The herald., 1897-01-02
berkeley AND WHITTIER
Play a Rafting Game of
Football
ST0NEWALL jones WIS The HERO
Of a Most Holly Contested
Match
THE SCORE WAS TEN TO SIX
In Favor Of the University Of California
Students
But the LIDS From Whittier Made Noble
Fight
TIL the Last Five Minutes the Score
Was Even-Ransome, the Berke-
ley Crack, Was Disabled Early
in the Game
But the LIDS From Whittier Made a Noble
Fight

Something like q surprise was in store
for the football enthusiasts who attend
| ed the Berkeley Whittier game at Ath-
| letic park yesterday. A great game
| had been promised, but few were SAN
guins enough to expect that Whittier
| would hold the crack team from the
north down to the close score of 10 to 6.
The game was hot one from start
| to finish and was so closely contested
| that the result remained in doubt till
time was called. There was no chance
| for soldering" and it did not take the
] Berkeley boys long to realize that they
| had run up against big contract in
| the pigskin kickers from Whittier.
| So much had been said about Berke-
| ley's wonderful end runs and astonish-
ing kicking qualities that general i'm
preston prevailed that a very large
score would be piled up in her favor.
Again, Whittier has never had an op-
| portunity for playing any of the first
! teams Of the coast and lacked the expe-
| rience to be gained from such oppon-
| ents. Nevertheless the Whittiers yes
terday put UP football Of a high class.
aud have earned a position among the
| foremost teams Of the coast.
The play was snappy all through the
game and especially during the last half,
when Whittier had made a touch down
and tied the score. Then it was that
| Berkeley fully awakened to the impor-
! tance of the situation and began playing
| a desperate game, which finally result
ed in another touch down without how
! ever. registering goal just few min
utes before the close of the game
Berkeley made the first touch down
in just ten minutes after the beginning
of the game. and Whittier scored in nine
teen minutes after the opening of the
second half. During the entire game
Bob Jones. the colored boy who plays on
Whtttisr's right half, was the hero of the
day. All through the game he played
a star role. The way he bucked the
Berkeley line was simply amazing He
was a colossal obstacle to the end runs
for which Berkeley is so famous. for,
whenever he succeeded in getting his
hands upon runner he stuck like grim
death and tackled like a fend.
Ransome was compelled to retire early
in the game, which was great disap-
pointment to the spectators, as he Is
always a brilliant player.
The crowd was a much larger one than
that which was present Christmas.
About $50 rooters from Whittier, besides
the entire male membership of the state
school, numbering $50 We're there. with
the state school band and drum and bu-
gle corps. which made lively music dur
ing the intervals. The bleachers We're
we'll filled with football enthusiasts of
both sexes, and the east side OF the field
was banked with carriages and persons
who nrefAyrpG n watch tho rrai ~ a nd
ing. Several tallyhos filled with gaily
dressed pleasure-seeker and partisans
in holiday attire were lined up in a con-
venient position to watch the game The
audience was enthusiastic and kept up
o. continual cheering throughout the
game. What with the noise made by the
spectators and the exciting closeness of
the score the scene was indeed lively
one.
THE PLAY
Hall kicked off for Berkeley somewhat
easily, which allowed time to get down,
under the ball and fall upon it. An at
| tempt was made to get around the left
end, which failed, and the ball was lost
on a tumble. Whittier ther bucked
Berkeley's line for seven yards. The
ball was passed 70 Garcia for a kick and
he succeeded in sending it down the
gridiron clear over the Berkeley full
pdch Htdu LOT IOTlN NdTUS. / lie sphere
changed hands and Ransome got around
the left end, making a brilliant run for
thirty yards. where it was lost on down.
Whittier took the ball only to lose it
after three unsuccessful attempts to
gain the necessary five yards. Hall
then got around the left end for a. short
gain. Whittier was given ten yards on
an off-side play and soon lost the ball
on a tumble. All this time the struggle
Il IL; i..t-t
and the teams were now lined up within
fifteen yards of the goal line.
FIRST BLOOD.
The ball was passed to Sherman. who
broke away from his tacklers and sue
ceeded in getting around the left eId for
a. goal run and scored the first touch
| down for Berkeley, ten minutes after be-
ginning the game. Ransome had been
injured and was compelled to leave the
field Hopper was called in to fill his
place
STONEWAI4L JONES.
After the next kickoff Jones. the COL
ored right half back from Whittier, be-
gan to loom up. He repeatedly attacked
Berkeley's line in different places and
was almost sure for good gain. The
two opposing teams surged back and
forth across the field for several min
utes. Whittier at one time losing ten
yards on an off-side play A kick was
made. netting Whittier gain of twenty
yards Jones went through Berkeley >
line for five yards and again for fifteen
yards. Garcia punted the sphere from
the thrty-five yard line clear across the
goal line, where it vas obtained by q.
Berkeley man and brought out for a
touch back. Berkeley was again crowd
ed to the fifteen-yard line by a series of
line bucks, where the ball was again 10: t
on down. Sherman got around the right
| end for twenty-five yard run. Hall
| punted for forty yards and the ball was
! fumbled, but Jones succeeded in cover
, ing it. \ return kick for sixty yards was
made by Garcia, which was run in sew
eral yards before being downed. The
| half closed vita the battle still waging &
| in Berkeley ;rritory. Score 60.
SECOND HALF