The San Francisco call., 1897-02-25
ANOTHER TEAM
MAY Go EAST
Prospects That Berkeley
May Send Her Men as
Far as Chicago.
Some Very Promising Candi.
dates on the List of Track
and Field Athletes.
Al Lsan, ths Profess onal Trainer, l.
Greatly Pleased With the
Prosp cts.

BERKELEY, CAL, Feb. M.-There is q
prospect OF Berkeley's sending another
track athletic team across the continent
this spring to compete on Eastern fields.
This is hope which is being quietly cher
ished among leaders of athletics at the
university, and to which utterance has
been given only in the most careful and
guarded manner.
Almost the whole scheme will be de-
pendent upon the outcome of the intercol-
legiate games in April. Should Stanford
be defeated by good majority the trip,
30 say those who know, will be assured.
Just how far they will 60 will depend
largely upon the ability of the team and
the finances. A dozen or more men will
probably be sent at least as lar as Chicago
10 compete in the Western intercollegiate
cham pionship meet and with such COL
Ieges and athletic clubs as are in the i'm
mediate vicinity.
At no time since the founding of the
university have such q large mum Der OF
candi !ates for places on the team con-
tipued through the season to come out
for daily practice, and the prospects indi-
cate thai several surprises will be sprung
IL the coming games with the Palo Alto
boys.
In the sprints Berkeley has Barnes,
Dickie, Drum and Broughton, all of whom
have made as low time as 10 AS sec.
These TOUR men, as we'll as Miller and
Herreshoff, will enter the 2:20. In the
4:40 there is Humphreys. In the mile
and the half-miie are Brown, Jackson and
Carroll, with half q dozen more entries
whose ability is unknown.
In the mile walk there are Westerfeld,
Aiken, Skaiie and Griffin. Bskewell and
Cheek have the ascendency in the hurdles
Crafts, Squires and Custer are the bicy.
vlists. Dozer for the broad is out again
with Humphreys and Cheek. Edgren is
still III the university and will compete in
the hammer throw. Lloyd, Edgren and
Cheek will put the shot, while LLOYD,
Cheek and Hoffman will try the vault.
These are the leading men who will en-
ter the contests, with a score or more
others whose real ability has not yet been
tested. A tryout field day will be held in
about ten days, when all those who do
not equal or exceed certain records will be
droI ped from the list.
Al Lean, the well-known professional
athlete, has begun regular work with the
men, preparing them for the games. He
says the prospects for crack team are ia
vorable in the extreme.
One OF the prime reasons that Berkeley
wishes to send a team TO compete on
Eastern tracks is that this is Edgren's last
year with the university. and that Hum
phreys will probably not return in the
fall. These two men alone are believed to
be able to take at least three first places
against any team in the country.
AS for the money to send team East,
there is something like $l700 in the treas
ury o! the association at the present time,
and small amounts are being continually
added to it from time to time through
concerts, benefits and individual contribu-
tons. According to the conditions upon
which $500 of the amount is held. Berke-
ley must send a team East either this
year or next. or the money will revert to