The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-03
ATHLETIC.
The Charity Field Day at the Olympic Clubs
Outdoor Grounds

Outdoor Grounds,
From all accounts the charity field day
which will be held at the Olympic Clubs out
door grounds in the latter part of the month,
will be feature in athletics well worth going
good distance to witness. Every athlete of the
Olympic Club, who can jump or throw weights,
will be wearing the flying 40" on his shirt
bosom on that day. According to correspon-
dence from Stanford and Berkeley the uni
versities will be strongly represented, and I'M
less the Olympic boys will have trained prop
erly for the contests it is thought that @ ma
jority of points will be scored by the athletes of
Palo Alto who are now training hard for the
track and field events.
The outcome of the conference of college
presidents at Chicago is given below, and is
certainly worthy of the attention of amateur
athletes generally. The rules adopted read:
THAT each college and university that has
not already done so, appoint a committee on
college athletics, who shall take general super
vision Of all athletic sports and have respon-
sibility of enforcing the rules regarding ath-
letes and all Intercollegiate sports. 2-NO one
shall be allowed to participate in any games or
athletic sports unless he be student doing full
work in regular or special course, as defined
in the college or university, and no person
who has participated in any match game of any
college team shall be permitted to partici-
pate as member of another college team,
unless he has been a student in said college
for the period of six months. This rule shall
not apply to those who have graduated from
one and have entered another. 3-No person
shall be admitted to any intercollegiate con-
test who receives any gifts, remuneration or
pay for his services on the college team. a
Any student OF any institution who shall be
pursuing the regular prescribed course within
such institution, whether in an advanced
class or one OF its professional schools, may be
permitted to play for minimum number of
years required in securing the profession for
which he is a candidate. 5-No person who
has been employed for the purpose of training
any college team for contest can be mem
Der of the team he has trained, and no profess
sional athlete and no person who has ever been
a member OF q professional team, shall play in
any intercollegiate contest. 6-No student shall
play in any game under an assumed name
7-No student shall be allowed to participate
who is found to be delinquent in his studies.
S-All games shall be played on grounds either
owned or under the immediate control of one
or both OF the colleges participating in the con-
student management and not under the
patronage or control of companies. 9-The
election OF manager and captain of teams shall
be subject to the approval of the committee on
athletics of the school. 1O-College teams
shall not engage in any games with profess
Sional teams, nor with those representing So
called athletic clubs. 11-That before an in
tercollegiate contest a list of men shall be pre-
sented to the others certifying that all the
members are entitled TO play under the rules
adopted; such certificate shall be signed by the
secretary or registrar of the college or uni
versity. 1t shall be the duty of the captains to
enforce this rule.
From an athletic standpoint Pittsburg is to
be honored in short time. The boxing and
wrestling championships of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union are to be contested for there, and
that will mean the amateur championship of
the country.
No less authority than the English Sporting
Life announced short while ago that as far as
the English sentiment went, games would I'M
doubtedly be arranged Between Yale. Harvard
oxford and Cambridge. The periodical above
mentioned is the authority on all athletic
questions in England, and there is no doubt
but that it voices the feelings of all English
university men.
Certainly yearly contests between the crack
athletes of the two great branches of the Eng
disappearing race would do much to purify
athletics, as only men with unblemished
records would be allowed to compete, and to
be chosen as q member of the all-American
team to contend for supreme honors with the