The San Francisco call., 1910-07-03
BIG MEETS KEEP
ATHLETES BUSY
Numerous PicnicS Today and
Tomorrow Have Hundreds
of Entries

Io0ay and tomorrow VIII be busy
days for several branches of athletics
about the bay. At 1870 this afternoon
the letter carriers of this city viii hold
their annual athletic games and picnic
at She'll Mound park. The entry list
contains the names of los registered
amateur athletes, the largest number
ever known to participate in picnic
games on this coast. Three years ago
the letter carriers held their first set
of amateur games and since then the
excellent prizes that have been offered
| annually to the winners of the various
events have increased the entry list
until it has reached a record breaking
stage.
Five heats have been drawn in the
one lap scratch event. Cecil Caldwell
of the Olympic club appears to be the
class of the field. Conlisk and Nc
Namara, from the same club, are looked
upon as likely contenders.
In all the other running events the
track will be crowded to the limit, for
there is not one of them that has less
than 40 odd entries; the mile alone has
SO contestants. These large numbers
of entries are going to work consid-
erable hardship upon the scratch men,
especially in the quarter and half,
when it will be exceedingly difficult
for them to pick their way through
the scattered field. William B. Teall.
the Academic league champion half
miller. running under the colors of the
San Mateo high school, with his II
yards handicap, and Ed Martin, the
former ST. Mary's star, who is now
running for the Irish-American ath-
letic club, look good in the quarter.
t,@, t. i ,Af 6a
see some youngster with the limit
handicap slip in a winner.
Both the half and mile present
classy list of entries.
Elliot P. Craig. the Olympic club
champion. and l.. H. Price, the Stan
ford university athlete, should make
pretty race in the mile. Craig, who is
undoubtedly the faster of the two men.
was beaten early this season by the
cardinal athlete in the Olympfc-Stan-
ford dual meet, and ever since has been
anxious to yet another chance at the
college runner There are large num-
Der of dark horses from the Century
club the Visitacion valley association
and a number of unattached men who
may surprise the wise ones and breast
the tape first.
The poor facilities for pole vaulting
make that contest an uncertainty.
Tom Rogers of the Irish-Amerfcan
club, w. D. Kant, the former Califor-
MIA track man who now wears the
Winged o, and Orval Baumbaugh, from
the same club, ought to place in the
running broad jump.
The relay race should prove gift
to the Olympic club team.
Tomorrow morning athletic events
will be inaugurated at Aquatic park at
the foot of Van Ness avenue. Here the
crews of the Dolphin, South End, Ariel
and Alameda rowing clubs will hold
forth and struggle In their sl1iffs, shells
and barges for the rowing supremacy of
the bay. These events start promptly
at 10 o'clock, and either the Hyde or
Polk street cars will take spectators
to the scene of the contests.
At 2 O'Clock in the afternoon the
stadium will be the center of athletic
activity, and here the Olympic club star
track men with mixture of outside
entries will entertain the athletic en-
thusiasts.
Over at Shell Mound park the annual
games of the Scottish Thistle club will
be held. Here some 60 odd amateur
athletes from the various clubs about
the bay will be on hand to participate
in the popular Thistle games.
At Fairfax park under the auspices of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians there
will be series Of amateur athletic
events which will be participated in
mainly Dy 1H0f1DcISHOA lhC IL
can athletic club.
Today Marysvi1le is the scene of a
large gathering of Sacramento valley
athletes under the auspices of the citi-
zens' committee of that city. A. F.
Gates of the Sacramento athletic club
is handling the events, the principal
feature of which is a 10 mile marathon
race.
Handicap batting by a number of
local amateur runners undoubtedly will
be investigated at this weeks meeting
of the Pacific athletic associations reg
istration committee. On days when
there are two or more sets of games
being run off the athletes enter in them
all and after the handicaps are pub
lished in the papers pick out the one in
which they figure to make the best
showing and give the others the go by.
This is violation of amateur rules, and
several athletes will be called upon for
an exclamation. The new registration
committee of the association. which is
composed of George Schlitter, who has
been appointed a delegate at large, AL
fred Skaife and George James, is get
ting down to work and holding meet
ings every Thursday. The committee
intends to be strict in It's manner of
handling registrations and will inves-
=; ~ oil onp1icantS.