The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20
CATHOLIC LEAGUE
PLANS FOR NEXT
SEASON
Organization of ParOchiaI Afh,
IeteS Proves Success i'm All
Departments
By WILL SCARLET

The coming week will mark a tenn
porary cessation Of activity on the part
of the Catholic Schools athletic league
Several of the schools have already
closed for the summer vacation, and the
remaining institutions are too much oc-
cupied with promotion examinations AND
other intellectual Variations which
make big ineursions on the free time OF
the students
The league win resume its work in
September, when all the schools will
nave resumed studies and all the young
athletes, fresh from mountain and
shore, will be in splendid condition for
whatever athletic events the board of
directors decides upon for the autumn
and winter months.
The Catholic Schools athletic league
has now passed out OF the experimental
stage. From every point of view it has
made good. An indoor meet last March,
an outdoor meet in May and double
tournament baseball contest recently
concluded constituted the leagues Of
ferings since its inception less than
nine months ago. In all these events
the pupils of the majority of the Cath
Ollie schools on both sides of the bay
were brought together Tor the best in
terests of all concerned.
The success of the league is due to
the efficiency of its organization. The
board of directors is composed of men
conversant with conditions In the local
Catholic schools, most of them being
teachers and all of them in close touch
with educational affairs. Furthermore,
they are men with keen and. intelli-
gent interest in outdoor sports and the
Invaluable knack of getting on with
boys. This accounts, among other
things, for the excellent order that OBJ
tanned at both the bigs meets held I'M
der the auspices of the league. Eight
hundred children participated in one
and 500 in the other, and never once
was there a moment when the young
sters were not under perfect control.
The teachers in the parochial schools
have taken kindly to the league, be-
cause they recognize it as a benefcent
thing. The athletic activities fostered
by the league have made the boys alert
and lively, with the result that, after a
systematic comparison, 1t is found that
since the formation of the league the
scholarship average rs higher than it
was previously in all the schools en-
rolled in the organization.
The Catholic Schools athletic league
believes in outdoor games 1t does not
make the mistake, however, of attach
ing undue Importance to athletic affairs,
AS consequence. it demands the schol-
arship and department. record of each
student entering for any official event,
and refuses to allow candidates to COM
pete unless their records be up to the
required standard. And the board of
directors are vigilant to suppress any
inclination to carry things, even good
things, to excess. Five year ofds do not
run Marathons. :
Brother Joseph of st. Mary's college,
the newly elected president of the
Pieague, has already matured some of his
plans for the coming year. Among them
is the formation of two basket ball
tournaments for the winter months. one
for each side of the bay, This will be
the first time that the league has taken
official notice of basket ball, sport
which last year proved extremely pop
nIar in all of the lea que schools,
The interest manifested last year in
basket ball warrants the assumption
that a girls basket ball league will be
formed in the autumn, to be made up
of teams representing the various con-
vents and girls parochial schools. st.
Roses convent in this city has a prom
Using quintet and so have st. Brigid's
school, st. Bonifaee's school, st. VIM
cents school. Immaculate Conception
academy and the Dominican college,
San Rafael
From the enterprising youngsters of