The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-20
GLOOM IN THE
STANFORD CAMP
Optimism Is Lacking at
Congress Springs
MANY PLAYERS ARE AILING
USUAL ANTE-BELLUM TALES OF
WOE.
Freeman's Shoulder Thrown Out Of
Joint Just as He Had Recov-
cred From Former
Injuries.
MANY PLAYERS ARE AILING
USUAL ANTE-BELLUM TALES OF
WOE.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CONGRESS SPRINGS, Nov. 19.-The
first thing one is assailed with upon his
arrival at Congress Springs is a bat
terry fire of physical complaints that
run the gamut from malaria to tripli-
cate dislocations. The composite car
dinal face was a picture of woe last
night. The athletes had just finished
their first meal at their new retreat and
were hugging a big, cheerful log fire,
trying to force a need of content out
of a heavy gloom of dissatisfaction.
There was too much of the somber
about the first night at Congress
Springs for a team that has but five
days to condition itself. Yet when all
is considered the cardinal eleven is not
in any abyss of distress. There are
cases of sickness, a number of more
or less serious bruises, but the second
eleven candidates are the sufferers.
McFadden is incommoded by a severe
cold, Erb has incipient malaria, and so
they run from A to E.
Early this morning an unannounced
rain began to fall and continued until
8 o'clock This transformed very
heavy dust field into a comparatively
good gridiron, but the least bit slow.
The rain, instead Of exciting the down
ward trend of Stanford'S spirits to FUR
Their effort in the same direction, acted
in a contrariwise manner. With the
call to arms at $50 the team had cast
it's cloth Of sable and in wet suits-due
to exposure to the rain-they trudged
to the field through mud Of much
mucilaginous quality. The practice was
given over to preliminary work and
fast. snappy play.
The signal for the last play of the
morning practice had just sounded and
he Sid lines hnOan VOTE
ing praises to heaven that no one was
injured in this period of work when
the most serious accident that has be-
fallen the team occurred. Lou Free
man could not rise, for he had dislocat-
ed his shoulder.
season as the probable center, but who
was out of play until a few days ago
on account of q strained tendon, was
put in as varsity center yesterday
morning on account of the illness of
BigeloW The unfortunate athlete
would have made the varsity, for he
played a game at center in the few
minutes of practice which was the best
seen this year. There is just a bare
possibility that medical attendance and
football harness may prove effective in
rounding him into shape.
A physician was sent for from Los
Gatos. He arrived at the springs an
hour after the accident and now Free
mans shoulder is in a sling.
From the practice two things were
noticeable-a Willingness and revived
spirit on the part of the players and an
absence of team work. Dole played a
good game at left half; Clinton, who
played right half, was good, bad and
Indifferent at each successive play.
Murphy was himself, making long runs
and some field goals. Fisher played
fullback, but as Burmeister is rapidly
gaining the full use of all his football
powers it is likely that Fisher will go
back to right half and Burmeister to
full. James played left guard for a
time, but his weakened condition forced