association, but are anxious to
send a team of athletes to the Berkeley Oval to threaten the supremacy
of the Eastern schools in track and field sports. Here is what the San
Francisco _Call_ of September 4th says on the subject:

The Oakland High-School decided to-day that it would join the
National League of High-Schools, and send a team to New York next
year to join in the national High-School contests. The team will
consist of ten of the best athletes in the school, and the boys
anticipate being capable of holding their own and capturing some
of the trophies. They have received much encouragement from the
recent tour of the Berkeley team. The Oakland High-School has for
some time been a member of the league of which HARPER'S ROUND
TABLE is the organ, and now that they have decided to branch out
and seek national honors, athletics will receive a boom, as there
is much rivalry as to who will ultimately be the ones chosen to
uphold the honor of Oakland's High-School in the Empire State. A
general meeting will be held in a few days, and a manager will be
elected who will at once put into practice all the available
material. After that the boys will commence to obtain pledges for
financial aid, as it will require about $1600 to defray the
expenses of the trip. The next national High-School contests will
be held in the summer; but entries are now being made, and Oakland
will not be dilatory in outlining the events for which she will
seek to carry off the honors. "The sending East of our team will
be one of the best things that ever the High-School undertook,"
said one of the O.H.-S. athletes to-day. "It will call attention
to our school and to Oakland, and will let thousands of people
know that we exist who are in doubt just now as to where Oakland
is. We have been debating the proposition of sending a team East
all this year, but after we saw what a lot of attention was shown
to the Berkeley team we could see no reason why we should not try
a similar tour among the crack Eastern High-Schools. We do not
anticipate any trouble in raising the necessary funds, as we think
the noise we shall make will prove a very valuable advertisement
for this city."

A good many of the statements made by the _Call_ are inaccurate, but the
main announcement, that the O.H.-S. will come Ea