The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-17
LATEST BERKELEY ITEMS,
w. G. Patterson Expelled From
the Athletic ASSocia-
ton.
He Violated Rules While on the
Eastern Tour-Co-Eds in
the Gymnasium.

W. c. Patterson of the university track
team has brought himself into dire dis
grace in the eyes of the athletic executive
committee of the university by having
broken his training pledge while on the
Eastern tour with the U. c. track team
last spring. Patterson, it will be remem-
bered, was the high jumper of the team,
and from the records he had made at
college as a crack man in his line great
things were expected of him on the East
ern tracks. But on account of his viola
tions of the first principles of established
training rules he totally disqualified him
self from competing after the first few
games.
The first trouble arose at PHILADELPHIA
when he was seen by several of the team
smoking and was subsequently accused of
drinking, and as a consequence he was
given his ticket to California before half
the contests for which the team was listed
had been entered. Since the opening of
this term at the university the matter has
been kept very quiet, but at a meeting of
the athletic executive committee last Fri
day the following resolution was unani-
mously passed:
WHEREAS, That w. C. Patterson has been
proved to have broken the training pledge
signed by the members of the Eastern athletic
team of 1895,
RESOLVED, That he is hereby expelled from the
Athletic Association of the University of Cali
fornia, and is debarred from competing in any
future athletic contests under the colors of the
University of California.
The executive committee consists of
Professor Edward B. Clapp, Harry H.
Hirst 90, Bernard P. Miller '97, Fred w.
Koch $50, Robert T. Chestnut 97, M. Do
zier '9S, c. A. Son '97 and III. III. Lang '96.
FootbalIers at Work.
About twenty-five football players ap-
peared on the campus this aftern DON I'M
der the direction of Captain Sherman for
an hours practice. This is twice as many
as has appeared at any other one time dur
ing the present season, and as Manager
Lang remarked to-day, "the football sea-
son at Berkeley has begun in earnest"
The main field is being put in condition
by blowing deep and filling the burrows
with straw, so as to make the ground
springy. About fifty bales of straw and
fifteen wagon-loads of manure have al
ready been used for this purpose.
The Josh Took Well.
The new comic paper at the university,
the Josh, appeared this morning and
within two hours 400 of the 500 copies
brought to Berkeley were sold by Manager
Robbins. For q time the south corridor OF
North Hall was so completely packed by
students DESTROYS of obtaining copies that
the way was almost entirely blocked The
receipts from the sale of copies, thus far,
will defray the expense of publication. A
meeting of the staff was held this after
noon at which plans for the next issue,
which will appear in two weeks, were
discussed.
Gymnasium Work for Colds.
Walter Magee, director of physical Gull
ture at the university, issued the follow
ing order to-day, governing the gymnasium
work of the young lady students. Begin
ming Monday, September 49, 1895, the
Harmon gymnasium will be reserved for
the exclusive use of the Young women of
the university (from 80 A. NJ. to 2:15
P. ny on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Young women who elect the courses will
be required to attend regularly during one
of the practice hours indicated on the
bulletin.
Addition to the o. C. Library.
The university library has just received
valuable addition in the form of twenty
two volumes of religious literature of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from
Dr. William 2. Gibbons of Alameda.
Nearly all of them are written in Spanish
and Latin, being illustrated with the old
style wood cuts. The most valuable of the
collection is volume of Mattroli's Growth
of Trees and Plants, " translated from Latin
into German, and dated 1878.
Burned His Hand.
J. B. Wilson, an employee of Durgin &
Bleakley, while attempting to extinguish
q fire this morning in a house on Calais
street, burned his right hand severely.
The flames, which were of unknown origin,
were extinguished before doing much
damage.
Fellow in Pedagogy.
Frank Dunn has resigned his position as
principal of the San Rafael High School to
accept the position as Fellow in Pedagogy
at the University of California. George II.
Boke, '94, has been elected to nil the
vacancy made by the resignation OF Mr..
Dunn.