Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-09
YOUNGSTER MEET
FOR HERALD CUP
MAYOR ALEXANDER TO AWARD
BEAUTIFUL TROPHY
SIXTEEN TEAMS WILL CLASH FOR
COVETED SUPREMACY
Flag, Potato and Relay Races to Fea-
ture Days Program-Thousand
of Spectators May Witness
Big Meet

Beginning early this morning with a
baseball game between an all-star boys
nine, composed of the best players
which the eight Los Angeles play
grounds can boast and an aggregation
made up of the playground directors
and supervisors, there will be an all
day field meet at the Echo park play
grounds, in which sixteen teams will
contest in various kinds of sports for
the possession Of The Herald cup.
The Echo park, Castelar, street, Thir-
tieth street, Fourteenth street, Recrea-
tion Center, Violet street. San Pedro
and Utah street Fairgrounds will each
send two teams on the field, and it is
estimated that between 450 and 500
children will be competing at the same
time. Relay races, obstacle races, flag
races and other unique contests have
been arranged by Superintendent c. B.
Raitt and his assistant, Oliver Best.
The winning team will be credited with
five points for each event, the second
three points and the third team one
point. Echo park will make every ef-
fort to secure The Herald trophy, and
no labor has been spared by the chill
dren to score in every event.
Mayor to Award Herald Cup
Any afternoon during the past few
weeks one might see at the Echo play
grounds groups of from fifteen TO
twenty boys and girls engaged in play
ground ball or running short relay
races. Although the Echo park teams
were victorious last season it is doubt
full if they will be able to duplicate the
performances this afternoon, for every
one of the other seven teams will enter
the contests convinced that when the
days reclSonings are completed Mayor
Alexander will award to them the beau
tiful silver trophy.
The morning game of baseball prom
ises to be exciting, for the boys nine
made a most creditable showing
against the high school teams Of
Southern California during the past
season, while the directors have on
their lineup many old college players
The afternoons program will be opened
by q series of folk dances, executed by
girls from the different Fairgrounds.
The lassies will be dressed in white,
and will initiate the styles of the light
fantastic which for generations have
been peculiar to single nation. The
music will be furnished by the Echo
Park Children's band. In addition to
The Herald cup gifts of pennants for
the teams winning the individual con-
tests will be made by the Los Angeles
sporting goods houses.
Dinner at Club House
Immediately following the games a
supper will be given for the playground
workers and Mayor Alexander in the
club house. Informal speeches will be
in order, and the trophies won by the
various Fairgrounds during the present
season will be distributed. large
silver cup won by the baseball team OF
the Violet Street school will be given
to that playground, in addition to the
two playground ball cups offered by the
H. J. Whitley Jewelry company. The
playground cups and The Herald cup
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SUPERINTENDENT Raitt will award also
a bronze button to every competitor. In
the recent playground ball tourna-
ments the girls of the Echo park
grounds defeated the teams from the
other seven Fairgrounds, while the Re
creation center boys nosed out the Echo
park aggregation in the race for SUI
premacy. The members of these teams
will receive the Whitley trophies.
Adequate arrangements have been
made for receiving the large crowds
which will doubtless witness todays
tourney, while through the courtesy OF
the Pacific Electric company the chill
dren from the several Fairgrounds
throughout the city will be given free
TRANSFORMATION to the Echo park
grounds. Following is a list of the
various events in which the teams
from the Fairgrounds will participates.
Regular relay race, boys-Twenty IN
a team, weight IuO pOulluS' Till ~ S"ANS
and return.
Regular relay race, girls-Fifteen in
a team, weight 105 pounds, twenty yards
and return.
Obstacle race, boys-Twelve in a
team, weight 105 pounds, thirty yards
and return.
Flag relay race, girls-Twelve in a
team, weight 105 pounds, twenty yards
and return.
Flay relay race, little girls-Twelve
in a team, weight 70 pounds, twenty
yards and return.
Sack race, boys-Six in team, weight
75 mounds. twenty yards and return.
Potato race boys-F'ive in team,
weight las pounds, fifteen yards and re-
turn.
Leapfrog race-Eight in team,
weight 105 pounds, forty-fve yards and
return.
Dash for girls-Weight 125 pounds,
fifty yards and return
Dash for boys-Weight las pounds,
sixty yards and return.
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