The San Francisco call., 1909-10-23
Worlds Champion Hurde Beaten by Californian Who Tied
Record Is One of Many Features Of Portola Field Day

Queen Vergilia crowned the victors
of the track and field with laurel
wreaths and gave into their Keeping
the handsome trophies of the Portola
festival at the Golden Gate park stadium
yesterday afternoon, at the athletic
meet of the festival. 1t was a cham
pionship meet in the fullest sense of
the term, one which would have gone
into the annals of the track and field
had there been no royal honorarium
bestowed.
One American record was broken at
the meet and another was tied.
Ollie Snedigar, the former University
of California athlete and now enrolled
as member of the Olympic club, broke
the American record in the most grace
full of all games, throwing the javelin,
tossing the spear 100 feet 10k inches.
and breaking the record of Gish OF
Seattle of 144 feet. Gish was on the
ground to be beaten, and not only was
distanced by Snedigar, but also by
Ralph Rose. The Healdsburg giant
won 81 points for the Olympic club.
WORLD CHAMPION BEATEN
Edwards, the University of Califor-
MIA hurdler, had the glory of beating
Emithson, the Portland man. who won
plan games at London, and who is one
of the holders of the American record
for the 120 jumps. Edwards tied the
record, which is 15 1-5 seconds.
The day was ideal for an out of doors
event. and the program was well car
ried out. The Olympic club won the
meet on points, gaining 64, to the Uni
versity of California.s 4s. Stanford
university came third, with II points
The javelin was thrown yesterday for
the first time at an official meet held
around the bay, and proved popular
sport The weapon is a spear eight
feet long, tipped with a sharp head. It
Is thrown high into the air, the thrower
running to the mark to give impetus
SAILORS ON THE SCENE
Just before the meet closed a marty
of about 1000 sailors, members of the
automobile sight seeing party given
the men of the feet by the Portola
committee, entered the stadium. They
were nightly cheered as they marched
down the side of the field, headed by
Phil 7. Clay, chairman of the Portola
committee An international quarter
of mile dash was fmprovised for the
men from the several nations. Two
prizes, of $40 and s5 for first and sec
ond, were offered. The British won
the honors and the money. for Turner
a sailor on the training ship Pensacola.
fell when within 10 yards of the tape
Seamen Thorne and Cook >of the Bed
ford won first and second, respectively
and were crowned with laurel and re-
warded with gold pieces.
Record Breaking Meet
The Portola track and field cha
pionships will go down in the history
of local athletics as the most successful
meet ever held in this city not alone
in the line Of performances though
one American record was tied andcan-
other broken, but in the manner in
which 1t was conducted by those in
charge The day was perfect and for
the firsttime since the memorable meet
Of July 4, 1906, when the stadium was
first opened a meet was held at which
neither fog nor wind interfered with
the participants 1t was a day for
record making and the performances
showed it
Though Ralph Rose scored the larg-
est number of points. q all told. his
performances did not equal his best
records. Ollie Snedigar starred in the
Iavelin throw, breaking Braley Gish's
American record of IA feet. by tossing
he long stick 160 feet I0k inches.
Snedigar's victory in the event was