The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27
YOUNGSTERS OUT ON
TRACK AND DIAMOND
Public Schools Leaguers Pass
Up Basket Ball and Turn TO
Outdoor Sports
By HERBERT HAUSER


Now that the basket ball tournament
is 3 thing Of the past the young ath-
letes of the Public Schools athletic
league viii turn their attention to the
second annual baseball tournament and
the second annual outdoor track and
held meet.
The field day. wrich is to be the first
event on the program, Will be held at
the stadium Saturday, April 80, the
preUminaries 10 be run off in the
morning and the finals at 1880 o'clock
that afternoon. The program of events
follows:
50 pound class--50 and 100 yard dashes; 44o
ward relay: running broad and high jumps
- pound class-3O. 100 and 220 yard dashes;
$50 yard relay; running broad and high jumps
11J pound class-1o0. 220 and 40 yard dashes
$50 yard relay; running hlgh and Droad jumps.
Unlimited class-l00 yard dash; $50 yard run;
running high and broad jumps.
This program is similar to that of
last year with two added events, the
running high and broad jumps.
Crocker school. winner of last years
championship. will again be a strong
contender. though several 1909 ath-
leties have graduated. other schools
have met with similar conditions,
among them being John SWEET. whose
star runner. L. Alvarado, graduated
and now attends the Mission high
school.
The baseball tournament will begin
Nay and ends May 81. The same sub
division into districts as was made last
year will still govern the contest
There viii be four districts, and the
district games will be played on va
rious diamonds between May and 16.
Between May 20 and 81 the winners of
the district championships will COM
pete for the city championship
The entire schedule of spring sports,
with the exception of swimming, has
been prepared by the board of gov
ernors of the league
Swimming will be taken up by the
league for the first time Superin-
tendent of Schools Alfred Roncovieri is
a swimming enthusiast and plans TO
make every effort to have swimming
taught TO all the local school children.
The local playground commission is
progressing rapidly with the enormous
task of the construction of the various
Fairgrounds At Seventh and Harri-
son streets the cinder track is rapidly
assuming shape. 1t has been sug-
gested that the grounds be opened with
a big meet July (.
As soon as the southside grounds are
finished the North beach grounds will
be completed.
The thirty-second semiannual field
day of the Academic athletic league
Will be held next Saturday afternoon
on the University of California cinder
track This meet will be the first one
q which the new system of having sub
league champions from one section of
the state meet those of another. Each
subleague will send the first and Sec
ond place men of their own meet.
These subleague championships were
wound up yesterday, and though all the
tracks upon which the meets were held
We're slow on account of the recent
rains some promising material was de-
veioped that augurs well for the sue
cess of next Saturdays meet.
In spite of the fact that Berkeley
and Oakland high schools claim to have
patched up their differences. l am re-
liably informed that there will be no
dual meets between these two or
ganiZations this season. This basket
ball fight was not the first affair that
ended in free for all fight. for 1 well
remember a baseball game played sew
eral years ago and also a football con-
about the same time. If Oakland and
Berkeley desire TO hold dual contests
they should have their executive COM
mittees meet and act in unison, draw
ing up an agreement that viii result
in sport for sports sake alone and not
prize fights in the guise of basket ball
games. What the two schools should
really GO is 10 rejoin the Academic
league and assist it in its work of up
int r1 n
The Pacific athletic associations
system Of building up amateur sports
by establishing athletic centers in
charge OF reliable commissioners is
going to mean much for athletics in
this state. Sacramento has now been
put upon the amateur athletic map,
with five commissioners headed by H.
. NJ. McGregor of the Sacramento ath-
letic club. May Il has been set as the
date of a grand amateur athletic rally
in Sacramento. The board of COVER
nors of the association will make the
trip to the capital city in a body on
that date. and a number of athletic
organizations viii be established there
In order to encourage rhe young or
ganization the Pacific athletic associa-
ton has awarded its state champion
ship meet to that city. with the pro-
viso that il must construct a suitable
track not later than August