The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-27
Delighted With Their Eastern
Trip and Con-
quests.
LIST OF TROPHIES WON.
Some Events and Incidents OF
Their Eight Weeks
Journey.

glad to get on the soil of California again,
after an absence of eight weeks and Jour-
ney of 5000 miles by rail. The college yell
had in its tones more of the quality of glad
ness than the boast of achievement 1t is
true that the conquering young athletes
bear with them as trophies captured on
college fields twenty-five cups, five medals
and 1877 badges, but the Joy of winning
them was not equal to the pleasure Of get
ting home.
Barnes and Dozier, two of the team, left
their associates at Sacramento to take the
shortest road to their homes in Southern
California. At Sacramento the college..yell
was given them in the depot,
Manager North was seen in the tourist
sleeper this side of the summit. He talked
of the long Journey. the splendid series of
victories, the courage of the team and the
surprise of the Eastern people at the skill
and endurance of the young men from the
Pacific Coast.
Recalling the events of the Journey he
said:
j., then 10 Philadelphia, New York, Albany,
Chicago, Champaign, H., then back to Chi
cago, to Denver and home.
At Denver we were delayed making out our
accounts. We did not get settlement in full,
but matters were so adjusted that we could
leave. When we started from Berkeley we
were given enough money to get TO Princeton.
The cost of the trip throughout was slightly
less than $4,000. We found, comparing our
work and methods with the teams of the East,
that we are more strict in our methods than
they are.
Yes, Scoggins did make record of ten sec
onds, and no mistake. He can easily do it
when he gets into his stride, but he finds diff
fcuity in striking his stride. His gait is very
queer, and one seeing it can hardly believe
that he is fast.
We have not entered the intercollegiate team
for foreign competition. The team chal-
lenged Oxford and Cambridge, but they re-
fused, and challenged Harvard and Yale.
Had the English colleges accepted the first
challenge, we would have sent Koch and
Dyer as principals, and Torrey and Edgren as
Atevery place in the East we were we'll re-
ceived and kindly treated. At the first Penn
sylvania proceeded on the belief that
records had been faxed, and that we could not
hope TO win more than two events.
We entered for eleven of the fourteen events,
and won seven, and gained the reputation of
being the strongest team that ever represented
any college. Indeed, some people thought we
were sent East by the Board of Trade TO adver-
tise California, and that we knew nothing of
athletic work as they understood it. AT Prince-
ton and Champaign, Ill, We secured the best
treatment. We found H. S. Cornish, manager
of the Chicago Athletic Association one of the
most courteous of gentlemen.
We encountered some slight accidents on the
trip, but nothing serious occurred. The health
OI the men WIS SOOQ throughout.
Captain Koch was happy man on the
train yesterday. Reviewing the contests
he remarked: "'Onlv one defeat was reg
istered against US. and that was at Chicago
when three OF our men were ailing. In
the general showing our hurdlers were the
admiration of all spectators. They opened
the eyes of Eastern people by their mag
nltlcent style. What surprised the people
of the East most was the all-around ability
and endurance of our athleteS
cat Denver there was some misunder-
standing concerning the division of re.
ceipts, and we did not get what we were
entitled to or what our contract called for
81 can only say that we shall make it our
business to see that good team is in the
field from our college.
1--WE are now in position to help our
fellow-students and shall give them the
benefit of our experience. l think the ten
men we had can beat an equal number
from any college in America. We never
had less than twenty-five men against our
ten"
Scoggins, who can run 100 yards in ten
seconds, was. like his fellow-students in
fine form. He spoke OF Crum, the Iowa
wonder, as the most graceful runner he
ever saw, and said he was easily enough
the fastest man in the world.
He jumps right into his stride from the
word go. Yes, / can run 100 yards in ten
seconds when I get properly into my stride.
For time / had malaria and could not get
in good condition"
Phil Bradley, '96, the mile runner, who
overworked himself in preparing for the
games at Albany with Union College,
returned to Berkeley several days ago, not
being we'll enough to enter the contests
against either the Chicago or Denver
teams. In all the games which he was
able to enter he did good work, winning
IL CT In prin aa
haf-mile both at the Union and Illinois
meets and taking third place in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania contest.
He has been somewhat indisposed since
his arrival and did not make his presence
known until yesterday, when he related
some of his experiences on the tour to a
CALL correspondent: He said:
In going East we had a very agreeable time,
although good wholesome training food was
not to be had at any cost and the water we
were required to drink was not the best in the
world. However, we landed in Pennsylvania
in fairly good trim. The Princeton College
men were rather shy of us at first and did not
make them selves very agreeable, but as
soon as they found that we were what we
had been represented to be were very cordial,
They took their defeat nobly, though it was
hard to swallow. The Pennsylvania men,
puffed up with their former victories, were
aaverconfident from the very beginning of our
association with them, and did not give in
until we tied the score with them. Their cor
be. for we were in Philadelphia about week
before the contest took place, and the captain
of their team apparently made no effort to be-
come acquainted with our captain, and they
did not see one another until they met on the
day of the contest.
Though Mitchell, the weight-tnrower, took
Edgren under his care and assisted him In
training for the hammer-throw, his only mo-
tive seems TO have been TO fit Edgren so that
he might beat Hickok of Yale in the Mott
Haven games, and this for selfish motive
After asking Edgren to accept his hospitality
and favors and then to speak OF him as being
a thin, scrawny, boyisn fellow" made the
team boil from the very bottom, though
nothing has been said heretofore as to how
they took the insult.
Merwin did such clean work at Princeton in
defeating McVitty IN the mile walk that we
joshed him considerably on the book he was
about to write, entitled, 'Ten Days at Prince
ton, or How | Beat McVitty." Dur
ing the time between the Pennsylvania and
Mott Haven games about all we did was to
match pennies for the soda water, ana nave
pillow fights. One night we raised such
racket that the landlady came upstairs and
told us "not to Jump on the ceiling or the floor
would come down"
While at Philadelphia, Captain Koch was
going from morning till night, and we saw him
only at meal times. He lived for several years
there. and of course had many old friends to