The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08
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RECORDS ARE
BROKEN BY
SCHOOLBOYS
Sensational Performances at
Academic Athletic League
Championship Meeting.

The athletes oS t-e Oakland High School
again asserted their supremacy on field
and path Yesterday on Berkeley Oval by
scoring the greatest number of points in
the eleventh seHi-annual field day of the
Academic Athletic League. Representa-
tives of the school won the quarter-mile
and mile runs. the high jump and the re-
lay race. Throughout the afternoon the
athletes from Ukiah held first place They
had no men for the relay race, however,
and were compelled TO stand idly by at
the last moment and see the championship
which they won at the spring meeting
wrested from them.
The contests were all spirited ones, be-
ing bitterly contested from start TO finish.
Two new stars were developed IN Stephen
Asbill, Lowell High School, and Robert
Thomas. Ukiah High School. The former
won the classic hundred" and the 220
yard sprints, while Thomas had no COM
peutor capable of making him extend
himself In the 40 and 200 hurdles. He
ran the shorter distance IN 16 1-5 sec
onds, as against the former record OF
II 10. He ran the 200 IN q 50, taking
q fifth Of a second off the record. had
he been pressed in competition he would
have reduced the time in both races ma
terially.
Asbiu gives promise Of developing into
a great sprinteT. He has immense
strength and a big. open stride by which
he covers lot OF ground. His home is
in Lake County, but ne is attending
Lowell High School in this city. Up TO a
week ago he was training with the foot
ball team Of the school. He then dropped
this heavy work and was given hasty
preparation for the sprint racing.
The fourth academic record of the day
fell to Irwin, Berkeley High School. He
cleared ID feet, 61s inches in the pole vault,
the former record being 10 feet 33s inches.
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as he has done much better in practice.
Both the distance runs provided desper-
ate struggles in the last lap. In the half
mile Heaiey of Petaluma went out as
though TO make a runaway win of it. He
led by ten lengths the first lap, maintain
ing this advantage until the beginning
of the last lap. Graves began to cut down
his lead gradually and they rounded into
the finishing straight together. They ran
stride for stride toward the tape, but the
terrific pace told on Healey near the end.
He faltered ten yards from home and
fairly staggered over the finishing line,
Graves winning clever race. The mile
was almost repetition Of this except
that four men We're struggling to catch
The spectators, the majority of whom
We're students in the various schools,
knew the relay race was the decisive
event on the programme Upon its out
come depended the first three positions
in the table Of points. The representa-
tives Of the Oakland High School took
would their opponents could not get near
them. The Berkeley foothills resounded
with the mad cheering of the students
from the start of the race to its finish
After ii was over the blue COlOrs Of Oak
land High School were cast to the breeze
while the athletes who carried them TO
victory were carried off the field in tri-
umph
The day was trife warm for severe
competition, but the athletes were able
to sit about in their abbreviated costumes
without inconvenience. The attendance
attend the high schools. John Elliott
made an efficient referee, running off the
track events in good time. Herbert
Bauser. chairman of the committee in
charge Of the field day, was congratulated
on all sides on its success. The score of
points before and after the relay race Is
as follows: