Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
WILL MEET FOR
HERALD TROPHY
EIGHT FAIRGROUNDS TO COM
PETE FOR SILVER CUP
COMPETITION TO BE REPRE-
SENTATIVE
Folk Dancing viii Be Pleasing Fea-
ture-Keen Competition Felt by
Contestants and Race VIII
Be Close

tition for The Herald cup, which prom
ises to far surpass anything of its KIND
ever Lefore witnessed in Los Angeles.
c. b. Raitt, superintendent of the
Los Angeles Fairgrounds, will manage
the meet and has arranged program
of new and novel sports which he feels
confident will prove a great drawing
card.
The Herald cup. which is offered for
the team making the best showing, was
won last year by the boys and girls
Of the Echo street Fairgrounds, but
great Improvement has recently been
shown by the other teams, and the
members feel confident that the Echo
park athletes will forfeit the coveted
trophy when the results are announced.
The cup, which is a beautiful sterling
silver piece of Workmanship, must be
won twice by one playground before
becoming it's permanent possession.
To Be Representative Men
Much care has been taken by Su-
perintendent Raitt in arranging the
program to make the meet not an in
dividual affair i'm which three or four
boys will star as representatives, or
their playground, but really repre-
sentative contest in which each play
ground will be represented by several
teams containing from ten to twenty
street, Thirtieth street, San Pedro
street. Recreation center Violet street.
Castelar, street and Fourteenth street
Fairgrounds will all send large teams
onto the field. the representative boys
and girls being divided into Junior IN
termedate and senior divisions. The
pIavground whose teams make the best
average will be awarded the cup.
Many events have alreadv been de-
cided upon. chief among them being
the Felay potato, hurdle, leap frog and
Gag races. the latter for the girls only.
N the potato and hurdle races the
teams will be composed of twenty boys
and eight Fairgrounds being repre-
sented there will he 200 contesta nts
competing on the field at the same time.
The boys who will take part range in
age from 10 to 20 years. and many Of
them are we'll known high school and
rrammar school athletes The.hag race
should prove 70 be one of the pretttest
contests Of the days program. The
girls about 200 in number Will carry
the Stars and Stripes from one to the
other around an oval track and keen
competition is felt by the fair contest
ants from the respective Fairgrounds.
Another interesting event will he that
in which a large number Of boys VIII
form in line and pass a basketball be-
tween their legs. the team completing
this. operation in the shortest time win
ming the honors.
Folk Dancing is Feature
But the form of entertainment which
will undoubtedly be the most artistic
and attractive from many points of
view will be the folk dancing" in
which the girls of the different play
grounds are being instructed by Mrs.
NJ Morgan. Dressed in white, the
maidens will execute all the quaint and
intricate movements of the typical
dances of every foreign country from
the present time nearly as far back as
the middle ages No labor has been
spared hv Mrs. Morgan in perfecting
her worshipers of Terpsichore in every
intricate turn and movement of the
Eight fantastic" and those who have
witnessed the girls in practice are loud
In their praise of the grace and beauty
already shown. The girls from each
playground will at first perform separ-
ately but will later join in a grand
massed dance in which everv one Of
the eight aspiring teams for The Her
aid cup will be represented.
Another feature of the days enter
tainment to which the directors of the
various Fairgrounds are lending their
, best efforts will be the baseball game
between the directors and the boys.
Although the latter have a really first
class amateur team, largely composed
of members from the Echo park
grounds, many of the managers and
Directors are old college students, and
by constant practice on the play
grounds are still no mean contenders
on the diamond The boys on the
other hand. boasted a team last year
which compared most favorably with
those Of the various Southern Califor-
mia high and preparatory schools. the
playground nine having defeated the
Occidental "preps" several times dur
ing the season.
Faculty to Play Baseball
C. B. Ratt, superintendent of the
Fairgrounds, will be on the receiving
end of the senior team, while Stan
Burek, formerly prominently identified
with the University of Southern Cali
fornia, will be installed in the pitchers
box. w. r. Moberly, superintendent
of the San Pedro street grounds, will
cover the initial sack, while o. w. Best,
superintendent of the boys work in
general, will play shortstop. w. C.
Mcclellan will be stationed at third
base, while Arthur Rice, superintendent
Qof the Fourteenth street grounds: Fred
johnson of the Violet street park and
Charles II. Mills of the Recreation CEN
ter Fairgrounds will complete the per-
soNnel of the team. ''The public may
corAe out with the idea that they are
going to see a clown baseball game,
but they will be badly mistaken. for I
am sure that the contest will be real
baseball and fast and snappy from
start to finish. If we don't beat the
youngsters we will certainly give them
close rub for it," said Superintendent
Raitt yesterday afternoon, in speaking
of the game. while some of us are
has beens' in the line of athletics we
can still play baseball in way which
will surprise every onlooker All we
lack Is team work" And this state
ment, when weighed with the opinions
of the boys with whom the directors
will compete, should assure a contest
hard fought and we'll played.
Although the teams from the Echo
park grounds will enter the meet slight
favorites, the Violet street aggregation
will make a strong bid for the honors,
and there Is every proba ability that some
dark horse will annex the trophy.
Following are the names of those
who will manage the various teams in
the annual playground field meet:
Miss C. Morris Violet street play
grounds: Miss Edna Best. Echo park
Fairgrounds; Miss Ethel Hogan. Recre-
alton center grounds: Miss Pearl Hum
phrey Thirtieth street Fairgrounds
Miss Mary Gephart. Fourteenth street
grounds; Miss r. e Sherwin, San Pc
dro street grounds; Miss ]. P. Johnson.
Utah street Fairgrounds. and Miss
Anna st. John, the Castelar, street
Fairgrounds