The San Francisco call., 1897-08-24
SOPHOMORES CHALLENGE,
Freshmen Anxious to Meet Them in the
Annual Rush Next Mon
day Night.

day Night
BERKELEY, CAL. Aug. 23-Ghe fresh
men of the State University issued a
formal challenge to the sophomores this
afternoon for their annual rush" The
date named for the friendly fight was
next Monday evening at $50 o'clock.
1t was only after a long struggle this af
ternoon with the sophomores that the
freshies succeeded in calling their meet
ing to order for the purpose OF challeng-
ing their rivals. Doors had TO be barri-
caded, windows locked and guards sta
toned about to prevent an onslaught.
Before the difficulty was over and peace
restored in the meeting hall Professor
Thomas r. Bacon and Head Janitor
Mason had TO be called upon. Their pres
ence tended to prevent violence being
used, but throughout the freshies' meet
ing the sophs ana seniors kept up con-
tinual howl of derision in their effort to
drown out" the meeting. Allen, 1900
succeeded IN getting into the freshies'
meeting in disguise. Soon he was dis
covered. Instead of being escorted to the
door and elected he was picked up bodily
and thrown out of the window to the
ground below, distance of twelve feet
1t took six men to handle him, and in the
effort to throw him out they tore down
and broke the heavy blinds on the inside
of the windows.
The forces of the two classes are quite
evenly divided, there being about 180
fighting men in each. In consequence of
the equality in mum bers it is expected
that hard close fight will take place be-
fore all the mem bers of one or the other
class are tied up.
intercollegiate Chess.
BERKELEY, CAL, Aug. 23.-Arrange-
ments are being made to hold a chess
game by wire this fall between the uni
versity of California aud Harvard. II. W.
Lewis, who was the cham pion of Harvard
during 1894 and 1895, is now in San Fran
cisco and is representing Harvard in max
ing the ARRANGEMENTS The match will
bly, take place toward Thanksgiving
time, after the regular preliminary tour
naments have taken place and the cham
pions OF both colleges shall have been
selected. The game will be played accord
ing to the regular rules, the moves to be
transmitted by wire. and the usual time
being allowed between each move.
Much interest is ce1tered in the match
by the collegians al Berkeley and it is be-
lieved that they stand a good chance of
victory. Berkeley defeated Stanford last
year at the game. The Blue and Gold
players have secured two new players of
prominence in the freshman class. They
are Hopfeld and Gordan. Parkhurst and
Epstein OF last year intercollegiate team,
which defeated Stanford, have both de-
feated Lewis, the Harvard crack.
Died by Stran gulation.
BERKELEY, CAL, Aug. 23.-Josephine
Rourke, the one ana half year old
daughter of Mrs. Thomas Rourke of Ninth
street, West Berkeley, died this morning
by slransulation. presumably brought
about by a spell OF coughing. 1t seems
that the mother had left the little one,
who had the whooping cough, in baby
buggy in the yard while she went about
her household dutie~. Returning shortly,
she found the infant in the last throes of
death A physician was summoned, but
the child was dead before he arrived. The
Coroner will hold an inquest tomorrow
morning.
Since her child's death. Mrs. Rourke
has been in critical condition of hyste-
ria. She has a large family of children,
and her af1iction is all the harder to bear
because of the mysterious disappearance
of her husband several months ago. He
has not yet been heard from.
To Grout the Cutters.
BERKELEY, CAL, Aug. 23.-Street
Superintendent Guy II. Chick has issued
a notification TO Berkeley property-owners
that it is the intention OF the Town Board
10 order the grouting of all cement and
stone cutters in the college town. Prop
erty-owners will be gwen until October 10