The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-06
THE STUDENT ATHLETES.
Berkeley Boys Who Are in Training
for an Eastern Trip.

for an Eastern Trip.
The University of California will send an
athletic team across the continent in May
to meet the crack athletes of the Eastern
colleges. 1t has the athletic material for
good team, it had the enthusiasm and pub
lie spirit to raise for the project thousand
dollars in twenty minutes, and it has
hope founded on good ground that the
team ii sends will win at least fourth, if not
third place at the great intercollegiate field
day.
Arthur North, '96, will act as manager
and captain of the track and field; Fred
erick Koch, 1916 will head the team
The selection of the team will lie with
the executive committee of the Athletic
Association and Captain Koch and Mana
ger North. The places are as yet all open,
but the makeup of the team can, with one
or two exceptions, be predicted with fair
accuracy.
For the sprints there are available Scog-
gins. Barnes and Hupp.
Koch, who will go as captain, can put
the shot forty feet and run 440 yards in 81
seconds. One other long-distance runner
will be taken, and it lies between Colt and
Hilborn. Colt can do the half in 1859
Hilborn is promising candidate for both
the 440-yard run and the half mile.
For the field men there is first of all
Edgren, who is sure of place. He has a
record for the hammer-throw of 100 feet.
In the hurdles Dyer has a record in the 100
yards of 10 seconds. Hoffman is good in
the pole vault, but probably no contestant
will be put into the event, as the Eastern
record is well upon the standards.
Woolsey stands sure of getting first place
on the broad Jump, as he has now record
of % feet, which is also the present inter-
collegiate record The California boys
should win both first and second place in
this event, as Melville Dozier, freshman,
jumped % feet inch at the last field day,
although this was cut down somewhat by
the official reckoning.
DoZier will have surprise in store for
the Eastern college cyclists. He has a
present record, unofficial, of a mile which
is II seconds ahead of the intercollegiate
record
For the nigh jump, Patterson or Koch
will be used. Patterson now holds the
u. c. record of feet II y inches, and if he
can raise that to feet he can afford to meet
any record maker from the Eastern col
leges.
Blake can do the mile walk in 7:12. The
mile run will probably not be attempted.
For the 880-yard run Koch or Hilborn
should be able to break the tape in not
less than 80 and do the 440-yard run in
81 or at most 81 %. Scoggins must
cover the 220 in % seconds to stand..a
chance in the contest.
When it is remembered that the U. G.
cinder track, taking five laps to the mile,
Is As of a second slow for the 900 and rs
seconds slow for the 440, it will be seen
that CaIifornia's college sprinters have
quite margin for modest hope.
1t is now some fifteen years since ath-
letics at Berkeley began to assume any inn
portance. The University had very poor
track facilities then, but the rivalry be-
tween it and the Olympic Club was so keen
as to bring out some good results.
A dual league between Stanford and the
State University was formed in 1913, and in
the championship games the Palo Alto
athletes made 81 points to their oppo-
nents' 50.
Blake, Patterson and Koch are still in
the race. Scoggins and Hupp take the
place of Mays in '93. Edgren takes up Nor
rows work and throws the hammer Is
feet farther. Woolsey raises the broad
Jump to % feet.
In '94 the coast championship games
gave Palo Alto 36 to BerkeIey's 80; count
within two points of the prediction of the
Berkeley track captain, North. Koch has
made the half in 2:05 1-5 Patterson the
high Jump to feet 1917 inches; Koch the
shot-put to 81 feet 6 inches; Edgren the
hammer throw to 1T feet
In the fall of '94 Patterson jumped an
inch higher, Koch tossed the shot 40 feet
inches, Edgren put the hammer 127 feet,
and Blake brought the mile walk close to
minutes.