador 49,
f. Bishop 90 second. Time, IL 2-5 sec
onds. Bonitield won the final from E.
shop, with f. Bishop third. Time, IL
seconds Hat.
The SSO-yard run was won by Fault '9S,
Aitkin '9S second and Hursh '99 third.
Time, 2:18 as.
The two-mile bike race was won by
Stone '9S $40. Ph,lipp so was second
and w. Levy '9S third.
The 120 yard high hurdles was taken
bv f. Blsnop from Jackson '99 Time,
30 1-5. Rooney '9S was disqualified for
Knocking over hurdle.
Lyons '99 won the 440-yard run in 81
seconuSi Donluelu seCono, hooper ~
third.
In the 50.yard dash, trials, Kidd 100 won
the first heat from +. Bishop, Saunders
80 third in 1-5 seconds. Tne second
heat was taken by Jackson, with f.
Bishop second. In the finals E. Bishop
breasted the tape in l-5 seconds and was
declared the winner, F. Bishop second,
Kidd third.
The mile walk was won by Gleason in
:39 2-5, Drucker second and karmelinsk
third. Drucker clearly outclassed his
field and was at no time obliged 10 extend
himself.
In the 220-yard low hurdles F. Bishop
won the first eat from Jackson In 80 rs
and f. Bishop The second from Hooper in
321l +. Bishop n the final in 81 2.5.
Jackson second and Z. Bishop third.
Mile run-Hursh won, Ai,kin second,
Karmeinski third. Time, 5:461a
The 220-yard dash was won Bonifield,
Saunders second, Boradori third. Time,
IS fl It.
Twelve. pound ham m er throw-E. Bishop
80 feet inches, Maze 9S ieet 2 inches,
Baird 35 feet inches.
High iump-Roonev 5 feet 2l inches
Hursh feet 1 inch, Belden 49, 4 feet 10
inches.
Broad iump-Dufficy 90, II feet 81
inches; Jackson Is feet inches, Roone5
16 feet inches.
OlXtehn-FOuHu snOG putt. DiSnOp 80
feet 1111 inches. +. Bishop 81 feet 3 inches,
Maze % feet III inches.
Pole vaut-beden feet, Rooney feet
inches.
Di Gus throw-Maze 78 feet inches,
Sh after II feet inches, Baird SO feet.
The male relay race was Won by The class
OF 99 in :42. The mem bers of the winning
te am were Lyons. Hursh, Boradori, Jack
son. Hooper and Saunders.
A special go yard dash for the Eighth
and Ninth grades Grammar School was
won by Bob Duncsn from Butler In 27 fiat