The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10
Young Officers 0utplay
University Men at
Football.
Society Bellies Were Out in Force
to See the Athletic
BeauX.
Lieutenant Kings Kicking and Buck.
ing a Brilliant Feature If
the Game.

The combined forces of the army and
navy have met and defeated the repre-
sentatfves Of many universities. The pen,
for the time being at least, mas proved less
mighty than the sword.
The athletic young officers who learned
football at West Point and Annapolis
along with the arts OF war have beaten the
Varsity men st their own game. The
score was Is to O.
The match was played for charity, and
incidentally for the edi6cation OF many
lair maidens, who we're won't with pleasure
gaze upon the struggling athletes, the
best representatives Of society young men
because vigorous, manly and courageous.
The crowd that Assem- bled at Central
Park hardly mounted into the thousands,
but il was seIecr. There were more pretty
and well-govned young women IN the
grand stand than probably ever before
s7sem bled II the same space TO witness an
outdoor event in this City. The afternoon
was well suited TO such a gathering.
Gear and yet sufficiently bracing to
make light wraps more than merely oTna-
mental the weather was of the kind that
permitted Of q display Of pretty furs to the
best effect Society bellies and the seasons
buds we're out in for &c and looked prettier
than ever because OF rudy cheeks made
so By the crisp air ana the excitement and
heightened by becoming winter gowns
and millinery.
As usual with anything that is properly
a society event, the beginning was late.
When ordinarily the grounds would have
begun to assume 8 populous appearance
because Of the nearness of the scheduled
hour for the contest, the prospect for any
sort OF crowd looked dismal.
But when society began 10 come, SIS il
did after the hour when the game was
supposed already TO be on, it came in q
continuous stream through the Market
street entrance 70 the Central Park
grounds. As at the horse show, there
were many more pretty girls than there
were appropriate escorts for them. But
then there were to be over thirty young
men on the field in football attire, and
many Of them had admirers among those
that strolled round one corner of the grid
iron and went up into the main grand
stand, opposite the middle Of the field
Al first there were only few Struggling
soldiers in uniform lettering about the low
fence st the edge Of the gridiron and wait
ing for something 10 happen They gaZsd
over ct the almost vacant seats and tn en-
back at their musical instruments dis
trIbuted on the bleachers ct one corner of
the field.
They were the First United States In
tzatry Band from the Preside and there
we're TWENTY-FIVE OF them, with ". G. B.
Erdmann IS their leader.
Presently Police Sergeant Michael Jo-
seph Con boy, ma -nifcent and inflated in
full uniform, entered, followed by four
teen patrolmen.
The United States soldiers instinctively
stood erect and threw out their chests.
The guardian of the gridiron marshaled
his men upon the field. The peace would
be preserved, and, IS If assured of the
fact, the iardy crowd began 70 come stead
iIy through the main entrance.
Judge Carroll Cook strolled in alone,
under glossy new beaver, and drifted
along over 10 where the band had