The morning call., 1895-02-10
THE BERKELEY ATHLETES.
A Baseball Team Organized for the
Coming Season.
College Boys Who Are in Training for
the Olympic Clubs Charity
Field Day.

The last few weeks of good weather have
served to arouse all the latent athletic en-
thusiasm in the students at Berkeley, and
every young fellow who has the time to
spare is training for some event or other.
Baseball shares the enthusiasm with
track athletics. In the former branch of
sport the arrival of Mr.. Irwin, the
coach, from the University Of Vermont,
has instilled new life into the boys. The
Berkeleyites have never played ball as if
they were in earnest about it. The train
ing has been spasmodic and unsystematic
and as result Stanford has captured all
the baseball laurels. But this may be
changed this year.
About forty men come down to practice
every evening and there is some frst-class
talent among them.
Charles Elston is temporary captain of
the team ana will probably do the back
stop work, though he has a strong COM
petitor in Gosbey, San Jose lad, who has
quite reputation as catcher. There are
twirlers galore. 'Br lex" Morse, whom a
twisted knee has compelled to quit football,
sprinting, pole vaulting and throwing the
56-pound weight, hailed with delight the
advent of the baseball season, for he
realized that as pitcher he had another
opportunity to shine as first magnitude
star. But his bliss was short-hved. In
the second time of practice he added
another to the series of twists, and Brick"
is again on the shelf. But there are
enough to fill his place. M. Cleverty,
Morder and Dorm are all good men, es-
pecially the latter, who has played many
seasons in different Eastern college mines.
For all of the other positions, both in
al md mn
plicants, so that when the present series of
class games is completed next week Man
ager Sinsheimer and Coach Irwin will
select two mines and pit them against each
other. The training from then until the
end of the season will be of the most system
attic kind. No training table will be es-
tablished, but the boys will be expected to
wholesome food. Walter Magee, the
athletic instructor, will have charge of the
gymnasium work, which will constitute
very important part of the training.
The diamond on the campus, which has
heretofore resembled nothing so much as
back lot playground of crowd of school
boys, has been thoroughly overhauled and
put in tlrst-class condition. The quality of
the ball played has increased materially in
consequence.
A little later in the season, when it be-
comes more evident who will compose the
team, orders will be sent East for the uni
forms. Professor Clapp has this part of
the matter in charge and has promised
surprise to the baseball cranks.
The schedule between the Olympic, Re-
lance, Stanford and the U. G. has not yet
been arranged, but it's completion is
looked for about the beginning of next
week. An effort will be made to have each
club play three games with every other.
If this arrangement is agreed upon the
5-II my h fho init
of the Berkeleyites chiefly centers, will be
played during the early part of April, one
of them in San Jose and two in this city.
The trackmen have but few days left
for training before the Olympic Club chart
table field day on Washington's birthday. |
If the proposed trip East next summer
gives promise of materialiZing the boys |
will continue in training after the inter
collegiate field day in the latter part of |
April. The cinder track is at present in |
very poor condition and most of the work |
is done under Mr.. Magee in the gymna-
SUM.
The inability of Scroggins to return to
college has greatly reduced the chances of |
the blue and gold to win the sprinting
events, but Anthony, Cross, Cheek and
Barnes are of more than ordinary ability, |
and may make the Olympic cracks hustle
little. Humphreys has not as yet gone
into training for the quarter mile. He is
the best man on the coast for the distance,
and the University will need his help.
Koch, Bradley and Waterman win enter
the half Rile, and Bancroft, Brown and
DoZier the mile. Woolsey will do the run
ming broad jumping, and Elston, and pos
sibly Edgren, the po1e-vaulting. Patterson,
the coast champion, will enter the high |
jump, while the shot-putting will be left to |
Rock, Gosbey and Edgren.
Even the football men have not gone en-
tirely out of training. Under the direction |
OF Captain Sherman they are doing gym
sirous of learning the game are taken in |
hand and put through the preliminary
steps.