The San Francisco call., 1896-04-25
CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES,
Intercollegiate Field Day to Be
Held This Afternoon al
Olympic Grounds.
A CLOSE SCORE ANTICIPATED.
The intercollegiate Debate Tonight.
Freshmen Want Another
Rush-NotaS.
A CLOSE SCORE ANTICIPATED.


and field athletes of the University of
California and Stanford will meet at the
Olympic grounds to decide the coast in
tercollegiate championship for the season
OF '96. The games will be held rain or
shine. For the Berkeley men the field
day will serve double purpose-that of
determining whether or not they will be
the college champions of the coast for an
other year and also who are eligible for
places on the Eastern team, which will
leave California in just two weeks. About
the same number of men are entered from
both institutions, Berkeley having few
more in the weights and middle distances.
Fifty EIGHT signatures in all are listed. No
extraordinarily fast time in the sprints or
hurdles is expected because of the extreme
dampness of the track, but in the distances
and weights, especially the hammer-
throw, great things are anticipated.
Edgren, the California giant, will prob
ably duplicate his recent throw of las fe ct
6inches and thus make for himself the in
tercollegiate record of America. Though
be has thrown the 16-pound weight even
farther than this in practice, he is hardly
expected to duplicate his best throw to-
morrow, though there is no telling what
surprises he will spring. The Berkeley
of winning every track athletic contest
from Stanford in which they have entered,
the experience of an Eastern trip last year
and a season of hard training, will not
have such an easy time in winning to-
morrow, according to their own state
ments. as heretofore. Though they doubt
not that they will come out several points
ahead, yet it will be only after an effort.
Ex-Captain Koch said this afternoon
that the only events he felt certain of for
the U. G. were the hammer-throw and
the 120 hurdle, and that the only two
which he could concede to Stanford are
the mile run and the pole-vault. The
other events" said he, ''stand in the bal
ance, with the dip slightly in our favor"
In the 100-yard dash Dickie of the U. G.
and Bunton of Stanford are both 10 2-5
seconds men, and, in consequence, the
race for first place seems to lie between
against Bernard for second.
The 220 will go, in all probability, about
| the same way. In the middle distances
the odds are somewhat in favor of Cali
fornla, with Brown and Magee as entries.
The mile bicycle race will be fought with
vigor by Gratis, the U. G. crack, against
Anfenger.
1t is generally believed that Wilbur will
take the shot-put from California, with
| Lloyd a close second. Koch cannot enter
this event on ccount of a strained shoul-
der. Merwin is expected to do some Of
his old-time work and carry off the honors
| of the mile walk. AS for the rest of the
events-the broad Jump, the high, tine
hall mile, the 220 hurdle-they seem to be
somewhat of toss.up Much interest is
manifested in the outcome of these gar
since so much with regard to the contem-
plated Eastern trip of the California men
will depend upon it.
intercollegiate Debate.
| BERKELEY, CAL, April 24-The an
nual intercollegiate debate will take place
to- morrow evening at Metropolitan Hall,
| San Francisco. The three speakers who
will represent the State University are
| Joseph O'Connor, f. II. Dam and M. c.
Flaherty, all of the senior class. 1t is
peculiar coincidence that the three speak
] ers are in the same class, are the same age
within six months, are all natives of this
State and each intends studying law.
| Flaherty and O'Connor are in the college
of social science, while Dam is a classical
/ student. Flaherty is a graduate of Cogs-
wells Polytechnic Institute and will be
remem bered as being a member of last
year debating team as well as the winner
OF the Carnot medal this spring.
Dam prepared for the university at the
T, Academy of California Colleye, East Oak
| land, where he took an absorbing interest
in debating and rhetorical work. He is at
the present time president OF the Students
| Congress at Berkeley ano mem Der OF the
Intercollegiate Debating League.
/ O'Connor graduated from the San Fran
cisco Boys High School, where he held
high rank as student and debater. He
was O dark horse in the final preliminary
contest and took first place on the trio.
The judges of the debate will be Hon.
/ Joseph McKenna, Judge of the United
States Circuit Court; Hon. W. W. Nor
| row, Judge of the United States District
Court and Hon. o. G. Freeman, promi-
nent San Francisco attorney and law
author Following will be the subject for
j discussion:
Resolved That article /, section 3, clause L of
the constitution of the United States be
amended so as to read: ''rhe Senate of the
! United States shall be composed of five Sena-
tors from each State, chosen by the people
thereof, and the electors OF each State shall
have qualifications requisite for electors OF the
House of Representatives" Each Senator to
be chosen for six years and to have one vote
/ And that part of article /, section B, clause
2, which refers to the filing of vacancies in
the Senate, should be amended so as to read:
"And if vacancies happen, by resignation or
otherwise. they shall be filled in the same
manner as vacancies in the House OF Repre-
sentatives."
The winning team will receive for equal
distribution among its members the $500