The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-11
COLLEGE ATHLETES.
Berkeley's Promising Men Have
Begun to Train.

Notwithstanding athletics at the university at
Berkeley are practically now without any man.
agement, the cinder track has q lively appear.
ance these days.
II may be on account OF the Midwinter Fail
contests which are promised early next month
and ii may be because the first freshman field
day takes place on the 18th OF this month.
AT all events, new material is coming TO the
front 10 take the place of the fine athletic men
who have just left college.
Among the freshmen one OF the most promis-
Ing Is Scogglns, who Is their captain and who
now has the 100-yard record of 10 20 sec
Edgren has the hammer-tbrow champion shil
OF he four AS; Chestnut for quarter OF mile
and Ireiethren ar the hal-mie distances are
coming to the front. Dean is a promising
hurdler. while Bob McCleve az the half mile is
good. Whipple Is the mile runner Of the fresh
men.
Grant Mays president OF the Freshman Class
and brother of Ed Mays, BerKeiey's great run
ner, who graduated last year, promises 10 be an
equally good athlete.
For the all-arnund contest at the Midwinter
field day, Koch. SO. has the best chance of win
ming. Foster OF the Olympics being his chief
antagonist.
large number OF the L. c. athletes are laid
up from water on the knee or some other siml-
lar complaint. Among those who cannot com.
pete this year are: Morse, who holds cham
plonshlps In the pole vault, quarter of a mile
aud 3O-pound throw; BakewelI, The 220-yard
hurder and broad jump champion; Muller, The
hurdle champion, who won against Stanford
hunt, the short-put champion, ana Patterson,
The champion high Jumper.
Pheby. Mays and Henry have graduated, and
Chick, one OF the best sprinters has left college
The S0phOmores VIII hold no field day this
spring, but on February "a there will be a DAVIS
contest between them and the Freshmen. The
juniors have received challenge from the
Oakland High School for a field day This
school holds the championship OF the four AIS
so that If the Juniors accept 1t Will be AN inter
estiDg event.
Harry Hutchens, the fastest sprlnter tina t
ever wore spiked shoes, has retired from trac k
athletics and the many admirers OF The great
runner are preparing 10 present him with a
substantial testimonial The athletic career of
Hufchens has been without parallel and II is
doubtful whether his marvellous performances
Will ever be duplicated. The handicappers at
ShefIled. Manchester and other big profess
sional centers will have 10 do their figuring in
future on a new basis. as for over ten wears
they have not had to look beyond tn PuIney
celebrity 10 find the scratch man. Hutcbens
has won more Sheffield handicaps from The
back mark than any sprinter living. and in do
ing so he accomplished figures which stand out
In bold relief among The record tables
Fourteen years ago he won fortune for his
back rs AT Sheffield, where he covered I3I1h
yards in 12A seconds. The surprising meriL
OF this performance will be appreciated by
Americans who know that Wendell Baker, In
his preai trial against time at Cambridge Mass
on May % 1886, took ID seconds TO run a ward
and a half less.
AT London, on June 8, 1885, Hufchens ran
iFD yoiuo HBdluSt Wluu III ii SECONDS and
turning with the breeze, repeated liz half A sec
ond better. In Sydney Australia, Hutchens
covered 100 yards in 141a seconds. All these
performances continue 10 rank as worlds
records.
The best recorded time of Hutcheus for 22O
yards IL II do. Harry Jewett of Detroit and
T.. u. wood OF London, bolh amateurs have
kone as good or better. w. L. Macpherson, the
Antipodean amateur. has a record OF "a g.
for 200 yards. Hulcbens comes next win
25N. The best American record is 25 a.
by Z. H. Sheriff. Jr., ex-captain OF the New
York Athletic Club
With the possible exception Of the Sheffield
handicap, already mentioned, the greatest
achievement OF Hutcnens was his race ar Edin-
burgb, Scotland, on January 2. 1884 The
event was 3OO-yard handicap, with Hutehens
on scratch. The handicBppers were Thought to
have set the Putney man an impossible task
but he stripped equal TO The occasion and 90.
ing at a terrific clip from the crack of the nis
to broke tile worsted an easy winner i'm fne
marvellous time OF 80 Sec far. the only
record which approaches this time is the ri 81
sec. by Lon Myers. New YORK, October %,
1891.
According TO the Sporting Life Carkeek will
soon become full fedged attorney. The paper
says: Jack Caskeek, the champion Cornish
wrestler denies the statement going the
rounds OF the Eastern press that he has agreed
10 wrestle Tom Mclnerney OF Cincinnati AT
MassilllOD, Ohio. Carkeek Is STUDYING law AT
Meiced. Cal. and has retired permanently from
the ring"