The San Francisco call., 1910-10-23
SCHOOL Athletes
FACE BUSY MONTH
Readjusfmenf of p. S. A. L.
Entries InSures Very Close
Competition i'm Meets
By HERBERT HAUSER

The readjustment of the various
schools for the district championships
of the Public Schools athletic league
close competition in the four meets that
will be held during the next four weeks.
beginning next Saturday with district
No. 3. While all the schools have lost
through graduation the meet of next
Saturday should be captured by Horace
Mann. 1t was the largest point winner
of the group last season and should lead
this year for it is one of the largest
schools in the city. Everett, James
Lick and Columbia should all be well
up in the list OF point winners, as they
are among the most enthusiastic in the
city. The entry list closes tomorrow.
The members OF the TamaIpais club
are busily engag ged preparing for the
great 10 mile open race which they will
run off on Thanksgiving. morning. It
will be a scratch event and from all in
dications will have a large entry list.
The race will start In front of the life
saving station on the Great highway
and from there to the Sloat boulevard.
along that thoroughfare to Ocean ave-
nue., thence along Onondaga avenue to
Mission street, to Army, down Army
to Folsom and along that street, fin
ishing in front of the Tamalpais club
gymnasium near Twenty fourth street.
Entries close on November 20, either at
the Tamalpais club or at spalding's.
The Olympic club is making great
preparations for the Pacific athletic as
sociation wrestling championships, with
which the Western club made such a
dismal failure. Immediately following
the local championships the Post street
club will hold a Pacific coast champion
ship, having applied to both the Pacific
northwest and Southern California as
sociations for their sanctions, in order
to make it an official coast champion
ship. Invitations have been sent to
every amateur athletic organization on
the coast and as far west as Denver,
the local organization paying the ex-
penses of the best outside competitors.
Athletic Commissioners NJ. G. Pfaff is in
charge of the tournaments.
Members of the Olympic club track
team that participated last week in the
Amateur athletic union championships
write in anything but complimentary
terms of New Orleans, It's climate and
general sanitary conditions, and their
letters would prove good advertising
material for the Panama-Pacif1c expo
sition committee. Many local athletic
enthusiasts who were disappointed in
the showing made by the local team
will not blame them when they hear Of
the condition of the southern track
Eddie Macaulay writes that there were
IL starters in the quarter mile dash and
he drew eleventh position with Robbins
the former eastern intercollegiate
champion, a so second better man. along
side of him. Speed did not count in
the race, as in some places the mud
was almost ankle deep and the strong
legged athletes had all the best of It.
Eddie feels. sure he could defeat any
of the runners on good dry track.
He ran fourth in the quarter Even
George Bonhag, the great New York
distance runner, could not make good
and with William Garvin, the local
runner. quit the five mile event, only
three of the bunch of starters finish
ing. Lee Scott injured himself and in
spite of this vaulted II feet inches.
Another thing that bothered the local
boys was the poor drinking water of
New Orleans, which sickened them.
Pete Gerhardt ran well, but was set
back a yard in the finals for breaking.
1t is possible that some of the local
athletes will participate in some OF the
middle western meets before returning
home. as they have number of invi-
tations. Garvin and Scott are the only
members of the team who have returned
home