The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
At HLETICS At BERKELEY,
Possibilities of Another Big Meet
at Chicago Consid-
cred.
Good Government and Progressive Clubs
Take Action Regarding 100000
Bond Issue.

BERKELEY, CAL, Jan. 29-Matters in
university athletic circles have begun
within the last few days to point very
strongly toward another big meet at
Chicago during the coming summer, with
the possibility OF a second team entering
the list under the colors of the blue and
gold.
The letter received by A. w. North,
president of the Western intercollegiate
Amateur Athletic Association, from Cap
tain Sheldon of YaIels track team last
week, expressing hope that O meet be-
tween his men and the California boys
could be arranged for this season, was the
first spark which rekindled the fire of en-
thusiasm in the breasts of the u. C..
athletes. Last year, when the California
team was in the East, they did not meet
Yale at all, excepting in the Mott-Haven
games, and the prospect of arranging a
single contest with them for this year, as
well as with other teams, has awakened
much attention.
Heretofore it has not been possible to
determine who we're the champion athletes
of America because of the fact that there
has heretofore existed and does now exist
an Intercollegiate Association, comprising
the colleges in the extreme East, and a
Western Intercollegiate Association, in
Guiding in its scope about twenty colleges
near Chicago and west. President North
has suggested that the winners in these
two great associations meet each year to
determine not merely the collegiate cham
pions of a section of the country but of the
whole United States. The executive COM
mittee of the Western Association has
agreed to his proposition, and it now re-
mains for the other association to fall in
line.
To-day a letter was received by the Uni
versity from John Y. Crum, the noted
sprinter, who is now at Bedford, Iowa, in
which he offers suggestions as to how VIC
tory in the great National meet may be
made possible for Western men. Follow
ing is the purport of Crum's letter:
Being Western man, I would like to see
Western colleges make better records in track
athletics. know that such things are possible.
The Western intercollegiate Association meet
at Chicago, June 2, 1895, compared very favor
ably with the intercollegiate held at New York,
May IS, 1895, and the latter meet represented
all the older colleges in the country. Now
what l wish to see is meet between the win
ners OF the intercollegiate and the win
ners of the Western Intercollegiate, and /
believe the Western team can win, if
the Western colleges begin to train
dlers, weight men and long-distance men, but
our ongdlstance men are fast coming TO the
front, and so will our murders and weight
men If they give it their attention The East
has the advantage in having older men, but
the West has the advantage in numbers hav-
ing greater number OF colleges from which to
choose This meet Will not be brought about
unless the Western colleges unite and pull
together. The West has been successful when
they have sent their baseball team East-for
instance, Ann Arbor. Now, l have heard
judges say that several of the Western foot
ball teams would make the best Eastern teams
play football to beat them. Michigan has
proved this 10 BIZ true. Ii this is true in re-
gard TO baseball and football, why will not the
Western colleges combine and take the win
ners OF the Western intercollegiate East next
spring, and show that the West amounts to
something in track athletics? But to have a
successful meet the track captains must begin
work at once and the students must take some
interest Colleges that have never taken any
interest should wake up and send team To
Chicago.
j would suggest that the colleges pay all
their expenses to Chicago and take the pro-
ceeds 10 pay their expenses East.
am out of college athletics, but suggest this
meet as think it will raise the standard oil
Western athletics. If the idea is carried out
1t would be the largest athletic meet held this
year,
Lang's Report.
+ BERKELEY, CAL, Jan. 29.-Managel