Show Girl Runners V Vie ie in Coast Classic Today FRANCISCO CISCO June 7 Two Two SAN hundred young oung women are expected to start in the thc second annual annual an an- nual race to be beheld held Sunday Juno 8 under tho auspices of or tho San Francisco Call and Post Tho over seven miles s o of difficult roads much of oC It being hilly For this this reason the thc entrants are obliged to undergo a regular course of training train ing comparable with that of ot men long distance runners For several several sev sev- eral weeks the trail which is located in Marin count county about irom nas dotted by bO young women in woolen and khaki breeches familiarizing famil themselves tho ups and downs of oC the thc course The race last year car was won by Miss s Edith Hickman in one hour eighteen minutes and forty eight seconds One hundred antI and forty forty- eight young oun women finished the tho grind Tho total number of starters starters start start- ers last year was Tho majority of tho contestants are accompanied over the course courso by br trainers and advisors usually selected from male athletic friends of ot the thc women to whom they In In- In trust their conditioning for the race Thousands of ot spectators gathered at the finish and this year jear special trains will berun bo be borun run to accommodate the thc crowds Inthe in inthe the light lIht of It last years pars experience A feature of the race last year ear was Wag the wn lg wig wagging Sing of or tho positions positions of oC the he leading girls b by soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers stationed at various arlous high highpoints highpoints points along the route These TheRe signals sig 81 nals relayed from peak to peak BO so that those waiting at the finish kept advised through throughout hout h- h out the race a as to how the tho contestants contestants con con- were faring Each girl Irl who finishes the tho courso within two and one half hours Is presented with a silver bar Among ArnonE the score or moro more of ot trophies is ono one presented by bO Mayor James Rolph Jr of San Francisco Francis Francis- co Cal ln E president t of tho Oakland club of or the tho Pacific Coast baseball league Is another troph donor |