The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-25

On the wind, and up, up Il goes into
tie clear. ethereal blue vault above.
Those man from Stanford have arrived.
ana thore Sc no doubt about II. They
brought wealth Of cardinal nags with
them, and these they huttered 30 rapid
ly es to Obscure themselves and cause
their section to look as * II were a rip
pling lake OF cardinal color.
The cheering leaders now took hand
and things became lively. Stanford
gave q yell that ended with an allusion
to the fact that when the game was
over a certain other college would be In
the "soup." and defantiy there came
back from California a song that dis
tinctly opened with the announcement
that the iobster-backs would soon
make tracks for Paio Alto town"
The crowd enjoyed II hugely When
CALIFORNIA; band played the star
spangled Banner" the Stanford continf
gent courteously rose and uncoverea,
and when the latter proposed three
cheers "for the boys In Manila" tneI
California host sprang to its feet like
and cheered the sentiment, and
bacA from the crowd in the grand
stand Ncame an answering cheer of ap-
proyaL\ Then California gave three
&ndJh tiger" for the Stars and Stripes.
andagam Stanford voiced its approval
and the cafdtsal and blue-ana<gold
flags hAttered toesther in hon9T of the
national colors that were proHdly way1'
ing f5og the staff at ans> j stern sra
The stanford boys were arnNed with
megapkones. and they eh9dted all
kinds bf messages to their friends
acressl the field. ~Tnvappearance o<
sonis old grad ,tox prominsQ. gsfson
i1as he signal 6ot an outbursroE snus-
ma personalities CsdysfadeT\ twas
maAs target when he appeared. A2d
ws4 Iprced to besSa fetrea%> MrS
st infotd was .Ssfsn perfect ovaoo<A
when Ae arrived She wore the col
Ege eolSrs%and in her usually demo-
cratic way occupied a seat among the
undergp4d 4dpate body
PreyfdenA David Starr Jordan was on
the/side III pes. and when his young
Ren and uomen spIed him 1t was
Three che ders for our president" and
Whats the matter with President
Ssdan?" Then that learned gentle
m mAn\was sbyced togo In front of the
81 thnfovd Secton and lead cheer fof
hiR uniSfrsitS and right n00ly he did
Sudden My the Stanford crowd is on
its, feet cheering like mad. Thousands !
Of car$inai fiagP are being frantcally
wnve9 from all over the field What
does Ehis meant Who has arrived y
Oh, Mere Is the 4nswer. From the mid
die sihe of the e&stern edge OF the fielA
the st hlwart war; sslors of Stanford come
running on the field. They seemed to !
be I'M fine feetle.
ouidkly the leaSher-covered ovaSts<
sent sRxward. and Shen IT falls Ig3 tEk
Sutstretehsd arms vi a heftfooted
Aearenot J cerdyEal SeSsey. Who haS'
qIfcckly Isprinfed/ down ShA> ads The
team go% through several RAPID toxma-
tSons ana the eyeA of thea xsst Sasseha1
faage arg on them pen suddenly vof\
tlme efcheers rises 6p the AIR. and qht
batsdfhe field. closely fauowed bN S9sns~:
come the man w sons oS cali-
fornia. The crowd rises 70 Its Feet Nand
gives the wearers Of the blue sSH\ \gpld
such q reception as they haSe ne%er had
before. That welcome msgnt rrucp-
The men looked determined and CaR
tain Halls smile brings joyfo the Call \
fornia contlngents.
After brief warming up the coin is
tossed and fortune favors BtanyQla
Captain Fisher chose the eastern goal
and California took the ball.
At Is minutes to o'clock Ref
cree Goodwin blew bis whistle and the
annual contest was on. There was a
deathlike silence when Harrisburg sent
the ball down into Stanford's territory.
There was a brief e1chan~e of punts
and then-ves, strange but true. Cali
fornia withstood three terrific on
slaughts on their line. It was their ball
On downs. That was the beginning Of
the end.
Harrisburg and Hall, on two runs.
skirte4 the cardinals ends TOR seventy =