In baseball the Oaklanders have as good a record as in track athletics. Their nine this year won every game played, and the contests were not only with academic teams, but also with some of the strongest nines in that section. Two years ago the O.H.-S. had the reputation of possessing the best team of amateur baseball-players on the Pacific coast. So great is the interest in athletics there that the Grammar and Primary schools of Oakland got up a field day on May 23. There was a great deal of enthusiasm displayed by the colts, and their best performances were in the high jump, 5 ft. 3 in.; and the quarter-mile run, 59 sec. The season, however, is now pretty well closed, and not until next fall will there be any great activity in any kind of sport among the schools of California.
The activity in sport of the Californiana has acted as an incentive to many schools in the middle West. I know this to be true from correspondence I have had with many captains of teams in that section of the country. Foremost among those who have been drawn into emulation of the Oaklanders are the athletes of the University School of Cleveland, Ohio. Comparatively little had been done in athletics there until about a year ago, but since that time a great improvement has been noticeable, and at the University School's field day a week or so ago some very good figures were made. Alexander threw the hammer 123 ft. 6 in.; Hord vaulted 9 ft. 9-1/2 in.; McBride jumped 5 ft. 5-1/2 in.; and Alexander put the shot 36 ft. 6 in. It will not be long before the records in the middle West will equal those of any of the scholastic associations of the country.
Iowa H.-S.A.A. Games, Cedar Rapids, May 22, 1896.
Event. Winner. Performance. 100-yard dash Jackson, Cedar Rapids. 10-3/5 sec. 220-yard dash Jackson, Cedar Rapids. 23 " Quarter-mile run Carmichael, Clinton. 51-1/5 " Half-mile run Brown, Sioux City. 2 m. 6 " One-mile run Brown, Sioux City. 5 " 8-3/5 " 120-yard hurdles Horton, Muscatine. No time taken. 220-yard hurdles Conger, Clinton. 29-1/5 " One-mile walk Davis, Clinton. 8 " 6-3/5 " Running high jump Flournoy, Clinton. 5 ft. 8 in. Running broad jump Jackson, Cedar Rapids. 20 " 1/4 " Pole vault Walsh, Clinton. 9 " 2 " Throwing 16-lb. hammer Leo, Cedar Rapids. 89 " 5 " Putting 16-lb. shot Hartung, Des Moines. 32 " 11-3/4 " Two-mile bicycle Cherry, Cedar Rapids. 5 m. 59 sec. Half-mile bicycle Cherry, Cedar Rapids. 1 " 14-2/5 "