The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
ATHLETIC.
How Yale Won First Place From
Pennsylvania and Harvard.

How Yale Won First Place From
Pennsylvania and Harvard.
Sixteen members of the athletic annex
of the Young Mems Christian Association
of Oakland are in active training for the
field day events to be held next month I'M
der the auspices of the Twentieth-street
branch of the San Francisco association.
Last evening jolly party composed of
members of the Young Mems Christian
Association of Oakland tramped to Bry-
ants ranch. Among the lovers of pedes-
trianism and healthful recreation were W.
B. West. Arthur Arlett, Frank Book (the
boy smuggler), E. Williams, I. :. Thomp-
son, Professor Lewis, Percy Hall, B. n. Ell
ford, Percy Arlett, Harry Lark, Perry Cole,
A. T. Brock, Percy Deacon, Walter Rode,
E. c. Brown. J. NJ. Deeds, John Taggart,
H. s. Holt, Herman Larson, Jack Col
quhoun. Secretary n. III. Jacks. w. P.
Jacks, Erny Mahar Will Maxwell, A. S.
Macdonald and few others.
The crowd of sightseers are expected
back in Oakland this afternoon very much
refreshed and invigorated after the nights
camp in the hills.
The Acme Club will, in the very near
future, commence work on its new build
ing, and, concerning the structure, William
G.. Henshaw, in a recent interview with
representative of the Oakland Tribune,
said that the delay in proceeding with the
actual work of construction is due to
technical defect in the title to the property
upon which the new athletic home IS to be
erected. The matter is one that must be
adjusted to the satisfaction of those inter-
ested. One of the parties, the San Fran
cisco Savings and Loan Union, is awaiting
the return of the attorney of the institu-
ton before taking the final steps. Mr..
Henshaw is authority also for the state
ment that the bids are all in the hands of
the builders, and will be opened as soon as
the tangle over the title is unraveled.
While no definite time is fixed, it is conf
IDENTIFY stated that the work of construc-
ton will be delayed but a little while
longer.
The next "gentiemen's night" of the
Acme Athletic Club of Oakland will be
held on August g. In addition to an ex-
cellent programme of indoor athletics
there will be two four-round bouts between
clever boxers.
Concerning Eastern collegiate athletic
and aquatic competitions Yale has the
honor of having captured first place
Her victory over Harvard at New Lon
don terminated the athletic year among
the universities. Take it all round
it was the most memorable of many
memorable years in college sports.
The winning teams were, as rule, the
best that their colleges have ever seen, and
the records established were superior to
those of former years. In a review of the
seasons sport this is what a prominent
athlete says:
The palm for general supremacy must be
awarded to Yale. 1t is true that her refusal to
play football with Pennsylvania and to row
with Cornell enable her to secure first honors
IN TWO most important sports without the risk
n OF NTH L4- On,
| rivals. But while this should be taken into
consideration in estimating the value of Yale's
genera! claim 10 supremacy, 1T can hardly be
doubted that last year Yale's teams could have
won over those of any single competitor.
pennsylvania, which in general work most
nearly approached her, would only have stood
chance OF winning in two sports, football and
track athletics, and of these she could hardly
have pulled off both, considering that Richards
beat Ramsdell; while in baseball and rowing
Yales superiority, with all due respect to
Pennsylvania's crew, the pluckiest that ever
roWed, was manifest.
For general work Pennsylvania may be given
second place. She won from Harvard at foot
ball and took second at Mott Haven. Only two
games OF baseball were played, in which the
universities split even, and the crews did not
meet. Altogether Pennsylvania did better
work than ever before. Her baseball team was
below the standard of recent years and her
crew was prevented by persistent i'll luck from
showing what it could do, so that, though it
was physically remarkable body of men, its
powers were left in doubt. But the Pennsyl-
vanla track team was of the first class and the
football team was the best exponent of modern
football as developed at Harvard and Pennsyl-
yania that has yet been seen. If it had met
fate the blue should have been beaten
through the superior effectiveness of Pennsyl-
van1a's attack and her extraordinary powers
OF endurance.
Harvard, in spite of pitiless Ill luck in every
Dranch OF sport, finished strong third. Her
baseball team was weak, but rigid enforcement
OF rules crippled her track team and her foot
ball team, like her crew, was the very sport of
might have won at Springfield. Her crew
could not have won under the most faVoring