The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-11

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The seesaw on which Miss Emile
Hayward has been lettering with
Sacred Heart College in the gold prize
contest failed to work for her
| yesterday. 1t was her day to
go up, but she didn't. Although
she registered a gain of $500
votes, she remains on the down
| end of the board on which she has
been bobbing UP and down. Sacred
Heart College stays up in first place
with a plurality of nearly 5000 votes.
With only two days more to work in
/ before the awarding of the first series
of prizes-twentyf five purses amount
ing to $4,000 in gold-whoever would
win the big purse of $500 will have
to, do some lively hustling. The friends
to take chances on Miss Hayward S
inability to overcome the lead of 1900
which the college now enjoys. Two
| yearly subscriptions to the Daily Call
would place the Martinez maid again
at the head of the procession, and she
will not be long in getting those two,
and more. And she will need many
more, for it is. hardly probable that the
| friends Of the college will give up the
battle when they have it so nearly
won. Therefore 1t must needs be a
case of Lay on, Macduff" until the
umpire of the contest cries Hold,
enough"
MRS. DEAsY SHOWS THE GOODS
But ultimate possession of the
coveted $500 purse does not solely de-
pend upon the outcome of the duel
being waged between the two late see
savers for first place. Mrs. Mary G.
! Deasy of Napa, who has figured in
! first place herself to a considerable
extent since the beginning of the con-
| test, gave friendly warning several
days ago that her popular rivals might
pile on the votes as much as ohey
pleased before the last lap of the
race, but at the finish they would
have to reckon with her. Evidently
the Napa lady knew whereof she spoke
when she handed out this tip. which
was no idle boast. Just to let her
rivals know that she was prepared to
show the goods if any one undertook
| to call what seemed her monumental
bluff, she came to contest headquar-
tiers yesterday and unburdened herself
of 27,400 votes which she had &C
cumulated since last report. Scatter
/ ing returns brought her gain for the
day up to $4,000, bringing her total
score up past the point where the
leader stood yesterday morning. She
| is now in the six figures column and
only 300 votes behind Miss Hayward
and ZOO behind Sacred Heart College.
Thus the duel for first honors and the
| $500 resolves itself into a triangular
ARRAY, with each combatant arrayed
against two others, all worthy of one
another's steel. With the dauntless
three drawn up in such splendid battle
array, it makes as pretty and in
teresting a conflict as any one could
wish to see.
BIG STAKES IN THE BALANCE
On the voting of today and tomor-
row depends the outcome of the mo-
mentous struggle for the $500 bag of
gold, and the same votes may help the
winner of this handsome purse to win
the $1,000 sweepstakes prize, which will
be awarded on April Is. With such
rich stakes in view it is not to be won
dered at that thousands are watching
with interest the outcome of the con-
flict of the next two days How can
any one who is friendly to any of these
candidates refuse to prepay a subscrip-
ton to The Call when by so doing he
could help his favorite to win the big
money?
If not disposed to help any of those
now nearest to winning the big purses.
cash in a subscription to The Call any
way and give the votes to some less
prominent candidate who is also after
share of the $4,000 in gold prizes
and who needs the money just as badly
as those who are striving for the big
stakes. Don't wait until Saturday, the
last day of the competition for the first
| $1,000, but cash in your subscription to-
day and make some struggling con-
testant happy.
CHANGES IN THE LINEUP
The voting yesterday was the heav-
lest in the aggregate of any day since
hIlf there
changes in the lineup as far down the
list as No IL. Miss May Erwin of
Fresno captured the latter place by
moving up from No. 16, from the $40
to the $50 class of prize-winners.
| Mrs. Elizabeth Bockerman of Ala
media superseded Roy Ibach of the
Mission as No. IT, Mrs. Bockerman
is highly recommended by her friend
and employer, William Wolff. a we'll
known San Francisco business man.
Magda Steinkamp, the little Ell Do
RADIO County schoolgirl, who is making
a plucky fight to win some of the
money for higher education, sent in
enough votes for herself to take her
past the 10000 mark and overtake Mrs.
Ellen Smith of Walnut Creek. Mrs.
Smith and Miss Steinkamp are both
still in the $50 class of prize winners
as they stand now, and both are very
anxious to win at least that sum, as
they have urgent need of the money.
Any one disposed to help them will do
a kind act, as both are very worthy.
according to the Recommendation of
people who know them we'll.
Miss Herta Blanckenburg of Berkeley
has won a place among the probable
prize winners by moving up from
twenty-eighth to twenty third place.
Marcus Waltz, the other Berkeley can
didate, has joined the down and out"
club by falling below No. %.
Miss Minnie Burrows is the last in
line for prize at the present time, and
she is on very shaky ground, as any
one of those below her is liable to
make a Jump that will shove her out
of the circle of the elect unless she
gets in a liberal amount of votes her.
self in short order.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
A new candidate has SHE'D his castor
into the arena at the eleventh hour.
and he has figured 1t out that he can