The San Francisco call., 1909-10-03
Indoor Meet
Of Catholics
Drawing Near
Several ParOChiaI Schools Have
Held Preliminary Try0ufS
for Big Event
By WILL SCARLET

With the big indoor meet only tYo
weeks in the future. the boys of the
Catholic parochial schools of the bay
cities are making earnest preparations
for the celebration of Discovery day,
to be held under the auspices of the
Catholic schools athletic league. Broth
er Joseph, the president of the league.
has been supervising the work of the
schools across the bay, while the In
terests of the San Francisco schools
are being looked after by a corps of
competent instructors, under the di-
rection of Brother Thomas of st. James
school, the vice president of the league.
The outlook for every school is cor
respondingly bright. Certain it is that
but one school can win the meet and
annex the grand prize, the Archbish-
ops cup, but it is not less certain that
the winning school will not have a
walkoVer. In the meet of March ST.
James school won easily. Tie gram
mar department of Sacred Heart col
lege came out victorious in the outdoor
meet held in St. Mary's stadium in
May, though it was closely pressed by
ST. Joseph's academy and St James
school 1t is very likely that the
struggle in the Auditorium on the
night of the 18th will be even keener
and that the issue of the meet will be
in doubt until the last event is run.
Another element of interest attach
ing to the coming meet is the appear
ance of schools not adequately repre-
sented in the previous meets. The bar
ring of all but bona fide parochial
schools and the elimination of the un-
limited class are two measures which
are calculated to confuse the dopesters
The eight grade schools are now on
perfect terms of equality with the nine
grade institutions, as most of the run
ners in the now happily defunet unlim-
tied class were ninth grade pupils.
The addition of a 20 pound class adds
still another factor of uncertainty to
the result of the bsg meet of the 18th.
Z GsN. i~,t, IL.
unexpected bursts of speed, and the
brawny midgets of the new athletic
division are surely going to make some
of their big brothers sit up and take
notice Several of the schools, like St
Charles in San Francisco and Sacred
Heart school in North Oakland, feel
themselves strongest in the midget
AT the last meeting of the board of
directors reports were read by men,
bers who had interviewed the athletic
rolled in the league. The outlaw
schools hesitated about entering the
league ON account of the weight basis.
which has been the standard of equal
ifv i'm all of the leagues athletic activ-
tiles The objections were considered
by the board of directors, and then it
was unanimously decided to adhere
strictly and impartially to the weight
basis. rather than to adopt the sug-
gested change in favor of classification
by grades.
S9NefaI OIL lIle tSdSQ Qt StHOOlS nave
held preparatory intercIass meets dur
ing the week. Among them are St.
Pefel,s st James, Sacred Heart St
Patricks and st. Brigids of San Fran
cisco, and Sacred Heart, st. Anthony $
Though the official timers were in
strucfed not to publish the records
made in order to keep rival schools in
the dark the results are said to be in
every respect encouraging.
The most spectacular athletic event
of the meet of October Is will un-
doubtedly be the relay races in each OF
the four classes. But four boys are
allowed to take part from each school.
In the 20, so and 95 pound classes each
relay man will run. half a lap: in the
lis pound class each runner viii make
a complete circle of the track The
relay races will constitute the last
event of the evening.
The following are among the track
team hailing from St James school /:
James Maloney. John Fitzgerald. Leo
stephens, Francis Meyers. Raymond Mo-
Ian, James Doherty. Ralph Grady $.
Smith, X. Kidwell, ii. Murray, I. Des-