The San Francisco call., 1906-09-29
Ready for Field Day Sports
Track Athletes to Meet Today
on the OuaL at Berkeley.

The San Francisco Athletic
League meet, which will be held
this afternoon at Berkeley oval,
will be the first important event
in track athletics since the fire.
The other field days, the Bay
Counties and Academic Athletic
Leagues, will follow on the 9th
and 18th of October, respectively.
These field days, together with
the Dipsea cross-country run on
October 7 and the Pacific Athletic
Association field day later in Oc-
tober, will mark one of the most
strenuous track seasons ever held
on the coast.
The Lick school will present its
usual strong team today, and it is
not likely that Lowell, Wilmer
ding, Polytechnic, Cogswell or
Mission-the schools competing
will be able to prevent the Lick
boys from winning a majority Of the
points.
In the fifty-yard dash several good
men like Read of Lowell, Dallas, and
Chandler of Wilmerding and Bettoli
of Lick are entered. Victory is ex-
pected to rest with Rudolph BettoIi.
Lick's latest find"
If Captain Golcher of the Tiger team
is In good condition the 100 and 22o
yard dashes should go to him. Golcher
tied the B. c. L. record Of 10 2-5 Sec
onds for the 100-yard dash last spring
and should do the same trick today
to the San Francisco record.
In the 440-yard dash Lick should get
and Stevens entered. First place in the
S00-yard dash is expected to go to Tom
Smith of Lowell. who has been doing
some sensational work of late Captain
Golcher has entered Ernest Thompson,
gritty hurdler. against Smith. While
Thompson is not expected to win, 1t
would not be a surprise to see him
give Lowelps crack runner close
race for first place.
Padilla and L. Thompson look good
for first and second places IN the mile.
The two-mile will be close race be-
tween r. Willison of Wilmerding, Ny
er of Lowell and Lodge Of Lick, with
chances about even.
First place in the high hurdles should
be between Bressi of Lowell and ALL
sopp of Lick. while the low hurdles
should be won without difficulty by
Ernest Thompson, the winner of that
event for the past two seasons
The field events will be unusually
close this year.
]. Willison of wilmerding and Bressi,
the Lowellite. will fight for first place
in the high jump and Klein or Hupp
of Lick should make the last two
places. Bressi of Lowell. Hupp, So
bey and Bettoli of Lick and Blood of
dates for the broad jump.
The record of the shot put will not
remain after today. Forty-three feet
is the best distance so far, but C. Bell
Lick's crack slab artist. has covered
more than forty-six feet If Bell can
repeat his performance he should set
a mark which will stand for some time
to come.
The willison brothers of wilmerding
and Bell of Lick should make things
lively in the hammer throw.
The running touch in the relay race
will be in vogue again this season.
The standing touch was tried in the
last field day and the supposition was
that the numerous fouls in the race
would be obviated. The standing touch
worked well enough, especially in the
Academic Athletic League field-day,
but the boys considered that the ex-
citement of the race was taken away
by having the standing touch so voted
to restore the old order of things.
The hammer throw will take place
at 1870 p. m, half-hour before the
first races are run Off.
Four places will be counted for
each race instead of three. making
eleven points for each event.