The morning call., 1893-03-12
ATHLETICS BOOM.
The StanfOrds Have Been
Plucking Up.
INTERCOLLEGIATE CONTESTS.
Palo Alto and Berkeley Have Ar
ranged a Series of Champion
ship Trials at Last.

From now on until the summer vacation
athletics at the Stanford aud Berkeley uni
versities will have big boom.
Not only baseball but track athletics
will receive its full share of attention, and
the men at each college will train as hard
as they can, in order to win some honors
for their alma mater.
For some time negotiations have been
carried on with view of forming an inter-
collegiate association. The efforts in this
direction were unsuccessful, but agree
ments have been made to compete for cham
pionship honorS in both baseball and track
athletics.
Berkeley has desired for some time to
have a field day with Stanford, but the
Palo Alto boys were not willing to contest
in one. They claimed that the boys from
across the bay had too much advantage,
both in experience and in tue chance for
training They were willing, however, to
contest on the diamond, as they had crack
baseball team. The Berkeley manager
would not agree TO play baseball unless
Stanford was willing to enter into field
day, so committees were appointed from
each university to consult and make ar
rangements that would be mutually agree
able.
The committee from Berkeley consisted
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Alto boys sent up as their represen tatives
Grove, Maynard, Calhoun, Downing and
Reynolds. These gentlemen met yesterday
morning and decided that they would hold
one Intercollegiate field day and that they
would play three games of ball.
The field day will take place April % and
will most likely be held on the Olympic
Club grounds. The track events will be
a 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash. a 440-yard
Dash, half and one mile run, a one mile
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and two-mile run on safety bicycles.
The field events will be pole vault for
height, throwing the 16-pound hammer,
putting the 16 pound shot, the running
broad jump and running high jump.
The 120-yaTd hurdles are to be in ten
flights. each 81 feet high. The 22O-yard
hurdle race is to have the same number of
hurdles, but these are 10 be only 21a feet
high.
The hammer will be thrown differently
from the way usually seen.
BY the rules of the American Athletic
Union 1t can be thrown from inside a seven
foot circle. This enables the contestant TO
run little bit and thus give more force to
the swinging of the hammer. By the rules
governing the intercollegiate field day the
hammer must be thrown from a stapdstill.
This is the way in which it will be thrown
at the next field day, and while it will not
cover so great distance, II it should go
over los feet, the collegiate record will be
held on this coast.
This is the only event in which the rules
Will differ from those of the Athletic Union
and the championship will be decided in the
| usual manner. The first place will count
| for five points, the second place for three
and the third place for one point Three
medals Will be given In each event The
medals will be Of gold. silver and bronze
according to the place that 4 man wins in
an event.
As it is championship meeting all events
Will be scratch, and as only undergrad
yates can compete some very close contests
| may be exrected.
The baseball agreement reads that the
championship shall be decided by three
| games. The first and last games are to be
| PLAYED in this city, and the second one is TO
| be contested for in Oakland.
The dates are April 8, 10 and 90 The
Oakland game is to be played for charity,
ana The proceeds are TO SO TO the FabiOla
| Hospital.
The rules for this year are to govern the
games. and the umpire Is to be chosen by
| the managers OF the teams. There is one
| rule among the new ones which will make
baseball more popular, and that is the one
| that has moved the pitchers box sixty-three
feet from the home-plate. This will make
| more open style or playing, and there will
be more batting TO watch.
In both these championship contests the
students in the professional colleges of the
University Of California have q right TO
| compete. The committee from Stanford
| hesitated about allowing them the right to
| contest, but the Berkeley students main
| tanned that they were as much undergrad
| yates as the men in Berkeley were. 1t was
| finally decided that the men from the pro-
| fessional schools could compete as long as
| they were not graduates Of the college at
| Berkeley.