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Show MAY HAVE BIG RELAY RACE San Francisco, Feb. 27. An intercity inter-city relay race between the high school athletes of San Diego and Los Angeles, the course to be from Los Angeles to San Diego, is a feature suggested for the San Diego exposition exposi-tion athletic program. The proposer of the scheme Is George James, one of the foremost Pacific coast athletic authorities, who has served aB a member mem-ber of tho registration committee of the Pacific Athletic asoclatlon as the annual meetings of the Amateur Athletic Ath-letic union. According to James plan, each boy is to run one mile. That these intercity relays are feasible was proved when a Sacramento Sacra-mento to San Francisco relay was run as a feature of the last Portola festival. festi-val. The runners were stationed all along the route and a fleet of automobiles auto-mobiles was utilized in picking up the runners as they finished, and for earning their clothes and other necessaries. |