The morning call., 1893-03-10
AN ATHLETIC WAR.
The Berkeley Boys Are
Very Indignant.
TO FREEZE OUT OLYMPICS.
Professor Edwards Has Sent a Dig
nified Letter to the San Franz
cisco Club.

The Berkeley boys and the Olympic Club
are at outs.
They have been that way for the past few
DAYS, and the Berkeley boys are more in
eensed than ever at recent publication in
one OF the evening papers which credited
the Olympics with having paid the expenses
OF the championship games for the past five
or six years.
Aud this is the Berkeley side of the mud
die, as CLEANED from the university boys
themselves by CALL reporter, who WIS.,
tied the grounds yesterday.
The athletic students were holding a little
Indignation meeting on the campus, aud
this is what their spokesman said to THE
CALL man:
The idea of saying that the Olympic Club
has paid all the expenses for the champion
ship gamesl
why, the Olympic Club has had nothing
more TO do with the champion ship games
than any of the other twenty-seyen clubs
that belong to the Pacific Coast Amateur
Athletic Union.
The only time that the association re-
celyed any assistance from the Olympics
was one year when Macarthur, as pTes-
Gent, borrowed enough from that club 10
pay expenses. But this has since been re-
turned.
Besides this the Olympic Club has been
PAID hfiy dollars every time that its track
was used.
AS for our raising objections whenever
an olympic man made record and not
saying word when our own men made one
me statement is exactly the reverse of the
iacts. In the first place only one record has
0etn Droken by member Of the Olympic
Cup during the last year and half, and
that record has been allowed.
IL was made last championship day by
BARD In the hve-mile run. All other records
have been made by u. c. men, and it has
been the Olympic Club that has protested
ea:h time against allowing them.
Take the case of Fred Pheby, for in
stance. Thanksgiving day, 1891, he ran
half mile in 2:02h. The race was handi-
cap, and there were five timers-Jeryis and
Elliot of the Olympic Club and three uni
Tersity men.
"Jervis and the other officials testified to
the time made, but Elliot refused to do so,
although he had stated after the race that
Pheby had broken the record.
Pnebys time was allowed at one meeting
oil the association, but at the next, when Nc
Arthur was IN the chair, the decision was
reversed. This decision leaves Macarthur
hlmselt In possession OF the record for the
half mile
This is not the only instance in which
our records have not been allowed or in
Whlch there has been some funny business
w hat do you think of an expert timer
who snaps his watch back before the other
timers can examine it? Well. this is what
an olympic man did last May when Henry
made his record.
He has since refused to file an affidavit
In regard TO the time. and this fact may
lose us worlds record.
III the committee that has been ap-
pointed can arrange to form an interc0l-
legiate agreement with Stanford we will be
all right and We need not have anything to
do with the Oiympics"
The reason of this bitter feeling between
ne Two athletic clubs is due TO letter from
the Olympic Club to the students at Berke-
ley. In which the city organization stated
that Ia future its athletes would decline to
contest Ia ali event In which any Berkeley
man was represented. They gave as rea-
son that the university football team had
declined TO play another game in place of
The one in which there had been some trou-
bic about the umpire
Another grievance was that no seats had