The San Francisco call., 1896-08-25
THE RELIANCE ELEVEN
/" Cal" Ewing Manager, and
Captain to Be
Elected.
st. Mary's College Trying for
Thanksgiving Match With
Reno, New.

4u0 h6lldHC6 O4uU Will put d IOOLUAl1
team in the field this season.
]. "Cal," Ewing, the clubs well-known
baseball and football manager, has as
sumed the managem ent of the prospective
eleven, captain for which will be elected
next Thursday evening, al meeting to be
held for that purpose in the club building.
At the same time general discussion of
ways and means and possible players will
take place, and the ate for the beginning
of practice will be set. Ewing, who is
chief assistant in the County Clerks office
in Oakland, is enthusiastic and energetic
"The makeup of the Reliance team is
problematical." said he yesterday. so
far nothing has been done in the way of
speaking for new men, but Thursdays
meeting will start the ball rolling Harry
Walton and Fred Oliver have been voted
into the team. 1t is very likely that Walton
will be elected captain. We count on
Burnett for center, Lanyon and Will
son for ends, Bert Oliver for
tackle or guard, Wyckoff for fullback,
Walton and Frankenheimer for halves and
Harrelson for quarter. Wilson, end on the
Berkeley Varsity last season, will play, but
as l said before, no action has been taken
yet, and We are not sure of either Franken-
heimer or Harrelson. We hope 10 get
them. In addition We will have Huff and
Franklin and Wells OF Livermore, who is a
bro ther of Charlie Wells, the cyclis1.
Then Frick, last years captain, may play.
| If he decides to- OF course he will have a
place on the team"
Burnett is Stanford graduate, and
| played two seasons on the Varsity before
he filled the center position for Reliance
last year. Lanyon, WYckoff, Huff and
! the Oliver brothers were with the Reliance
team before. but Bert Oliver, 1t is said,
will enter Stanford next month. Wilson
and Wells are new recruits for Reliance.
Walton played haIfback on the Reliance
team during the season of '94. For two
years previously he was student at Stan
ford University, where he finished his
sophomore year. He was halfback on
the Varsity team of '92 and of '93, catcher
and captain OF the Varsity nine of '93 and
catcher of the team of '94. Before
entering Stanford he was the star
base eball-p player at the University of the
Pacific. He has also played ball with the
Olymp pic nine. Harrelson is another Stan
ford graduate, and was the Varsity quar-
terback of "a; he played with the Reliance
team on its tour of the Northwest last fall.
| Frankenheimer, for four years mem Der
of the Stanford Varsity, was graduated
| from college last May and is now in this
| City.
DR.. Harry Carleton, a prominent mem
Der of the Reliance Club, said yesterday
that he will take no hand in the main
| tenance of football team this year.
.'Some of us got enough of it last sea-
son. he remarked significantly. "a burnt
child fears the fire. We went down into
| expenses. What's more, am tired of this
thing of hunting employment for players,
and I'm opposed TO the principle of it.
| Paul Downing, captain of the Stanford
| Varsity in 1894, captain of the Tacoma
Athletic Club team in 1895 and tackle on
| the Reliance eleven when it met the
! Butte, Montana, team here last winter
| has had more aIl-roun6 football expert
ences than any other player on the coast
AS q freshman he was halfback on STAN
ford's first Varsity team. The next year
he played guard. In 1893 he was center
rush and in 1894, his senior year, was cap
tain and tackle. Last fall he came down
from Washington TO help coach the Palo
Alto men for the big intercollegiate game.
He is in business now in San Francisco.
81 have read in some of the papers,"
said he yesterday. "that | am to play this
season with the Olympics and with the
Reliance. | don't know where they got
the information, for nothing has been said
tc me about playing or to Harrelson
either, nor have / thought of playing. My
business keeps me pretty busy, but l
mean to go down to the university and
help coach the boys. / shall be down
there one afternoon a week at least and
oftener as the season advances" He thinks
Stanfords prospects are encouraging,
st. Mary's College is to have coach
from among the ranks of the Reliance
players. The man has not yet been de-
cided upon, but will be during the week,
as the first lesson is to be given next Sat-
urday afternoon. After that the coach
ing will go on regularly on Wednesday
and Saturday afternoons. Manager Gree
ley was in this City yesterday ordering
suits for the team. He says ST. Marv's
College will have an eleven this year
averaging about 165 pounds to the man.
Practice games will be played with the
Reliance team. An effort will be made to
get match with the Reno (Nev) team for
Thanksgiving day. In the meantime
game will be played with the Santa Clara
College team to inaugurate what it is
hoped will become an annual affair. LIZ
possible games will be played with the
Stockton team, with the Santa Cruz High
School team, with Vallejo, with Sacra-
mento and with the Oakland High School
team. The manager also hopes for
chance with either or both of the univer-
sity teams, and will endeavor to get some
sort of match, not with any hope of win
ming, but that his men may measure their
ability.
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