The record-union., 1898-05-22
SlxTY-ONE TO THIRTY-EIGHT
SACRAMENTO HIGH SCHOOL
WINS THE DAY.
Woodland Fought PIuckily, but
Could Not Pile Up Enough
Points.

| mere was a large turnout at ABrlculC-
ural Park yesterday afternoon to wit
ness the field day contest between the
Sacramento High School and the
Woodland High School teams, and the
grand stand and quarter-stretch
showed in profusion the purple and
white and the gold Of the respective
partisans
! The Woodland boys came down in
their pride like the Assyrians of old,
but the opposing cohorts were clad in
purple while they were clad in gold.
They were confident of downing the
Sacramentans in great style, and the
latter were not very confident of their
own success, owing to various draw
backs from which they have suffered.
However, they kept up their nerve and
pulled through handsomely, beating
the visitors by a large percentage.
The first event was a hundred-yard
dash, the sprinters being Harvey, Nor
| ris, Gould and Porter who came out
! in the order named, after a good race,
in 10 40 seconds. Harvey and Gould
were Sacramentans.
| The half-mile race between Hill and
Wright for the visitors and Rowan and
Murphy of the home team was won by
-
Murphy third.
Porter, Bray and Dick were opposed
to Harvey and Reed in putting the six
teen-pound shot, Bray winning with 81
| feet AZ inches, Reed second with 33
feet inches and Porter third with SO
feet IL inches.
| AS the scale of points was five for
first, three for second and one for
| nd nd no tVUn
events out of the three, was jubilant,
the score being IA to Is, but Sacrament
to proved in the next event that 13 was
not an unlucky number, for in the 220-
yard dash, in which Porter and Morris
ran against Gould and Harvey, after
an exciting finish, Gould beat Morris
six feet, the latter being about the same
distance ahead of Harvey, and the
time "a As seconds This changed the
score 10 to II in favor of Sacramento,
which was never headed afterward
Thiele and Brown for the Sacrament
tans and Caldwell and Bray for the
Woodlands were pitted against each
other in the mile bicycle race. The for
mer two set the pace and were never
headed, Thiele winning in 2:32 by fifty
yards, and Brown coming in second,
about ten yards ahead of Caldwell.
The mile run had an exciting finish.
| Day and Hawkins were the Woodland
representatives, while Murphy and
Rowan upheld the purple and white.
Day set the pace from the start and
held it past the tuIn, but coming down
the stretch Murphy passed him and
took first place. Suddenly Day reeled
and fell and lay motionless after pass
| ing the seven-eighths pole, while Muir
ply finished an easy winner in 0:23 1-3,
Hawkins second and Murphy third.
| Day was revived and came around all
right later, and received many congrat-
ulations over the pluck he displayed in
holding out so long.
In the hammer-throwing Marshal and
Dick contested against Harvey and
Reed Dick proved the victor with a
throw of ITO feet 215 inches, Reed Sec
ond with 100 feet and Marshal third
with 90 feet inches, beating Harvey
one inch,e4
The 440-yard dash was the most ex
citing of the races, Wright and Brown
ing of the visitors running against
Gould and Rowan. Gould, who had al
ready won the 220-yard dash. won
handily by twenty feet in :06 1-5, with
Wright second and Rowan third.
Thiele and Brown went against Cald-
we'll and Bray in the two-mile bicycle
race Thiele, as before, did the pacing
! throughout the first mile, Brown Sec
ond, and then they both dropped out to
let Bray and Caldwell take turn at
pacing. In the last quarter Thiele and
Brown slipped by the other two and
came in ahead, Thiele winning in 6
minutes fiat, twenty feet ahead of
Brown, who finished three feet ahead of
| Caldwell Brown was handicapped in
both races by riding strange wheel,
his own being damaged, but he held his
own well.
The high jump came next, Harvey
and Gould against Morris and Hawkins.
! 1t was very closely contested, Harvey,
who is O pretty Jumper, winning with D
! feet three inches to his credit, Morris
second, with 5 feet 2 inches, Gould
third, with. ) feet l inch, and Hawkins
| fourth, with 5 feet.
The pole-vaulting wound up the pro-
gramme, the rain preventing carrying
| it out in full Gould was determined,
| apparently, to take a hand in every
! thing, and he and Harvey tackled Har-
Ian and Brown. 1t was stubborn con-
test and Gould and Harlan tied on 8
feet, the rain putting a stop to the
settling of the tie, and they divided the
points equally, Harvey coming in third,
with feet 8 inches to his credit.
The points at the finish stood 81 for
Sacramento to SO for Woodland, and
the boys of the latter team, although as
tonished at the result, took their de-
feat good humoredly, and viii TRY to
even it up next year. E. E. Leake or