The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09
FAVORITES ARE SUCCESSFUL IN WOMENi
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MEET IS TONIGHT
Scholastic Championship of the
City to Be Decided at Au-
diforium Rink
By WILLIAM uNMAcK

The third annual track championship
league will be held at the Auditorium
rink this evening and the first event
will be run off promptly at Z o'clock.
The meets between the grammar
schools of the city have been attract
ing great deal of public attention.
and the one that will be decided to-
night is the first final championship
meet to be held indoors. IN the two
previous years the interdfstrict meets
were held indoors, but the fnal cham
pionship meet was held at the stadium
track. The meet has caught the eye
of all the athletic men of the city and
bay towns and numbers of the best
known local athletes will be present
to see the youngsters perform. All
the officials are well known men OF
the P. A A and the records announced
will be beyond dispute.
The first meet was won by the
Croker school in 1908. and in the meet
last year John SWEET was victorious
with Pacific heights second. The Pa
cific heights team has not entered the
meet this year. having failed to qualify
in the district meets held earlier in
the season.
Every competitor in tonight's meet
is a point winner in the district meets.
so that the program is composed Of
boys who are practically champions or
near champions in the respective
events. Each runner will be numbered
for Identification and as the numbers
on the program correspond to the
numbers on the athletes backs, it Will
be a simple matter to pick out the
different men in the races.
The medals won at the district meets
were presented to the successful
schools yesterday afternoon. The cap
tains of % different grammar
school teams were on hand at the
| Southside Fairgrounds to receive the
medals and these men will distribute
them to the actual winners of the re-
spective events Two hundred medals
were distributed by the league officials
and the winners will wear their prizes
at tonight's meet.
With an entry list of more than 240
athletes coming from 25 schools, the
winner of the championship seems to
be hard matter TO figure out. 1t is
certain that 1T will not require very
big total score TO give victory to one
entry list and many of the competitors
so evenly matched. the results of only
a very few events appear to be fore
gone conclusions. The other events
look to be very open.
Last year the John SWEET school
z DOl0LS,
and it is more than probable that the
school with about 20 points will have
enough to be declared the winner to-
night. This low winning score, should
| it eventuate, will be brought about by
| the large entry list and the c1oseness
| of the competition.
Last year at the district meets spe-
cial sections were reserved for the
roofing sections OF each school but the
4 leaRue has decided nof fO carry ONT
this idea tonight. 1t is pointed out
| that the idea did not work to every
ones satisfaction last year, as several
| of the sections allotted were not large
enough and others too large This
| time 1t will be case OF first come
| first served
The consensus of opinion among the
different captains yesterday was that
| the Irving M. Scott school should win
| the meet. The Irving NJ. Scott school
| has young Prentice to depend on in
| the sprints, and he is without doubt
one of the fastest sprinters ever de-
veloped in q local grammar school. The
entry list from this school is also the
| largest Of the meet and this may have
an important bearing on the final re-
| suit.
A number of the schools intend to
| get to the hall early and organize
their roofing sections. Crocker school
Will have a roofing section of at least
ESQ pupils under the leadership of
| George Fairchilds as head yell leader
with Melvin Hearst as his assistant.
The Irving NJ. Scott school will also
| be represented with a noise making
section of 200 and Ed. Hallett will d.
| rect the yellers. Other schools that
will be represented with large yelling
| sections are Sutro, Roosevelt, Hearst
Hamilton and Spring Valley.