The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
BRAIN WORK NEEDED
Professor Edwards on Win
ming Athletic Vic
tories.
He Thinks Many Students Ought to
Equal the Great Splinter
Drum.

BERKELEY, Call, Aug. 20.-Colonel
George G. Edwards. professor OF mathe-
MATES at the university and a member
OF the faculty committee on athletics, has
expressed the opinion that victories in
athletic contests are won more by hard
work than by muscles. The professor
also declares that every student in college
would be benefited were be to enter and
train every year for some athletic contest
Colonel Edwards views were expressed in
letter written for his college weekly, the
Occident, containing the following:
The difference in the natural endowment of
1000 young men is not SO great that it is poss-
bic for only one of them to run 100 yards in
10 1-5 seconds or the quar- er mile in 81
seconds. That is what our man Drum does,
and | believe there are QCZen others among
our students who could do the same thing If
they would use their heads as effectively as he
does, exercise the same self-restraint submit
to the direction of those qualified to direct,
and encourage the grit that makes the differ
ence between victory and defeat in every con-
test through life.
l believe that some students overdo athlet-
les, but they are very few, and are very sell
dom successful. If they do not have suffici-
ent mental power to restrain themselves from
excesses they lack sufficient mental power to
push them 10 the front Ill q contest. l have
watched college athletes pretty closely Ior the
past twenty years, and our best athletes have
come from among our best students.
wen this last year never would hurt the college
work OF any one. 1t would rather intensity il
by sharpening the wits and by keeping the
student in fine physical condition That
team of forty men didn't come to the field of
contest each with Two or three eXceptions)
able to do beuer work than he had ever before
done, without the exercise of sound dis
cretion which had kept HIM from an all-ab-
sorbing interest ana consequent owe rdoing
The preparation of that team will have its
effect on 1000 young men. Not 10 cause them
.,,,..
it will cause them to see that success comes as
the result of thoughtful long-contnued, self
denying regularity. And furthermore there
wasn't a man on the team whose co lege work
WAS in any way in terfered with.
| believe that for health, Tor the knittinp to-
gether OF the whole frame. and for the lessons
of selfrestraint, every student should, during
each Of the four years that he is III college 90
into thorough training for some athletic con
test He would be better man as long as he
lives; and probably live a good many years
longer.
Diseased Meat.
BERKELEY, CAL, Aug. 2O-Health
Officer II. n. RoweH is on the track of
herd of twelve consumptive COWS. con-
demned in Oakland and believed to have
been sold for meat in Berkeley. 1t is
thought that the entire herd was pur-
chased for slaughter bv q Berkeley
butcher.
Wants Damages Now.
BERKELEY, CAL, Aug. 20.-Dr H. n.
Rowell now has damage suit against
August Migge. The West Bera ley butcher.
for $4,000 for malicious prose cutiop.
Migge charged DR.. RoweIl with petty lar.
ceny for having seized some alleged bad
meat in his shop.
Geological Map.
BERKELEY. CAL, Aug. 20.-The stu
dents OF the geological department Of the
university u,id .r I)r John G. Merriop, j., ro
preparing to make geolo icai m I'D of the
region around the bay of San Francisco.
They will make excursions TO examine
points OF especial interest.