The morning call., 1893-04-10
A SPRING FIELD DAY.
The Berkeley Athletes Will Try for
Records.

The regular spring field day of the Uni
versity of California will take place next
Wednesday. The games will be held on
the cinder path at Berkeley and will CON-
mence at l P. NJ The sprind field day is
the great event ON the athletes calendar. as
it gives them an inkIing of what they may
expect to do in the championship games.
There is great deal more interest taken in
the field DAYS at this time of the year than
in those which occur in The fall.
The coming field day will be one of the
most important ever held on the ''Ova" at
the university. II will be the last chance
for the athletes of the senior class to make
a coast record, as 1t is doubtful this year if
there will be any championship meet of the
Pacific Coast Association OF the Ameri-
can Athletic Union. On the 22d inst. the
great Intercollegiate field day between STAN
ford and Berkeley will take place, and this
will give an added interest to next Wednes
days field day.
The athletes across the bay are deter
mined to win ii it can be done by hard
work, so they have buckled down and are
training for all they are worth. Every
afternoon they assemble at the gymnasium
and exercise under the personal supervision
of Nit. Magee, the instructor In physical
culture. he first exercises them with the
chest weights and then on the leather
horses. When the men are at the weights,
he gives the giants who are to put the
than he does the sprnters. Tue big men
usually exercise with about ten pounds
while the runners and Jumpers are only
required to use five pounds. After the
gymnasium work. the men go down to the
cinder path and train for the special events
in which they are going TO enter. At half
past five in the afternoon the oval presents
very animated appearance. Most of the
men are In athletic costumes, consisting Of
light shirt, amputated trousers and running
ShOeg \ 0f thagn mo aoI
pretty picture and crowds of students sur
round tie track to watch the performances
or the men who are to represent them
against Stanford.
Some of the athletes spend their time In
practicing starting, while others, the long
distance men. can be seen circling the oval
time after time without appearing to be
fatigued
The main interest of the stude MT body IS
conferred just now in the men who are train
ing for the hurdle races. Last year Berke-
ley had sure winners in these events. but
now that both Henry and Bake well are laid
up be prospects are not so bright. At pres
ent there are three men in training for the
hurdles. They are Hoffman. Dyer and
Dean. The former has been al the Obstruc-
tons for one year already, but the latter are
both new men and have done little In this
line previously. The entries for Wednes-
DAYS games are:
5o-yard dash-Edwards, Chick, Noble, Tnomp.
I00-yard dash-Edwards. Chick. Noble,
Thompson. Mays.
220.yard dash-Chck, Thompson, Mays, Park
hurst
44o.yard dash (open)-Parkhurst, Hilborn.
SOlomOHS.
Halfmle run-Pheby, Koch. Lloyd and Wat
eIman.
0nemiIe run-Bancroft. Powell wythe.
l2o-yara hurdle-R. Hoffman, Dyer. Dean.
20 yard hufde-R. Hoffman, Dyer, Smyth,
Miller.
1e-pound shot pur-Sherman, Pierce Koch.
lC-pound hammer thrOw-FoitZ, Sherman
Plnnkett. Hay. sylvester Pierce
role vault Qor beightl-Van Dyke, g. Hoffman,
=, running broad junp-G. Hoffman, woolsey
Running high fump-Patterson, Koch. Sher
man. NJ iller. ' ~
Mile walk-Bake, Lyser, smyth
PSckham. -'"N'0'
Bicycle raee-Lachman.