The San Francisco call., 1907-02-08

Not yet, but soon,'' is the message
that Mrs. ]. F. Doherty sends from Sac
ramento with reference to her .inten-
tion to capture first place in The Calls
gold prize contest. Yesterday morning
/, looked as though she would have
long and tedious chase to be on an al
most equal footing with Miss Merani Of
Oakland But ere the day passed she
caught Miss Merani mapping and almost
ousted her from the post of honor.
Miss Merani had nearly 10000 votes
to the good, and thought it safe to rest
a day on her laurels. But Mrs. Doherty,
by a gain of 1S,700, brought her total
up to the good round sum of 100, 900
votes, only 1000 short of Miss Meranis s
total on Thursday morning. The Oak
land lass received a contribution of
1000 during the day and therefore still
holds the leadership by margin of
1000 votes
1t is nip and tuck between Oakland
and Sacramento now, and if the capital
city continues to stand as Loyalty by it's
representative during the next few
days as it has in the past there may
be a new queen" of the contest before
the end of the week.
Sacred Heart College is now about
$4,000 votes behind the leaders and will
need the help of all its friends to bring
the first prize again within its grasp.
Miss Mollye Sheridan of Stockton
registered a gain of 5000 yesterday and
came within an ace of wrestling eighth
place from Miss Breschini the Swiss
representative If Miss Sheridan keeps
up her strenuous work it will not be
long before she will be one of the high
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IN. C. A. IN THE GAME
Miss Sheridan not only has the can
didates from other towns to contend
with, but will now have opposition to
overcome right at home, for the Stock
ton Young Mems Christian Association
has decided to take a hand in the
game. The association is in need of
funds to equip it's gymnasium, and see
ing that Sacred Heart College OF San
Francisco procured $500 for it's library
in the first period of the contest and is
in a fair way to win several large addi-
tional purses before the contest is over,
also observing that Christ Church Ath-
letic Club of Sausalito has made good
start toward securing a snug sum of
money to equip it's gymnasium. the Of
ficers and members of the Stockton
Young Mems Christian Association have
concluded to put their energies to the
test by hustling up enough subscrip-
tions to The Call to put some much
needed cash in the associations treas
llry Acting Secretary Howard Tomlin-
son in making application to enter the
association in the race says:
The association has a membership of
nearly two hundred. and all feel as if
they have thorn in their flesh since
we have decided to enter the contest.
The object of going in is to win one
of the prizes offered contestants, the
money to go toward refitting our gym
nasium, and the helping out of athletics
generally. We are ready to start right
now"
With such a powerful organization to
compete against, Miss Sheridan will
need the support of her many friends
and admirers as never before. She has
the advantage of a good start, and the
Y. M. c. A. boys will probably find ii
no easy task to overtake her. The Y.
NJ. c. A. does not intend to conduct a
strictly local campaign, but will ask
Y. NJ c. A. workers all over the State
to help the Stockton association to get
share of the prize money.
81 VARIOUS UPS AND DOWNS
Little Lois Pitzer of Newman, Stan
islaus County, is doing very nicely,
thank you. for beginner. A gain of
5000 in her score yesterday took her up
six numbers to tenth place.
Gladys Adcock, the little invalid ref
ugee, moved up one notch higher,
thanks to a windfall in the shape of
$500 votes from sympathizer at Sui
sun.
The soldier boys, Tobin and Winches-
ter. fell back two degrees to twelfth
place. James Anis Quinn retrograded
two degrees and inherited the "hoodoo'
number 13.
Hattie M. Hoppock of Fresno. by a
gain of 1000, jumped up five lines to
No. %, compelling Hattie Eden to ski
doc" to No. "a.
Mrs. Mary c. Deasy received lift
of $500 from a friend at Tonlales, which
took her up two numbers to eighteenth
place. 1t is about time for Mrs. Deasy
to return from her vacation and take
charge of her campaign personally, or