The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-24
ACTIVE week IN
AMATEUR CIRCLES
Four Big Events on the Card,
With Public Schools Meet
Growing Week
BY HERBERT HAUSER

This week is to be an active one in
amateur athletic circles. -Four events
of equal prominence are to be held,
two on Friday night. the Academic
athletic leagues fifteenth semi-annual
swimming tournament and the Sacred
Heart and Gaelic club indoor athletic
meet at the Auditorium rink. On Sat
urday afternoon the second annual
track and field meet of the Public
Schools athletic league will be held
on the stadium track, and the Big c
society Of the University of California
viii hold its relay carnival and athletic
sports.
The swimming tournament which
viii be held at Sutro baths will be the
only opportunity that the high school
swimmers viii have to compete this
spring. Mission high school, through
the good work of Clarence Stafford in
the two sprint races last year. won that
meet, and the pink and green athletes
again are looked upon as favorites tor
championship honors. On Friday night
Stafford viii not enter the hundred,
but will endeaYor to capture the 440
yard event instead, in addition to the
furleng. He will have a much harder
race in the quarter, as he Will have
TO contest against Mango, the winner
Of this event in the last tournament.
Hilton and Guerin will be expected to
hold up the Mission colors in the nun
/ bred. Stafford in the 220 and 440, and
Berglund, Millington and Walter Stat
ford, a brother of Clarence, will swim
the half mile.
Cogswell's best man, Sailed, viii be
ineligible. according to the league rules,
and Gilbert Will be its principal main
! stay.
The Lowell team will consist of Jones.
Heacock, Meyer Hall, Derby, Smith
! and Gunst, none of whom stand much
of a chance TO be among the first place
men, though it is possible that they may
turn trick on their opponents and
capture an event.
Archie de Mamill, the well known
college athlete. is handling the meet
for the league.
The big meet of the Public Schools
! athletic league is bringing out a great
entry list from all the grammar schools
! in the city, and its success is already
! assured. Last years successful meet
/ with its entry list of close to 400 young
sters, was run off in record breaking
time, the preliminaries in the morning
and the finals in the afternoon, and the
same plan will be followed out on Sat
urday.
Crocker grammar. winner of last
year, is again promising to repeat its
victory, but il will have worthy op-
ponents in the lads from Pacific Heights
Spring Valley and John SWEET.
The baseball tournament for the pub
lie schools championship will begin or
May 2, with the district championships
to be contested for first
The relay carnival of the University
/ hui, a1
the best prep school men around the
bay and a number of the best country
school athletes as well. This will he
! the last relay carnival of the Big {
society and hereafter the meet will be
| turned into an annual interscholastiC
track and field meet similar to this
Stanford interscholastic OF yesterday
with the last Saturday in April as The
date of the yearly contest.
In addition to the various high schoo
and Catholic school relays of next Sat
urday, a number Of the best college
and club runners have been invited tC
| compete.
Captain Lee Scott of Stanford, Bill
wyman of Stanford, Ed Macauley Of
Alameda, Coleman Of Stanford. PETE
Gerhardt, Ollie Snedigar, Cecil Caldwell
Rod Hollis and a number of other clut
men are also expected to assist.
Oakland high school at the week.!
meeting of its athletic association helC
last Wednesday decided that in eutur'
the school would not participate as {
school in fall track and field meets, bu
would concentrate all its efforts on the
spring meet Oakland loses all of it
star track men this semester and mex
season will practically have TO lie
velop a new team.
The semi final baseball games of thu
Academic athletic league will be played
next Saturday afternoon. Sacred Hear
has won in the local sub-league, while
PaIo Alto is the peninsula champion
The Alameda county championship viii
be fought out this week between Oak
land Polytechnic and Alameda, will
the chances favoring the latter school