The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
LATEST BERKELEY ITEMS,
Only Five University Athletes
to Enter Coast Cham
pionships.
Blackstone's Commentaries No
Longer Used as Textbook
in the University.

BERKELEY, Oct. 9.-Only five
athletes will enter the coast Champion
ships to be held next Saturday afternoon
on the Berkeley cinder track under the
university colors. The entry list for
Berkeley closed tonight, with Jackson on
the boards for the mile run, Chick for the
short sprint, Simpson for the shot-put
Lloyd for the pole-vault and shot, and
Koch for the high and broad jumps.
This great lack of competitors in the
championships to serve the blue and gold
seems, in part, due to want of training of
some of the most competent men. and
also to the tradition that Berkeley ought
not to enter full team, since, under those
circumstances, she would in all pro ba bill
ity win the day by a considerable majority
of points, and thus the other clubs would
have no incentive to enter their men.
The q. c. has not listed full team in
the championships since the spring of
1892 Several Berkeley men other than
those mentioned will be in the field day,
but under other colors. OF these are Dorm,
'9S, under the Olympic Club standard;
Hilborn. SO. Reliance; Dozier, '98, Olym-
pic, and Patterson, '96, Olympic.
There will be eighty-four entries in the
thirteen track and field events, from the
various contesting clubs.
No More Blackstone.
Blaekstope's Commentaries are no
longer used as textbook in the law de-
partment of the university. In their stead a
work on parliamentary law by Professor
Robinson of Yale College is used. This
contains, in a condensed form, definitions
and general propositions of the law with
copious reference TO Blackstone and Kent.
A number of the students who are taking
courses at Berkeley in conjunction with
their work at Hastings have expressed
much satisfaction with the change.
Faculty Receptions.
President and Mrs. Martin Kellogg will
receive members of the faculty and their
wives at their home, Bushnell place, next
Tuesday evening, from until II o'clock.
Invitations have been issued by Nine. f.
Y. Paget, wife OF Professor Paget, head of
the department of Romance languages at
the university, for reception to be given
at her home on Dwight way next Wednes-
day evening.
High School Boys to Protest.
The Berkeley High School athletes who
took part in the amateur field day held
last Saturday afternoon propose to contest
the decision which awarded the Oakland
High School first place in the contest
They base their protests on two grounds
first, that Rosborough, who tied for first
place III the pole vault WIN anOCner YAK
land boy, was allowed four tries, when he
should have been cut off at three second,
that the Oakland runners who were given
first place in the mile relay failed to run
the last lap.
Sons of Herman Election.
The Berkeley Chapter of the Sons of
Herman have elected the following officers
for the ensuing term, the initiation to take
place next Monday evening": President.
Herman Peters; vice-president Charles
Lopez; corresponding secretary, Jacob
Klees; financial secretary, Fritz Burck-
hart; treasurer, A. Teigner; trustee, Henri
Penning.
Reading by George Riddle.
George Riddle, the actor, at the request
of Professor E. B. Clapp and Professor W.
d. Arlnes, will give a reading tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock in Stiles Hall. One
OF his selections will be PIumtree's trans
lation OF Sophoceles' tragedy, "Gdipus,
the King
Agricultural Bulletin.
An important bulletin has just been pub
lished by the agricultural experiment sta
ton at the university, entitled 1.-THE Dis
tribution of the Salts in Alkali Soils" by
Professors E. W. HiIgard and r. ii.
Loughridge.