The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25

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Oakland and Los HERBERI HAUSER
n eles high
schools both figure on winning the
meet. Harvard school of Los Angeles.
which heretofore was one of the lead
ing contenders. does not seem toFhaVe
a lookin this year. Oakland, with her
! trio of stars-Captain Mason Hartwell
IN the distances, Deming MacIise in
the hurdles, and Mike Smith in the
pole vault and broad jump-shotl4d
capture the majority OF points in these
events. Los Angeles. with Rubio. Lu<o.
Geissler and Robertson, is sure to be
counted on in the fight for the hrst
position.
The loo yard dash promises to be one
| of the closest events on the program.
with Caldwell and Hollis Of Cogswen
running against the southern cracks.
who have equally as good records 1t
is difficult to pick the winner OF the
Thiele cup. which goes to the athlete
making the largest number OF points.
1T Mike Smith is in form he stands
as good chance as any one. MANY
records will undoubtedly be broken. as
all the teams will be in better shape
than in previous years. This meet was
formerly held in March. which pre-
vented the early conditioning of the
high school athletes of the northern
section of the state.
The Academic league baseball out
look is in a somewhat mixed state.
with CogswelI and Sacred Heart fight
I iuc II To-
subleague honors. The latter school
has clean list of victories. while the
former fell unexpectedly before the
Lick Tigers, or rather Holt's remark
able pitching. If CogswelI defeats
Sacred Heart then the two schools
I viii have to meet again. as each will
have lost game. On the other side
OF the bay Oakland and Alameda will
fight il out. while the PeninsuIar league
honors are in San Jose's hands Napa
will be the Northern subleague con-
tender.
The great success of yesterdays
track meet at Sacramento augurs well
for amateur sports in that section OF
the state. Nothing as large as this has
ever been attempted before in the
north. There was considerable talk
among the promoters TO make this an
annual event hereafter
\ The report OF Douglas Erskiue. chair
man OF the Pacific athletic association
registration committee. showed that
athletes from so different towns in the
state have been registered during the
last few months. This means a great
deal to amateur athletics in the state.
Heretofore most Of the registrations
have been confined to the larger cities.
whereas now there are teams OF every
kind and description from all sections
of the state.
| Stanford probably will send her
] track team to the western conference
meet at Chicago in June. Efforts are
now being made 10 finance such
trip. and it is to be hoped that the
movement viii meet with success Mil
Ter, Wyrnan and Crawford are good for
many points in any meet, no matter
where il is held. and I doubt IL there
are two college men in the country
today who can defeat either Miller or
wyman at their respective distances.
With small team last year. the car
dinal boys made a hot fight for first
honors. and they can do the same or
| maybe better this time None OF the
middle west colleges have had any neld
days as yet. so il is impossible for a
prediction 10 be made.
| There was some. talk early In the
season OF the Academic league sending
the winners OF the meet OF MAY to
the interscholastic championships at
the Alaska-Yukon exposition. II is 20
be hoped that this talk has not been
| idle. There is little doubt that this
matter could be put through with but
little work or trouble, providing some
/ judgment is used in running the ap-
preaching field day. The trip could be
made at a small expense. and il the
league decides to take the matter up
large sum can be realized by simply
boosting the meet and carefully hand
ling the funds A trip like this would
boost the stock OF the league mate
/ rally.