The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
THE BLUE AND THE GOLD,
California Athletes Will Meet
Champions on Satur-
day.
Matters of Interest ConCerni ng
Trap-Shootlng and the
Rifle.

On Saturday the victorious team that
now wears the blue and gold of the Uni
versity of California will be given very
severe trial when it will face the giants
of the University of Pennsylvania.
1t is not to be expected that California
will retire with the laurels of victory on
this occasion when the days contests will
have come to an end. Every athlete who
| knows anything at all about the standing
| and records of Eastern athletic teams feels
| in his marrowbones that the California
| boys can hope for only third or at best
| second place in most of the events in which
| they will figure,
The Pennsylvania team is unquestion-
ably the star athletic team of the Eastern
| colleges. For every contest the "Pcnns'
have one or two champions, or in other
| words men who have established records
that are superior to those of any athlete
! who has competed under the auspices of
| the Amateur Union in late years. Their
second and third men, as rule, are not
| up to the standard, and in view of that
! fact the Californians may possibly slide in
| for second or a third place in some of
the races, which, it is expected Pennsyl-
yania will capture very easily. The games
which the Berkeley boys will stand bet
ter chance of winning are: Hammer
throwing, running broad Jump, running
| Captain Koch should give good account
OF himself in the half-mile race provided
| he toes the scratch in good form. It is
| quite probable, however that Koch will
also appear in the quarter dash as he is a
good man at that distance. If Barnes is
in trim, good things should be expected of
him in some OF the sprints although Cali
fornia's chances of capturing first in any
OF the track events are assuredly slim con-
| sidering the wonderfully fast sprinters
they will measure strides against. How
| ever, If the wearers of the blue and gold
will make anything like fairly good aver
| age on saturday their success at other
meetings may certainly be expected.
| The following notice to members annears
ON the bulletin board of the Olympic Club:
| ANY member, who may be held in sus.
pense owing to non-payment of dues will
be denied privileges of all entertainments
until his obligations to the club are
settled. This order means that deI1n-
quent members will,not have an opportu-
nifty OF witnessing the boxing and swim
ming contests which will take place this
month until their financial misunder-
standings with the secretary of the club are
adjusted.
The Caledonia Club will hold its annual
picnic and games on May 80, at Shell
mound Park. Sandwiched in long pro-
| gramme OF professional events are two
races Tor amateur athletes, namely, 40
yard and S80-yard handicaps. Entries for
| tne TWO laSt-named events will close on the
10Th at the Olympic Club, and all bona-fde
amateur athletes are eligible. The prizes
are handsome, and no doubt a large entry
will be received.
The following gun club shooting con-
tests nave been announced: May Is the
PUN Club will burn powder at the Oak
land track; May 10, Recreation Gun Club,
Oakland track; May 10, Lincoln Gun Club
i at Alameda mole; May 25, Country Club
at Oakland track; May 26, Empire Gun
Club at Alameda Point. The Pacific Ken
mel Club will hold an important meeting