Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-25
GIRL SWIMMERS
HOLD ELECTION
HOT CONTEST FOR PLACES IN
HIGH SCHOOL CLUB
SPORTS AT HILLTOP CONFINED
TO AQUATIC GAME
Swenson Sisters VIII Enter Water
Races to Be Held at Naples In July.
Team Manager Challenges
Santa Monica Girls

Athletics at Los Angeles high school
are at standstill with the exception
of swimming, which is being parttci-
pated in by both the girls and boys.
Tomorrow afternoon there will be an
election of officers of the girls CLUB
at the high school, and already several
candidates are out for the various OF
ficers. Among those running for pres
ident are Misses Mary Johnson, ID.
Swensen and Bessie O'Donnell For
vice president there is only one candi-
date in the field in Miss S. Sweet, While
nearly the entire list of club members
is running for the position of treasurer,
although from the dope sheet 1t seems
that the Weaver sisters have the race
well in hand.
The Swensen sisters will enter in
the July swimming races which will
be held at Naples for women during
the week the Elks, are in Southern Cal
ifornia. They will try out for the short
and long distance events. The scholars
of the hilltop school have taken up
swimming in earnest, and from the
v~rious workouts there is plenty of
material to develop a strong club.
Miss Carrie Moses is out for the
6O-yard DASH the O'Donnell sisters are
out for the so and 100 yard events;
Mary johnson will try for the 90 and
j.
G.. Rogers, G.. Sink and the SWensen
sisters for the so and 100 yard dashes
Miss Dorsey Swensen who is acting
manager of the team, yesterday after
noon said: 81 will write a challenge
to the Santa Monica high school for
game. 1 think that we have plenty of
swimming material on hand and if
given an opportunity will show that we
can hold up the blue and whites end
in aquatic sports. l do really hope
they will compete against US, as they
are said to be fast swimmers, and if
they defeat us well and good enough.
During vacation several of the stu
dent will take a trip abroad, and al
ready several of the pupils are pack
ing up their trunks ready to answer
the call of the wild Godfrey Patter-
son is thinking of spending his vaca-
ton with Tom Bryant and AL Cosby
will sail from San Francisco the mid
die OF July
Teddy Giessler, the fast little sprin-
ter who did so we'll in the various
track and field meets for the blue and
white, has been thinking of going to
law school and may enter U. S. c. this
fall.
Lee Boyle, the crack halfback of tho
Los Angeles high school team, has quit
school and at present is driving a
bakers wagon in Los Angeles.
Mickey Mcclure who was recently
elected to captain the track team of
1910, is a fast man on his feet when it
comes to track running, but on the
dancing floor he is to the bad Several
marks are being worn by him sus-
tanned while trying to dance.
Catcher Kelsey is at the present time
acting as timekeeper for the Pacific
Lumber company at Pier No. % on the
San Francisco water front.
Husky" Dulin is training faithfully
for the Elks' Marathon race during July
at Fiesta stadium.
Douglas Mitchell is wiser boy today
than he was last Sunday. His father
had a garage built on the old home
stead and the first thing Dug" did was
to go through the front door and go
right through the back taking the par
tition with him. The automobile was
slightly damaged, but Mitchell escaped
uninjured.
Marcus Lee and Paul Mcguire are
showing up well in the swimming ex-
hibitions at Venice every Sunday
Mart" wanted to show several profess
sional life guards how to dive from a
ladder, and as a result Lee slipped and
fell on his back. Never again." said
the premier distance swimmer; enough
is enough" Try again, Marcus; better
luck next time, perhaps.
Jack Harrigan has forsaken the track
and field events and has entered into
a raging" tournament at a Los An
geles rink.
Tom Bryant last Sunday sustained a
painful injury of his right hand while
closing a door of his fathers auto
mobile