The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

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SACRAMENTO. April 24.-The larg-
est athletic carnival ever attempted in
this part OF the state was held at
Agricultural park today. when ESQ ath-
letes. comprising the entries of three
separate field and track meets, com
peted for trophies and medals hung up
by the citizens OF Sacramento in honor
of the slxtieth anniversary of the citys
meets were pulled of during the after
noon on a time schedule and were wit
messed by more than 5000 persons.
The two principal meets were the
Sacramento valley interscholastic ath-
letic league annual and meet for all
amateur athletes in the state. The first
comprised entries from seven high
schools in the Sacramento valley and
was won by Chico normal with score
of 90 points. Chico high was second
with 30. Sacramento %. Woodland 90
and Auburn 2. The open section meet
went to the fast Olympic team from
San Francisco, which captured the team
silver trophy besides many medals. The
other meet was for the Sacramento
grammar schools. including bicycle
races.
final to the Olympic games was a
10 mile Marathon race. Twelve runners
started on this long iorney, extending
from the track into the city and re-
turn, and Bob Holden of St. Mary's won.
with Schmidt of Stockton second and
jeff Hassard of st. Mary's third. The
race was run in L hour minutes IL
seconds.
The feature of the day was the run
ming of Vernal Rodda of the Sacra-
mento high school, who broke records
In the 90 yard and 220 yard dashes. He
ran the so yards in is seconds and
the 220 in % 2-5 seconds. smashing rec
ords previously held by him. Beside
this he clipped fraction off his record
for the 100 yards by doing it in 10 Is
seconds. The summary of the Sacra-
mento valley interscholastic athletic
league meet is as follows
22O yard hurdles-Case (Chico Nd
won, Lee (W.) second. Tibbets (Chico
d. third. Time. q minutes.
90 yard dash-Rodda (S.) won, Steph-
ems eW) second, Yee (S) third. Time,
81 seconds.
12o yard high hurdles-Case (Chico
Nd won, Lee (Chico H. second. Tib-
bets (Chico H.) third. Time, 16 40 sec
Mile run-Jamison (chico H,) won,
Melvin (S.) second, Horn (A) third.
Time. 51s minutes.
IVV dIu uaSIl--f<OQQa Isl won.
stephens (W.) second. Kinchelve (W)
third. Time. 10 minutes and / second.
40 ward dash-Ruth (Chico H.) won.
Horner {Chico H.) second, Perry (A.)
third. Time, SO minutes and 2 seconds.
220 yard dash-Rodda (S.) won.
klnchelve tW.D second, Horner (Chico
Nd third. Time. % minutes and sec
onds.
Half mile run-Ruth (Chico H) won
burlington (W.) second, Cell (W.) third.
Time, minutes and 4-5 seconds.
Half relay-Won by team from Chico
high; Sacramento team second; Wood
land team third. Time, 1:46.
Pole vault-Muegge (W). first: Can
field tChico high), second; Beck (Chico
NJ third. Height, 10 feet inches.
Running high jump-Case (Chico NJ.
first: Morton (Chico NJ, second; Jacobs
(W), third. Height. feet 914 inches.
Twelve pound shot put-Ranker
(Chico ny, first; Watterson (Chico H !,
second Wright (Chico H.), third. Dis
tance, ~ feet ~ inch.
Running broad jump-Lee (Chieo
HI. first; Stephens (W.), second: Bart
lett 6Chico H.), third. Distance, 10
feet 10 inches.
II pound hammer throw-Ranker.
Chico n, won: Morrison. Chico n. sec
ond; Roberts. Chico H.. third. Distance