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JUNIORii ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF SAN FRANCISCO AND CALIFORNIA LACUNA HONDA WINS SECOND ANNUAL MEET GRAMMAR SCHOOL BOYS COMPETE FOR HONORS Washington School Finishes a Close Second With the James Lick Third The Southsidc playgrounds Avcre the scene of a splendid event in school athletics last Saturday, when the boys of the city's gram mar schools met in competition at the second annual championship outdoor field day of the Public Schools Athletic league. Unfor tunately the rain interrupted pro ceedings right at the height of the excitement and the remainder of the events were postponed until the following Wednesday. The meet had progressed in fine fashion up to the time of the first raindrops and several of the schools had a splendid chance of carrying off the final honors. While the Washington was ahead, its score of 16 points was being narrowly crowded by the Laguna Honda's score of 14, and the James Lick's score of 13. The Everett and John Swett schools followed with 10 and 9 points, re spectively. Excitement was running high when the lowering clouds decided to take a hand in the matter, much to the disgust of the young ath letes. Though lightly clad and shivering with the cold, they begged to go on with the events and gamely refused to quit their posts, but older heads were put together and it was decided to call off the remaining events and post pone the finish until Wednesday. There were 18 events scheduled on the program, of which the tugs of-war proved to be the most popular with the spectators. lir the tug-of-war for the 80 pound class the James Lick was first and Hearst second, while the Irving AT. Scott won the 95 pound class tug-of-war. W. McDonald of the Everett in the 95 pound class made a cred itable performance by winning the high jump with four feet one inch, and H. Ludwig of the Horace Maun won the high jump in the 115 pound class. But it takes the Washington school boys to throw the basket ball. (J. Bada racco and 'J. Callero, both midgels of 80 pounds ai the Washington school, took first and second, re .-.pectively, in this event. In the rope climbing contest Lβ Moyne of the James Lick cap tured first place in the unlimited class and L. Kronk of Lick was first in the 115 pound class. Uolton Hildebrand of the James Lick had hard luck, in that his name was not on the program ol one of the officials of the meet. lie put the shot, breaking the league record, but was disqual ified fur not being entered. Later it was found that the disqualifies tiou was a mistake and he was allowed to compete. On his first j»ut, howe\er, he had unfortu-' naUlv strained himself and was ( t>iii>iiin-ii <ii« r.-iue I THE CALL SAN FRANCISCO,CCAL f SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1912. HANCOCK STUDENTS TO EDIT JUNIOR ALONZO Tries the High Jump §<3€ftil@ln] YOUTHFUL JOURNALISTS PLAN SPLENDID ISSUE Boys and Girls of Russian Hill Work Hard to Make Their Paper Best of All The second school edition of The Junior Call for the fall term will make its appearance Satur day, November 9, under the di rection of the boys and girls of the Hancock grammar school. For the last two or three weeks these energetic young editors have been leaving no stone un turned to add everything of inter est to their edition of The Junior, and the copy which has been turned in at The Junior office has been highly exceptional. The Hancock school, as you probably know, is situated on the slope of Russian hill, and from its northern windows can be seen the waters of the bay, Alcatraz and the Marin county hills. There is an inexhaustible fund of mate rial, both historical and educa tional, to be found aroiftul "the hill/ , and the Hancock boys and girls have made good use of it. Among other things will be an article on the people of note who have made their homes on Rus sian hill, and also an article on the past graduates of Hancock who have distinguished them selves in the eyes of the World. Then there will be interesting writeups dealing with current topics, and also the life and work of the school. Aside from the reading matter there will be a number of original cartoons, pictures of the edition contributors, as well as photo graphs of boys and girls who are distinguishing themselves in various ways. Also there will be reproduced a. numbeV of tiny shapshots taken by one of the students dealing "with different bits»of local color to be found in the vicinity of the school. Among the boys and girls who will contribute largely to the suc cess of the Hancock school edi tion of The Junior Call will be Muriel Bell Buckley, Frank Ains worth, George Chod wick, Fdvige Cerruti, Rose (ihio, Mary Llop, Frances Sabella, William Leis lier, Enzo di (irazia, Frank Yi tale, Adele Maggi, Harry Pcnder gast. Hector Campaua, Rinjo Bacigsalupi, Pasquale Xovello. This will be the second school edition of The Junior to make its appearance this semester. Fast Saturday the girls of the Denman school brought forth the first edi tion, which was a great credit not only to themselves Inn to their teachers as well, and two weeks froril the date of the Hancock e<l i tion there will be another, the name of which we will divulge later O». I'c sure to get a cop* of ilu hlancock school number <>i Tlie Junior Call next Saitmlay. It will I>c too g< " '1 t<i mtss.