The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-27
ATHLETICS.
When VIII the Championship Games
Be Held

Now that the excitement attending the
boxing tournament is at an end. the out
door athletes hope TO hear of a meeting of
the association for the purpose Of selecting
date for the championships.
1t was rumored that such meeting
would be called last week. but for some
reason probably best known to the captain
of the outdoor cinder- burners there were
no notifications sent to the officers of the
clubs to meet at any particular place or
time. The following letter from an ath-
lete to The CALL speaks for itself:
Among athletes l hear the query almost
daily, when is the Pacific Association of the
Amateur Athletic Union going to have a meet
iDg?" l should think if they are going to have
a Championship this season it is about time
that the athletic world knew something of It.
There can certainly be no harm in fixing date
for it Will be a brnetit to the athletes, as they
can judge their training TO day and therefore
be in the very best form.
In the Chronicle of August 9 / observed
some representations as to who would win the
championship. Under the latest rules formed
BY the Amateur Athletic Union there does not
exist such thing as a Championship pennant
10 be won by any club, but the idea has become
so impressed IN the minds of athletes that it is
hard 10 remove II. The paper stated that the
Olympic Clubs defeat last year was due TO A
lack of interest. l am OF the opinion that the
team Of athl ties that came from Berkeley last
season could have defeated any team from the
combined clubs of the coast.
Where the Olympic Club lacks good mate
rial IS; In field events it has always exceled in
track contests. L have often heard il stated
that IL Is strange that the Olympic Club could
not put together a good team when II has such
large membership 10 select from. The fact of
the matter is that the Olympic Club has got the
quantity but not the quality to select from. The
Olympic Club is composed chiefly OF business
men or young men working in Offices and they
have not the time to devote 10 athletics, hence
hold that either OF The universities should de-
feat The o. c. athletes, as they have the mate
rial, time and inclination. However, there should
be good contest this season ana particularly
so In the sprInts. In looking over the records to
be beaten that appeared in the Chronicle find
many errors.
Iu reading the article person would natur.
ally INFER that Waller A. Scott, 2:0S 1-5, held
the best record In the championship 880.yard
event until Bob McArthurs 2 :03 So appeared
IN 1891; This is not so, however, as J. {. Sut-
ton made The distance in question in the cham
plonshlp OF 1890 in 2:07 2-5. II also states
that II. c. Motfatt cleared feet 91a inches in
the high Jump in the championship OF 1891.
Mr.. Motdtt was not even entered; il was
won by w. Patterson "a. a. A. A. with a
record of feet 37s inches. MIR. Moffatps best
record is feet 812 inches. which performance
was made at Oakland, November 81 1889.
Another error Is the statement that the coast
record for the three-mile walk is "a min .
sec james JerVls covered the above distance
at tne championship games, on May 80. $780,
IN 70 min. 81 10 sec. The statement that
W alter ii. Henry ran the 120.yard hurdles in
10 40 seconds Is not correct. Mr. Henry's
time 10 this event last season was 1854 Sec
which entities him to worlds record il the
Amateur Athletic Union can be prevailed upon
TO give this athlete what lie is rightly entitled
to. Ed May made record of 5114 sec. in the
44O-yaTd distance at The last champion hip
hence the statement that his time was 81 70
sec, which is not correct. MIR. Morrow's record
OF 10 feet inches for the 16-pound hammer
was not allowed by the p. A. a. A. u. for the
very good reason that the hammer only weighed
1512 pounds; hence the coast record stands at
JOB feet inch, made at the championship in
1891 py w. u. MOrroW- FEDoCUS.