The San Francisco call., 1909-08-08
POrtOla Week
Of Athletic
Is Programmed
Handsome Prizes EmbIemafic
of the Festival viii Be
Given to Winners
By HERBERT HAUSER

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night, boxing.
Friday morning, auto races; after
noon. field day; night, swimming.
Saturday morning, regatta; after
noon, soccer football.
Polo and golf days not yet set.
The above program has been adopt
ed by the athletic committee of the
Portola festival as one of the means
of entertaining the many thousands of
visitors that will gather here.
There has never been such set of
amateur athletic sports set for any one
week anyhere in the world. Every
event will be strictly amateur Ath-
letes will be brought from all over the
world to compete against our local
and state champions.
On Wednesday morning the tennis
tournament will begin. There will be
singles, doubles and mixed events for
both sexes. The tennis commissioner
has recommended that the tennis tour
nament be state event owing to the
difficulties of getting eastern players
TO participate on the bitumen courts.
On Wednesday afternoon there Will be
a lacrosse game between the Olympic
club, local champions, and the cham
pions of southern California. The box
ing events will begin in the evening
and will be concluded on Thursday
night
Thursday afternoon will be devoted
to Rugby and the champion Vancouver
team will meet an all California team.
Friday morning the auto races will be
run off over the Alameda county scenic
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Held day viii be held at the stadium.
The events for this meet will consist
of 100, 220. 440, $50. one mile and five
mile runs and 120 and 220 yard hurdles,
high jump, broad jump, pole vault
shot put, hammer throw and relay for
clubs. There will also be a grammar
school 100 yards, high school 100 yards,
Catholic school league 100 yards and a
separate relay for each of these classes
of athletes.
Friday night the swimming races.
consisting of 100, 220, 440 and $50 yard
events, obstacle race and fancy diving
will be held at the Lurline baths.
Saturday morning the regatta will
take place off the Santa Fe docks off
the foot of Main street, with the fol-
lowing events: Junior and senior
skiffs, junior and senior barges naval
reserve cutter race and an international
Escutter race for all the warships that
are attending the celebration This lat
ter race will undoubtedly attract much
| attention, for every nation will most
certainly endeavor to have its flag to
the fore
Saturday afternoon the stadium in
| Golden Gate park will be turned over
to the soccer football enthusiasts. and
a picked team of Califonians will bat
tie against the champions of British
Columbia and the Pacific northwest
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| the handsomest that have ever been
presented for similar events in this
city and each one will be emblematic
of the festival
| L. A. Wolff, ]. R. Hickey and George
James. all members of the celebration
committee, are going to Seattle next
week to the national championships.
and while there will see what can be
done toward bringing down the various
northwestern athletes in all branches.
The Dipsea Indians have set Septem-
Der as the date for their annual
race from Mill Valley to Willow camp.
Entrance blanks are now out and can
| be had at the Olympic club or 1853
Geary street. The usual number of
prizes and bars will be given to the
contestants. Great preparations will
be made by the tribe to take the best
of care of all the entries. The race
lis becoming more popular every year
and a record breaking entry list is
looked for this year. Following out
last years plans the time limit will
| be 10 minutes.
The junior championships of the
Amateur athletic union will be held
Friday and the senior events Saturday
of this week at the Alaska Yukon
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national track and field championship
/ to be held on the Pacific coast, the
/ first one having been held at the
| ewis-Clarke exposition in Portland
| four years ago. The entries for this
weeks games exceed those of the first
meet. as there are more of the best
fasteners participating. The fight for
| the championship fies between New
| York, Chicago, Multnomah and Olympic
athletic clubs in the senior events
while Seattle will probably make a
great showing in the junior events
While the local team is not strong
numerically it makes it up in quality,
| San Francisco will have the oppor-
tunity of seeing all the eastern athletes
in action at the big meet arranged for
| August 81 in Golden Gate park 1t will
| be great treat and will surely draw
an enormous crowd. James E. Sulli-
van, president of the Amateur athletic
union, will probably referee the meet
The Columbia Park Boys club men,
bers are touring the antipodes
and making a name for themselves and
their country. While in New Zealand
the boys played an exhibition baseball
game, the first ever played in the dis
trict The mayor of the town pitched
the first ball, which. by the way, did
not reach the home plate, and the whole
town turned out to witness the snort
After the, game. the town priest re-
quested that the boys present the ball
used as a souvenir the request being
readily granted. So far, they have only
lost one of the several ball games
play ed.
They also played basket ball game
with the Y. M. C. A., winning, 90 to 9.
After the game they spent some time
showing the island boys a few tricks
of the game.
HERMAN LONG SICK