The San Francisco call., 1909-06-27

eide both the individual and club
championships
The Olympic club should carry off
first honors with its collection of stars
such as Ralph Rose in the weights
John o. Miller and Andrew Glarner in
the middle distances, Snedigar Ger
hardt and Knox in the sprints and
jumps, Maundrell and Smith in the
distance events, Cheek in the hurdles
and scattering list of others who
should pull down few of the places
The Stanford university alumni in
Los Angeles and the vicinity are en-
deavoring to get together a team that
will give the Olympians hard fight
Crawford in the weights. Cline and
Coleman in the sprints, Horton in the
shot, Wyman in the quarter, Worth
ingtOn in the two mile and Bellah in
the jumps will be among those prob
ably on the team.
The southerners say that a number
of University of California men who
are in that vicinity will also be seen
in action. Among them are Gabbert
the freshman hammer thrower, and
Edwards, the hurdler, who at present
is in Santa Barbara. Al Mum is also
expected to participate.
The Reliance athletic club and St
Mary's college of Oakland will also
probably be represented by small teams
The best men of southern California
will surely participate. The University
of Southern California will have Trot-
ter In the weights; Lennox and Burek,
fast men, in the hurdles; Richardson In
the pole vault and Scott in the dis
tances. Pomona college will be repre-
sented by Captain Sloan, the souths
fastest sprinter. and Merriam in the
pole vault and high jump.
Occidental college will have Captain
Rush and Owen Bird in the quarter:
Thomson, an all around man, and
Archie Kellogg, a fast man at the fur
long. st. Vincent's promises to have
Donahue, Its best track man, on the
list of entries and possibly one or more
others
Besides all these college entries
there will be large list OF the best
high and preparatory school athletes of
the south that will make their older
opponents hustle. Among these are
Gibbs, the best broad jumper in the
southern schools: Ted Geissler, the Los
Angeles high school sprinter; Munger,
the crack high jumper. who has rec
ord of feet 8 inches; Rubio, the Los
Angeles sprinter, and a large scatter
ing OF others.
The Marathon race will be an event
that is expected to draw out large
entry list. The north will be looked
after by Otto Boeddfker of the Olympic
club, Hubbenette of the Swedish ath-
letic club and Jeyner, the Siaplamat
Indian. The Phoenix Indian school will
have Chinby, Valenzuela and Luke,
three full bIooded Indians, who have
been doing remarkably we'll in long
distance events.
Amateur track and field athletes
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occupy their attention during the
fourth Of July holidays. On the fourth
a series OF events sanctioned by the
Pacific athletic association will be run
off at the new Fairgrounds and track
in Alameda and on the day following
the Olympic club will run off its pro-
gram of events in Golden Gate park
The prizes for the latter contest will
consist of beautiful cups presented by
the city.
The faculty of st. Mary's college are
much elated over the Improvement in
the physical, moral and intellectual con-
dition of Its students since the building
of the new gymnasium one year ago
and has issued an interesting circular
letter containing many items of inter-
est. among which are these: The aver
age increase in chest expansion in the
entire student body is "a inches. BOYS
who are known not to smoke have
gained as high as AZ inches and even
inches is not unknown. Habitual
smokers-made such oftentimes by the
unfortunate weakness of parents-have
gained from one to two inches BOYS
whose weight was above normal have
show a healthy decrease, in one In
stance of SIS pounds. Students who
have needed weight have gained per-
ceptibly, with scarce an exception.
The above are interesting facts and
go to show what gymnasiums in
schools do for the good of the students.