The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-17
ATHLETICS.
=. n. Carney Has Retired From the
Alpine Club.

i. y. Gafney Has Retired From the
Alpine Club.
CASSIDY Of tie 0. A. c. will measure
strides with Mays in the 440-Scratch event.
j. c. hortck and speedy Charley Jellinek
viii be seen in the 100 and 220 yards handi-
cap ut the University games.
Fred :. Pheby las run a trial at the $50
yards distance, and it has been SO good that
al tie pr minent athletes Of his club are
certain that he viii win the championship.
a. Keller the pOle-yaulter of the O.
A c., has in practice cleared ten feet, and
il he continues TO improve he viii be fast
enough for any enc il the country IN six
months.
Report has it that HeaIy of the Univer-
sity Club has improved wonderfully, and
that Foster will have to look to his laurels
a, be fully intends this year to lower all the
Coast record, for hurdles.
F. 81. Cooley viii run in the one and five
mile at the championship. He is training
hard. and will be in fiTSt-class condition
when the bell rings up his events.
K. Macarthur will bs in the half and mile
races, and when Bob enters any event he is
out to wiz. 1t will take a very speedy man
10 beat him in the o60-yard, as that is his
special distance.
The Alpine Club will elect q successor TO
J
field day this month, but in June a short
programme Of games will be given, and one
of tie events will be open to the mem beTS
Of The Olympic Club.
Walter A. Scott, who recently retired
from the office of President of the p A. A
A. l., has also signifed his intention Of
bidding a last farewell 10 all athletic sports
With Gafney. Scott and Southeastern out Of
athletics the Pacific Association has received
a setback from which 1t viii not speedily
cover.
The University games will take place on
Saturday, the 23d inst There are eight
closed events and six open. The open events
are: 100-yaTdS handicap, 220-yards handi-
cap 440-yaTds scratch, oHe-mile handicap,
220-yards hurdle scratch, running hop, step
and jump handicap.
Tie blonde cyclone. F. F. Foster. will be
in the coward scratch hurdle. He is evil
IDENTITY after Healey, who defeated him on
February 23d. One thing is certain, aud
that Is, the man who beats him will have TO
run more than a second better than tile
Coast records 10 seconds.
H. N. Collins. who is known around ath-
letIc quarters by the name OF "She," is in
the pink Of condition, and is liable TO make
the best OF competitors lock haggard before
the season IS on. Collins has entered the
Oue-mile handicap al Berkeley. and will no
doubt give a good account of himself.
Albert Cook Of the Alpine Club has signi-
ned his intention not TO compete at any
games given in future, either by the Olym-
pic Club or the =. a. A. a. T., unless he is
given second prize for the four-mile walk
which was held recently in the Mechanics
Pavilion. Cook says that he will walk
Yates Of the Olympic Club a four-mile race
for gold medal TO be valued at S25 and
will allow him a handicap Of thirty seconds.
the match 10 take place three weeks after
the signing OF articles.
The dark horse for the 8S0-yard champion
shin event is w Y MPCaW Jyhosa i'm nrova
ment in the past two weeks has been so
marked that prominent judges think he
stands an equal show with the best men
Last week be defeated p. ID. Skillman by 10
yards in time that was as good as 2:06. This
is going for novice who has not been in
athletics more than six months.
p. n. Gafney, the Well-known amateur
athlete, has resigned the office Of President
of the Alpine Athletic Club, which position
he has ably filled for two years. 1t was
through Mr. Gafney's untiring efforts that
the Alpine Club built itself TO the position
it now occupies as a leading athletic organi-
cation. The club was organized IN Decem-
Der, 1883, with M. c. CRY at the helm, but
through bad and incompetent management
he allowed it 20 dwindle into inSigniicance.
II. O. Farrell was the second President, but
il was not until Gafney took charge that the
club enjoyed anything like prosperity. His
associates will miss an excellent officer,
whose place it will be difficult to fill. Mr..
Gafney has stated positively that he has
retired permanently from all branches Of
athletics.
After the championship games the Olym-
pic Club proposes 10 give an invitation field
day once a month during the summer and
fall Such encouragement to athletics should
be appreciated, and outside clubs no doubt
will furnish great many contestants, as all
the events will be open The meetings will
be held on Saturdays, so that nearly all the